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Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies

Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 29k research works in it since 1966. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on scalable peer-to-peer network architectures, including overlay networks, distributed systems, content delivery, routing protocols, multicast, and resilient networks. It covers topics such as file sharing, internet applications, and efficient data storage and retrieval in large-scale decentralized systems.

  • Peer-to-Peer
  • Scalable
  • Overlay Networks
  • Distributed Systems
  • Content Delivery
  • Routing Protocols
  • Multicast
  • Resilient Networks
  • File Sharing
  • Internet Applications
Research works
29k
fractional, since 1966
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies

Which countries lead Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (458 and 295 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 458 works
  2. 2 United States 295 works
  3. 3 India 161 works
  4. 4 Germany 82 works
  5. 5 Japan 80 works
  6. 6 South Korea 54 works
  7. 7 France 53 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 44 works
  9. 9 Italy 43 works
  10. 10 Canada 35 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 35.1%United States: 22.6%India: 12.3%Germany: 6.3%6 others listed: 23.7%35%largest
China458 · 35.1%United States295 · 22.6%India161 · 12.3%Germany82 · 6.3%6 others listed309 · 23.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, American Society of Genealogists publishes the most Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 49 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 17 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 16 works
  4. 4 Tsinghua UniversityChina 15 works
  5. 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 14 works
  6. 6 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 13 works
  7. 7 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 10 works
  8. 8 Peking UniversityChina 8 works
  9. 9 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 8 works
  10. 10 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies include John P. A. Ioannidis, Xiaogang Wang and Li Fei-Fei.

  1. 1 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  2. 2 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  3. 3 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  4. 4 Rafael Lozano United States 224k citations
  5. 5 Albert-Ĺaszló Barabási United States 223k citations
  6. 6 Michael I. Jordan United States 182k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies?

The most cited paper in Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies is "Fast unfolding of communities in large networks" (Vincent D. Blondel, Jean‐Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte et al., 2008), with 21,858 citations. Next come "Finding and evaluating community structure in networks" (14,307) and "Chord" (9,673).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fast unfolding of communities in large networks Vincent D. Blondel, Jean‐Loup Guillaume, Renaud Lambiotte et al. · Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment Open access Oct 2008 21,858
2 Finding and evaluating community structure in networks Michelle Gayle Newman, Michelle Girvan · Physical Review E Open access 26 Feb 2004 14,307
3 Chord Ion Gabriel Stoica, Robert Morris, David R. Karger et al. Conference paper 27 Aug 2001 9,673
4 Finding community structure in very large networks Aaron J. Clauset, Mark E. J. Newman, Cristopher Moore · Physical Review E Open access 6 Dec 2004 7,574
5 Pastry: Scalable, Decentralized Object Location, and Routing for Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Systems Antony I.T. Rowstron, Peter Druschel · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2001 7,322
All 97 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Sharon (United States), Shanghai (China) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sharon and Shenzhen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 104 works
  2. 2 SharonUnited States 49 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 34 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 33 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 27 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 22 works
  7. 7 ShenzhenChina 22 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 20 works
  9. 9 ChangshaChina 20 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 18 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SharonUS · 48.7 works272×
  2. ShenzhenCN · 21.7 works3.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Tsinghua University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and Shanghai Jiao Tong University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 13.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Tsinghua UniversityBeijing University o…University of Scienc…Shanghai Jiao Tong U…
above the meannear itbelow it

One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Tsinghua UniversityChina 82.522.1%4.2×14 -23.0%
2Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 44.814.3%13.8×13 -44.5%
3Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 43.28.1%3.2×14 +18.0%
4University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 29.111.1%5.7×10 +17.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies, country by country

Is Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0083% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies0.0071% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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