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34
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5644
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12082
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4921

Sam Lightstone 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 Sam Lightstone sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 163 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sam Lightstone 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 Sam Lightstone sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sam Lightstone is a researcher affiliated with IBM in the United States. Their work spans multiple areas within computer science and environmental science, focusing on both theoretical and applied research.

Their research covers several key topics, including:

  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols
  • Data Management and Algorithms
  • Advanced Database Systems and Queries
  • Data Mining Algorithms and Applications

Sam Lightstone's publication record includes research in prominent venues such as:

  • Atmosphere
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment

Significant recent papers by Lightstone include:

  • "Development and Assessment of Spatially Continuous Predictive Algorithms for Fine Particulate Matter in New York State" (2021, Atmosphere)
  • "SQL:Trek Automated Index Design at Airbnb" (2025, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment)

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Barry Gross
  • Fred Moshary
  • Paulo Castillo
  • Ping Wang

In terms of fields of study, Lightstone's work primarily integrates:

  • Computer Science
  • Environmental Science

They have contributed to specific subfields including:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Best Publications

  • The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems

    Jim Gray;Mamdouh Refaat;Jim Melton;Stephen Buxton

  • DB2 design advisor: integrated automatic physical database design

    Daniel C. Zilio;Jun Rao;Sam Lightstone;Guy Lohman

  • DB2 with BLU acceleration: so much more than just a column store

    Vijayshankar Raman;Gopi Attaluri;Ronald Barber;Naresh Chainani

  • Database Modeling and Design: Logical Design

    Toby J. Teorey;Sam S. Lightstone;Tom Nadeau;H. V. Jagadish

  • Adaptive self-tuning memory in DB2

    Adam J. Storm;Christian Garcia-Arellano;Sam S. Lightstone;Yixin Diao

  • Data Mining: Know It All

    Soumen Chakrabarti;Earl Cox;Eibe Frank;Ralf Hartmut Gting

  • Recommending materialized views and indexes with the IBM DB2 design advisor

    D.C. Zilio;C. Zuzarte;S. Lightstone;Wenbin Ma

  • Database Modeling and Design

    Toby J. Teorey;Sam S. Lightstone;Tom Nadeau;H. V. Jagadish

  • Physical Database Design: The Database Professional's Guide to Exploiting Indexes, Views, Storage, and More

    Sam S. Lightstone;Toby J. Teorey;Tom Nadeau

  • DB2 Design Advisor

    Daniel C. Zilio;Jun Rao;Sam Lightstone;Guy Lohman

  • System and method for selective incremental deferred constraint processing after bulk loading data

    Petrus Kai Chung Chan;Roberta Jo Cochrane;Sam Sampson Lightstone;Mir Hamid Pirahesh

  • Memory-efficient hash joins

    R. Barber;G. Lohman;I. Pandis;V. Raman

  • Toward autonomic computing with DB2 universal database

    Sam S. Lightstone;Guy Lohman;Danny Zilio

  • SMART: making DB2 (more) autonomic

    Guy M. Lohman;Sam S. Lightstone

  • Using MIMO linear control for load balancing in computing systems

    Yixin Diao;J.L. Hellerstein;A.J. Storm;M. Surendra

  • Automated statistics collection in DB2 UDB

    A. Aboulnaga;P. Haas;M. Kandil;S. Lightstone

  • Adaptive throttling system for data processing systems

    Joseph L. Hellerstein;Matthew Huras;Sam Lightstone;Sujay S. Parekh

  • Database diagnostic system and method

    Randall W. Horman;Sam S. Lightstone;Gary Valentin

  • Method and apparatus for loading data into a database in a multiprocessor environment

    Sam S. Lightstone;Alain C. Comeau

  • System and method for identifying a workload type for a given workload of database requests

    Said Elnaffar;Randall Horman;Sam Lightstone;Pat Martin

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy M. Lohman
Guy M. Lohman IBM (United States)
Vijayshankar Raman
Vijayshankar Raman Google (United States)
Joseph L. Hellerstein
Joseph L. Hellerstein University of Washington
Yixin Diao
Yixin Diao IBM (United States)
Volker Markl
Volker Markl Technical University of Berlin
Peter J. Haas
Peter J. Haas University of Massachusetts Amherst
Victor Chang
Victor Chang Aston University
Ashraf Aboulnaga
Ashraf Aboulnaga The University of Texas at Arlington
Jiawei Han
Jiawei Han University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gerhard Weikum
Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics

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