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Birgit Pfitzmann 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 Birgit Pfitzmann sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 248 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Birgit Pfitzmann 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 Birgit Pfitzmann sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% 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

  • 2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Birgit Pfitzmann is affiliated with IBM in the United States and specializes in research within the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields, notably Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition as well as Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research addresses key topics including:

  • Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
  • Topic Modeling

Birgit Pfitzmann has authored papers in significant venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • DocLayNet: A Large Human-Annotated Dataset for Document-Layout Segmentation, 2022, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • INDUS: Effective and Efficient Language Models for Scientific Applications, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

This selection highlights a focus on datasets for document analysis as well as language models tailored for scientific contexts.

Frequent collaborators in Birgit Pfitzmann's work comprise:

  • Michele Dolfi
  • Peter Staar
  • Christoph Auer
  • Ahmed Nassar
  • Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee

These coauthors have repeatedly contributed to research outputs, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts.

Birgit Pfitzmann holds the title of ACM Senior Member since 2008, indicating recognition within the computing research community.

Best Publications

  • Advances in Cryptology-Eurocrypt 2001

    Birgit Pfitzmann

  • Collision-Free Accumulators and Fail-Stop Signature Schemes Without Trees

    Unknown

  • A model for asynchronous reactive systems and its application to secure message transmission

    B. Pfitzmann;M. Waidner

  • ISDN-Mixes: Untraceable Communication with Very Small Bandwidth Overhead

    Andreas Pfitzmann;Birgit Pfitzmann;Michael Waidner

  • A composable cryptographic library with nested operations

    Michael Backes;Birgit Pfitzmann;Michael Waidner

  • Composition and integrity preservation of secure reactive systems

    Birgit Pfitzmann;Michael Waidner

  • Cryptographically Strong Undeniable Signatures, Unconditionally Secure for the Signer

    David Chaum;Eugène van Heijst;Birgit Pfitzmann

  • Method and system for attribute exchange in a heterogeneous federated environment

    George Blakley;Heather Hinton;Anthony Nadalin;Birgit Pfitzmann

  • Method and Apparatus for Controlling Data Storage Among Storage Centers

    William R Reohr;Birgit M Pfitzmann;Kevin M Kingsbury;Laura A Richardson

  • The ESPRIT Project CAFE - High Security Digital Payment Systems

    Jean-Paul Boly;Antoon Bosselaers;Ronald Cramer;Rolf Michelsen

  • Asymmetric fingerprinting

    Birgit Pfitzmann;Matthias Schunter

  • On the existence of statistically hiding bit commitment schemes and fail-stop signatures

    Ivan B. Damgård;Torben P. Pedersen;Birgit Pfitzmann

  • The dining cryptographers in the disco: unconditional sender and recipient untraceability with computationally secure serviceability

    Michael Waidner;Birgit Pfitzmann

  • Trials of Traced Traitors

    Birgit Pfitzmann

  • A general composition theorem for secure reactive systems

    Michael Backes;Birgit Pfitzmann;Michael Waidner

  • Trusting mobile user devices and security modules

    A. Pfitzmann;B. Pfitzmann;M. Schunter;M. Waidner

  • Breaking an efficient anonymous channel

    Birgit Pfitzmann

  • Implementation and use of a PII data access control facility employing personally identifying information labels and purpose serving functions sets

    Linda Betz;John C. Dayka;Walter B. Farrell;Richard H. Guski

  • Symmetric Encryption in a Simulatable Dolev-Yao Style Cryptographic Library.

    Michael Backes;Birgit Pfitzmann

  • How to break the direct RSA-implementation of mixes

    Birgit Pfitzmann;Andreas Pfizmann

  • From Regulatory Policies to Event Monitoring Rules: Towards Model-Driven Compliance Automation

    Christopher Giblin;Samuel Müller;Birgit Pfitzmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Waidner
Michael Waidner Technical University of Darmstadt
Matthias Schunter
Matthias Schunter Intel (United States)
Michael Steiner
Michael Steiner Intel (United States)
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi Technical University of Darmstadt
Brian Randell
Brian Randell Newcastle University
Christian Cachin
Christian Cachin University of Bern
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson University of Cambridge
Paulo Veríssimo
Paulo Veríssimo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Pekka Nikander
Pekka Nikander Aalto University
George Danezis
George Danezis University College London

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