2026 Stéphane Ducasse: 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	62	2901	2816	45	44	487	15191

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in France Leader Award

Overview

Stéphane Ducasse is affiliated with the University of Lille in France and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a focus on software engineering and related domains. Their main field of study is Computer Science, with 102 publications spanning various subfields.

The subfields of study include:

Information Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Software
Computer Networks and Communications
Signal Processing

Key topics of research associated with Stéphane Ducasse are:

Software Engineering Research
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Software System Performance and Reliability
Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Logic, programming, and type systems
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Software Reliability and Analysis Research

Recent papers by Stéphane Ducasse cover a range of topics in software engineering and systems:

A user-oriented model for Oracles' Gas price prediction (2021), published in Future Generation Computer Systems
Analyzing Module Diversity (2020), published in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
A new modular implementation for stateful traits (2020), published in Science of Computer Programming
From GWT to Angular: An Experiment Report on Migrating a Legacy Web Application (2021), published in IEEE Software
Object Miners: Acquire, Capture and Replay Objects to Track Elusive Bugs (2020), published in The Journal of Object Technology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stéphane Ducasse include:

Nicolas Anquetil
Anne Etien
Pablo Tesone
Guillermo Polito
Mustapha Derras

The scientist's publications appear frequently in these venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Journal of Object Technology
The Art Science and Engineering of Programming
Journal of Computer Languages
Future Generation Computer Systems

Stéphane Ducasse has authored books published primarily by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, including titles such as Application Building with Spec 2.0, Building a minimal reflective kernel, and ApplicationBuildingwithSpec2.0, all from 2024. Additionally, a book titled Reuse in Emerging Software Engineering Practices was published by Springer Science+Business Media in 2020.

Best Publications

A language independent approach for detecting duplicated code

S. Ducasse;M. Rieger;S. Demeyer

955
Citations
Semantic clustering: Identifying topics in source code

Adrian Kuhn;Stéphane Ducasse;Tudor Gírba

680
Citations
Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice

Michele Lanza;Radu Marinescu;Stéphane Ducasse

678
Citations
Polymetric views - a lightweight visual approach to reverse engineering

M. Lanza;S. Ducasse

583
Citations
Traits: Composable Units of Behavior

Nathanael Shärli;Stéphane Ducasse;Oscar Nierstrasz;Andrew Black

562
Citations
Software Architecture Reconstruction: A Process-Oriented Taxonomy

S. Ducasse;D. Pollet

450
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
Traits: A mechanism for fine-grained reuse

Stéphane Ducasse;Oscar Nierstrasz;Nathanael Schärli;Roel Wuyts

342
Citations
How developers drive software evolution

T. Girba;A. Kuhn;M. Seeberger;S. Ducasse

245
Citations
The story of moose: an agile reengineering environment

Oscar Nierstrasz;Stéphane Ducasse;Tudor Gǐrba

242
Citations
Recovering high-level views of object-oriented applications from static and dynamic information

T. Richner;S. Ducasse

227
Citations
Pharo by Example

Andrew P. Black;Stéphane Ducasse;Oscar Nierstrasz;Damien Pollet

212
Citations
Using history information to improve design flaws detection

D. Rapu;S. Ducasse;T. Girba;R. Marinescu

211
Citations
Yesterday's Weather: guiding early reverse engineering efforts by summarizing the evolution of changes

T. Girba;S. Ducasse;M. Lanza

192
Citations
Moose: an Extensible Language-Independent Environment for Reengineering Object-Oriented Systems

Stéphane Ducasse;Michele Lanza;Sander Tichelaar

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

S. Demeyer;S. Ducasse;M. Lanza

180
Citations
A meta-model for language-independent refactoring

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

173
Citations
The class blueprint: visually supporting the understanding of glasses

S. Ducasse;M. Lanza

165
Citations
Understanding software evolution using a combination of software visualization and software metrics

Michelle Lanza;Stéphane Ducasse

161
Citations
Semantic Clustering: Identifying Topics in Source Code To appear in Journal on Information Systems and Technologies

Adrian Kuhn;Stephane Ducasse;Tudor G

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern

Tudor Gîrba feenk

Serge Demeyer University of Antwerp

Michele Lanza Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Marco Tulio Valente Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Romain Robbes University of Bordeaux

Tom Mens University of Mons

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University

Houari Sahraoui University of Montreal

Johan Montagnat Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

External Links

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