Karl Wüst

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
11 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Karl Wüst is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Wüst has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 8 papers in Information Systems and 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Karl Wüst's work include Cryptography and Data Security (6 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (6 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (3 papers). Karl Wüst is often cited by papers focused on Cryptography and Data Security (6 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (6 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (3 papers). Karl Wüst collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Germany. Karl Wüst's co-authors include Arthur Gervais, Srđjan Čapkun, Hubert Ritzdorf, Ghassan Karame, Kari Kostiainen, Ittay Eyal, Bryan Ford, Andrew Miller, Sarah Meiklejohn and Eswar Prasad and has published in prestigious journals such as Digital Investigation, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) and Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security.

In The Last Decade

Karl Wüst

10 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains

2016 956 citations Arthur Gervais, Ghassan Karame et al. profile →
Do you Need a Blockchain?

2018 517 citations Karl Wüst, Arthur Gervais profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karl Wüst Switzerland	8	1.5k	695	334	205	126	11	1.6k
Florian Tschorsch Germany	8	1.1k 0.7×	575 0.8×	350 1.0×	192 0.9×	145 1.2×	36	1.3k
Peng Jiang China	16	1.3k 0.9×	540 0.8×	576 1.7×	153 0.7×	175 1.4×	67	1.6k
Ittay Eyal Israel	13	1.1k 0.7×	487 0.7×	338 1.0×	151 0.7×	75 0.6×	28	1.2k
Xueping Liang United States	15	1.5k 1.0×	800 1.2×	415 1.2×	111 0.5×	92 0.7×	41	1.7k
Zikai Alex Wen United States	6	1.3k 0.9×	437 0.6×	670 2.0×	216 1.1×	155 1.2×	18	1.6k
Tien Tuan Anh Dinh Singapore	14	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	525 1.6×	158 0.8×	125 1.0×	37	2.1k
Guy Zyskind United States	2	1.3k 0.9×	538 0.8×	560 1.7×	188 0.9×	131 1.0×	3	1.5k
Dawei Jin China	12	771 0.5×	437 0.6×	383 1.1×	107 0.5×	81 0.6×	51	1.3k
Weili Chen China	12	1.6k 1.1×	404 0.6×	564 1.7×	289 1.4×	99 0.8×	23	1.8k
Enrique Soler Spain	6	1.0k 0.7×	650 0.9×	186 0.6×	133 0.6×	86 0.7×	18	1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Karl Wüst

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Fields of papers citing papers by Karl Wüst

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl Wüst

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

All Works

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Wüst, Karl, et al.. (2025). Hummingbird: Fast, Flexible, and Fair Inter-Domain Bandwidth Reservations. 1070–1089.

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Wüst, Karl, et al.. (2022). Platypus. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2947–2960. 11 indexed citations

3.

Wüst, Karl, et al.. (2021). Bitcontracts: Supporting Smart Contracts in Legacy Blockchains. 8 indexed citations

4.

Čapkun, Srđjan, et al.. (2021). ROSEN. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 97–109. 3 indexed citations

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Allen, Sarah E., Srđjan Čapkun, Ittay Eyal, et al.. (2020). Design Choices for Central Bank Digital Currency: Policy and Technical Considerations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 20 indexed citations

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Allen, Sarah E., Srđjan Čapkun, Ittay Eyal, et al.. (2020). Design Choices for Central Bank Digital Currency: Policy and Technical Considerations. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations

7.

Wüst, Karl & Arthur Gervais. (2018). Do you Need a Blockchain?. 45–54. 517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ritzdorf, Hubert, et al.. (2018). TLS-N: Non-repudiation over TLS Enabling Ubiquitous Content Signing. 27 indexed citations

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Wüst, Karl, Petar Tsankov, Saša Radomirović, & Mohammad Torabi Dashti. (2017). Force Open: Lightweight black box file repair. Digital Investigation. 20. S75–S82. 3 indexed citations

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Gervais, Arthur, et al.. (2016). On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains. 3–16. 956 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wüst, Karl & Arthur Gervais. (2016). Ethereum Eclipse Attacks. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 35 indexed citations

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