2026 Abraham Silberschatz: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	77	1245	1204	662	636	296	31510

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Computer Science

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Research.com Recognitions

2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2000 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the development of computer systems dealing with the efficient manipulation and processing of information.
1998 - ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award For his contributions to Computer Science Education through his books and mentoring of students.
1996 - ACM Fellow For superb research contributions in the areas of databases, multimedia systems and concurrency control, outstanding contribution to Computer Science education and outstanding service to the ACM community.

Overview

Abraham Silberschatz is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their recent publication includes a paper titled Research Pearl: The ROSI Operating System Interface, published in 2024 in arXiv (Cornell University). This paper has received citations since its release.

Frequent co-authors working alongside Silberschatz include:

Robert Soulé
Peter Alvaro
Henry F. Korth

Publication venues commonly associated with their work feature:

arXiv (Cornell University)

Across their academic career, Silberschatz has received several awards recognizing contributions in both research and education. These awards include:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010
IEEE Fellow, 2000, for contributions to the development of computer systems dealing with the efficient manipulation and processing of information
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, 1998, for contributions to Computer Science Education through books and mentoring of students
ACM Fellow, 1996, for research contributions in databases, multimedia systems and concurrency control, contributions to Computer Science education, and service to the ACM community

Best Publications

Database System Concepts

Henry F. Korth;Abraham Silberschatz

5242
Citations
Operating System Concepts

Abraham Silberschatz;Peter Baer Galvin;Greg Gagne

5168
Citations
HadoopDB: an architectural hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS technologies for analytical workloads

Azza Abouzeid;Kamil Bajda-Pawlikowski;Daniel Abadi;Avi Silberschatz

1330
Citations
What makes patterns interesting in knowledge discovery systems

A. Silberschatz;A. Tuzhilin

1072
Citations
P4p: provider portal for applications

Haiyong Xie;Y. Richard Yang;Arvind Krishnamurthy;Yanbin Grace Liu

996
Citations
Overview of multidatabase transaction management

Yuri Breitbart;Hector Garcia-Molina;Avi Silberschatz

880
Citations
Cyclic association rules

B. Ozden;S. Ramaswamy;A. Silberschatz

656
Citations
Extended algebra and calculus for nested relational databases

Mark A. Roth;Herry F. Korth;Abraham Silberschatz

502
Citations
Database Systems Concepts

Abraham Silberschatz;Henry F. Korth;S. Sudarshan

501
Citations
Distributed file systems: concepts and examples

Eliezer Levy;Abraham Silberschatz

435
Citations
A formal approach to recovery by compensating transactions

Henry F. Korth;Eliezer levy;Abraham Silberschatz

422
Citations
Operating System Concepts

Abraham Silberschatz;Peter B. Galvin;Greg

389
Citations
Topology discovery in heterogeneous IP networks

Y. Breitbart;M. Garofalakis;C. Martin;R. Rastogi

342
Citations
Database systems: achievements and opportunities

Avi Silberschatz;Michael Stonebraker;Jeff Ullman

314
Citations
Algorithms for provisioning virtual private networks in the hose model

Amit Kumar;Rajeev Rastogi;Avi Silberschatz;Bulent Yener

307
Citations
Topology discovery in heterogeneous IP networks: the NetInventory system

Yuri Breitbart;Minos Garofalakis;Ben Jai;Cliff Martin

291
Citations
Disk scheduling with quality of service guarantees

J. Bruno;J. Brustoloni;E. Gabber;B. Ozden

273
Citations
On rigorous transaction scheduling

Y. Breitbart;D. Georgakopoulos;M. Rusinkiewicz;A. Silberschatz

260
Citations
Database research: achievements and opportunities into the 1st century

Avi Silberschatz;Mike Stonebraker;Jeff Ullman

248
Citations
A transaction model for multidatabase systems

S. Mehrotra;R. Rastogi;A. Silberschatz;H.F. Korth

241
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rajeev Rastogi Amazon (United States)

Henry F. Korth Lehigh University

Sundararajarao Sudarshan Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Yuri Breitbart Kent State University

Sharad Mehrotra University of California, Irvine

Minos Garofalakis Technical University of Crete

Yossi Matias Google (United States)

Raghu Ramakrishnan Microsoft (United States)

Hosagrahar V. Jagadish University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Inderpal Singh Mumick Kirusa

External Links

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