2026 Gerardo Canfora: 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	72	1711	1659	23	23	314	16733

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Gerardo Canfora is affiliated with the University of Sannio in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, focusing on various subfields such as Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Signal Processing, Computer Networks and Communications, and Software.

The research topics covered in Canfora's work include:

Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Software Engineering Research
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Information and Cyber Security
Web Data Mining and Analysis

Canfora has published papers in several prominent venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Information and Software Technology
Journal of Systems and Software
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Software Evolution and Process

Some of the recent papers authored by associates within Canfora's research network include:

A systematic literature review of blockchain and smart contract development: Techniques, tools, and open challenges (2020, Journal of Systems and Software)
Predicting issue types on GitHub (2020, Science of Computer Programming)
A systematic literature review of IoT time series anomaly detection solutions (2022, Future Generation Computer Systems)
An empirical characterization of bad practices in continuous integration (2020, Empirical Software Engineering)
Profiling gas consumption in solidity smart contracts (2021, Journal of Systems and Software)

Frequent collaborators in Canfora's research efforts include:

Andrea Di Sorbo
Corrado Aaron Visaggio
Sebastiano Panichella
Fiorella Zampetti
Massimiliano Di Penta

Gerardo Canfora's work notably bridges various aspects of software engineering, cybersecurity, and emerging technological fields such as blockchain and IoT anomaly detection. Their collaborative work appears in both traditional software engineering venues and interdisciplinary outlets that address system reliability and security challenges.

Best Publications

Recovering traceability links between code and documentation

G. Antoniol;G. Canfora;G. Casazza;A. De Lucia

1330
Citations
An approach for QoS-aware service composition based on genetic algorithms

Gerardo Canfora;Massimiliano Di Penta;Raffaele Esposito;Maria Luisa Villani

1304
Citations
How can i improve my app? Classifying user reviews for software maintenance and evolution

Sebastiano Panichella;Andrea Di Sorbo;Emitza Guzman;Corrado A. Visaggio

531
Citations
Service-Oriented Architectures Testing: A Survey

Gerardo Canfora;Massimiliano Penta

429
Citations
A framework for QoS-aware binding and re-binding of composite web services

Gerardo Canfora;Massimiliano Di Penta;Raffaele Esposito;Maria Luisa Villani

419
Citations
QoS-aware replanning of composite Web services

G. Canfora;M. Di Penta;R. Esposito;M.L. Villani

415
Citations
Conditioned program slicing

Gerardo Canfora;Aniello Cimitile;Andrea De Lucia

319
Citations
What would users change in my app? summarizing app reviews for recommending software changes

Andrea Di Sorbo;Sebastiano Panichella;Carol V. Alexandru;Junji Shimagaki

319
Citations
Testing services and service-centric systems: challenges and opportunities

G. Canfora;M. Di Penta

310
Citations
Impact analysis by mining software and change request repositories

G. Canfora;L. Cerulo

253
Citations
New Frontiers of Reverse Engineering

G. Canfora;M. Di Penta

251
Citations
A Lightweight Approach for QoS–Aware Service Composition

Gerardo Canfora;Massimiliano Di Penta;Raffaele Esposito;Maria Luisa Villani

227
Citations
Multi-objective Cross-Project Defect Prediction

Gerardo Canfora;Andrea De Lucia;Massimiliano Di Penta;Rocco Oliveto

214
Citations
A systematic literature review of blockchain and smart contract development: Techniques, tools, and open challenges

Anna Vacca;Andrea Di Sorbo;Corrado Aaron Visaggio;Gerardo Canfora

209
Citations
Who is going to mentor newcomers in open source projects

Gerardo Canfora;Massimiliano Di Penta;Rocco Oliveto;Sebastiano Panichella

193
Citations
Information retrieval models for recovering traceability links between code and documentation

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193
Citations
Achievements and challenges in software reverse engineering

Gerardo Canfora;Massimiliano Di Penta;Luigi Cerulo

182
Citations
A wrapping approach for migrating legacy system interactive functionalities to Service Oriented Architectures

Gerardo Canfora;Anna Rita Fasolino;Gianni Frattolillo;Porfirio Tramontana

177
Citations
Supporting change request assignment in open source development

Gerardo Canfora;Luigi Cerulo

176
Citations
Migrating interactive legacy systems to Web services

G. Canfora;A.R. Fasolino;G. Frattolillo;P. Tramontana

155
Citations
Identifying Changed Source Code Lines from Version Repositories

G. Canfora;L. Cerulo;M. Di Penta

149
Citations
An empirical study on the evolution of design patterns

Lerina Aversano;Gerardo Canfora;Luigi Cerulo;Concettina Del Grosso

132
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Corrado Aaron Visaggio University of Sannio

Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio

Sebastiano Panichella University of Zurich

Francesco Mercaldo University of Molise

Mario Piattini University of Castilla-La Mancha

Félix García University of Castilla-La Mancha

Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno

Rocco Oliveto University of Molise

Giuliano Antoniol Polytechnique Montréal

Gabriele Bavota Universita della Svizzera Italiana

External Links

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