2026 Jon Crowcroft: 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	104	301	291	17	17	731	59280

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
2004 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to network protocols.
2002 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the design and analysis of network protocols and for technical leadership.
1999 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Jon Crowcroft is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and primarily works in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on areas such as Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research covers several topics including IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks, Caching and Content Delivery, and Complex Network Analysis Techniques.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jon Crowcroft include:

Leveraging Data Science to Combat COVID-19: A Comprehensive Review (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Edge Intelligence: Empowering Intelligence to the Edge of Network (2021) published in Proceedings of the IEEE
Media Landscape in Twitter: A World of New Conventions and Political Diversity (2021) published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Edge Intelligence: Architectures, Challenges, and Applications (2020) published in arXiv (Cornell University)
The Social World of Twitter: Topics, Geography, and Emotions (2021) published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Frequent co-authors include:

Ranjan Pal
Sasu Tarkoma
Carsten Maple
Pan Hui
Mingyan Liu

Jon Crowcroft has published extensively in several venues, with the most common being:

arXiv (Cornell University)
CL Technical Reports
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Data & Policy
IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Among their book publications, Jon Crowcroft has contributed to WORLD SCIENTIFIC (EUROPE) eBooks with the title Fair Exchange published in 2023.

The awards received by Jon Crowcroft include:

Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2013)
IEEE Fellow (2004) for contributions to network protocols
ACM Fellow (2002) for contributions to the design and analysis of network protocols and for technical leadership
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (1999)

Best Publications

XORs in the air: practical wireless network coding

Sachin Katti;Hariharan Rahul;Wenjun Hu;Dina Katabi

6255
Citations
BUBBLE Rap: Social-Based Forwarding in Delay-Tolerant Networks

Pan Hui;J. Crowcroft;E. Yoneki

5595
Citations
Quality-of-service routing for supporting multimedia applications

Zheng Wang;J. Crowcroft

2510
Citations
A survey and comparison of peer-to-peer overlay network schemes

Eng Keong Lua;J. Crowcroft;M. Pias;R. Sharma

2322
Citations
Recommendations on Queue Management and Congestion Avoidance in the Internet

B. Braden;D. Clark;J. Crowcroft;B. Davie

2263
Citations
Impact of Human Mobility on Opportunistic Forwarding Algorithms

A. Chaintreau;Pan Hu;J. Crowcroft;C. Diot

2086
Citations
Core based trees (CBT)

Tony Ballardie;Paul Francis;Jon Crowcroft

1768
Citations
Pocket switched networks and human mobility in conference environments

Pan Hui;Augustin Chaintreau;James Scott;Richard Gass

1395
Citations
Honeycomb: creating intrusion detection signatures using honeypots

Christian Kreibich;Jon Crowcroft

1117
Citations
TCP-like congestion control for layered multicast data transfer

L. Vicisano;J. Crowcroft;L. Rizzo

938
Citations
Vigilante: end-to-end containment of internet worms

Manuel Costa;Jon Crowcroft;Miguel Castro;Antony Rowstron

931
Citations
Impact of Human Mobility on the Design of Opportunistic Forwarding Algorithms

A. Chaintreau;P. Hui;J. Crowcroft;C. Diot

884
Citations
How Small Labels Create Big Improvements

Pan Hui;J. Crowcroft

864
Citations
Our Twitter Profiles, Our Selves: Predicting Personality with Twitter

Daniele Quercia;Michal Kosinski;David Stillwell;Jon Crowcroft

690
Citations
Multipoint communication: a survey of protocols, functions, and mechanisms

C. Diot;W. Dabbous;J. Crowcroft

579
Citations
Unikernels: library operating systems for the cloud

Anil Madhavapeddy;Richard Mortier;Charalampos Rotsos;David Scott

569
Citations
Distributed community detection in delay tolerant networks

Pan Hui;Eiko Yoneki;Shu Yan Chan;Jon Crowcroft

495
Citations
Towards real-time community detection in large networks.

Ian X. Y. Leung;Pan Hui;Pietro Liò;Jon Crowcroft

438
Citations
Modelling incentives for collaboration in mobile ad hoc networks

Jon Crowcroft;Richard Gibbens;Frank Kelly;Sven Östring

412
Citations
Differentiated end-to-end Internet services using a weighted proportional fair sharing TCP

Jon Crowcroft;Philippe Oechslin

392
Citations
Impact of human mobility on opportunistic forwarding algorithms

Augustin Chaintreau;Pan Hui;Jon Crowcroft;Christophe Diot

9
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pan Hui Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Richard Mortier University of Cambridge

Daniele Quercia Nokia Bell Labs

Christophe Diot Google (United States)

Mark Handley University College London

James Scott Microsoft (United States)

Cecilia Mascolo University of Cambridge

Augustin Chaintreau Columbia University

Sasu Tarkoma University of Helsinki

Steven Hand Google (United States)

External Links

Wikipedia of Jon Crowcroft Personal website of Jon Crowcroft Google Scholar page

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