Russ Cox

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Russ Cox is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Russ Cox has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Russ Cox's work include Caching and Content Delivery (4 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (4 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (3 papers). Russ Cox is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (4 papers), Advanced Data Storage Technologies (4 papers) and Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (3 papers). Russ Cox collaborates with scholars based in United States, Bermuda and Canada. Russ Cox's co-authors include Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, Frank Dabek, Bryan Ford, Sean Rhea, Jinyang Li, Austin T. Clements, Eddie Kohler, Tom Bergan and Sean Quinlan and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) and USENIX Security Symposium.

In The Last Decade

Russ Cox

11 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Vivaldi 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 250 500 750
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. Vivaldi
    2004 754 citations Frank Dabek, Russ Cox 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
Russ Cox United States 7 1.1k 283 218 119 85 11 1.2k
James Mickens United States 15 599 0.6× 361 1.3× 302 1.4× 200 1.7× 34 0.4× 46 903
Bi Zhao United States 7 1.4k 1.3× 247 0.9× 161 0.7× 68 0.6× 24 0.3× 17 1.5k
Philippe Owezarski France 14 849 0.8× 106 0.4× 470 2.2× 185 1.6× 54 0.6× 50 949
Eng Keong Lua United States 11 1.2k 1.1× 243 0.9× 162 0.7× 66 0.6× 72 0.8× 34 1.4k
Jeremy Stribling United States 9 2.4k 2.2× 396 1.4× 210 1.0× 85 0.7× 35 0.4× 13 2.4k
S. Bhattacharjee United States 11 1.7k 1.6× 195 0.7× 102 0.5× 54 0.5× 34 0.4× 18 1.8k
Renata Teixeira France 16 1.1k 1.0× 149 0.5× 611 2.8× 181 1.5× 42 0.5× 51 1.2k
Roman Vitenberg Norway 13 872 0.8× 288 1.0× 134 0.6× 45 0.4× 13 0.2× 65 1.0k
Svein J. Knapskog Norway 15 243 0.2× 218 0.8× 200 0.9× 102 0.9× 20 0.2× 45 460
Yun Cui South Korea 9 549 0.5× 281 1.0× 264 1.2× 287 2.4× 27 0.3× 25 626

Countries citing papers authored by Russ Cox

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Fields of papers citing papers by Russ Cox

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Russ Cox. 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 Russ Cox. The network helps show where Russ Cox may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Russ Cox

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

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Ford, Bryan & Russ Cox. (2008). Vx32: lightweight user-level sandboxing on the x86. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 293–306. 87 indexed citations
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Rhea, Sean, et al.. (2008). Fast, inexpensive content-addressed storage in foundation. USENIX Annual Technical Conference. 143–156. 74 indexed citations
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Cox, Russ, Tom Bergan, Austin T. Clements, Frans Kaashoek, & Eddie Kohler. (2008). Xoc, an extension-oriented compiler for systems programming. 244–254. 27 indexed citations
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Cox, Russ, Tom Bergan, Austin T. Clements, Frans Kaashoek, & Eddie Kohler. (2008). Xoc, an extension-oriented compiler for systems programming. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 36(1). 244–254. 1 indexed citations
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Cox, Russ & William Josephson. (2005). File Synchronization with Vector Time Pairs. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Dabek, Frank, Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, & Robert Morris. (2004). Vivaldi. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 34(4). 15–26. 155 indexed citations
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Cox, Russ, Frank Dabek, Frans Kaashoek, Jinyang Li, & Robert Morris. (2004). Practical, distributed network coordinates. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 34(1). 113–118. 84 indexed citations
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Dabek, Frank, Russ Cox, Frans Kaashoek, & Robert Morris. (2004). Vivaldi. 15–26. 754 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cox, Russ, Eric H. Grosse, Robert N. Pike, David L. Presotto, & Sean Quinlan. (2002). Security in Plan 9. USENIX Security Symposium. 3–16. 21 indexed citations
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Cox, Russ & William Josephson. (2001). Communication Timestamps for File System Synchronization. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 1 indexed citations
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Cox, Russ. (1955). Traffic flow in an exponential delay system with priority categories. ˜The œproceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Part B, Radio and electronic engineering, including communication engineering. 102(6). 815–818. 1 indexed citations

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