Pierangela Samarati

20.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
226 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Pierangela Samarati is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Pierangela Samarati has authored 226 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 149 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 111 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 84 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Pierangela Samarati's work include Cryptography and Data Security (99 papers), Access Control and Trust (97 papers) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (62 papers). Pierangela Samarati is often cited by papers focused on Cryptography and Data Security (99 papers), Access Control and Trust (97 papers) and Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data (62 papers). Pierangela Samarati collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Netherlands. Pierangela Samarati's co-authors include Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Stefano Paraboschi, Sushil Jajodia, Ernesto Damiani, Ravi Sandhu, Latanya Sweeney, Sara Foresti, V. S. Subrahmanian, Piero A. Bonatti and Elisa Bertino and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Communications Magazine and ACM Computing Surveys.

In The Last Decade

Pierangela Samarati

213 papers receiving 8.8k 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.

Protecting respondents identities in microdata release

2001 1.4k citations Pierangela Samarati profile →
Access control: principle and practice

1994 754 citations Pierangela Samarati et al. profile →
Protecting privacy when disclosing information: k-anonymity and its enforcement through generalization and suppression

2018 299 citations Pierangela Samarati et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pierangela Samarati Italy	45	7.3k	5.2k	3.5k	2.8k	529	226	9.7k
Audun Jøsang Norway	34	4.1k 0.6×	4.0k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	2.9k 1.0×	314 0.6×	136	7.8k
Ninghui Li United States	52	7.2k 1.0×	5.1k 1.0×	2.8k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	1.4k 2.6×	197	9.9k
Vitaly Shmatikov United States	41	7.8k 1.1×	1.6k 0.3×	2.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	1.7k 3.1×	102	9.9k
Jaideep Vaidya United States	34	4.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.3×	1.5k 0.4×	656 0.2×	255 0.5×	212	5.5k
Ravi Sandhu United States	53	10.5k 1.4×	10.8k 2.1×	6.8k 1.9×	4.5k 1.6×	824 1.6×	299	15.3k
Josep Domingo‐Ferrer Spain	43	4.7k 0.6×	1.3k 0.2×	1.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	246 0.5×	250	6.4k
Gail‐Joon Ahn United States	41	4.0k 0.5×	2.2k 0.4×	4.1k 1.2×	2.6k 0.9×	1.3k 2.5×	234	7.1k
Bhavani Thuraisingham United States	38	3.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.2×	2.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 2.2×	383	6.2k
Marianne Winslett United States	35	2.7k 0.4×	1.3k 0.3×	1.4k 0.4×	1.9k 0.7×	440 0.8×	217	4.5k
Chris Clifton United States	38	4.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.2×	1.5k 0.4×	759 0.3×	438 0.8×	109	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Pierangela Samarati

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pierangela Samarati

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pierangela Samarati

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All Works

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Vimercati, Sabrina De Capitani di, et al.. (2025). An Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm with Dynamic State Estimation for Deadline-Constrained Workflow Scheduling. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. 379–382.

Vimercati, Sabrina De Capitani di, Sara Foresti, & Pierangela Samarati. (2023). Protecting Data and Queries in Cloud-Based Scenarios. SN Computer Science. 4(5).

Vimercati, Sabrina De Capitani di, Sara Foresti, Sushil Jajodia, et al.. (2022). Sentinels and Twins: Effective Integrity Assessment for Distributed Computation. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 34(1). 108–122.

Shah, Ankit, Rajesh Ganesan, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati, & Hasan Çam. (2019). Adaptive Alert Management for Balancing Optimal Performance among Distributed CSOCs using Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 31(1). 16–33. 5 indexed citations

Samarati, Pierangela, et al.. (2013). Security and Trust Management: 8th International Workshop, STM 2012, Pisa, Italy, September 13-14, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Bettini, Cláudio, et al.. (2009). Privacy in Location-Based Applications: Research Issues and Emerging Trends. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 24 indexed citations

Samarati, Pierangela, Moti Yung, Fabio Martinelli, & Claudio A. Ardagna. (2009). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Security. 12 indexed citations

Ardagna, Claudio A., et al.. (2008). A Multi-Path Approach for k-Anonymity in Mobile Hybrid Networks.. Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano). 80(3). 128–131. 3 indexed citations

Vimercati, Sabrina De Capitani di, Sara Foresti, Sushil Jajodia, Stefano Paraboschi, & Pierangela Samarati. (2007). Over-encryption: management of access control evolution on outsourced data. Very Large Data Bases. 123–134. 228 indexed citations

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Esposito, Antonella, et al.. (2005). SSRI online First experiences in a three-years course degree offered in e-learning at the University of Milan.. 65–70. 4 indexed citations

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Damiani, Ernesto, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati, & Marco Viviani. (2005). A WOWA-based aggregation technique on trust values connected to metadata. 131–142. 4 indexed citations

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Damiani, Ernesto, et al.. (2004). A protocol for reputation management in super-peer networks. 979–983. 7 indexed citations

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Bonatti, Piero A. & Pierangela Samarati. (2003). Logics for Authorization and Security.. 97(4). 277–323. 15 indexed citations

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Damiani, Ernesto, et al.. (2003). Fuzzy logic techniques for reputation management in anonymous peer-to-peer systems.. European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology Conference. 43–48. 4 indexed citations

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Samarati, Pierangela. (2002). Enriching Access Control to Support Credential-Based Specifications. 114–119. 4 indexed citations

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Jajodia, Sushil & Pierangela Samarati. (2002). Proceedings of the 2002 ACM workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. 10 indexed citations

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Vimercati, Sabrina De Capitani di, et al.. (1999). PGRIP: PNNI Global Routing Infrastructure Protection.. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. 34(4). 1322–1323. 2 indexed citations

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Bertino, Elisa & Pierangela Samarati. (1995). Research issues in authorization models for hypertext systems. 22–28. 2 indexed citations

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Castano, Silvana, Giancarlo Martella, & Pierangela Samarati. (1994). A new approach to security system development. 82–88. 3 indexed citations

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Bertino, Elisa, Cláudio Bettini, & Pierangela Samarati. (1994). A discretionary access control model with temporal authorizations. 102–107. 3 indexed citations

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