Ian Foster

90.1k total citations · 19 hit papers
734 papers, 44.4k citations indexed

About

Ian Foster is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Management and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Foster has authored 734 papers receiving a total of 44.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 483 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 260 papers in Information Systems and Management and 189 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Ian Foster's work include Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (381 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (259 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (213 papers). Ian Foster is often cited by papers focused on Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (381 papers), Scientific Computing and Data Management (259 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (213 papers). Ian Foster collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Ian Foster's co-authors include Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke, Kyle Chard, Karl Czajkowski, Michael Wilde, Yong Zhao, Kavitha Ranganathan, Borja Sotomayor, Adriana Iamnitchi and Senthold Asseng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ian Foster

708 papers receiving 40.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure

1998 4.4k citations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman profile →
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations

2001 3.7k citations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman et al. profile →
XSEDE: Accelerating Scientific Discovery

2014 2.5k citations Ian Foster et al. profile →
Globus: a Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit

1997 1.9k citations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman profile →
The Physiology of the Grid An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration

2002 1.7k citations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman et al. profile →
Grid services for distributed system integration

2002 900 citations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman et al. Computer profile →
Grid information services for distributed resource sharing

2002 808 citations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman et al. profile →
The impact of temperature variability on wheat yields

2010 790 citations Ian Foster et al. profile →
A security architecture for computational grids

1998 713 citations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman et al. profile →
Matminer: An open source toolkit for materials data mining

2018 675 citations Logan Ward, Kyle Chard et al. profile →
The data grid: Towards an architecture for the distributed management and analysis of large scientific datasets

2000 644 citations Ann Chervenak, Ian Foster et al. profile →
Virtual Infrastructure Management in Private and Hybrid Clouds

2009 610 citations Ian Foster et al. profile →
Globus Toolkit Version 4: Software for Service-Oriented Systems

2006 513 citations Ian Foster profile →
Condor-G: A Computation Management Agent for Multi-Institutional Grids

2002 491 citations Ian Foster, Steven Tuecke et al. profile →
Brief history of agricultural systems modeling

2016 461 citations Ian Foster et al. profile →
The open science grid

2007 447 citations Ian Foster et al. profile →
A distributed resource management architecture that supports advance reservations and co-allocation

2003 378 citations Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman et al. profile →
Condor-G: a computation management agent for multi-institutional grids

2002 367 citations Ian Foster, Steven Tuecke et al. profile →
Toward a new generation of agricultural system data, models, and knowledge products: State of agricultural systems science

2016 279 citations Ian Foster et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Foster

