2026 Peter Christen: 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	45	7012	6808	222	221	255	15171

Overview

Peter Christen is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of computer science and decision sciences. Their research primarily focuses on subfields such as artificial intelligence, management science and operations research, epidemiology, information systems, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Their work covers several core topics, including:

Data Quality and Management
Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
Cryptography and Data Security
Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Topic Modeling
Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Advanced Graph Neural Networks

Peter Christen has published widely in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

International Journal for Population Data Science
arXiv (Cornell University)
Information Systems
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
Journal of Data and Information Quality

Among their recent papers are:

"A Review of the F-Measure: Its History, Properties, Criticism, and Alternatives" (2023) published in ACM Computing Surveys
"Event Diffusion Patterns in Social Media" (2021) published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"Thirty-three myths and misconceptions about population data: from data capture and processing to linkage" (2023) published in International Journal for Population Data Science
"Taxonomy of Attacks on Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage" (2022) published in Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
"An analysis of one-to-one matching algorithms for entity resolution" (2023) published in The VLDB Journal

They have also contributed to academic books, including a publication with Springer Science+Business Media titled "ECML PKDD 2020 Workshops" in 2020.

Peter Christen collaborates frequently with other researchers, including:

Rainer Schnell
Thilina Ranbaduge
Charini Nanayakkara
Anushka Vidanage
Eilidh Garrett

Best Publications

Context Aware Computing for The Internet of Things: A Survey

Charith Perera;Arkady Zaslavsky;Peter Christen;Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

3635
Citations
Sensing as a service model for smart cities supported by Internet of Things

Charith Perera;Charith Perera;Arkady Zaslavsky;Peter Christen;Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

1248
Citations
A Survey of Indexing Techniques for Scalable Record Linkage and Deduplication

Peter Christen

919
Citations
Data Matching: Concepts and Techniques for Record Linkage, Entity Resolution, and Duplicate Detection

Peter Christen

578
Citations
A Comparison of Personal Name Matching: Techniques and Practical Issues

P. Christen

510
Citations
Febrl -: an open source data cleaning, deduplication and record linkage system with a graphical user interface

Peter Christen

383
Citations
A Comparison of Fast Blocking Methods for Record Linkage

Rohan Baxter;Peter Christen;Tim Churches

367
Citations
A taxonomy of privacy-preserving record linkage techniques

Dinusha Vatsalan;Peter Christen;Vassilios S. Verykios

335
Citations
Quality and Complexity Measures for Data Linkage and Deduplication

Peter Christen;Karl Goiser

330
Citations
A note on using the F-measure for evaluating record linkage algorithms

David J. Hand;Peter Christen

279
Citations
Automatic record linkage using seeded nearest neighbour and support vector machine classification

Peter Christen

266
Citations
Sensor Search Techniques for Sensing as a Service Architecture for the Internet of Things

Charith Perera;Arkady Zaslavsky;Chi Harold Liu;Michael Compton

254
Citations
Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage for Big Data: Current Approaches and Research Challenges

Dinusha Vatsalan;Ziad Sehili;Peter Christen;Erhard Rahm

184
Citations
Febrl – A Parallel Open Source Data Linkage System

Peter Christen;Tim Churches;Markus Hegland

182
Citations
MOSDEN: An Internet of Things Middleware for Resource Constrained Mobile Devices

Charith Perera;Prem Prakash Jayaraman;Arkady Zaslavsky;Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

180
Citations
Some methods for blindfolded record linkage.

Tim Churches;Peter Christen

171
Citations
Context-Aware Sensor Search, Selection and Ranking Model for Internet of Things Middleware

Charith Perera;Arkady Zaslavsky;Peter Christen;Michael Compton

168
Citations
A Review of the F-Measure: Its History, Properties, Criticism, and Alternatives

Unknown

165
Citations
Preparation of name and address data for record linkage using hidden Markov models

Tim Churches;Peter Christen;Kim Lim;Justin Xi Zhu

161
Citations
F*: an interpretable transformation of the F-measure

David J. Hand;Peter Christen;Nishadi Kirielle

152
Citations
CA4IOT: Context Awareness for Internet of Things

C. Perera;A. Zaslavsky;P. Christen;D. Georgakopoulos

143
Citations
A taxonomy of privacy-preserving record link age techniques

Βασίλειος Βερύκιος;Dinusha Vatsalan;Peter Christen;Vassilios Verykios

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Charith Perera Cardiff University

Arkady Zaslavsky Deakin University

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Swinburne University of Technology

Vassilios S. Verykios Hellenic Open University

Prem Prakash Jayaraman Swinburne University of Technology

Erhard Rahm Leipzig University

Lexing Xie Australian National University

Chi Harold Liu Beijing Institute of Technology

Michelangelo Ceci University of Bari Aldo Moro

João Gama University of Porto

External Links

Personal website of Peter Christen Google Scholar page

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