Kaihua Qin

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 343 citations indexed

About

Kaihua Qin is a scholar working on Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Kaihua Qin has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 343 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Information Systems, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Kaihua Qin's work include Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (10 papers), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 papers) and FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance (4 papers). Kaihua Qin is often cited by papers focused on Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (10 papers), Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 papers) and FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance (4 papers). Kaihua Qin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Kaihua Qin's co-authors include Arthur Gervais, Liyi Zhou, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc V. Le, Benjamin Livshits, Zhipeng Wang, Antoine Cully, Yu Wang, Liyi Zhou and Roger Wattenhofer and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) and Spiral (Imperial College London).

In The Last Decade

Kaihua Qin

11 papers receiving 334 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks

2023 71 citations Liyi Zhou, Zhipeng Wang et al. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kaihua Qin United Kingdom	6	285	75	73	56	48	13	343
Liyi Zhou United Kingdom	7	245 0.9×	68 0.9×	66 0.9×	46 0.8×	42 0.9×	9	292
Lorenz Breidenbach United States	4	287 1.0×	49 0.7×	96 1.3×	91 1.6×	36 0.8×	4	325
Silvia Bartolucci United Kingdom	9	154 0.5×	32 0.4×	35 0.5×	40 0.7×	50 1.0×	30	279
Tyler Kell United States	2	165 0.6×	38 0.5×	34 0.5×	49 0.9×	27 0.6×	2	192
Malte Möser Austria	6	399 1.4×	50 0.7×	159 2.2×	79 1.4×	12 0.3×	7	437
Marie Vasek United Kingdom	9	174 0.6×	22 0.3×	38 0.5×	49 0.9×	19 0.4×	22	237
Yebo Feng Singapore	10	139 0.5×	37 0.5×	81 1.1×	94 1.7×	19 0.4×	30	259
Harry Kalodner United States	5	427 1.5×	51 0.7×	189 2.6×	179 3.2×	53 1.1×	5	500
Oluwakemi Hambolu United States	3	196 0.7×	34 0.5×	66 0.9×	122 2.2×	35 0.7×	5	252
Tiziana Cimoli Italy	5	204 0.7×	39 0.5×	100 1.4×	30 0.5×	13 0.3×	9	242

Countries citing papers authored by Kaihua Qin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kaihua Qin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kaihua Qin

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

All Works

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Zhou, Liyi, et al.. (2025). Blockchain Amplification Attack. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 53(1). 189–191. 1 indexed citations

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Sharma, Tanusree, et al.. (2025). Security Perceptions of Users in Stablecoins: Advantages and Risks within the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem. 2753–2771.

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Zhou, Liyi, Kaihua Qin, Sebastian Steinhorst, et al.. (2024). Blockchain Censorship. 1632–1643. 9 indexed citations

4.

Qin, Kaihua, et al.. (2024). What Drives the (In)stability of a Stablecoin?. 316–324. 2 indexed citations

5.

Zhou, Liyi & Kaihua Qin. (2024). DeFi '24: Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security. 4907–4908.

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Qin, Kaihua & Fan Zhang. (2023). DeFi '23: Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security. 3660–3661. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Liyi, Zhipeng Wang, Yu Wang, et al.. (2023). SoK: Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Attacks. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 2444–2461. 71 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Zhipeng, Kaihua Qin, Liyi Zhou, et al.. (2023). On How Zero-Knowledge Proof Blockchain Mixers Improve, and Worsen User Privacy. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 2022–2032. 22 indexed citations

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Qin, Kaihua, Liyi Zhou, & Arthur Gervais. (2022). Quantifying Blockchain Extractable Value: How dark is the forest?. 198–214. 99 indexed citations

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Zhou, Liyi, Kaihua Qin, Antoine Cully, Benjamin Livshits, & Arthur Gervais. (2021). On the Just-In-Time Discovery of Profit-Generating Transactions in DeFi Protocols. 919–936. 52 indexed citations

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Zhou, Liyi, Kaihua Qin, Christof Ferreira Torres, Duc V. Le, & Arthur Gervais. (2021). High-Frequency Trading on Decentralized On-Chain Exchanges. 428–445. 81 indexed citations

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Qin, Kaihua, et al.. (2020). FileBounty: Fair Data Exchange. Spiral (Imperial College London). 357–366. 4 indexed citations

13.

Song, Yubo, et al.. (2014). Accurate location based services by mobile phone actively detected. 086 (5 .)–086 (5 .). 1 indexed citations

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