Thomas Bocek

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 673 citations indexed

About

Thomas Bocek is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Marketing. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Bocek has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 673 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 14 papers in Information Systems and 4 papers in Marketing. Recurrent topics in Thomas Bocek's work include Caching and Content Delivery (20 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (17 papers) and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (8 papers). Thomas Bocek is often cited by papers focused on Caching and Content Delivery (20 papers), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (17 papers) and Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (8 papers). Thomas Bocek collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Greece. Thomas Bocek's co-authors include Burkhard Stiller, Bruno Rodrigues, Sina Rafati Niya, David Hausheer, Lawrence Rajendran, Eryk Schiller, A. De Carli, Joel Scheuner, Ela Hunt and Xabier Larrucea and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and Immunotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Bocek

33 papers receiving 625 citations

Hit Papers

Blockchains everywhere - a use-case of blockchains in the... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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. Blockchains everywhere - a use-case of blockchains in the pharma supply-chain
    2017 345 citations Thomas Bocek, Bruno Rodrigues 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
Thomas Bocek Switzerland 11 522 328 123 92 68 37 673
Bruno Rodrigues Switzerland 15 594 1.1× 383 1.2× 103 0.8× 146 1.6× 81 1.2× 46 782
Ahmed Afif Monrat Sweden 6 608 1.2× 280 0.9× 100 0.8× 149 1.6× 39 0.6× 9 736
Sanjeev Kumar Dwivedi India 12 499 1.0× 285 0.9× 61 0.5× 130 1.4× 42 0.6× 34 629
Αντώνιος Λίτκε Greece 13 363 0.7× 314 1.0× 60 0.5× 78 0.8× 42 0.6× 46 600
Abdurrashid Ibrahim Sanka Hong Kong 7 331 0.6× 153 0.5× 60 0.5× 80 0.9× 30 0.4× 12 408
Saša Pešić Serbia 7 303 0.6× 157 0.5× 42 0.3× 76 0.8× 26 0.4× 15 410
Hanqing Wu Hong Kong 7 424 0.8× 221 0.7× 62 0.5× 98 1.1× 31 0.5× 10 503
Seyednima Khezr Canada 8 414 0.8× 248 0.8× 56 0.5× 85 0.9× 13 0.2× 9 512
Dhirendra Pandey India 11 269 0.5× 122 0.4× 48 0.4× 109 1.2× 22 0.3× 31 467
E. Sandeep Kumar India 7 595 1.1× 268 0.8× 64 0.5× 206 2.2× 22 0.3× 13 715

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Bocek

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Bocek

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Bocek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Bocek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Bocek 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 Thomas Bocek. Thomas Bocek 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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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Digital Mobile Onboarding in Switzerland – a Hands-on Experience. Integrated Network Management. 824–829. 1 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2019). Superlight – A Permissionless, Light-client Only Blockchain with Self-Contained Proofs and BLS Signatures. Immunotechnology. 36–41. 3 indexed citations
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Rodrigues, Bruno, et al.. (2019). Evaluating a Blockchain-based Cooperative Defense. Immunotechnology. 533–538. 4 indexed citations
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Niya, Sina Rafati, et al.. (2019). A Blockchain-based Scientific Publishing Platform. Research Portal (King's College London). 329–336. 26 indexed citations
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Niya, Sina Rafati, et al.. (2018). Design and implementation of an automated and decentralized pollution monitoring system with blockchains, smart contracts, and LoRaWAN. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 45 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2017). Blockchains everywhere - a use-case of blockchains in the pharma supply-chain. 772–777. 345 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2017). CoinBlesk - a real-time, bitcoin-based payment approach and app. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 2017(110). 14–15. 1 indexed citations
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Rodrigues, Bruno, Thomas Bocek, & Burkhard Stiller. (2017). Enabling a Cooperative, Multi-domain DDoS Defense by a Blockchain Signaling System (BloSS). Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 20 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Overlay network measurements with distribution evolution and geographical visualization. 55. 222–230. 3 indexed citations
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Scheuner, Joel, et al.. (2016). Probr - A Generic and Passive WiFi Tracking System. 22 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2016). Towards Path Quality Metrics for Overlay Networks. 156–159.
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Wajda, Krzysztof, et al.. (2014). An Overview of Application Traffic Management Approaches: Challenges and Potential Extensions. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 38 4. 50–57. 1 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2013). RB-Tracker: A fully distributed, replicating, network-, and topology-aware P2P CDN. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1199–1202. 4 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2013). SMARTenIT cloud traffic management approach and architectural considerations. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1–11. 1 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2012). Radiommender: P2P on-line radio with a distributed recommender system. 73–74. 5 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2009). The Design and Evaluation of a Distributed Reliable File System. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 5. 348–353. 6 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2009). CompactPSH: An efficient transitive TFT incentive scheme for Peer-to-Peer Networks. 6818. 483–490. 7 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Game theoretical analysis of incentives for large-scale, fully decentralized collaboration networks. Proceedings - IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. 2872. 1–8. 15 indexed citations
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Bocek, Thomas, et al.. (2008). LiveShift: Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming with Distributed Time-Shifting. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 187–188. 7 indexed citations

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