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Giancarlo Succi

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Computer Science
Italy
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
61
Citations
9850
World Ranking
3138
National Ranking
58

Giancarlo Succi 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 Giancarlo Succi sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 430 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Giancarlo Succi 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 Giancarlo Succi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2008 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Giancarlo Succi is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a particular emphasis on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Software, and Artificial Intelligence.

The primary focus of Succi's research spans various topics within software engineering, such as Software Engineering Research, Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Software System Performance and Reliability, Green IT and Sustainability, Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies, Software Reliability and Analysis Research, and Rough Sets and Fuzzy Logic.

Succi has published in several notable venues, frequently appearing in IEEE Access, arXiv (Cornell University), Frontiers in Computer Science, PLoS ONE, and Electronics. Their recent papers include:

  • Non Verbal Communication in Software Engineering - An Empirical Study, 2021, IEEE Access
  • Prioritizing tasks in software development: A systematic literature review, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Software as storytelling: A systematic literature review, 2022, Computer Science Review
  • Analysis of Energy Consumption of Software Development Process Entities, 2020, Electronics
  • Metrics of energy consumption in software systems: a systematic literature review, 2020, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science

Succi's frequent co-authors include:

  • Artem Kruglov
  • Zamira Kholmatova
  • Mirko Farina
  • Witold Pedrycz

In addition to journal articles, Succi has contributed to book publications through Springer Science+Business Media and Springer Nature. The books include:

  • Frontiers in Software Engineering, 2021
  • Open Source Systems, 2020
  • Developing Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Software Systems, 2023

Succi holds the distinction of being an ACM Senior Member since 2008.

Best Publications

  • A comparative analysis of the efficiency of change metrics and static code attributes for defect prediction

    Raimund Moser;Witold Pedrycz;Giancarlo Succi

  • An empirical study of open-source and closed-source software products

    J.W. Paulson;G. Succi;A. Eberlein

  • What we have learned about fighting defects

    F. Shull;V. Basili;B. Boehm;A.W. Brown

  • Project management in plan-based and agile companies

    M. Ceschi;A. Sillitti;G. Succi;S. De Panfilis

  • Computational Intelligence: An Introduction

    Witold Pedrycz;Witold Pedrycz

  • Authentication in cloud-driven IoT-based big data environment: Survey and outlook

    Mohammad Wazid;Ashok Kumar Das;Rasheed Hussain;Giancarlo Succi

  • Failure prediction based on log files using Random Indexing and Support Vector Machines

    Ilenia Fronza;Alberto Sillitti;Giancarlo Succi;Mikko Terho

  • Extreme Programming Examined

    Giancarlo Succi;Michele Marchesi

  • Requirements Engineering for Agile Methods

    Alberto Sillitti;Giancarlo Succi

  • A Case Study on the Impact of Refactoring on Quality and Productivity in an Agile Team

    Raimund Moser;Pekka Abrahamsson;Witold Pedrycz;Alberto Sillitti

  • Managing uncertainty in requirements: a survey in documentation-driven and agile companies

    A. Sillitti;M. Ceschi;B. Russo;G. Succi

  • Does refactoring improve reusability

    Raimund Moser;Alberto Sillitti;Pekka Abrahamsson;Giancarlo Succi

  • Data description

    Witold Pedrycz;Giancarlo Succi;Alberto Sillitti;Joana Iljazi

  • Software cost estimation with fuzzy models

    Petr Musílek;Witold Pedrycz;Giancarlo Succi;Marek Reformat

  • Collecting, integrating and analyzing software metrics and personal software process data

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  • Identification of defect-prone classes in telecommunication software systems using design metrics

    Andrea Janes;Marco Scotto;Witold Pedrycz;Barbara Russo

  • Effort Prediction in Iterative Software Development Processes -- Incremental Versus Global Prediction Models

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  • Mobile multiplatform development: An experiment for performance analysis

    Luis Corral;Alberto Sillitti;Giancarlo Succi

  • An Empirical Exploration of the Distributions of the Chidamber and Kemerer Object-Oriented Metrics Suite

    Giancarlo Succi;Witold Pedrycz;Snezana Djokic;Paolo Zuliani

  • Adoption of free/libre open source software in public organizations: factors of impact

    Bruno Rossi;Barbara Russo;Giancarlo Succi

  • Extreme Programming Perspectives

    Giancarlo Succi;Michele Marchesi;Laurie Williams;James Donovan Wells

  • An industrial study of reuse, quality, and productivity

    William B. Frakes;Giancarlo Succi

  • Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Extreme programming and agile processes in software engineering

    Michele Marchesi;Giancarlo Succi

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Sillitti
Alberto Sillitti Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Witold Pedrycz
Witold Pedrycz University of Alberta
Paolo Ciancarini
Paolo Ciancarini University of Bologna
Michele Marchesi
Michele Marchesi University of Cagliari
Manuel Mazzara
Manuel Mazzara ETH Zurich
Ernesto Damiani
Ernesto Damiani Khalifa University
Pekka Abrahamsson
Pekka Abrahamsson Tampere University
Brian Fitzgerald
Brian Fitzgerald University of Limerick
Laurie Williams
Laurie Williams North Carolina State University
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues
Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues Federal University of Piauí

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