Joshua Mason

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Joshua Mason is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Mason has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Signal Processing, 12 papers in Information Systems and 9 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Joshua Mason's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (13 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (5 papers) and Spam and Phishing Detection (4 papers). Joshua Mason is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (13 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (5 papers) and Spam and Phishing Detection (4 papers). Joshua Mason collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Joshua Mason's co-authors include Michael Bailey, Zane Ma, Deepak Kumar, Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Manos Antonakakis, Yi Zhou, Elie Bursztein, Nick Sullivan and Michalis Kallitsis and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, ACM SIGPLAN Notices and IEEE Security & Privacy.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Mason

23 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Understanding the mirai botnet

2017 744 citations Manos Antonakakis, Michael Bailey et al. USENIX Security Symposium profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joshua Mason United States	15	883	690	686	505	129	24	1.3k
Luca Invernizzi United States	13	951 1.1×	1.0k 1.5×	796 1.2×	874 1.7×	87 0.7×	18	1.7k
Nayeem Islam United States	14	634 0.7×	427 0.6×	538 0.8×	404 0.8×	51 0.4×	31	1.1k
Michael E. Locasto United States	19	659 0.7×	554 0.8×	629 0.9×	476 0.9×	51 0.4×	84	1.2k
Adam Doupé United States	22	771 0.9×	984 1.4×	613 0.9×	1.1k 2.1×	70 0.5×	79	1.7k
Rayford B. Vaughn United States	18	536 0.6×	265 0.4×	338 0.5×	440 0.9×	213 1.7×	66	914
Pavol Zavarsky Canada	15	387 0.4×	361 0.5×	287 0.4×	521 1.0×	69 0.5×	102	825
Anna Sperotto Netherlands	18	1.7k 1.9×	514 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	529 1.0×	89 0.7×	84	1.9k
Leyla Bilge France	18	1.4k 1.6×	1.2k 1.7×	1.2k 1.7×	1.2k 2.5×	57 0.4×	30	2.2k
Tudor Dumitraş United States	21	1.1k 1.3×	680 1.0×	441 0.6×	877 1.7×	50 0.4×	60	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Joshua Mason

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua Mason

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Mason

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2021). WebSocket Adoption and the Landscape of the Real-Time Web. 1192–1203. 16 indexed citations

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Mason, Joshua, et al.. (2021). Jetset: Targeted Firmware Rehosting for Embedded Systems. 321–338. 14 indexed citations

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Reynolds, J.K., et al.. (2020). Empirical Measurement of Systemic 2FA Usability. USENIX Security Symposium. 127–143. 11 indexed citations

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Reynolds, J.K., Deepak Kumar, Zane Ma, et al.. (2020). Measuring Identity Confusion with Uniform Resource Locators. 1–12. 18 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2019). The impact of secure transport protocols on phishing efficacy. USENIX Security Symposium. 2 indexed citations

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Kharraz, Amin, Zane Ma, Charles Lever, et al.. (2019). Outguard: Detecting In-Browser Covert Cryptocurrency Mining in the Wild. 840–852. 63 indexed citations

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Kumar, Deepak, et al.. (2019). Emerging Threats in Internet of Things Voice Services. IEEE Security & Privacy. 17(4). 18–24. 12 indexed citations

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Kumar, Deepak, et al.. (2018). Skill squatting attacks on Amazon Alexa. USENIX Security Symposium. 33–47. 48 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yi, Deepak Kumar, Surya Bakshi, et al.. (2018). Erays: Reverse Engineering Ethereum's Opaque Smart Contracts. IDEALS (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign). 1371–1385. 39 indexed citations

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Kumar, Deepak, Zhengping Wang, David Adrian, et al.. (2018). Tracking Certificate Misissuance in the Wild. 785–798. 49 indexed citations

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Ma, Zane, et al.. (2018). Measuring Ethereum Network Peers. 91–104. 88 indexed citations

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Antonakakis, Manos, Michael Bailey, Matthew Bernhard, et al.. (2017). Understanding the mirai botnet. USENIX Security Symposium. 1093–1110. 744 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kumar, Deepak, Zane Ma, Zakir Durumeric, et al.. (2017). Security Challenges in an Increasingly Tangled Web. 677–684. 33 indexed citations

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Mirian, Ariana, Zane Ma, David Adrian, et al.. (2016). An Internet-wide view of ICS devices. 96–103. 75 indexed citations

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Mason, Joshua, et al.. (2010). Psychosocial Environmental Relationships Among MSW Students in Distance Learning and Traditional Classrooms. Journal of Social Service Research. 36(3). 230–247. 10 indexed citations

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Chow, Jim, Dominic Lucchetti, Tal Garfinkel, et al.. (2010). Multi-stage replay with crosscut. 13–24. 23 indexed citations

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Mason, Joshua, et al.. (2009). English shellcode. 524–533. 32 indexed citations

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Mason, Joshua, et al.. (2008). To catch a predator: a natural language approach for eliciting malicious payloads. 171–183. 15 indexed citations

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Mason, Joshua, et al.. (2006). A natural language approach to automated cryptanalysis of two-time pads. 235–244. 15 indexed citations

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Mason, Joshua, et al.. (1970). The structure of Ni-Co-Al-Ti-Cu-Fe permanent magnets. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 6(2). 191–194. 10 indexed citations

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