Howard Gobioff

8.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
19 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Howard Gobioff is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Howard Gobioff has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Howard Gobioff's work include Advanced Data Storage Technologies (16 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (9 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (9 papers). Howard Gobioff is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Data Storage Technologies (16 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (9 papers) and Caching and Content Delivery (9 papers). Howard Gobioff collaborates with scholars based in United States and Japan. Howard Gobioff's co-authors include Sanjay Ghemawat, Shun-Tak A. Leung, Garth A. Gibson, Fay W. Chang, Khalil Amiri, David F. Nagle, Erik Riedel, David Rochberg, Jim Zelenka and Doug Tygar and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review and ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review.

In The Last Decade

Howard Gobioff

15 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Google file system 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2003 2003 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Google file system
    2003 3.3k citations Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff et al. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review profile →
  2. The Google file system
    2003 1.1k citations Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff et al. profile →
  3. The Google file system
    2003 888 citations Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Howard Gobioff 5.4k 3.5k 793 709 400 19 6.1k
Shun-Tak A. Leung 5.1k 0.9× 3.4k 1.0× 739 0.9× 937 1.3× 401 1.0× 10 5.9k
Benjamin Reed 3.7k 0.7× 3.1k 0.9× 758 1.0× 437 0.6× 580 1.4× 33 4.4k
Fay W. Chang 3.6k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 554 0.7× 537 0.8× 324 0.8× 18 4.2k
Mike Burrows 3.8k 0.7× 2.8k 0.8× 665 0.8× 352 0.5× 354 0.9× 16 4.4k
Wilson C. Hsieh 3.8k 0.7× 2.6k 0.8× 1.0k 1.3× 1.1k 1.6× 339 0.8× 66 4.8k
Robert Gruber 3.5k 0.6× 2.4k 0.7× 653 0.8× 430 0.6× 332 0.8× 32 4.2k
Sanjay Radia 3.3k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 863 1.1× 396 0.6× 552 1.4× 19 4.5k
Andrew Pavlo 3.9k 0.7× 2.6k 0.7× 861 1.1× 874 1.2× 418 1.0× 80 4.6k
Werner Vogels 4.9k 0.9× 2.8k 0.8× 548 0.7× 906 1.3× 208 0.5× 48 5.3k
Yuan Yu 2.9k 0.5× 2.5k 0.7× 609 0.8× 604 0.9× 654 1.6× 31 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Howard Gobioff

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Fields of papers citing papers by Howard Gobioff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Howard Gobioff. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Howard Gobioff. The network helps show where Howard Gobioff may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Howard Gobioff

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Howard Gobioff. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Howard Gobioff based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Howard Gobioff. Howard Gobioff is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Gibson, Garth A., David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, et al.. (2018). A Case for Network-Attached Secure Disks (CMU-CS-96-142). Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University).
2.
Gobioff, Howard. (2018). Security for a High Performance Commodity Storage Subsystem (CMU-CS-99-160). KiltHub Repository. 1 indexed citations
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Gibson, Garth A., David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, et al.. (2018). Filesystems for Network-Attached Secure Disks (CMU-CS-97-118). Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 1 indexed citations
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Gobioff, Howard, David F. Nagle, & Garth A. Gibson. (2018). Integrity and Performance in Network Attached Storage (CMU-CS-98-182). KiltHub Repository.
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Gobioff, Howard, David F. Nagle, & Garth A. Gibson. (2018). Embedded Security for Network-Attached Storage (CMU-CS-99-154). Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University).
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Gobioff, Howard, Garth A. Gibson, & Doug Tygar. (2018). Security for Network Attached Storage Devices (CMU-CS-97-185). Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University).
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Kikuchi, Hiroaki, et al.. (2003). Stochastic voting protocol to protect voters privacy. 103–111. 3 indexed citations
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Ghemawat, Sanjay, Howard Gobioff, & Shun-Tak A. Leung. (2003). The Google file system. 29–43. 888 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ghemawat, Sanjay, Howard Gobioff, & Shun-Tak A. Leung. (2003). The Google file system. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 37(5). 29–43. 3346 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ghemawat, Sanjay, Howard Gobioff, & Shun-Tak A. Leung. (2003). The Google file system. 1113 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gobioff, Howard, Garth A. Gibson, & Doug Tygar. (1999). Security for a high performance commodity storage subsystem. 42 indexed citations
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Gibson, Garth A., David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, et al.. (1998). A cost-effective, high-bandwidth storage architecture. 92–103. 149 indexed citations
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Gibson, Garth A., David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, et al.. (1998). A cost-effective, high-bandwidth storage architecture. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 32(5). 92–103. 13 indexed citations
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Gibson, Garth A., David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, et al.. (1998). A cost-effective, high-bandwidth storage architecture. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 33(11). 92–103. 260 indexed citations
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Gibson, Garth A., David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, Fay W. Chang, & Howard Gobioff. (1997). Filesystems for Network-Attached Secure Disks,. 41 indexed citations
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Gobioff, Howard, Garth A. Gibson, & Doug Tygar. (1997). Security for Network Attached Storage Devices. 41 indexed citations
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Gibson, Garth A., David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, et al.. (1997). File server scaling with network-attached secure disks. 272–284. 161 indexed citations
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Gibson, Garth A., David F. Nagle, Khalil Amiri, et al.. (1997). File server scaling with network-attached secure disks. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 25(1). 272–284. 20 indexed citations
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Gobioff, Howard, Sean W. Smith, J. D. Tygar, & Bennet Yee. (1996). Smart cards in hostile environments. 3–3. 37 indexed citations

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