2026 Fabio Palomba: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	53	253	253	3	3	179	8948
Computer Science	57	3900	3790	80	78	313	10453

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Fabio Palomba is affiliated with the University of Salerno in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a focus on software engineering and related areas. Their research output comprises 267 publications, reflecting a broad engagement in multiple subfields of computer science.

The main fields of study for Fabio Palomba include:

Computer Science

The subfields of study covered by their work include:

Information Systems
Software
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Signal Processing

Key topics addressed in their research are:

Software Engineering Research
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Software System Performance and Reliability
Open Source Software Innovations

Fabio Palomba has published in several venues, with multiple contributions across these platforms:

arXiv (Cornell University)
SSRN Electronic Journal
Empirical Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

Filomena Ferrucci
Gemma Catolino
Andrea De Lucia
Dario Di Nucci
Damian A. Tamburri

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Fabio Palomba are:

"Toward a catalog of software quality metrics for infrastructure code" (2020), Journal of Systems and Software
"Within-Project Defect Prediction of Infrastructure-as-Code Using Product and Process Metrics" (2021), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
"The Secret Life of Software Vulnerabilities: A Large-Scale Empirical Study" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
"On the distribution of test smells in open source android applications: An exploratory study" (2020), Espace ÉTS (ETS)
"Just-in-time software vulnerability detection: Are we there yet?" (2022), Journal of Systems and Software

Best Publications

On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of code smells: a large scale empirical investigation

Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Massimiliano Di Penta;Fausto Fasano

380
Citations
Mining Version Histories for Detecting Code Smells

Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Massimiliano Di Penta;Rocco Oliveto

316
Citations
Detecting bad smells in source code using change history information

Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Massimiliano Di Penta;Rocco Oliveto

298
Citations
Do They Really Smell Bad? A Study on Developers' Perception of Bad Code Smells

Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Massimiliano Di Penta;Rocco Oliveto

298
Citations
When and why your code starts to smell bad

Michele Tufano;Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Rocco Oliveto

296
Citations
Detecting code smells using machine learning techniques: Are we there yet?

Dario Di Nucci;Fabio Palomba;Damian A. Tamburri;Alexander Serebrenik

288
Citations
Machine learning techniques for code smell detection: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis

Muhammad Ilyas Azeem;Fabio Palomba;Lin Shi;Qing Wang

275
Citations
An experimental investigation on the innate relationship between quality and refactoring

Gabriele Bavota;Andrea De Lucia;Massimiliano Di Penta;Rocco Oliveto

268
Citations
When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away)

Michele Tufano;Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Rocco Oliveto

252
Citations
Proceedings of 1993 15th International Conference on Software Engineering

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241
Citations
User reviews matter! Tracking crowdsourced reviews to support evolution of successful apps

Fabio Palomba;Mario Linares-Vasquez;Gabriele Bavota;Rocco Oliveto

233
Citations
UI Dark Patterns and Where to Find Them: A Study on Mobile Applications and User Perception

Linda Di Geronimo;Larissa Braz;Enrico Fregnan;Fabio Palomba

220
Citations
When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad

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208
Citations
Recommending and localizing change requests for mobile apps based on user reviews

Fabio Palomba;Pasquale Salza;Adelina Ciurumelea;Sebastiano Panichella

173
Citations
An empirical investigation into the nature of test smells

Michele Tufano;Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Massimiliano Di Penta

171
Citations
A textual-based technique for Smell Detection

Fabio Palomba;Annibale Panichella;Andrea De Lucia;Rocco Oliveto

152
Citations
Understanding flaky tests: the developer’s perspective

Moritz Eck;Fabio Palomba;Marco Castelluccio;Alberto Bacchelli

152
Citations
A Developer Centered Bug Prediction Model

Dario Di Nucci;Fabio Palomba;Giuseppe De Rosa;Gabriele Bavota

148
Citations
On the Relation of Test Smells to Software Code Quality

Davide Spadini;Fabio Palomba;Andy Zaidman;Magiel Bruntink

148
Citations
How developers engage with static analysis tools in different contexts

Carmine Vassallo;Sebastiano Panichella;Fabio Palomba;Sebastian Proksch

144
Citations
Gender diversity and women in software teams: how do they affect community smells?

Gemma Catolino;Fabio Palomba;Damian A. Tamburri;Alexander Serebrenik

134
Citations
Fine-grained just-in-time defect prediction

Luca Pascarella;Fabio Palomba;Alberto Bacchelli

127
Citations
Understanding Flaky Tests: The Developer's Perspective

Moritz Eck;Fabio Palomba;Marco Castelluccio;Alberto Bacchelli

101
Citations
[Journal First] On the Diffuseness and the Impact on Maintainability of Code Smells: A Large Scale Empirical Investigation

Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Massimiliano Di Penta;Fausto Fasano

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno

Rocco Oliveto University of Molise

Damian A. Tamburri Eindhoven University of Technology

Andy Zaidman Delft University of Technology

Alberto Bacchelli University of Zurich

Gabriele Bavota Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Filomena Ferrucci University of Salerno

Harald C. Gall University of Zurich

Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology

Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary

External Links

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