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D-Index
30
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7793
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13848
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5502

Michael Merritt 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 Michael Merritt sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 93 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Merritt 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 Michael Merritt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 30 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Merritt is affiliated with AT&T in the United States. Their research contributions are primarily in the fields of Decision Sciences and Mathematics, with a focus on specialized subfields including Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Management Science and Operations Research, as well as Statistics and Probability.

The scope of their work covers several key topics related to probabilistic methods and risk assessment. These research topics include:

  • Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
  • Probability and Risk Models
  • Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications

Their publication record features a paper titled Global sensitivity analysis of rare event probabilities, published in 2021 in the venue arXiv (Cornell University).

Frequent collaborators in their research are:

  • Alen Alexanderian
  • Pierre A. Gremaud

Michael Merritt's publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Encrypted key exchange: password-based protocols secure against dictionary attacks

    S.M. Bellovin;M. Merritt

  • Atomic snapshots of shared memory

    Yehuda Afek;Hagit Attiya;Danny Dolev;Eli Gafni

  • Augmented encrypted key exchange: a password-based protocol secure against dictionary attacks and password file compromise

    Steven M. Bellovin;Michael Merritt

  • Limitations of the Kerberos authentication system

    S. M. Bellovin;M. Merritt

  • Easy impossibility proofs for distributed consensus problems

    Michael J. Fischer;Nancy A. Lynch;Michael Merritt

  • A cryptographic protocol for secure communications

    Steven Michael Westfield Bellovin;Michael Mendham Merritt

  • Cryptographic protocols

    Richard A. DeMillo;Nancy A. Lynch;Michael J. Merritt

  • A distributed algorithm for deadlock detection and resolution

    Don P. Mitchell;Michael J. Merritt

  • Time-constrained automata

    Michael Merritt;Francesmary Modugno;Mark R. Tuttle

  • Lazy caching

    Yehuda Afek;Geoffrey Brown;Michael Merritt

  • Computing with infinitely many processes

    Michael Merritt;Gadi Taubenfeld

  • Easy impossibility proofs for distributed consensus problems

    Michael J. Fischer;Nancy A. Lynch;Michael Merritt

  • Cryptographic protocol for remote authentication

    Steven M. Bellovin;Michael J. Merritt

  • Atomic snapshots of shared memory

    Yehuda Afek;Danny Dolev;Hagit Attiya;Eli Gafni

  • Introduction to the Theory of Nested Transactions

    Nancy A. Lynch;Michael Merritt

  • Computing with Infinitely Many Processes

    Michael Merritt;Gadi Taubenfeld

  • Commutativity-based locking for nested transactions

    Alan Fekete;Nancy Lynch;Michael Merritt;William Weihl

  • Simple constant-time consensus protocols in realistic failure models

    Benny Chor;Michael Merritt;David B. Shmoys

  • Limitations of the Kerberos Authentication System.

    Steven M. Bellovin;Michael Merritt

  • Atomic Transactions: In Concurrent and Distributed Systems

    Nancy A. Lynch;Michael Merritt;Ronald R. Yager

  • Fast, wait-free (2k-1)-renaming

    Yehuda Afek;Michael Merritt

  • A bounded first-in, first-enabled solution to the l-exclusion problem

    Yehuda Afek;Danny Dolev;Eli Gafni;Michael Merritt

  • Time-Constrained Automata (Extended Abstract)

    Michael Merritt;Francesmary Modugno;Marc R. Tuttle

Frequent Co-Authors

Yehuda Afek
Yehuda Afek Tel Aviv University
Steven M. Bellovin
Steven M. Bellovin Columbia University
William E. Weihl
William E. Weihl ClimateVoice
Ariel Orda
Ariel Orda Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Alan Fekete
Alan Fekete University of Sydney
Danny Dolev
Danny Dolev Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Eli Gafni
Eli Gafni University of California, Los Angeles
Michael J. Fischer
Michael J. Fischer Yale University

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