2026 Matthew Smith: 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	39	9790	9509	487	475	162	6182

Overview

Matthew Smith is affiliated with the University of Bonn in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology, Computer Science Applications, and Signal Processing.

Their research topics cover a wide scope within information and cybersecurity, encompassing:

Information and Cyber Security
User Authentication and Security Systems
Digital Mental Health Interventions
Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Software Engineering Research
Expert finding and Q&A systems
Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies

Matthew Smith has contributed to several scholarly articles, with recent notable publications including:

"Behavioral responses to a cyber attack in a hospital environment," 2021, Scientific Reports
"Testing time limits in screener questions for online surveys with programmers," 2022, Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
"Never ever or no matter what: Investigating Adoption Intentions and Misconceptions about the Corona-Warn-App in Germany," 2023, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
"Exploring the security narrative in the work context," 2020, Journal of Cybersecurity
"The SOC is Dead, Long Live the SOC!," 2020, ITNOW

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Matthew Smith include:

Eva Gerlitz
Markus Willing
Christian Dresen
Maximilian Haering
Carmen Binnewies

Their work has appeared in diverse publication venues, notably:

Scientific Reports
Proceedings of the 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
Journal of Cybersecurity
IEEE Security & Privacy
ITNOW

Best Publications

Why eve and mallory love android: an analysis of android SSL (in)security

Sascha Fahl;Marian Harbach;Thomas Muders;Lars Baumgärtner

701
Citations
It's a Hard Lock Life: A Field Study of Smartphone (Un)Locking Behavior and Risk Perception

Marian Harbach;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Andreas Fichtner;Alexander De Luca

326
Citations
Big data privacy issues in public social media

Matthew Smith;Christian Szongott;Benjamin Henne;Gabriele von Voigt

293
Citations
VCCFinder: Finding Potential Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Projects to Assist Code Audits

Henning Perl;Sergej Dechand;Matthew Smith;Daniel Arp

264
Citations
Developers are Not the Enemy!: The Need for Usable Security APIs

Matthew Green;Matthew Smith

257
Citations
SoK: Secure Messaging

Nik Unger;Sergej Dechand;Joseph Bonneau;Sascha Fahl

251
Citations
Using personal examples to improve risk communication for security & privacy decisions

Marian Harbach;Markus Hettig;Susanne Weber;Matthew Smith

223
Citations
Rethinking SSL development in an appified world

Sascha Fahl;Marian Harbach;Henning Perl;Markus Koetter

222
Citations
Obstacles to the Adoption of Secure Communication Tools

Ruba Abu-Salma;M. Angela Sasse;Joseph Bonneau;Anastasia Danilova

181
Citations
Now you see me, now you don't: protecting smartphone authentication from shoulder surfers

Alexander De Luca;Marian Harbach;Emanuel von Zezschwitz;Max-Emanuel Maurer

156
Citations
On the ecological validity of a password study

Sascha Fahl;Marian Harbach;Yasemin Acar;Matthew Smith

146
Citations
Xen and the Art of Cluster Scheduling

Niels Fallenbeck;Hans-Joachim Picht;Matthew Smith;Bernd Freisleben

139
Citations
Why Do Developers Get Password Storage Wrong?: A Qualitative Usability Study

Alena Naiakshina;Anastasia Danilova;Christian Tiefenau;Marco Herzog

136
Citations
SoK: Lessons Learned from Android Security Research for Appified Software Platforms

Yasemin Acar;Michael Backes;Sven Bugiel;Sascha Fahl

123
Citations
Secret program execution in the cloud applying homomorphic encryption

Michael Brenner;Jan Wiebelitz;Gabriele von Voigt;Matthew Smith

111
Citations
Helping Johnny to Analyze Malware: A Usability-Optimized Decompiler and Malware Analysis User Study

Khaled Yakdan;Sergej Dechand;Elmar Gerhards-Padilla;Matthew Smith

110
Citations
Efficient Distribution of Virtual Machines for Cloud Computing

Matthias Schmidt;Niels Fallenbeck;Matthew Smith;Bernd Freisleben

100
Citations
SnapMe if you can: privacy threats of other peoples' geo-tagged media and what we can do about it

Benjamin Henne;Christian Szongott;Matthew Smith

94
Citations
No More Gotos: Decompilation Using Pattern-Independent Control-Flow Structuring and Semantics-Preserving Transformations

Khaled Yakdan;Sebastian Eschweiler;Elmar Gerhards-Padilla;Matthew Smith

92
Citations
Helping Johnny 2.0 to encrypt his Facebook conversations

Sascha Fahl;Marian Harbach;Thomas Muders;Matthew Smith

86
Citations
"If HTTPS Were Secure, I Wouldn't Need 2FA" - End User and Administrator Mental Models of HTTPS

Katharina Krombholz;Karoline Busse;Katharina Pfeffer;Matthew Smith

61
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Freisleben Philipp University of Marburg

Sascha Fahl Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Michael P. Brenner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

M. Angela Sasse University College London

Matthew Green Johns Hopkins University

Joseph Bonneau New York University

Heinrich Hussmann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Edgar R. Weippl University of Vienna

Douglas Gingrich University of Alberta

Bobby Samir Acharya King's College London

External Links

Personal website of Matthew Smith

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