Nick Nikiforakis

3.9k total citations
72 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Nick Nikiforakis is a scholar working on Information Systems, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Nikiforakis has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Information Systems, 46 papers in Signal Processing and 37 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nick Nikiforakis's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (46 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (42 papers) and Web Application Security Vulnerabilities (22 papers). Nick Nikiforakis is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (46 papers), Spam and Phishing Detection (42 papers) and Web Application Security Vulnerabilities (22 papers). Nick Nikiforakis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and United Kingdom. Nick Nikiforakis's co-authors include Wouter Joosen, Frank Piessens, Oleksii Starov, Alexandros Kapravelos, Giovanni Vigna, Christopher Kruegel, Najmeh Miramirkhani, Steven Van Acker, Tom Van Goethem and Güneş Acar and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Security & Privacy and IEEE Spectrum.

In The Last Decade

Nick Nikiforakis

69 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nick Nikiforakis United States 22 1.4k 1.2k 1.1k 507 396 72 2.0k
Collin Jackson United States 23 1.6k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 521 1.0× 238 0.6× 37 2.0k
Luca Invernizzi United States 13 874 0.6× 796 0.7× 1.0k 0.9× 951 1.9× 139 0.4× 18 1.7k
Chris Grier United States 21 2.1k 1.4× 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 2.5× 384 1.0× 25 2.6k
Markus Huber Austria 15 807 0.6× 349 0.3× 463 0.4× 352 0.7× 251 0.6× 40 1.1k
Adam Doupé United States 22 1.1k 0.7× 613 0.5× 984 0.9× 771 1.5× 141 0.4× 79 1.7k
Michael Backes Germany 19 684 0.5× 483 0.4× 493 0.4× 243 0.5× 201 0.5× 54 1.1k
Steven Gianvecchio United States 9 648 0.5× 536 0.5× 400 0.4× 386 0.8× 417 1.1× 10 1.1k
Hassan Takabi United States 20 1.2k 0.8× 944 0.8× 197 0.2× 637 1.3× 348 0.9× 50 1.8k
Mohammad Mannan Canada 16 564 0.4× 296 0.3× 415 0.4× 288 0.6× 163 0.4× 62 866

Countries citing papers authored by Nick Nikiforakis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Nikiforakis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Nikiforakis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nick Nikiforakis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nick Nikiforakis 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 Nick Nikiforakis. Nick Nikiforakis 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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Balasubramanian, Aruna, et al.. (2024). Panning for gold.eth: Understanding and Analyzing ENS Domain Dropcatching. 731–738. 1 indexed citations
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Balasubramanian, Niranjan, et al.. (2024). The Times They Are A-Changin’: Characterizing Post-Publication Changes to Online News. 1573–1589. 1 indexed citations
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Rahmati, Amir, et al.. (2024). Like, Comment, Get Scammed: Characterizing Comment Scams on Media Platforms. 3 indexed citations
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Ferdman, Michael, et al.. (2023). The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Integrity of Modern JavaScript. 2295–2305. 2 indexed citations
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Nikiforakis, Nick, et al.. (2023). Role Models: Role-based Debloating for Web Applications. 251–262. 1 indexed citations
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Nikiforakis, Nick, et al.. (2023). Double and Nothing: Understanding and Detecting Cryptocurrency Giveaway Scams. 19 indexed citations
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Nikiforakis, Nick, et al.. (2021). Click This, Not That: Extending Web Authentication with Deception. 462–474. 4 indexed citations
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Laperdrix, Pierre, et al.. (2019). Less is More: Quantifying the Security Benefits of Debloating Web Applications. USENIX Security Symposium. 1697–1714. 15 indexed citations
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Miramirkhani, Najmeh, et al.. (2019). Now You See It, Now You Don’t: A Large-scale Analysis of Early Domain Deletions. 383–397. 1 indexed citations
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Starov, Oleksii & Nick Nikiforakis. (2017). XHOUND: Quantifying the Fingerprintability of Browser Extensions. 941–956. 50 indexed citations
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Mariconti, Enrico, et al.. (2017). What's in a Name?. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1161–1170. 10 indexed citations
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Goethem, Tom Van, et al.. (2017). The Wolf of Name Street. Lirias (KU Leuven). 957–970. 16 indexed citations
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Miramirkhani, Najmeh, Oleksii Starov, & Nick Nikiforakis. (2016). Dial One for Scam: Analyzing and Detecting Technical Support Scams.. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations
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Starov, Oleksii, et al.. (2016). No Honor Among Thieves. 1021–1032. 31 indexed citations
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Goethem, Tom Van, Wouter Joosen, & Nick Nikiforakis. (2015). The Clock is Still Ticking. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1382–1393. 47 indexed citations
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Nikiforakis, Nick, et al.. (2015). Protected Web Components: Hiding Sensitive Information in the Shadows. IT Professional. 17(1). 36–43. 5 indexed citations
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Nikiforakis, Nick, Alexandros Kapravelos, Wouter Joosen, et al.. (2013). Cookieless Monster: Exploring the Ecosystem of Web-Based Device Fingerprinting. Lirias (KU Leuven). 541–555. 234 indexed citations
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Nikiforakis, Nick, Marco Balduzzi, Steven Van Acker, Wouter Joosen, & Davide Balzarotti. (2011). Exposing the lack of privacy in file hosting services. Lirias (KU Leuven). 1–1. 17 indexed citations

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