Stephen Kent

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Stephen Kent is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Kent has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 11 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stephen Kent's work include IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security (9 papers), Mobile Agent-Based Network Management (8 papers) and Advanced Authentication Protocols Security (7 papers). Stephen Kent is often cited by papers focused on IPv6, Mobility, Handover, Networks, Security (9 papers), Mobile Agent-Based Network Management (8 papers) and Advanced Authentication Protocols Security (7 papers). Stephen Kent collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Stephen Kent's co-authors include Christine E. Jones, Fabrice Tchakountio, Craig Partridge, Alex C. Snoeren, Luis A. Sanchez, W. Timothy Strayer, Charles Lynn, Karen Seo, Isidro Castiñeyra and John K. Zao and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Computing Surveys and ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Kent

24 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Kent United States	11	1.1k	886	306	200	196	25	1.3k
S. Kent United States	11	829 0.7×	675 0.8×	265 0.9×	122 0.6×	104 0.5×	14	964
Greg Kroah-Hartman United States	8	529 0.5×	507 0.6×	256 0.8×	336 1.7×	243 1.2×	17	955
Jason Franklin United States	13	872 0.8×	471 0.5×	247 0.8×	375 1.9×	661 3.4×	23	1.3k
Kostas G. Anagnostakis United States	22	1.3k 1.1×	700 0.8×	296 1.0×	615 3.1×	364 1.9×	45	1.5k
Marc E. Fiuczynski United States	13	1.5k 1.3×	635 0.7×	552 1.8×	187 0.9×	827 4.2×	25	1.8k
Jochen Liedtke United States	17	1.1k 1.0×	766 0.9×	974 3.2×	280 1.4×	351 1.8×	45	1.6k
James W. O’Toole United States	13	1.8k 1.6×	531 0.6×	684 2.2×	146 0.7×	439 2.2×	27	2.1k
Robert Wahbe United States	8	764 0.7×	901 1.0×	457 1.5×	502 2.5×	250 1.3×	11	1.2k
T.Y.C. Woo United States	16	1.1k 1.0×	608 0.7×	213 0.7×	92 0.5×	427 2.2×	40	1.4k
David Golub United States	16	1.5k 1.3×	481 0.5×	1.1k 3.7×	100 0.5×	317 1.6×	29	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Kent

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Kent

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Kent

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kent, Stephen. (2014). Opportunistic Security as a Countermeasure to Pervasive Monitoring.

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Kent, Stephen, et al.. (2009). Traceable Anonymous Certificate. RFC. 5636. 1–31. 5 indexed citations

3.

Huston, Geoff, et al.. (2009). Resource Certification - A Public Key Infrastructure for IP Addresses and AS's. 6. 1–6. 5 indexed citations

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Partridge, Craig, et al.. (2007). Information Assurance and the Transition to IP Version 6 (IPv6). 1–8. 1 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen, Charles Lynn, & Karen Seo. (2004). X.509 Extensions for IP Addresses and AS Identifiers. RFC. 3779. 1–27. 15 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen, et al.. (2002). What's Trust Got to Do with It?. 398–399. 4 indexed citations

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Snoeren, Alex C., Craig Partridge, Luis A. Sanchez, et al.. (2001). Hash-based IP traceback. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. 31(4). 3–14. 164 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen, et al.. (2000). Secure Border Gateway Protocol (S-BGP) — Real World Performance and Deployment Issues. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. 99 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen, Charles Lynn, & Karen Seo. (2000). Secure Border Gateway Protocol (Secure-BGP). 92 indexed citations

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Zao, John K., et al.. (1999). A public‐key based secure Mobile IP. Wireless Networks. 5(5). 373–390. 27 indexed citations

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Zao, John K., et al.. (1997). A public-key based secure mobile IP. 173–184. 22 indexed citations

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Brickell, Ernest F., et al.. (1995). SKIPJACK review: interim report. Springer eBooks. 119–130. 7 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen. (1995). Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail. Springer eBooks. 51–75. 30 indexed citations

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Landau, Susan, Stephen Kent, Dorothy E. Denning, et al.. (1994). Crypto policy perspectives. Communications of the ACM. 37(8). 115–121. 8 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen. (1994). Internet security standards. 2(2). 78–85. 1 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen, et al.. (1985). Security mechanisms in a transport layer protocol. Computers & Security. 4(4). 325–341. 2 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen, et al.. (1983). Security Mechanisms in High-Level Network Protocols. ACM Computing Surveys. 15(2). 135–171. 180 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen. (1981). Some Cryptographic Techniques for File Protection.. 80. 1 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen, et al.. (1980). Technical correspondence. Communications of the ACM. 23(1). 35–40. 1 indexed citations

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Kent, Stephen. (1977). Encryption-based protection for interactive user/computer communication. 5.7–5.13. 15 indexed citations

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