Jonathan Mayer

1.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
20 papers, 728 citations indexed

About

Jonathan Mayer is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Mayer has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 728 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Mayer's work include Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (6 papers), Wireless Communication Networks Research (6 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (5 papers). Jonathan Mayer is often cited by papers focused on Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (6 papers), Wireless Communication Networks Research (6 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (5 papers). Jonathan Mayer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Jonathan Mayer's co-authors include John C. Mitchell, Arvind Narayanan, Arunesh Mathur, Michael Jan Friedman, Güneş Acar, Marshini Chetty, Steven Englehardt, Peter D. Zimmerman, Dillon Reisman and Edward W. Felten and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction and USENIX Security Symposium.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Mayer

20 papers receiving 678 citations

Hit Papers

Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2019 50 100 150 200 250
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. Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology
    2012 287 citations Jonathan Mayer, John C. Mitchell profile →
  2. Dark Patterns at Scale
    2019 252 citations Arunesh Mathur, Güneş Acar et al. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan Mayer United States 8 400 292 289 126 73 20 728
Martin Degeling Germany 11 489 1.2× 209 0.7× 247 0.9× 63 0.5× 91 1.2× 24 733
Primal Wijesekera United States 12 384 1.0× 282 1.0× 218 0.8× 282 2.2× 48 0.7× 31 661
Sören Preibusch United Kingdom 13 431 1.1× 206 0.7× 205 0.7× 96 0.8× 57 0.8× 26 683
Joanna Bresee United States 4 395 1.0× 189 0.6× 164 0.6× 72 0.6× 87 1.2× 5 530
Hana Habib United States 15 456 1.1× 301 1.0× 182 0.6× 142 1.1× 88 1.2× 20 682
Shomir Wilson United States 15 816 2.0× 431 1.5× 618 2.1× 163 1.3× 117 1.6× 49 1.2k
Arunesh Mathur United States 13 384 1.0× 212 0.7× 130 0.4× 77 0.6× 54 0.7× 25 725
Ruogu Kang United States 13 336 0.8× 214 0.7× 180 0.6× 44 0.3× 51 0.7× 18 648
Nathan Malkin United States 10 267 0.7× 189 0.6× 127 0.4× 68 0.5× 22 0.3× 20 468
Huahai Yang United States 16 150 0.4× 146 0.5× 397 1.4× 46 0.4× 60 0.8× 31 757

Countries citing papers authored by Jonathan Mayer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jonathan Mayer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Jonathan Mayer. 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 Jonathan Mayer. The network helps show where Jonathan Mayer may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Mayer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jonathan Mayer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jonathan Mayer 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 Jonathan Mayer. Jonathan Mayer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). SoK: Content Moderation for End-to-End Encryption. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. 2023(2). 403–429. 10 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2022). Network measurement methods for locating and examining censorship devices. 18–34. 12 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2021). Identifying Harmful Media in End-to-End Encrypted Communication: Efficient Private Membership Computation. USENIX Security Symposium. 893–910. 7 indexed citations
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Mathur, Arunesh, et al.. (2021). What Makes a Dark Pattern... Dark?. arXiv (Cornell University). 1–18. 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Kevin, et al.. (2020). Adapting Security Warnings to Counter Misinformation. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Lee, Kevin, et al.. (2020). An Empirical Study of Wireless Carrier Authentication for SIM Swaps.. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. 61–79. 11 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2020). No WAN's Land. 393–419. 10 indexed citations
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Mathur, Arunesh, Güneş Acar, Michael Jan Friedman, et al.. (2019). Dark Patterns at Scale. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 3(CSCW). 1–32. 252 indexed citations breakdown →
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Englehardt, Steven, Dillon Reisman, Peter D. Zimmerman, et al.. (2015). Cookies That Give You Away. 289–299. 111 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan. (2015). Constitutional Malware. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan. (2013). The New Firefox Cookie Policy. XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students. 20(1). 16–17. 2 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan & John C. Mitchell. (2012). Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology. 413–427. 287 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mayer, Jonathan, Arvind Narayanan, & Sid Stamm. (2011). Do Not Track: A Universal Third-Party Web Tracking Opt Out. 10 indexed citations
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Baldassano, Christopher, et al.. (2009). Argos: Princeton University's entry in the 2009 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7539. 75390N–75390N. 1 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2002). Protocol aspects of evolutionary CDMA schemes. 3. 1172–1177. 2 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2002). Outdoor measurements with a TD (time division)-CDMA hardware demonstrator for UMTS. 2. 625–629. 2 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2002). JD-CDMA mobile station envelope characteristics and spectra results from a JD-CDMA testbed. 3. 2316–2320. 1 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2002). Handoff protocols in JD-CDMA. 1. 355–359. 1 indexed citations
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Weber, Tobias, et al.. (2002). A hardware demonstrator for TD-CDMA. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 51(5). 877–892. 1 indexed citations
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Mayer, Jonathan, et al.. (2002). Protocol and signalling aspects of joint detection CDMA. 3. 867–871. 3 indexed citations

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