World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
Maarten van Steen

Maarten van Steen

Award Badge
Computer Science
Netherlands
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Computer Science

D-Index
54
Citations
19982
World Ranking
4442
National Ranking
61

Maarten van Steen 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 Maarten van Steen sits on this spectrum.

32–41 publications: 7 scientists 42–51 publications: 22 scientists 52–61 publications: 82 scientists 62–71 publications: 134 scientists 72–81 publications: 249 scientists 82–91 publications: 324 scientists 92–101 publications: 421 scientists 102–111 publications: 420 scientists 112–121 publications: 497 scientists 122–131 publications: 544 scientists 132–141 publications: 555 scientists 142–151 publications: 609 scientists 152–161 publications: 559 scientists 162–171 publications: 534 scientists 172–181 publications: 556 scientists 182–191 publications: 583 scientists 192–201 publications: 519 scientists 202–211 publications: 508 scientists 212–221 publications: 490 scientists 222–231 publications: 437 scientists 232–241 publications: 423 scientists 242–251 publications: 408 scientists 252–261 publications: 377 scientists 262–271 publications: 301 scientists 272–281 publications: 335 scientists 282–291 publications: 320 scientists 292–301 publications: 293 scientists 302–311 publications: 250 scientists 312–321 publications: 238 scientists 322–331 publications: 206 scientists 332–341 publications: 209 scientists 342–351 publications: 208 scientists 352–361 publications: 162 scientists 362–371 publications: 176 scientists 372–381 publications: 127 scientists 382–391 publications: 158 scientists 392–401 publications: 128 scientists 402–411 publications: 104 scientists 412–421 publications: 94 scientists 422–431 publications: 99 scientists 432–441 publications: 83 scientists 442–451 publications: 108 scientists 452–461 publications: 73 scientists 462–471 publications: 77 scientists 472–481 publications: 69 scientists 482–491 publications: 84 scientists 492–501 publications: 62 scientists 502–511 publications: 54 scientists 512–521 publications: 57 scientists 522–531 publications: 51 scientists 532–541 publications: 51 scientists 542–551 publications: 32 scientists 552–561 publications: 38 scientists 562–571 publications: 28 scientists 572–581 publications: 43 scientists 582–591 publications: 33 scientists 592–601 publications: 41 scientists 602–611 publications: 32 scientists 612–621 publications: 28 scientists 622–631 publications: 25 scientists 632–641 publications: 27 scientists 642–651 publications: 17 scientists 652–661 publications: 20 scientists 662–671 publications: 17 scientists 672–681 publications: 15 scientists 682–691 publications: 14 scientists 692–701 publications: 21 scientists 702–711 publications: 13 scientists 712–721 publications: 12 scientists 722–731 publications: 19 scientists 732–741 publications: 14 scientists 742–751 publications: 12 scientists 752–761 publications: 10 scientists 762–771 publications: 10 scientists 772–781 publications: 11 scientists 782–791 publications: 10 scientists 792–801 publications: 11 scientists 802–811 publications: 8 scientists 812–821 publications: 8 scientists 822–831 publications: 7 scientists 832–841 publications: 11 scientists 842–851 publications: 10 scientists 852–861 publications: 5 scientists 862–871 publications: 9 scientists 872–881 publications: 4 scientists 882–891 publications: 6 scientists 892–901 publications: 3 scientists 902–911 publications: 6 scientists 912–921 publications: 3 scientists 922–931 publications: 2 scientists 932–941 publications: 2 scientists 942–951 publications: 2 scientists 952–961 publications: 3 scientists 962–971 publications: 3 scientists 972–981 publications: 3 scientists 982–990 publications: 5 scientists 991+ publications: 100 scientists
32 publications 991+

This scientist: 212 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maarten van Steen 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 Maarten van Steen sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Maarten van Steen is affiliated with the University of Twente in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the fields of computer science, social sciences, and engineering through a combination of research and publications. Their work spans various subfields including computer networks and communications, electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, transportation, and information systems.

Their research addresses a range of topics, notably in human mobility and location-based analysis, indoor and outdoor localization technologies, privacy-preserving technologies in data, privacy, security, and data protection, wireless communication security techniques, user authentication and security systems, as well as network security and intrusion detection.

van Steen has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Peter Andreas, Valeriu-Daniel Stanciu, Nadia Shafaeipour, Philipp Jakubeit, and Thijs van Ede. These collaborations have resulted in multiple publications appearing in various reputable venues.

