Tomer Kaftan

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 886 citations indexed

About

Tomer Kaftan is a scholar working on Information Systems and Management, Computer Networks and Communications and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomer Kaftan has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 886 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Information Systems and Management, 1 paper in Computer Networks and Communications and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Tomer Kaftan's work include Scientific Computing and Data Management (2 papers), Retinal Imaging and Analysis (1 paper) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (1 paper). Tomer Kaftan is often cited by papers focused on Scientific Computing and Data Management (2 papers), Retinal Imaging and Analysis (1 paper) and Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques (1 paper). Tomer Kaftan collaborates with scholars based in United States. Tomer Kaftan's co-authors include Michael J. Franklin, Joseph K. Bradley, Yin Huai, Matei Zaharia, Michael Armbrust, Xiangrui Meng, Cheng Lian, Reynold Xin, Ali Ghodsi and Shivaram Venkataraman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.

In The Last Decade

Tomer Kaftan

4 papers receiving 829 citations

Hit Papers

Spark SQL 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 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. Spark SQL
    2015 761 citations Michael Armbrust, Reynold Xin et al. profile →

Peers

Tomer Kaftan
Badrish Chandramouli United States
Yin Huai United States
Tilmann Rabl Germany
Meikel Poess United States
Karthik Ramasamy United States
Alekh Jindal United States
Krishna Gade United States
Sameer Agarwal United States
Jonathan Goldstein United States
Andrey Balmin United States
Badrish Chandramouli United States
Tomer Kaftan
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Countries citing papers authored by Tomer Kaftan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tomer Kaftan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomer Kaftan

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

All Works

4 of 4 papers shown
1.
Zolyomi, Annuska, et al.. (2020). #ActuallyAutistic Sense-Making on Twitter. 1–4. 12 indexed citations
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Kaftan, Tomer, Alvin Cheung, Magdalena Bałazińska, et al.. (2017). Comparative evaluation of big-data systems on scientific image analytics workloads. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment. 10(11). 1226–1237. 38 indexed citations
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Sparks, Evan, Shivaram Venkataraman, Tomer Kaftan, Michael J. Franklin, & Benjamin Recht. (2017). KeystoneML: Optimizing Pipelines for Large-Scale Advanced Analytics. 535–546. 75 indexed citations
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Armbrust, Michael, Reynold Xin, Cheng Lian, et al.. (2015). Spark SQL. 1383–1394. 761 indexed citations breakdown →

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