Stephen Blott

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Stephen Blott is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Blott has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Stephen Blott's work include Advanced Database Systems and Queries (5 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (5 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (4 papers). Stephen Blott is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Database Systems and Queries (5 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (5 papers) and Distributed systems and fault tolerance (4 papers). Stephen Blott collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United States and Switzerland. Stephen Blott's co-authors include Hans‐Jörg Schek, Roger Weber, Philip Wadler, Alan F. Smeaton, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, Gustavo Alonso, Henry F. Korth, Abraham Silberschatz and Noel E. O’Connor and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, ACM SIGMOD Record and Bell Labs Technical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Blott

19 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similar... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 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. A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces
    1998 939 citations Roger Weber, Hans‐Jörg Schek 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
Stephen Blott Ireland 7 761 624 605 336 237 20 1.5k
Neil Sarnak United States 6 379 0.5× 169 0.3× 332 0.5× 395 1.2× 122 0.5× 6 961
Huanguo Zhang China 16 959 1.3× 194 0.3× 202 0.3× 443 1.3× 379 1.6× 250 1.4k
Paul Morris United States 20 963 1.3× 141 0.2× 186 0.3× 747 2.2× 97 0.4× 68 1.4k
Edward M. McCreight United States 9 1.3k 1.7× 305 0.5× 676 1.1× 904 2.7× 303 1.3× 12 2.2k
Julian Shun United States 19 837 1.1× 1.1k 1.8× 202 0.3× 844 2.5× 465 2.0× 64 1.8k
Lejla Batina Netherlands 23 1.5k 1.9× 349 0.6× 240 0.4× 435 1.3× 720 3.0× 124 2.0k
Sharma Chakravarthy United States 18 769 1.0× 122 0.2× 474 0.8× 1.1k 3.4× 637 2.7× 126 1.6k
Ira S. Moskowitz United States 16 553 0.7× 230 0.4× 249 0.4× 292 0.9× 86 0.4× 89 899
Yansheng Lu China 16 267 0.4× 235 0.4× 276 0.5× 241 0.7× 360 1.5× 121 956
Guido Moerkotte Germany 26 1.3k 1.7× 231 0.4× 1.5k 2.4× 2.0k 6.1× 562 2.4× 123 2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Blott

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Blott

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Blott

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephen Blott. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephen Blott 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 Stephen Blott. Stephen Blott 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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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2009). Simulating low-latency anonymous networks. Spring Simulation Multiconference. 86. 1 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2009). Improving stream correlation attacks on anonymous networks. 8 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen & Roger Weber. (2008). What's wrong with high-dimensional similarity search?. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 1(1). 3–3. 5 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2007). Large scale simulation of Tor: modelling a global passive adversary. 48–54. 5 indexed citations
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Weber, Roger, et al.. (2006). An Approximation- Based Data Structure for Similarity Search. 21 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2005). Structural term extraction for expansion of template-based genomic queries. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2005). On the use of Clustering and the MeSH Controlled Vocabulary to Improve MEDLINE Abstract Search.. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, et al.. (2004). EXPERIMENTS IN TERABYTE SEARCHING, GENOMIC RETRIEVAL AND NOVELTY DETECTION FOR TREC-2004.. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2004). GenIRL genomic information retrieval using links. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2003). On the Use of MeSH Headings to Improve Retrieval Effectiveness.. Text REtrieval Conference. 215–224. 6 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, Yuri Breitbart, José Carlos Brustoloni, et al.. (2002). User-level billing and accounting in IP networks. Bell Labs Technical Journal. 4(4). 237–251. 4 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2002). NetTap: an efficient and reliable PC-based platform for network programming. 1653. 13–22. 3 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (2002). Sunrise: A real-time event-processing system. Bell Labs Technical Journal. 3(1). 3–18. 2 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (1998). A Database System for Real-Time Event Aggregation in Telecommunication. Very Large Data Bases. 680–684. 5 indexed citations
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Weber, Roger, Hans‐Jörg Schek, & Stephen Blott. (1998). A Quantitative Analysis and Performance Study for Similarity-Search Methods in High-Dimensional Spaces. 194–205. 939 indexed citations breakdown →
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Alonso, Gustavo, et al.. (1997). Correctness and parallelism in composite systems. 197–208. 13 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (1996). An open abstract-object storage system. ACM SIGMOD Record. 25(2). 330–340. 2 indexed citations
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Blott, Stephen, et al.. (1996). An open abstract-object storage system. 330–340. 12 indexed citations
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Wadler, Philip & Stephen Blott. (1989). How to make ad-hoc polymorphism less ad hoc. 60–76. 451 indexed citations

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