2026 Peter Druschel: 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	73	1534	1488	59	59	185	47750

Peter Druschel 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 Peter Druschel sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 185 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Druschel 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 Peter Druschel sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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 Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
2008 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Informatics
2008 - Member of Academia Europaea
2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Peter Druschel is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany. Their research spans various topics within computer science and its applications particularly in health and security domains.

Their research contributions include work published in notable venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Research Square, Scientific Reports, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Frequently, their papers appear in preprint and open access platforms, reflecting a focus on timely dissemination of findings.

Recent selected publications by Peter Druschel include:

Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation, 2022, Scientific Reports
SeCloak: ARM Trustzone-based Mobile Peripheral Control, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Listening to Bluetooth Beacons for Epidemic Risk Mitigation, 2021, Research Square (Research Square)

Their frequent co-authors in scientific publications include:

Deepak Garg
Roberta De Viti
Pierfrancesco Ingo
Matthew Lentz
Gilles Barthe

Peter Druschel's research fields are primarily situated within computer science, with significant work in the following subfields:

Information Systems
Epidemiology
Sociology and Political Science
General Health Professions
Artificial Intelligence

Their work covers a number of scientific topics, most prominently:

COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing
Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
Security and Verification in Computing
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis

Awards and honors received by Peter Druschel include:

Member of Academia Europaea, 2008
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften (Informatics), 2008
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2000

Best Publications

Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems

Antony I. T. Rowstron;Peter Druschel

12023
Citations
Measurement and analysis of online social networks

Alan Mislove;Massimiliano Marcon;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

4293
Citations
Storage management and caching in PAST, a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility

Antony Rowstron;Peter Druschel

2776
Citations
Scribe: a large-scale and decentralized application-level multicast infrastructure

M. Castro;P. Druschel;A.-M. Kermarrec;A.I.T. Rowstron

2419
Citations
SplitStream: high-bandwidth multicast in cooperative environments

Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Animesh Nandi

2257
Citations
Secure routing for structured peer-to-peer overlay networks

Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel;Ayalvadi Ganesh;Antony Rowstron

1301
Citations
Resource containers: a new facility for resource management in server systems

Gaurav Banga;Peter Druschel;Jeffrey C. Mogul

1067
Citations
You are who you know: inferring user profiles in online social networks

Alan Mislove;Bimal Viswanath;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

1011
Citations
PAST: a large-scale, persistent peer-to-peer storage utility

P. Druschel;A. Rowstron

988
Citations
SCRIBE: The Design of a Large-Scale Event Notification Infrastructure

Antony I. T. Rowstron;Anne-Marie Kermarrec;Miguel Castro;Peter Druschel

889
Citations
Locality-aware request distribution in cluster-based network servers

Vivek S. Pai;Mohit Aron;Gaurov Banga;Michael Svendsen

870
Citations
Towards a Common API for Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays

Frank Dabek;Ben Y. Zhao;Peter Druschel;John Kubiatowicz

842
Citations
IO-Lite: a unified I/O buffering and caching system

Vivek S. Pai;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

692
Citations
Fbufs: a high-bandwidth cross-domain transfer facility

Peter Druschel;Larry L. Peterson

621
Citations
Growth of the flickr social network

Alan Mislove;Hema Swetha Koppula;Krishna P. Gummadi;Peter Druschel

595
Citations
Flash: an efficient and portable web server

Vivek S. Pai;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

582
Citations
Squirrel: a decentralized peer-to-peer web cache

Sitaram Iyer;Antony Rowstron;Peter Druschel

575
Citations
Peer-to-peer systems

Rodrigo Rodrigues;Peter Druschel

557
Citations
PeerReview: practical accountability for distributed systems

Andreas Haeberlen;Petr Kouznetsov;Peter Druschel

524
Citations
Scalable content-aware request distribution in cluster-based networks servers

Mohit Aron;Darren Sanders;Peter Druschel;Willy Zwaenepoel

460
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bobby Bhattacharjee University of Maryland, College Park

Antony Rowstron Microsoft (United States)

Alan Mislove Northeastern University

Andreas Haeberlen University of Pennsylvania

Miguel Castro Microsoft (United States)

Larry L. Peterson Princeton University

Krishna P. Gummadi Max Planck Institute for Software Systems

Willy Zwaenepoel University of Sydney

Anne-Marie Kermarrec École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Dan S. Wallach Rice University

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