2026 Alexandru Iosup: 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	53	4787	4653	70	65	246	12322

Alexandru Iosup publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandru Iosup sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 246 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Alexandru Iosup D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandru Iosup sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Alexandru Iosup is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Computer Science, with a particular emphasis on subfields such as Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Information Systems and Management, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

Cloud Computing and Resource Management
Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
Scientific Computing and Data Management
IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Advanced Data Storage Technologies
Graph Theory and Algorithms
Advanced Database Systems and Queries

Alexandru Iosup has contributed to multiple publication venues, frequently publishing in:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Future Generation Computer Systems
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Internet Computing

Their recent papers include:

"Methods included," 2022, Communications of the ACM
"The future is big graphs," 2021, Communications of the ACM
"The State of Serverless Applications: Collection, Characterization, and Community Consensus," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
"A Review of Serverless Use Cases and their Characteristics," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
"Beyond Von Neumann in the Computing Continuum: Architectures, Applications, and Future Directions," 2023, IEEE Internet Computing

Frequent collaborators of Alexandru Iosup include:

Cristina L. Abad
Nikolas Herbst
Simon Eismann
Joel Scheuner
Erwin van Eyk

Best Publications

Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for Many-Tasks Scientific Computing

A Iosup;S Ostermann;M N Yigitbasi;R Prodan

1205
Citations
A Performance Analysis of EC2 Cloud Computing Services for Scientific Computing

Simon Ostermann;Alexandria Iosup;Nezih Yigitbasi;Radu Prodan

1004
Citations
Procedural content generation for games: A survey

Mark Hendrikx;Sebastiaan Meijer;Joeri Van Der Velden;Alexandru Iosup

719
Citations
TRIBLER: a social‐based peer‐to‐peer system

JA Pouwelse;P Garbacki;J Jun Wang;Arthur Bakker

684
Citations
On the Performance Variability of Production Cloud Services

Alexandru Iosup;Nezih Yigitbasi;Dick Epema

437
Citations
An experience report on using gamification in technical higher education

Alexandru Iosup;Dick Epema

436
Citations
The Grid Workloads Archive

Alexandru Iosup;Hui Li;Mathieu Jan;Shanny Anoep

394
Citations
Statistical characterization of business-critical workloads hosted in cloud datacenters

Siqi Shen;Vincent van Beek;Alexandra Iosup

291
Citations
TRIBLER: a social-based peer-to-peer system: Research Articles

J. A. Pouwelse;P. Garbacki;J. Wang;A. Bakker

253
Citations
The Failure Trace Archive: Enabling Comparative Analysis of Failures in Diverse Distributed Systems

Derrick Kondo;Bahman Javadi;Alexandru Iosup;Dick Epema

242
Citations
C-Meter: A Framework for Performance Analysis of Computing Clouds

Nezih Yigitbasi;Alexandru Iosup;Dick Epema;Simon Ostermann

216
Citations
How are Real Grids Used? The Analysis of Four Grid Traces and Its Implications

A. Iosup;C. Dumitrescu;D. Epema;Hui Li

214
Citations
The performance of bags-of-tasks in large-scale distributed systems

Alexandru Iosup;Ozan Sonmez;Shanny Anoep;Dick Epema

209
Citations
Serverless is More: From PaaS to Present Cloud Computing

Erwin van Eyk;Lucian Toader;Sacheendra Talluri;Laurens Versluis

169
Citations
Grid Computing Workloads

A Iosup;D Epema

161
Citations
The future is big graphs: a community view on graph processing systems

Sherif Sakr;Angela Bonifati;Hannes Voigt;Alexandru Iosup

159
Citations
On the dynamic resource availability in grids

A. Iosup;M. Jan;O. Sonmez;D.H.J. Epema

156
Citations
Methods Included: Standardizing Computational Reuse and Portability with the Common Workflow Language.

Michael R. Crusoe;Sanne Abeln;Alexandru Iosup;Peter Amstutz

156
Citations
LDBC graphalytics: a benchmark for large-scale graph analysis on parallel and distributed platforms

Alexandru Iosup;Tim Hegeman;Wing Lung Ngai;Stijn Heldens

155
Citations
How Well Do Graph-Processing Platforms Perform? An Empirical Performance Evaluation and Analysis

Yong Guo;Marcin Biczak;Ana Lucia Varbanescu;Alexandru Iosup

153
Citations
Dynamic Resource Provisioning in Massively Multiplayer Online Games

V Nae;A Iosup;R Prodan

145
Citations
An Early Performance Analysis of Cloud Computing Services for Scientific Computing

Simon Ostermann;Alexandru Iosup;Nezih Yigitbasi;Radu Prodan

70
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dick Epema Delft University of Technology

Radu Prodan University of Innsbruck

Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck

Johan Pouwelse Delft University of Technology

Samuel Kounev University of Würzburg

Henk Sips Delft University of Technology

Xiaoyun Zhu VMware

Derrick Kondo French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA

Peter Boncz Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Ramin Yahyapour University of Göttingen

External Links

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