Ralph Deters

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
158 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Ralph Deters is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph Deters has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 76 papers in Information Systems and 44 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ralph Deters's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (49 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (33 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (30 papers). Ralph Deters is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (49 papers), Caching and Content Delivery (33 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (30 papers). Ralph Deters collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Ralph Deters's co-authors include Mayra Samaniego, Sara Rouhani, Richard K. Lomotey, Julita Vassileva, Emir Halepovic, Kevin A. Schneider, Sara Hosseinzadeh Kassani, Michal J. Wesolowski, Peyman Hosseinzadeh Kassani and Michele Mazzucco and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Access and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

In The Last Decade

Ralph Deters

151 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Blockchain as a Service for IoT 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. Blockchain as a Service for IoT
    2016 268 citations Mayra Samaniego, Ralph Deters et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralph Deters Canada 26 1.4k 1.3k 509 294 231 158 2.5k
Elhadj Benkhelifa United Kingdom 26 1.1k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 566 1.1× 210 0.7× 260 1.1× 139 2.6k
Pronaya Bhattacharya India 28 1.1k 0.8× 811 0.6× 750 1.5× 227 0.8× 123 0.5× 111 2.5k
Muhammad Shiraz Malaysia 28 1.4k 1.0× 1.7k 1.3× 514 1.0× 310 1.1× 171 0.7× 66 2.8k
Ghassan Karame Switzerland 20 2.4k 1.6× 1.2k 0.9× 931 1.8× 217 0.7× 225 1.0× 58 2.7k
Rajeev Kumar India 28 1.1k 0.8× 682 0.5× 415 0.8× 98 0.3× 125 0.5× 99 2.3k
Shailendra Rathore South Korea 22 1.3k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 809 1.6× 132 0.4× 74 0.3× 38 2.3k
Subhi R. M. Zeebaree Iraq 34 1.5k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 790 1.6× 561 1.9× 76 0.3× 177 3.3k
Qinghua Lu Australia 24 1.6k 1.1× 789 0.6× 515 1.0× 183 0.6× 405 1.8× 115 2.3k
Boyi Xu China 14 695 0.5× 873 0.7× 318 0.6× 238 0.8× 161 0.7× 67 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ralph Deters

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralph Deters

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralph Deters

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ralph Deters. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ralph Deters 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 Ralph Deters. Ralph Deters 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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Lomotey, Richard K., et al.. (2025). Securing Agentic AI in IoT Systems. 199–206.
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Lomotey, Richard K., et al.. (2025). Governance-as-Code: Managing Agentic AI with a Distributed Dual Proxy Gateway. Procedia Computer Science. 272. 122–130.
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Snow, Charles C., et al.. (2024). Using Machine Learning to Track Disability Discourse on Social Media. 141–150.
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Lomotey, Richard K., et al.. (2024). Digital Twins for Stress Management Utilizing Synthetic Data. 329–335. 1 indexed citations
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Lomotey, Richard K., et al.. (2024). Synthetic Data Digital Twins and Data Trusts Control for Privacy in Health Data Sharing. 1–10. 3 indexed citations
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Lomotey, Richard K., et al.. (2024). Overcoming the Data Availability Paradox with Managed Digital Twin Instances. 2025–2032. 1 indexed citations
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Orji, Rita, et al.. (2023). Automatic detection and diagnosis of cocoa diseases using mobile tech and deep learning. International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics. 10(1). 1 indexed citations
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Kassani, Sara Hosseinzadeh, Peyman Hosseinzadeh Kassani, Michal J. Wesolowski, Kevin A. Schneider, & Ralph Deters. (2021). Deep transfer learning based model for colorectal cancer histopathology segmentation: A comparative study of deep pre-trained models. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 159. 104669–104669. 39 indexed citations
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Kassani, Sara Hosseinzadeh, Peyman Hosseinzadeh Kassani, Reza Khazaeinezhad, et al.. (2019). Diabetic Retinopathy Classification Using a Modified Xception Architecture. 1–6. 138 indexed citations
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Rouhani, Sara & Ralph Deters. (2017). Performance analysis of ethereum transactions in private blockchain. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 70–74. 139 indexed citations
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Samaniego, Mayra, et al.. (2016). Blockchain as a Service for IoT. 433–436. 268 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lomotey, Richard K. & Ralph Deters. (2014). Exploring Different Architectures to Support Crop Farmers with a Mobile Application on Pesticide Control. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science. 3(3). 122–132. 2 indexed citations
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Lomotey, Richard K. & Ralph Deters. (2013). Facilitating multi-device usage in mhealth. Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks Ubiquitous Computing and Dependable Applications. 4(2). 77–96. 2 indexed citations
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Vassileva, Julita, Ralph Deters, & Jie Zhang. (2010). Mechanism Design on Coursework Grading to Create Incentives for Student Learning. International Conference on Computers in Education. 1 indexed citations
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Liu, Dong & Ralph Deters. (2007). BUST: enabling scalable service orchestration. 23. 2 indexed citations
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Deters, Ralph, et al.. (2007). Service Level Agreement Aware Workflow Scheduling. 715–716. 6 indexed citations
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Deters, Ralph. (2004). Selecting the best web service. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 293–307. 40 indexed citations
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Xu, Peng & Ralph Deters. (2004). Using event-streams for fault-management in MAS. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology. 433–436. 2 indexed citations
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Deters, Ralph. (2001). Towards Scalable Multi-Agent Systems.. International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. 497–504. 1 indexed citations
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Vassileva, Julita, et al.. (1999). A Multi-agent Approach to the Design of Peer-help Environments. 62(3). 244–51. 29 indexed citations

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