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.
This map shows the geographic impact of Kurt Thomas's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Kurt Thomas with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Kurt Thomas more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Kurt Thomas. 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 Kurt Thomas. The network helps show where Kurt Thomas may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kurt Thomas
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kurt Thomas.
A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kurt Thomas 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 Kurt Thomas. Kurt Thomas is excluded from
the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
Oest, Adam, Penghui Zhang, Brad Wardman, et al.. (2020). Sunrise to Sunset: Analyzing the End-to-end Life Cycle and Effectiveness of Phishing Attacks at Scale. 361–377.36 indexed citations
Thomas, Kurt, Kevin Yeo, Ananth Raghunathan, et al.. (2019). Protecting accounts from credential stuffing with password breach alerting. 1556–1571.23 indexed citations
9.
Thomas, Kurt, et al.. (2018). Data Breaches: User Comprehension, Expectations, and Concerns with Handling Exposed Data. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. 217–234.8 indexed citations
10.
Antonakakis, Manos, Michael Bailey, Matthew Bernhard, et al.. (2017). Understanding the mirai botnet. USENIX Security Symposium. 1093–1110.744 indexed citations breakdown →
Thomas, Kurt, Juan A. Crespo, Ali Asghar Tofigh, et al.. (2016). Investigating Commercial Pay-Per-Install and the Distribution of Unwanted Software. USENIX Security Symposium. 721–739.27 indexed citations
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Mavrommatis, Panayiotis, et al.. (2015). Trends and lessons from three years fighting malicious extensions. USENIX Security Symposium. 579–593.37 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kurt, Danny Yuxing Huang, David Y. Wang, et al.. (2015). Framing dependencies introduced by underground commoditization.62 indexed citations
Paxson, Vern, Mihai Christodorescu, Mobin Javed, et al.. (2013). Practical comprehensive bounds on surreptitious communication over DNS. USENIX Security Symposium. 17–32.23 indexed citations
17.
Thomas, Kurt, et al.. (2013). Trafficking fraudulent accounts: the role of the underground market in Twitter spam and abuse. USENIX Security Symposium. 195–210.158 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kurt, Chris Grier, & Vern Paxson. (2012). Adapting social spam infrastructure for political censorship. 13–13.51 indexed citations
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Thomas, Kurt, Chris Grier, Dawn Song, & Vern Paxson. (2011). Suspended accounts in retrospect. 243–258.305 indexed citations breakdown →
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bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global
research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include
incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and
delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in
Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.