Some recent notable papers include:

  • DEEPCASE: Semi-Supervised Contextual Analysis of Security Events (2022), published in the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
  • Privacy-friendly statistical counting for pedestrian dynamics (2023), featured in Computer Communications
  • Understanding the protection of privacy when counting subway travelers through anonymization (2024), published in Computers Environment and Urban Systems
  • The Difficulty in Scaling Blockchains: A Simple Explanation (2021), available on arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Balancing Accuracy and Privacy: Using Bloom Filters to Count Travelers (2024), in SSRN Electronic Journal

Their work has been disseminated through frequent publication in venues such as the 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), Computer Communications, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, arXiv (Cornell University), and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Maarten Van Steen

  • Distributed Systems

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Maarten Van Steen

  • CYCLON: Inexpensive Membership Management for Unstructured P2P Overlays

    Spyros Voulgaris;Daniela Gavidia;Maarten van Steen

  • Gossip-based peer sampling

    Márk Jelasity;Spyros Voulgaris;Rachid Guerraoui;Anne-Marie Kermarrec

  • TRIBLER: a social‐based peer‐to‐peer system

    JA Pouwelse;P Garbacki;J Jun Wang;Arthur Bakker

  • Wikipedia workload analysis for decentralized hosting

    Guido Urdaneta;Guillaume Pierre;Maarten van Steen

  • The peer sampling service: experimental evaluation of unstructured gossip-based implementations

    Márk Jelasity;Rachid Guerraoui;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Maarten van Steen

  • Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, 2nd Edition

    Andrew S. Tanenbaum;Maarten van Steen

  • A survey of DHT security techniques

    Guido Urdaneta;Guillaume Pierre;Maarten Van Steen

  • On Botnets That Use DNS for Command and Control.

    Christian J. Dietrich;Christian Rossow;Felix C. Freiling;Herbert Bos

  • Prudent Practices for Designing Malware Experiments: Status Quo and Outlook

    C. Rossow;C. J. Dietrich;C. Grier;C. Kreibich

  • Gossiping in distributed systems

    Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Maarten van Steen

  • FlowPrint: Semi-Supervised Mobile-App Fingerprinting on Encrypted Network Traffic

    Thijs Sebastiaan van Ede;Riccardo Bortolameotti;Andrea Continella;Jingjing Ren

  • Replication for web hosting systems

    Swaminathan Sivasubramanian;Michal Szymaniak;Guillaume Pierre;Maarten van Steen

  • Sub-2-Sub: Self-Organizing Content-Based Publish and Subscribe for Dynamic and Large Scale Collaborative Networks

    Spyros Voulgaris;Etienne Riviere;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Maarten van Steen

  • Epidemic-Style management of semantic overlays for content-based searching

    Spyros Voulgaris;Maarten van Steen

  • A brief introduction to distributed systems

    Maarten Steen;Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  • Analysis of Caching and Replication Strategies for Web Applications

    S. Sivasubramanian;G. Pierre;M. van Steen;G. Alonso

  • Exploiting semantic proximity in peer-to-peer content searching

    S. Voulgaris;A.-M. Kermarrec;L. Massoulie

  • The distributed ASCI Supercomputer project

    Henri Bal;Raoul Bhoedjang;Rutger Hofman;Ceriel Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Márk Jelasity
Márk Jelasity University of Szeged
Anne-Marie Kermarrec
Anne-Marie Kermarrec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Michel R. V. Chaudron
Michel R. V. Chaudron Eindhoven University of Technology
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian
Swaminathan Sivasubramanian Amazon (United States)
Alberto Montresor
Alberto Montresor University of Trento
Ciprian Dobre
Ciprian Dobre Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Henk Sips
Henk Sips Delft University of Technology
Frances M. T. Brazier
Frances M. T. Brazier Delft University of Technology
Dick Epema
Dick Epema Delft University of Technology

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

Exploring computer science opens the door to a wide range of related online degree options. Many students choose a computer science degree online for flexibility and accelerated learning, making it ideal for those balancing professional and personal commitments. These programs often cover foundational topics such as programming, data structures, and algorithms, building versatile skills for tech-driven jobs.

For those interested in applying scientific and technical concepts to real-world solutions, degrees like the online environmental engineering degree science and engineering and the online mechanical engineering degree provide specialized pathways. These disciplines focus on sustainability, design, and innovation, addressing critical challenges in energy, environment, and manufacturing sectors.

If your interests lie in scientific theory, an online physics degrees program offers a strong foundation in research, analytical thinking, and quantitative skills—qualities highly valued in technology, education, and engineering careers.

Online learning options make it easier to pursue these fields from anywhere, offering flexibility and affordability. Each pathway leads to diverse career opportunities and is designed to meet the needs of a modern, global workforce.

Best Scientists Citing Maarten van Steen

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles