2026 Raffaele Giancarlo: 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	31	13687	13273	498	494	173	3997

Overview

Raffaele Giancarlo is affiliated with the University of Palermo in Italy. Their research spans multiple disciplines within computer science and molecular biology, focusing on areas that integrate computational methods with biological data analysis.

Their recent publications include diverse topics such as digital transformation, genomics, and algorithm development. Notable papers are:

Digital Transformation in the Public Administrations: A Guided Tour for Computer Scientists (2024, IEEE Access)
FASTA/Q data compressors for MapReduce-Hadoop genomics: space and time savings made easy (2021, BMC Bioinformatics)
Alignment-free Genomic Analysis via a Big Data Spark Platform (2021, Nova Science Publishers)
Scrum@PA: Tailoring an Agile Methodology to the Digital Transformation in the Public Sector (2024, Information)
The power of word-frequency-based alignment-free functions: a comprehensive large-scale experimental analysis (2021, Bioinformatics)

Giancarlo frequently collaborates with other researchers, with co-authors including:

Domenico Amato
Giosuè Lo Bosco
Umberto Ferraro Petrillo
Giuseppe Cattaneo
Francesco Palini

The venues where Giancarlo's work is commonly published reflect a focus on both computational and bioinformatics fields:

arXiv (Cornell University)
BMC Bioinformatics
IEEE Access
Bioinformatics
Neural Computing and Applications

Their main fields of study are:

Computer Science
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Subfields of particular focus include:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Molecular Biology
Information Systems
Signal Processing

The principal topics covered by their research comprise:

Algorithms and Data Compression
Caching and Content Delivery
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
Advanced Database Systems and Queries
Data Management and Algorithms
Data Stream Mining Techniques

Best Publications

The Boyer Moore Galil string searching strategies revisited

Alberto Apostolico;Raffaele Giancarlo

235
Citations
Sparse dynamic programming I: linear cost functions

David Eppstein;Zvi Galil;Raffaele Giancarlo;Giuseppe F. Italiano

212
Citations
Data structures and algorithms for approximate string matching

Z. Galil;R. Giancarlo

192
Citations
Improved string matching with k mismatches

Z Galil;R Giancarlo

163
Citations
Speeding up the Consensus Clustering methodology for microarray data analysis

Raffaele Giancarlo;Filippo Utro

162
Citations
Compression-based classification of biological sequences and structures via the Universal Similarity Metric: experimental assessment.

Paolo Ferragina;Raffaele Giancarlo;Valentina Greco;Giovanni Manzini

152
Citations
Speeding up dynamic programming with application to molecular biology

Zvi Galil;Raffaele Giancarlo

149
Citations
Textual Data Compression In Computational Biology: A synopsis

Raffaele Giancarlo;Davide Scaturro;Filippo Utro

140
Citations
Boosting textual compression in optimal linear time

Paolo Ferragina;Raffaele Giancarlo;Giovanni Manzini;Marinella Sciortino

138
Citations
Dynamic dictionary matching

Amihood Amir;Martin Farach;Zvi Galil;Raffaele Giancarlo

135
Citations
Sequence alignment in molecular biology.

Alberto Apostolico;Raffaele Giancarlo

115
Citations
Sparse dynamic programming II: convex and concave cost functions

David Eppstein;Zvi Galil;Raffaele Giancarlo;Giuseppe F. Italiano

114
Citations
On the Determinization of Weighted Finite Automata

Adam L. Buchsbaum;Raffaele Giancarlo;Jeffery R. Westbrook

92
Citations
A Generalization of the Suffix Tree to Square Matrices, with Applications

Raffaele Giancarlo

90
Citations
Speeding up dynamic programming

D. Eppstein;Z. Galil;R. Giancarlo

85
Citations
Bounds on the redundancy of Huffman codes (Corresp.)

R. Capocelli;R. Giancarlo;I. Taneja

82
Citations
Method and apparatus for generating deterministic approximate weighted finite-state automata

Adam Louis Buchsbaum;Raffaele Giancarlo;Jeffery Rex Westbrook

82
Citations
GenClust: A genetic algorithm for clustering gene expression data

Vito Di Gesú;Raffaele Giancarlo;Giosué Lo Bosco;Alessandra Raimondi

80
Citations
Improving table compression with combinatorial optimization

Adam L. Buchsbaum;Glenn S. Fowler;Raffaele Giancarlo

78
Citations
Efficient VLSI networks for converting an integer from binary system to residue number system and vice versa

R.M. Capocelli;R. Giancarlo

78
Citations
Computational cluster validation for microarray data analysis: experimental assessment of Clest, Consensus Clustering, Figure of Merit, Gap Statistics and Model Explorer

Raffaele Giancarlo;Davide Scaturro;Filippo Utro

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Manzini University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro

Paolo Ferragina University of Pisa

David Eppstein University of California, Irvine

Zvi Galil Georgia Institute of Technology

Giuseppe F. Italiano Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

David Sankoff University of Ottawa

Sridhar Hannenhalli National Institutes of Health

Wojciech Rytter University of Warsaw

Chiara Romualdi University of Padua

Zvi Galil Georgia Institute of Technology

External Links

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