2026 Juan E. Tapiador: 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	34	12035	11686	212	210	190	6184

Overview

Juan E. Tapiador is affiliated with Carlos III University of Madrid in Spain. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Information Systems, Signal Processing, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, and Sociology and Political Science.

The topics covered extensively in their work include:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
Spam and Phishing Detection
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Security and Verification in Computing

Juan E. Tapiador has contributed to multiple publication venues frequently, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)
Computers & Security
SoftwareX
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Recent published papers with corresponding years and venues are:

A year in lockdown, 2021, Communications of the ACM
The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic, 2020, Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)
Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Internet Traffic, 2021, Deposit Once (Technische Universität Berlin)
Optimization of code caves in malware binaries to evade machine learning detectors, 2022, Computers & Security
Blocklist Babel: On the Transparency and Dynamics of Open Source Blocklisting, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Juan E. Tapiador include:

Narseo Vallina-Rodríguez
Oliver Hohlfeld
José Miguel Moreno
Georgios Smaragdakis
Julien Gamba

Best Publications

M 2 AP: a minimalist mutual-authentication protocol for low-cost RFID tags

Pedro Peris-Lopez;Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. Estevez-Tapiador;Arturo Ribagorda

457
Citations
EMAP: an efficient mutual-authentication protocol for low-cost RFID tags

Pedro Peris-Lopez;Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. Estevez-Tapiador;Arturo Ribagorda

423
Citations
Security and privacy issues in implantable medical devices

Carmen Camara;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Juan E. Tapiador

336
Citations
Evolution, Detection and Analysis of Malware for Smart Devices

Guillermo Suarez-Tangil;Juan E. Tapiador;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Arturo Ribagorda

333
Citations
Dendroid: A text mining approach to analyzing and classifying code structures in Android malware families

Guillermo Suarez-Tangil;Juan E. Tapiador;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Jorge Blasco

302
Citations
Advances in Ultralightweight Cryptography for Low-Cost RFID Tags: Gossamer Protocol

Pedro Peris-Lopez;Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. Tapiador;Arturo Ribagorda

271
Citations
RFID systems: a survey on security threats and proposed solutions

Pedro Peris-Lopez;Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. Estevez-Tapiador;Arturo Ribagorda

262
Citations
The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic

Anja Feldmann;Oliver Gasser;Franziska Lichtblau;Enric Pujol

206
Citations
Anomaly detection methods in wired networks: a survey and taxonomy

Unknown

200
Citations
A Survey of Wearable Biometric Recognition Systems

Jorge Blasco;Thomas M. Chen;Juan Tapiador;Pedro Peris-Lopez

170
Citations
LAMED - A PRNG for EPC Class-1 Generation-2 RFID specification

Pedro Peris-Lopez;Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. Estevez-Tapiador;Arturo Ribagorda

151
Citations
Beyond Google Play: A Large-Scale Comparative Study of Chinese Android App Markets

Haoyu Wang;Zhe Liu;Jingyue Liang;Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez

146
Citations
Cryptanalysis of a novel authentication protocol conforming to EPC-C1G2 standard

Pedro Peris-Lopez;Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. Estevez-Tapiador;Arturo Ribagorda

129
Citations
M2AP : A minimalist mutual-authentication protocol for low-cost RFID tags

Pedro Peris-Lopez;Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. Estevez-Tapiador;Arturo Ribagorda

93
Citations
Solving the Simultaneous Scanning Problem Anonymously: Clumping Proofs for RFID Tags

P. Peris-Lopez;J.C. Hernandez-Castro;J.M. Estevez-Tapiador;A. Ribagorda

81
Citations
An Analysis of Pre-installed Android Software

Julien Gamba;Mohammed Rashed;Abbas Razaghpanah;Juan Tapiador

80
Citations
A year in lockdown: how the waves of COVID-19 impact internet traffic

Anja Feldmann;Oliver Gasser;Franziska Lichtblau;Enric Pujol

77
Citations
Measuring normality in HTTP traffic for anomaly-based intrusion detection

Unknown

73
Citations
Security Threats in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

Sevil Şen;John A. Clark;Juan E. Tapiador

71
Citations
Stochastic protocol modeling for anomaly based network intrusion detection

Unknown

66
Citations
Cryptanalysis of the SASI Ultralightweight RFID Authentication Protocol with Modular Rotations

Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. E. Tapiador;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Jean-Jacques Quisquater

65
Citations
Vulnerability analysis of RFID protocols for tag ownership transfer

Pedro Peris-Lopez;Julio C. Hernandez-Castro;Juan M. E. Tapiador;Tieyan Li

62
Citations
Picking on the family: Disrupting android malware triage by forcing misclassification

Alejandro Calleja;Alejandro Martín;Héctor D. Menéndez;Juan E. Tapiador

46
Citations
AndrODet: An adaptive Android obfuscation detector

O. Mirzaei;J.M. de Fuentes;J. Tapiador;L. Gonzalez-Manzano

46
Citations
The MalSource Dataset: Quantifying Complexity and Code Reuse in Malware Development

Alejandro Calleja;Juan Tapiador;Juan Caballero

43
Citations
A New TRNG Based on Coherent Sampling With Self-Timed Rings

Honorio Martin;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Juan E. Tapiador;Enrique San Millan

42
Citations
PRACIS: Privacy-preserving and aggregatable cybersecurity information sharing

José María de Fuentes;Lorena González-Manzano;Juan E. Tapiador;Pedro Peris-Lopez

41
Citations
Real-time electrocardiogram streams for continuous authentication

Carmen Camara;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Lorena González-Manzano;Juan E. Tapiador

40
Citations
Cryptanalysis of the David-Prasad RFID ultralightweight authentication protocol

Julio Cesar Hernandez-Castro;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Raphael C.-W. Phan;Juan M. E. Tapiador

39
Citations
Human Identification Using Compressed ECG Signals

Carmen Camara;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Juan E. Tapiador

39
Citations
Secure Publish-Subscribe Protocols for Heterogeneous Medical Wireless Body Area Networks

Pablo Picazo-Sanchez;Juan E. Tapiador;Pedro Peris-Lopez;Guillermo Suarez-Tangil

36
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anja Feldmann Max Planck Society

Georgios Smaragdakis Delft University of Technology

Juan Caballero Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies

John A. McDermid University of York

Susan Stepney University of York

Raphael C.-W. Phan Monash University Malaysia

Serge Egelman International Computer Science Institute

Roberto Di Pietro King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Dakshi Agrawal IBM (United States)

David M. Clark University of Oxford

External Links

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