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Researcher · Offenburg University of Applied Sciences · Germany

Dirk Westhoff

Dirk Westhoff publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, on topics such as Cryptography and Data Security, Security in Wireless Sensor Networks and Advanced Authentication Protocols Security.

OpenAlex
World rank
#131,838
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#8,267
of 86,443
Works
33
Citations
192
Citations per work
5.8

What does Dirk Westhoff research?

Computer Networks and Communications: 42.9%Artificial Intelligence: 34.3%Electrical and Electronic Engineering: 8.6%Information Systems: 5.7%other fields: 8.5%43%top field
Computer Networks and Communications42.9%Artificial Intelligence34.3%Electrical and Electronic Engineering8.6%Information Systems5.7%other fields8.5%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications43% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence34% of their works
  3. 3Electrical and Electronic Engineering9% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Signal Processing3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dirk Westhoff's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cryptanalysis, Homomorphic Encryption, Identity-Based Encryption, Key Management, Secure Routing, Authentication, Key Exchange and Side-Channel Attacks.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Cryptanalysis62 topics
  2. Homomorphic Encryption51 topic
  3. Identity-Based Encryption51 topic
  4. Key Management51 topic
  5. Secure Routing51 topic
  6. Authentication41 topic
  7. Key Exchange41 topic
  8. Side-Channel Attacks42 topics
  9. Ad Hoc Networks21 topic
  10. Block Ciphers21 topic
  11. Control-Flow Integrity21 topic
  12. Hash Functions21 topic
  13. Internet Traffic21 topic
  14. Machine Learning21 topic
  15. Mobile Agents21 topic
  16. Network Management21 topic
  17. Security Policies21 topic
  18. Wireless Mesh Networks21 topic

Where does Dirk Westhoff work?

Dirk Westhoff's main affiliation in the publication record is Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Dirk Westhoff have?

Science Explorer counts 33 works and 192 citations for Dirk Westhoff, ranking #131,838 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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