John McHugh

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

John McHugh is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, John McHugh has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 20 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in John McHugh's work include Network Security and Intrusion Detection (21 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (16 papers) and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (12 papers). John McHugh is often cited by papers focused on Network Security and Intrusion Detection (21 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (16 papers) and Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (12 papers). John McHugh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and India. John McHugh's co-authors include William A. Arbaugh, Julia Allen, Alan M. Christie, Venkatesh Saligrama, Pierre‐Marc Jodoin, Janusz Konrad, William D. Young, Michael Wesch, Carrie Gates and S. Raj Rajagopalan and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Computer and JAMA Neurology.

In The Last Decade

John McHugh

47 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John McHugh United States	19	1.6k	1.2k	887	646	254	52	2.2k
Douglas S. Reeves United States	26	2.4k 1.6×	1.0k 0.9×	916 1.0×	619 1.0×	264 1.0×	107	2.8k
Robert K. Cunningham United States	19	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	774 0.9×	650 1.0×	66 0.3×	40	1.9k
Marc Daciér France	20	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	914 1.0×	664 1.0×	62 0.2×	57	2.0k
Dengguo Feng China	22	899 0.6×	1.3k 1.1×	445 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	371 1.5×	228	2.1k
Manos Antonakakis United States	22	2.0k 1.3×	1.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.7×	1.2k 1.8×	74 0.3×	46	2.7k
Joshua Haines United States	10	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	912 1.4×	43 0.2×	14	2.2k
Hervé Debar France	20	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.9×	955 1.1×	610 0.9×	45 0.2×	52	2.0k
Shiuh‐Pyng Shieh Taiwan	19	1.2k 0.8×	689 0.6×	503 0.6×	743 1.2×	178 0.7×	85	1.7k
Seif Haridi Sweden	24	2.1k 1.4×	847 0.7×	302 0.3×	846 1.3×	283 1.1×	146	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by John McHugh

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John McHugh

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Wesch, Michael, et al.. (2017). Humans are dynamic. Our tools should be too. Innovations from the Anthropological Study of Security Operations Centers. IEEE Internet Computing. 1–1. 3 indexed citations

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McHugh, John, et al.. (2016). Turning Contradictions into Innovations or: How We Learned to Stop Whining and Improve Security Operations. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. 237–251. 30 indexed citations

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Bardas, Alexandru G., et al.. (2015). A Human Capital Model for Mitigating Security Analyst Burnout. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. 347–359. 37 indexed citations

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Coull, Scott E., et al.. (2012). Toward efficient querying of compressed network payloads. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 10–10. 7 indexed citations

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Du, Xing, et al.. (2012). A Framework for Experimental Systems Research in; Distributed Survivability Architectures. JAMA Neurology. 74(5). 610–610.

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Gates, Carrie, et al.. (2010). Combining Trust and Behavioral Analysis to Detect Security Threats in Open Environments. 4 indexed citations

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Davis, Carlton R., José M. Fernandez, Stephen W. Neville, & John McHugh. (2008). Sybil attacks as a mitigation strategy against the Storm botnet. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 32–40. 34 indexed citations

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McHugh, John. (2005). Software diversity. 19–19. 1 indexed citations

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McHugh, John, et al.. (2003). A risk driven process model for the development of trusted systems. 184–192. 3 indexed citations

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McHugh, John & Carrie Gates. (2003). Locality. 3–10. 13 indexed citations

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McHugh, John, et al.. (2003). A cautionary note on image downgrading. 153–159. 84 indexed citations

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Arbaugh, William A., et al.. (2002). A trend analysis of exploitations. 214–229. 81 indexed citations

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McHugh, John, et al.. (2002). A risk driven reasoning-based development paradigm for high performance trusted system in Ada. 4. 72–79.

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Mead, Nancy R., Richard C. Linger, John McHugh, & Howard F. Lipson. (2001). Managing Software Development for Survivable Systems. 11(1). 45–78. 9 indexed citations

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Mead, Nancy R., Robert J. Ellison, Richard C. Linger, Thomas A. Longstaff, & John McHugh. (2000). Survivable Network Analysis Method. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 41 indexed citations

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McHugh, John. (1999). Chaffing at the Bit: Thoughts on a Note by Ronald Rivest. 395–404. 1 indexed citations

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McHugh, John. (1988). A Formal Definition for Information Flow in the Gypsy Expression Language.. 147–165. 1 indexed citations

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Kemmerer, Richard A., et al.. (1987). An Experience Using Two Covert Channel Analysis Techniques on a Real System Design. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. SE-13(2). 157–168. 38 indexed citations

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Kemmerer, Richard A., et al.. (1986). An Experience Using Two Covert Channel Analysis Techniques On a Real System Design. 14–14. 25 indexed citations

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McHugh, John. (1983). Towards the Generation of Efficient Code from Verified Programs. 7 indexed citations

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