2026 John R. Douceur: 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	61	3003	2914	1471	1415	163	22024

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Computer Science

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22024

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

John R. Douceur is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their professional contributions are linked primarily to this organization.

In 2007, they were recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member.

Best Publications

The Sybil Attack

John R. Douceur

7205
Citations
Farsite: federated, available, and reliable storage for an incompletely trusted environment

Atul Adya;William J. Bolosky;Miguel Castro;Gerald Cermak

1351
Citations
Reclaiming space from duplicate files in a serverless distributed file system

J.R. Douceur;A. Adya;W.J. Bolosky;P. Simon

1002
Citations
Feasibility of a serverless distributed file system deployed on an existing set of desktop PCs

William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur;David Ely;Marvin Theimer

804
Citations
A five-year study of file-system metadata

Nitin Agrawal;William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur;Jacob R. Lorch

629
Citations
Asirra: a CAPTCHA that exploits interest-aligned manual image categorization.

Jeremy Elson;John R. Douceur;Jon Howell;Jared Saul

625
Citations
On-disk file format for a serverless distributed file system

William J. Bolosky;Gerald Cermak;Atul Adya;John R. Douceur

464
Citations
Cooperative Task Management Without Manual Stack Management

Atul Adya;Jon Howell;Marvin Theimer;William J. Bolosky

433
Citations
Method and system for automatically merging files into a single instance store

William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur;Scott M. Cutshall

419
Citations
Serverless distributed file system

Atul Adya;William J. Bolosky;Gerald Cermak;John R. Douceur

401
Citations
Technique for efficiently classifying packets using a trie-indexed hierarchy forest that accommodates wildcards

John R. Douceur;Ofer Bar;Yoram Bernet

386
Citations
Single instance store for file systems

William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur;Scott M. Cutshall;Richard F. Rashid

370
Citations
A large-scale study of file-system contents

John R. Douceur;William J. Bolosky

342
Citations
Transforming offline maps into interactive online maps

Jonathan R. Howell;Jeremy E. Elson;John R. Douceur

274
Citations
Single instance storage in Windows® 2000

William J. Bolosky;Scott Corbin;David Goebel;John R. Douceur

270
Citations
Donnybrook: enabling large-scale, high-speed, peer-to-peer games

Ashwin Bharambe;John R. Douceur;Jacob R. Lorch;Thomas Moscibroda

253
Citations
TrInc: small trusted hardware for large distributed systems

Dave Levin;John R. Douceur;Jacob R. Lorch;Thomas Moscibroda

231
Citations
Data storage safety indicator and expander

Alexander Gounares;Ashok Kuppusamy;John Douceur;Patrick Bozeman

229
Citations
Single Instance Storage in Windows

William J. Bolosky;Scott Corbin;David Goebel;John R. Douceur

211
Citations
Continuous media file server system and method for scheduling network resources to play multiple files having different data transmission rates

William J. Bolosky;John R. Douceur

209
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William J. Bolosky Microsoft (United States)

Jacob R. Lorch Microsoft (United States)

Marvin M. Theimer Microsoft (United States)

Atul Adya Google (United States)

Jeremy Elson Microsoft (United States)

Thomas Moscibroda Microsoft (United States)

Bryan Parno Carnegie Mellon University

Roger Wattenhofer ETH Zurich

Alexander G. Gounares Microsoft (United States)

Jonathan M. McCune Google (United States)

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