2026 Serge Demeyer: 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	44	7489	7270	72	68	261	9676

Overview

Serge Demeyer is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium and specializes in the field of computer science, with a particular focus on software-related areas.

The primary fields of study in which Serge Demeyer is active include:

Computer Science

Within this broad field, they have contributed to several subfields, notably:

Software
Information Systems
Computer Networks and Communications
Signal Processing
Artificial Intelligence

Their work spans a variety of research topics connected to software engineering and analysis, such as:

Software Engineering Research
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Software System Performance and Reliability
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Scientific Computing and Data Management

Serge Demeyer has published extensively, with a documented presence in multiple publication venues. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Serge Demeyer include:

"Lightweight Visualisations of COBOL Code for Supporting Migration to SOA" (2024, Technische Universität Berlin - Universitätsbibliothek)
"Exploring actionable visualizations for environmental data: Air quality assessment of two Belgian locations" (2021, Environmental Modelling & Software)
"A comparative study of test code clones and production code clones" (2021, Journal of Systems and Software)
"AmPyfier: Test amplification in Python" (2022, Journal of Software Evolution and Process)
"Small-Amp: Test amplification in a dynamically typed language" (2022, Empirical Software Engineering)

Collaborative research is part of Serge Demeyer's academic activities, with frequent co-authors being:

Mutlu Beyazıt
Henrique Rocha
Coen De Roover
Mehrdad Abdi
John Businge

Best Publications

A language independent approach for detecting duplicated code

S. Ducasse;M. Rieger;S. Demeyer

955
Citations
Object-oriented reengineering patterns

Oscar Nierstrasz;Serge Demeyer

672
Citations
Predicting the severity of a reported bug

Ahmed Lamkanfi;Serge Demeyer;Emanuel Giger;Bart Goethals

454
Citations
Finding refactorings via change metrics

Serge Demeyer;Stéphane Ducasse;Oscar Nierstrasz

432
Citations
Challenges in software evolution

T. Mens;M. Wermelinger;S. Ducasse;S. Demeyer

387
Citations
Software Evolution

Tom Mens;Serge Demeyer

368
Citations
Comparing Mining Algorithms for Predicting the Severity of a Reported Bug

Ahmed Lamkanfi;Serge Demeyer;Quinten David Soetens;Tim Verdonck

282
Citations
Mining Software Repositories to Study Co-Evolution of Production & Test Code

A. Zaidman;B. Van Rompaey;S. Demeyer;A. van Deursen

258
Citations
Refactoring - improving coupling and cohesion of existing code

B. Du Bois;S. Demeyer;J. Verelst

230
Citations
Formalizing refactorings with graph transformations

Tom Mens;Niels Van Eetvelde;Serge Demeyer;Dirk Janssens

225
Citations
Studying the co-evolution of production and test code in open source and industrial developer test processes through repository mining

Andy Zaidman;Bart Rompaey;Arie Deursen;Serge Demeyer

220
Citations
Formalising Behaviour Preserving Program Transformations

Tom Mens;Serge Demeyer;Dirk Janssens

203
Citations
Future trends in software evolution metrics

Tom Mens;Serge Demeyer

184
Citations
A hybrid reverse engineering approach combining metrics and program visualisation

S. Demeyer;S. Ducasse;M. Lanza

180
Citations
On The Detection of Test Smells: A Metrics-Based Approach for General Fixture and Eager Test

B. Van Rompaey;B. Du Bois;S. Demeyer;M. Rieger

173
Citations
A meta-model for language-independent refactoring

S. Tichelaar;S. Ducasse;S. Demeyer;O. Nierstrasz

173
Citations
Towards automating source-consistent UML refactorings

Pieter Van Gorp;Hans Stenten;Tom Mens;Serge Demeyer

167
Citations
Establishing Traceability Links between Unit Test Cases and Units under Test

Bart Van Rompaey;Serge Demeyer

149
Citations
Studying software evolution information by visualizing the change history

F. Van Rysselberghe;S. Demeyer

140
Citations
Evaluating clone detection techniques from a refactoring perspective

F. Van Rysselberghe;S. Demeyer

134
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Ducasse University of Lille

Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern

Andy Zaidman Delft University of Technology

Tom Mens University of Mons

Michele Lanza Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University

Bram Adams Queen's University

Tom Dhaene Ghent University

Wouter Joosen KU Leuven

Francky Catthoor KU Leuven

External Links

Personal website of Serge Demeyer Google Scholar page

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