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D-Index
68
Citations
17269
World Ranking
2099
National Ranking
115

Omer F. Rana 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 Omer F. Rana sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 621 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Omer F. Rana 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 Omer F. Rana sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 68 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Omer F. Rana is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom and has published extensively in the field of Computer Science with a focus on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, and Information Systems. Their research spans several subfields including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of key topics related to IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Cloud Computing and Resource Management, Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data, Privacy, Security, and Data Protection, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, as well as Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Omer F. Rana include:

  • Charith Perera
  • Rajiv Ranjan
  • Schahram Dustdar
  • Pete Burnap
  • Ioan Petri

The scientist has contributed articles to numerous publication venues. Top venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • ACM Transactions on Internet of Things
  • IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Omer F. Rana include:

  • Explainable AI (XAI): Core Ideas, Techniques, and Solutions, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
  • AI for next generation computing: Emerging trends and future directions, 2022, Internet of Things
  • Transformative effects of ChatGPT on modern education: Emerging Era of AI Chatbots, 2023, Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems
  • AI-based fog and edge computing: A systematic review, taxonomy and future directions, 2022, Internet of Things
  • Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys

Omer F. Rana has also authored a book published by Springer International Publishing entitled Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics in 2023.

Best Publications

  • AI for Next Generation Computing: Emerging Trends and Future Directions

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  • A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade

    Rajkumar Buyya;Satish Narayana Srirama;Giuliano Casale;Rodrigo Calheiros

  • Mobility-Aware Application Scheduling in Fog Computing

    Luiz F. Bittencourt;Javier Diaz-Montes;Rajkumar Buyya;Omer F. Rana

  • UDDIe: an extended registry for Web services

    A. ShaikhAli;O.F. Rana;R. Al-Ali;D.W. Walker

  • Osmotic Computing: A New Paradigm for Edge/Cloud Integration

    Massimo Villari;Maria Fazio;Schahram Dustdar;Omer Rana

  • The Internet of Things, Fog and Cloud continuum: Integration and challenges

    Luiz F. Bittencourt;Roger Immich;Rizos Sakellariou;Nelson L. S. da Fonseca

  • Fog Computing for the Internet of Things: A Survey

    Carlo Puliafito;Enzo Mingozzi;Francesco Longo;Antonio Puliafito

  • The provenance of electronic data

    Luc Moreau;Paul Groth;Simon Miles;Javier Vazquez-Salceda

  • Social Cloud Computing: A Vision for Socially Motivated Resource Sharing

    K. Chard;K. Bubendorfer;S. Caton;O. F. Rana

  • Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack

    Pete Burnap;Matthew L. Williams;Luke Sloan;Omer Rana

  • Social Cloud: Cloud Computing in Social Networks

    Kyle Chard;Simon Caton;Omer Rana;Kris Bubendorfer

  • Knowing the Tweeters: Deriving Sociologically Relevant Demographics from Twitter:

    Luke Sloan;Jeffrey Morgan;William Housley;Matthew Leighton Williams

  • Self-organisation: Paradigms and applications

    Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo;Noria Foukia;Salima Hassas;Anthony Karageorgos

  • G-QOSM: Grid Service Discovery Using QoS Properties

    Rashid J. Al-Ali;Rashid J. Al-Ali;Rashid J. Al-Ali;Omer Farooq Rana;David William Walker;Sanjay Jha

  • Detecting tension in online communities with computational Twitter analysis

    Peter Burnap;Omer Farooq Rana;Nicholas John Avis;Matthew Leighton Williams

  • AI-based Fog and Edge Computing: A Systematic Review, Taxonomy and Future Directions

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  • Towards Virtual Machine Migration in Fog Computing

    Luiz Fernando Bittencourt;Marcio Moraes Lopes;Ioan Petri;Omer F. Rana

  • Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review.

    Hakan Kayan;Matthew Nunes;Omer Rana;Pete Burnap

  • Triana Applications within Grid Computing and Peer to Peer Environments

    Ian James Taylor;Matthew Simon Shields;Ian Nicholas Wang;Omer Farooq Rana

  • Security and Trust Issues in Semantic Grids

    Daniel Olmedilla;Omer F. Rana;Brian Matthews;Wolfgang Nejdl

  • A GOVERNANCE APPROACH FOR BIM MANAGEMENT ACROSS LIFECYCLE AND SUPPLY CHAINS USING MIXED-MODES OF INFORMATION DELIVERY

    Yacine Rezgui;Thomas Beach;Omer Farooq Rana

  • Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination : A collaborative response

    William Housley;Rob Procter;Adam Edwards;Peter Burnap

  • Grid Computing: Software Environments and Tools

    Omer F. Rana;Jose C. Cunha

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Burnap
Peter Burnap Cardiff University
David W. Walker
David W. Walker Cardiff University
Manish Parashar
Manish Parashar University of Utah
Yacine Rezgui
Yacine Rezgui Cardiff University
Rajkumar Buyya
Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne
Rajiv Ranjan
Rajiv Ranjan Newcastle University
Daniel S. Katz
Daniel S. Katz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Charith Perera
Charith Perera Cardiff University
Gregor von Laszewski
Gregor von Laszewski University of Virginia

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