2026 Karl Aberer: 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	73	1584	1537	38	38	622	22146

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Karl Aberer is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Information Systems, and Communication.

Their recent scholarly work includes several publications across notable venues. These papers are:

ACTION-EHR: Patient-Centric Blockchain-Based Electronic Health Record Data Management for Cancer Care, 2020, Journal of Medical Internet Research
Comparing Events Coverage in Online News and Social Media: The Case of Climate Change, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Efficient streaming subgraph isomorphism with graph neural networks, 2021, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Nature vs. Nurture: Feature vs. Structure for Graph Neural Networks, 2022, Pattern Recognition Letters
A Dataset of State-Censored Tweets, 2021, Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media

Frequent coauthors in their research include Rémi Lebret, Tuğrulcan Elmas, Rebekah Overdorf, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, and Matthias Weidlich.

Karl Aberer's publication record shows a preference for certain venues with repeated contributions, such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Journal of Medical Internet Research

The scientist's main topics of research work include:

Topic Modeling
Misinformation and Its Impacts
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Social Media and Politics
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Advanced Graph Neural Networks
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

Best Publications

Managing trust in a peer-2-peer information system

Karl Aberer;Zoran Despotovic

1555
Citations
P-Grid: A Self-Organizing Access Structure for P2P Information Systems

Karl Aberer

752
Citations
P-Grid: a self-organizing structured P2P system

Karl Aberer;Philippe Cudré-Mauroux;Anwitaman Datta;Zoran Despotovic

592
Citations
CrossFlow: Cross-Organizational Workflow Management in Dynamic Virtual Enterprises

P.W.P.J. Grefen;Karl Aberer;Yigal Hoffner;Heiko Ludwig

537
Citations
Infrastructure for Data Processing in Large-Scale Interconnected Sensor Networks

K. Aberer;M. Hauswirth;A. Salehi

500
Citations
QoS-Based service selection and ranking with trust and reputation management

Le-Hung Vu;Manfred Hauswirth;Karl Aberer

411
Citations
A middleware for fast and flexible sensor network deployment

Karl Aberer;Manfred Hauswirth;Ali Salehi

410
Citations
Outtweeting the twitterers - predicting information cascades in microblogs

Wojciech Galuba;Karl Aberer;Dipanjan Chakraborty;Zoran Despotovic

390
Citations
OpenIoT: Open Source Internet-of-Things in the Cloud

John Soldatos;Nikos Kefalakis;Manfred Hauswirth;Martin Serrano

382
Citations
Energy-Efficient Continuous Activity Recognition on Mobile Phones: An Activity-Adaptive Approach

Zhixian Yan;Vigneshwaran Subbaraju;Dipanjan Chakraborty;Archan Misra

351
Citations
GridVine: building internet-scale semantic overlay networks

Karl Aberer;Philippe Cudré-Mauroux;Manfred Hauswirth;Tim Van Pelt

330
Citations
Improving data access in P2P systems

K. Aberer;M. Punceva;M. Hauswirth;R. Schmidt

320
Citations
Personalized point-of-interest recommendation by mining users' preference transition

Xin Liu;Yong Liu;Karl Aberer;Chunyan Miao

307
Citations
Semantic trajectories: Mobility data computation and annotation

Zhixian Yan;Dipanjan Chakraborty;Christine Parent;Stefano Spaccapietra

306
Citations
Updates in highly unreliable, replicated peer-to-peer systems

A. Datta;M. Hauswirth;K. Aberer

289
Citations
The chatty web: emergent semantics through gossiping

Karl Aberer;Philippe Cudré-Mauroux;Manfred Hauswirth

268
Citations
SeMiTri: a framework for semantic annotation of heterogeneous trajectories

Zhixian Yan;Dipanjan Chakraborty;Christine Parent;Stefano Spaccapietra

266
Citations
An Evaluation of Aggregation Techniques in Crowdsourcing

Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung;Nguyen Thanh Tam;Lam Ngoc Tran;Karl Aberer

239
Citations
Polisis: Automated Analysis and Presentation of Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning

Hamza Harkous;Kassem Fawaz;Rémi Lebret;Florian Schaub

238
Citations
Jedi: extracting and synthesizing information from the Web

G. Huck;P. Frankhauser;K. Aberer;E. Neuhold

236
Citations
OpenIoT: Open Source Internet-of-Things in the Cloud.

John Soldatos;Nikos Kefalakis;Manfred Hauswirth;Martin Serrano

16
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Hauswirth Technical University of Berlin

Philippe Cudré-Mauroux University of Fribourg

Anwitaman Datta Nanyang Technological University

Dipanjan Chakraborty IBM (United States)

Matthias Weidlich Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Wolfgang Kellerer Technical University of Munich

Jie Wu Temple University

Marc B. Parlange University of Rhode Island

Gianluca Demartini University of Queensland

Avigdor Gal Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

External Links

Personal website of Karl Aberer Google Scholar page

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