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43
Citations
6540
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8074
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57

Philipp Leitner 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 Philipp Leitner sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 158 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Philipp Leitner 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 Philipp Leitner sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Philipp Leitner is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a primary focus on software engineering and system performance.

The scientist's research covers multiple subfields including:

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Hardware and Architecture

The main topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Cloud Computing and Resource Management
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research

Notable recent publications include:

  • Function-as-a-Service performance evaluation: A multivocal literature review, 2020, Journal of Systems and Software
  • Beyond Code Generation: An Observational Study of ChatGPT Usage in Software Engineering Practice, 2024, Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering
  • A systematic mapping study of source code representation for deep learning in software engineering, 2022, IET Software
  • Applying test case prioritization to software microbenchmarks, 2021, Empirical Software Engineering
  • An empirical study of the systemic and technical migration towards microservices, 2023, Empirical Software Engineering

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, among them:

  • Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto
  • Peter Samoaa
  • Joel Scheuner
  • Hamdy Michael Ayas
  • Mazen Mohamad

Philipp Leitner's work has been published across several venues, with multiple contributions to:

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

These publications and the range of topics covered illustrate a broad engagement with software-related performance, testing, and engineering research, as well as advancements in cloud computing and resource management.

Best Publications

  • Optimized IoT service placement in the fog

    Olena Skarlat;Matteo Nardelli;Stefan Schulte;Michael Borkowski

  • Extraction of Microservices from Monolithic Software Architectures

    Genc Mazlami;Jurgen Cito;Philipp Leitner

  • Patterns in the Chaos—A Study of Performance Variation and Predictability in Public IaaS Clouds

    Philipp Leitner;Jürgen Cito

  • Resource Provisioning for IoT Services in the Fog

    Olena Skarlat;Stefan Schulte;Michael Borkowski;Philipp Leitner

  • Monitoring, Prediction and Prevention of SLA Violations in Composite Services

    Philipp Leitner;Anton Michlmayr;Florian Rosenberg;Schahram Dustdar

  • Monitoring and Analyzing Influential Factors of Business Process Performance

    Branimir Wetzstein;Philipp Leitner;Florian Rosenberg;Ivona Brandic

  • Comparing and Combining Predictive Business Process Monitoring Techniques

    Andreas Metzger;Philipp Leitner;Dragan Ivanovic;Eric Schmieders

  • Comprehensive QoS monitoring of Web services and event-based SLA violation detection

    Anton Michlmayr;Florian Rosenberg;Philipp Leitner;Schahram Dustdar

  • Cost-Based Optimization of Service Compositions

    P. Leitner;W. Hummer;S. Dustdar

  • Runtime prediction of service level agreement violations for composite services

    Philipp Leitner;Branimir Wetzstein;Florian Rosenberg;Anton Michlmayr

  • A mixed-method empirical study of Function-as-a-Service software development in industrial practice

    Philipp Leitner;J. Erik Wittern;Josef Spillner;Waldemar Hummer

  • An empirical analysis of the docker container ecosystem on GitHub

    Jurgen Cito;Gerald Schermann;John Erik Wittern;Philipp Leitner

  • End-to-End Support for QoS-Aware Service Selection, Binding, and Mediation in VRESCo

    A Michlmayr;F Rosenberg;P Leitner;S Dustdar

  • An End-to-End Approach for QoS-Aware Service Composition

    Florian Rosenberg;Predrag Celikovic;Anton Michlmayr;Philipp Leitner

  • An empirical analysis of build failures in the continuous integration workflows of Java-based open-source software

    Thomas Rausch;Waldemar Hummer;Philipp Leitner;Stefan Schulte

  • Winds of Change: From Vendor Lock-In to the Meta Cloud

    B. Satzger;W. Hummer;C. Inzinger;P. Leitner

  • The making of cloud applications: an empirical study on software development for the cloud

    Jürgen Cito;Philipp Leitner;Thomas Fritz;Harald C. Gall

  • An empirical study of bots in software development: characteristics and challenges from a practitioner’s perspective

    Linda Erlenhov;Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto;Philipp Leitner

  • Esc: Towards an Elastic Stream Computing Platform for the Cloud

    Benjamin Satzger;Waldemar Hummer;Philipp Leitner;Schahram Dustdar

  • Daios: Efficient Dynamic Web Service Invocation

    P. Leitner;F. Rosenberg;S. Dustdar

  • End-to-End Versioning Support for Web Services

    P. Leitner;A. Michlmayr;F. Rosenberg;S. Dustdar

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald C. Gall
Harald C. Gall University of Zurich
Florian Rosenberg
Florian Rosenberg IBM (United States)
Uwe Zdun
Uwe Zdun University of Vienna
Frank Leymann
Frank Leymann University of Stuttgart
Klaus Pohl
Klaus Pohl University of Duisburg-Essen
Rajiv Ranjan
Rajiv Ranjan Newcastle University
Sebastiano Panichella
Sebastiano Panichella University of Zurich
Rajkumar Buyya
Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne
Onn Shehory
Onn Shehory Bar-Ilan University

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