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Massimiliano Di Penta

Massimiliano Di Penta

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Computer Science
Italy
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
90
Citations
24069
World Ranking
619
National Ranking
2

Massimiliano Di Penta 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 Massimiliano Di Penta sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 370 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Massimiliano Di Penta 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 Massimiliano Di Penta sits on this spectrum.

30–31 D-Index: 879 scientists 32–33 D-Index: 983 scientists 34–35 D-Index: 918 scientists 36–37 D-Index: 990 scientists 38–39 D-Index: 968 scientists 40–41 D-Index: 907 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 821 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 763 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 689 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 543 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 543 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 518 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 500 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 458 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 400 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 337 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 308 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 292 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 249 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 213 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 192 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 189 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 165 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 139 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 119 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 121 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 113 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 88 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 87 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 75 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 69 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 57 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 46 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 38 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 34 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 36 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 27 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 37 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 18 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 31 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 19 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 16 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 12 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 20 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 15 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 5 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 20 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 8 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 5 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 7 scientists 130 D-Index: 3 scientists 131+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 90 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 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

Massimiliano Di Penta is affiliated with the University of Sannio in Italy and has a research focus primarily within the field of Computer Science. Their contributions span several subfields, including Information Systems, Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, and Signal Processing.

Their main research topics cover various aspects of software engineering and reliability, such as:

  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Safety Systems Engineering in Autonomy
  • Risk and Safety Analysis

Di Penta has published extensively in numerous venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Some of their recent papers are:

  • An empirical characterization of bad practices in continuous integration, 2020, Empirical Software Engineering
  • Self-admitted technical debt practices: a comparison between industry and open-source, 2021, Empirical Software Engineering
  • Automated Identification and Qualitative Characterization of Safety Concerns Reported in UAV Software Platforms, 2022, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • An empirical characterization of software bugs in open-source Cyber-Physical Systems, 2022, Journal of Systems and Software
  • Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Fiorella Zampetti
  • Sebastiano Panichella
  • Gabriele Bavota
  • Giuliano Antoniol
  • Andrea Di Sorbo

Best Publications

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

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

  • Is it a bug or an enhancement?: a text-based approach to classify change requests

    Giuliano Antoniol;Kamel Ayari;Massimiliano Di Penta;Foutse Khomh

  • An exploratory study of the impact of antipatterns on class change- and fault-proneness

    Foutse Khomh;Massimiliano Di Penta;Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc;Giuliano Antoniol

  • Service-Oriented Architectures Testing: A Survey

    Gerardo Canfora;Massimiliano Penta

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

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

  • QoS-aware replanning of composite Web services

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

  • An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Code Smells on Software Change-proneness

    Foutse Khomh;Massimiliano Di Penta;Yann-Gael Gueheneuc

  • API change and fault proneness: a threat to the success of Android apps

    Mario Linares-Vásquez;Gabriele Bavota;Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas;Massimiliano Di Penta

  • How to effectively use topic models for software engineering tasks? an approach based on genetic algorithms

    Annibale Panichella;Bogdan Dit;Rocco Oliveto;Massimilano Di Penta

  • Mining Version Histories for Detecting Code Smells

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

  • Testing services and service-centric systems: challenges and opportunities

    G. Canfora;M. Di Penta

  • Mining StackOverflow to turn the IDE into a self-confident programming prompter

    Luca Ponzanelli;Gabriele Bavota;Massimiliano Di Penta;Rocco Oliveto

  • Release planning of mobile apps based on user reviews

    Lorenzo Villarroel;Gabriele Bavota;Barbara Russo;Rocco Oliveto

  • Detecting bad smells in source code using change history information

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

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

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

  • When and why your code starts to smell bad

    Michele Tufano;Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Rocco Oliveto

  • Mining energy-greedy API usage patterns in Android apps: an empirical study

    Mario Linares-Vásquez;Gabriele Bavota;Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas;Rocco Oliveto

  • An experimental investigation on the innate relationship between quality and refactoring

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

  • An empirical study on the maintenance of source code clones

    Suresh Thummalapenta;Luigi Cerulo;Lerina Aversano;Massimiliano Di Penta

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

    Michele Tufano;Fabio Palomba;Gabriele Bavota;Rocco Oliveto

  • An empirical study on the evolution of design patterns

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Rocco Oliveto
Rocco Oliveto University of Molise
Gerardo Canfora
Gerardo Canfora University of Sannio
Gabriele Bavota
Gabriele Bavota Universita della Svizzera Italiana
Giuliano Antoniol
Giuliano Antoniol Polytechnique Montréal
Andrea De Lucia
Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno
Denys Poshyvanyk
Denys Poshyvanyk William & Mary
Sebastiano Panichella
Sebastiano Panichella University of Zurich
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University
Marco Torchiano
Marco Torchiano Polytechnic University of Turin
Mario Linares-Vasquez
Mario Linares-Vasquez Universidad de Los Andes

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