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	FIRST: Federated Inference Resource Scheduling Toolkit for Scientific AI Model Access 2025 ·(unknown), Benoît Côté, Yanfei Guo, (unknown), (unknown), Ryan Chard, (unknown), Rajeev Thakur, Thomas Uram, Ian Foster, Michael E. Papka, Venkatram Vishwanath	0
2	Efficient distributed continual learning for steering experiments in real-time 2024 ·Future Generation Computer Systems ·(unknown), Bogdan Nicolae, Alexandru Costan, Tekin Biçer, Ian Foster, Gabriel Antoniu	2
3	Evaluation is key: a survey on evaluation measures for synthetic time series 2024 ·Journal Of Big Data ·(unknown), (unknown), Ian Foster, Samuel Kounev, André Bauer	7
4	UniFaaS: Programming across Distributed Cyberinfrastructure with Federated Function Serving 2024 ·Yifei Li, Ryan Chard, Yadu Babuji, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster, Zhuozhao Li	1
5	Enabling Remote Management of FaaS Endpoints with Globus Compute Multi-User Endpoints 2024 ·Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago) ·Rachana Ananthakrishnan, Yadu Babuji, (unknown), (unknown), Kyle Chard, Ryan Chard, Ben Clifford, Ian Foster, Daniel S. Katz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	2
6	Frontiers in Scientific Workflows: Pervasive Integration With High-Performance Computing 2024 ·Computer ·Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Rosa M. Badía, Deborah Bard, Ian Foster, Shantenu Jha, Frédéric Suter	9
7	A generative artificial intelligence framework based on a molecular diffusion model for the design of metal-organic frameworks for carbon capture 2024 ·Communications Chemistry ·Hyun Park, (unknown), Ruijie Zhu, E. A. Huerta, Santanu Chaudhuri, (unknown), Ian Foster, Emad Tajkhorshid	49
8	Foundry-ML - Software and Services to Simplify Accessto Machine Learning Datasets in Materials Science 2024 ·The Journal of Open Source Software ·(unknown), (unknown), Logan Ward, Steven R. Wangen, Marcus Schwarting, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Xiangguo Li, Ryan Jacobs, (unknown), Doyeon Kim, Michael C. Ferris, Paul M. Voyles, Dane Morgan, Ian Foster, Ben Blaiszik	3
9	Deep learning at the edge enables real-time streaming ptychographic imaging 2023 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Tao Zhou, Saugat Kandel, Tekin Biçer, Zhengchun Liu, William Q. Judge, (unknown), Yi Jiang, Siniša Veseli, (unknown), Ryan Chard, Yudong Yao, Ekaterina Sirazitdinova, Geetika Gupta, Martin V. Holt, Ian Foster, Antonino Miceli, Mathew J. Cherukara	36
10	FAIR principles for AI models with a practical application for accelerated high energy diffraction microscopy 2022 ·Scientific Data ·(unknown), (unknown), E. A. Huerta, Zhengchun Liu, Ryan Chard, (unknown), (unknown), Kyle Chard, Ben Blaiszik, Ian Foster	27
11	Automated Development of Molten Salt Machine Learning Potentials: Application to LiCl 2021 ·The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters ·Ganesh Sivaraman, (unknown), Logan Ward, Nathaniel C. Hoyt, Mark A. Williamson, Ian Foster, Chris J. Benmore, Nicholas E. Jackson	37
12	Improving I/O Performance for Exascale Applications Through Online Data Layout Reorganization 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems ·Lipeng Wan, Axel Huebl, Junmin Gu, (unknown), Ana Gainaru, (unknown), Jieyang Chen, Xin Liang, (unknown), Todd Munson, Ian Foster, Jean-Luc Vay, Norbert Podhorszki, Kesheng Wu, Scott Klasky	17
13	Crowd-Sourced Data and Analysis Tools for Advancing the Chemical Vapor Deposition of Graphene: Implications for Manufacturing 2020 ·ACS Applied Nano Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kaihao Zhang, Matthew Robertson, (unknown), Kevin Cruse, Kevin Liu, (unknown), (unknown), Ian Foster, Ben Blaiszik, (unknown), (unknown), Daniel S. Katz, (unknown), Elif Ertekin, Sameh Tawfick	4
14	Active Learning Yields Better Training Data for Scientific Named Entity Recognition 2019 ·Roselyne Tchoua, (unknown), (unknown), Logan Ward, Kyle Chard, Debra J. Audus, Shrayesh N. Patel, Juan Pablo, Ian Foster	9
15	FSMonitor: Scalable File System Monitoring for Arbitrary Storage Systems 2019 ·Arnab K. Paul, Ryan Chard, Kyle Chard, Steven Tuecke, Ali R. Butt, Ian Foster	8
16	Reproducible big data science: A case study in continuous FAIRness 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Ravi Madduri, Kyle Chard, Mike D’Arcy, Segun Jung, (unknown), Dinanath Sulakhe, Eric W. Deutsch, Cory C. Funk, Ben Heavner, Matthew A. Richards, Paul Shannon, Gustavo Glusman, Nathan D. Price, Carl Kesselman, Ian Foster	23
17	Reshaping Text Data for Efficient Processing on Amazon EC2 2011 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Ian Foster, Svetlozar Nestorov	2
18	Virtual playgrounds: managing virtual resources in the grid 2006 ·International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium ·K. Keahey, Jeffrey S. Chase, Ian Foster	2
19	Distributed hybrid earthquake engineering experiments: experiences with a ground-shaking grid application 2004 ·Laura Pearlman, Carl Kesselman, (unknown), Billie F. Spencer, Joe Futrelle, (unknown), Ian Foster, (unknown), Charles Severance	27
20	Earth System Grid II (ESG): Turning Climate Model Datasets Into Community Resources 2003 ·AGUFM ·(unknown), (unknown), Ian Foster, (unknown), Carl Kesselman, Ann Chervenak, S. Bharathi, Bob Drach, (unknown), David Brown, Gary Strand, Peter Fox, José María García, (unknown), Kasidit Chanchio, Line Pouchard, (unknown), Arie Shoshani, Alex Sim	1

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