2026 Gary Wills: 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	50	5559	5404	334	330	529	11549

Gary Wills 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 Gary Wills sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 529 publications — 94th percentile

94% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gary Wills 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 Gary Wills sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 62nd percentile

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

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

Overview

Gary Wills is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across multiple disciplines within computer science and business, with a notable focus on technology applications and management.

Their work primarily falls within the fields of:

Computer Science
Business, Management and Accounting

They investigate subfields such as:

Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Marketing
Management Information Systems
Artificial Intelligence

The main topics they explore include:

IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
E-Government and Public Services
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Digital and Cyber Forensics
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

Recent papers authored by or involving Gary Wills demonstrate the breadth of their research interests. Selected publications include:

"A Review of Blockchain in Internet of Things and AI" (2020), published in Big Data and Cognitive Computing
"Internet of Things Forensics: A Review" (2020), published in Internet of Things
"Understanding fraudulent returns and mitigation strategies in multichannel retailing" (2022), published in Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
"Strategies and practices to reduce the ecological impact of product returns: An environmental sustainability framework for multichannel retail" (2023), published in Business Strategy and the Environment
"An information security model for an IoT-enabled Smart Grid in the Saudi energy sector" (2022), published in Computers & Electrical Engineering

Gary Wills frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

Victor Chang
Danni Zhang
Regina Frei
Steffen Bayer
Enrico Gerding

Their work appears consistently in various academic venues, with multiple publications in:

Internet of Things
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Big Data
SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence

Best Publications

Fog Computing and the Internet of Things: A Review

Hany F. Atlam;Robert John Walters;Gary B. Wills

628
Citations
Importance-Performance Analysis based SWOT analysis

Boonyarat Phadermrod;Boonyarat Phadermrod;Richard M. Crowder;Gary B. Wills

581
Citations
SVM Parameter Optimization using Grid Search and Genetic Algorithm to Improve Classification Performance

Iwan Syarif;Adam Prugel-Bennett;Gary Wills

502
Citations
Blockchain with Internet of Things: Benefits, Challenges, and Future Directions

Hany F. Atlam;Ahmed Alenezi

399
Citations
Advantages and Challenges of Using e-Assessment

Nuha Alruwais;Gary Wills;Mike Wald

345
Citations
A Conceptual Framework for Serious Games

Amri Yusoff;Richard Crowder;Lester Gilbert;Gary Wills

298
Citations
Critical success factors (CSFs) for information technology governance (ITG)

Zyad Alreemy;Victor Chang;Robert Walters;Gary Wills

278
Citations
IoT security, privacy, safety and ethics

Hany F. Atlam;Hany F. Atlam;Gary B. Wills

273
Citations
Unsupervised Clustering Approach for Network Anomaly Detection

Iwan Syarif;Adam Prugel-Bennett;Gary B. Wills

254
Citations
Historical Roots of Agile Methods: Where Did “Agile Thinking” Come From?

Noura Abbas;Andrew M. Gravell;Gary B. Wills

238
Citations
The development that leads to the Cloud Computing Business Framework

Victor Chang;Victor Chang;Robert John Walters;Gary B. Wills

236
Citations
Integration of Cloud Computing with Internet of Things: Challenges and Open Issues

Hany F. Atlam;Ahmed Alenezi;Abdulrahman Alharthi;Robert J. Walters

216
Citations
Exploring the impact of gamification on student engagement and involvement with e-learning systems

Imed Bouchrika;Nouzha Harrati;Vanissa Wanick;Gary Wills

210
Citations
An empirical study of factors influencing cloud adoption among private sector organisations

Nouf Alkhater;Robert John Walters;Gary B. Wills

166
Citations
Application of bagging, boosting and stacking to intrusion detection

Iwan Syarif;Ed Zaluska;Adam Prugel-Bennett;Gary Wills

165
Citations
A model to compare cloud and non-cloud storage of Big Data

Victor Chang;Gary Wills

162
Citations
A Categorisation of Cloud Computing Business Models

Victor Chang;David Bacigalupo;Gary Wills;David De Roure

162
Citations
Making training more cognitively effective: making videos interactive

Tom Cherrett;Gary B. Wills;Joseph Price;Sarah Maynard

154
Citations
Technical aspects of blockchain and IoT

Hany F. Atlam;Hany F. Atlam;Gary B. Wills

152
Citations
A Review of Blockchain in Internet of Things and AI

Hany F. Atlam;Muhammad Ajmal Azad;Ahmed G. Alzahrani;Gary B. Wills

143
Citations
Web 2.0-The past and the future

Russell Newman;Victor Chang;Robert John Walters;Gary Brian Wills

138
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert John Walters University of Southampton

Wendy Hall University of Southampton

Victor Chang Aston University

Hugh C. Davis University of Southampton

David De Roure University of Oxford

Nigel Shadbolt University of Oxford

Lucy Yardley University of Bristol

Mark J. Weal University of Southampton

Gráinne Conole University of Leicester

Itiel E. Dror University College London

External Links

Personal website of Gary Wills

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