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Cormac Herley 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 Cormac Herley sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 175 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cormac Herley 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 Cormac Herley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Cormac Herley is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within computer science and social sciences.

The main fields of study associated with Cormac Herley's work include:

  • Computer Science
  • Social Sciences

The subfields they have contributed to are:

  • Information Systems
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Signal Processing

Research topics frequently covered by Herley encompass:

  • Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • User Authentication and Security Systems
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Digital and Cyber Forensics

Herley has published papers in several notable venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Recent papers by Cormac Herley include:

  • "A Large-Scale Measurement of Cybercrime Against Individuals," 2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "StopGuessing: Using Guessed Passwords to Thwart Online Password Guessing," 2020, IEEE Security & Privacy
  • "Table of Contents," 2020, IEEE Security & Privacy

Frequent co-authors with whom Herley has collaborated include:

  • Stuart Schechter
  • Casey Breen
  • Elissa M. Redmiles
  • Yuan Tian
  • Terry Benzel

Best Publications

  • Wavelets and filter banks: theory and design

    M. Vetterli;C. Herley

  • A large-scale study of web password habits

    Dinei Florencio;Cormac Herley

  • The Quest to Replace Passwords: A Framework for Comparative Evaluation of Web Authentication Schemes

    J. Bonneau;C. Herley;P. C. van Oorschot;F. Stajano

  • Analyzing and Improving BitTorrent Performance

    Ashwin R. Bharambe;Cormac Herley;Venkata N. Padmanabhan

  • So long, and no thanks for the externalities: the rational rejection of security advice by users

    Cormac Herley

  • Analyzing and Improving a BitTorrent Networks Performance Mechanisms

    A. R. Bharambe;C. Herley;V. N. Padmanabhan

  • A Research Agenda Acknowledging the Persistence of Passwords

    C. Herley;P. Van Oorschot

  • Wavelets and recursive filter banks

    C. Herley;M. Vetterli

  • Tilings of the time-frequency plane: construction of arbitrary orthogonal bases and fast tiling algorithms

    C. Herley;J. Kovacevic;K. Ramchandran;M. Vetterli

  • Passwords and the evolution of imperfect authentication

    Joseph Bonneau;Cormac Herley;Paul C. van Oorschot;Frank Stajano

  • System, method and computer storage device for spyware detection mechanism

    Herley Cormac E;Keogh Brian W;Hulett Aaron Michael;Marinescu Adrian M

  • Does my password go up to eleven?: the impact of password meters on password selection

    Serge Egelman;Andreas Sotirakopoulos;Ildar Muslukhov;Konstantin Beznosov

  • System and method for identifying and segmenting repeating media objects embedded in a stream

    Cormac Herley

  • Client-based generation of music playlists via clustering of music similarity vectors

    Erin Renshaw;John Platt

  • Attack resistant phishing detection

    Dinei A. Florencio;Cormac E. Herley

  • Select content audio playback system for automobiles

    Cormac Herley;Jonathan C. Platt

  • Wavelets, subband coding, and best bases

    K. Ramchandran;M. Vetterli;C. Herley

  • Where do security policies come from

    Dinei Florêncio;Cormac Herley

  • Method and apparatus for populating electronic forms from scanned documents

    Kumar H. Chellapilla;Cormac E. Herley;Trausti T. Kristjansson;Paul A. Viola

  • An administrator's guide to internet password research

    Dinei Florêncio;Cormac Herley;Paul C. Van Oorschot

Frequent Co-Authors

Dinei Florencio
Dinei Florencio Microsoft (United States)
Martin Vetterli
Martin Vetterli École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Kannan Ramchandran
Kannan Ramchandran University of California, Berkeley
Jelena Kovacevic
Jelena Kovacevic New York University
Zixiang Xiong
Zixiang Xiong Texas A&M University
Paul C. van Oorschot
Paul C. van Oorschot Carleton University
John Platt
John Platt Google (United States)
Venkata N. Padmanabhan
Venkata N. Padmanabhan Microsoft (United States)
Serge Egelman
Serge Egelman International Computer Science Institute
Michael T. Orchard
Michael T. Orchard Rice University

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