2026 Tom Mens: 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	58	3606	3505	36	34	296	14614

Overview

Tom Mens is affiliated with the University of Mons in Belgium and conducts research primarily in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, and Software. Their scholarly output spans several subfields, including Information Systems and Management and Signal Processing.

Their research topics cover a range of areas related to software and systems, including:

Software Engineering Research
Software System Performance and Reliability
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Spam and Phishing Detection

Tom Mens has contributed to numerous publications in various venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Empirical Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Some of their recent papers include:

On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems dependency networks, 2022, Empirical Software Engineering
On the rise and fall of CI services in GitHub, 2022, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
On the usage, co-usage and migration of CI/CD tools: A qualitative analysis, 2023, Empirical Software Engineering
A multi-dimensional analysis of technical lag in Debian-based Docker images, 2021, Empirical Software Engineering
On the usage of JavaScript, Python and Ruby packages in Docker Hub images, 2021, Science of Computer Programming

Frequent co-authors with whom Tom Mens has collaborated include:

Alexandre Decan
Eleni Constantinou
Ahmed Zerouali
Coen De Roover
Mehdi Golzadeh

Best Publications

A survey of software refactoring

T. Mens;T. Tourwe

1800
Citations
A Taxonomy of Model Transformation

Tom Mens;Pieter Van Gorp

1574
Citations
A state-of-the-art survey on software merging

T. Mens

775
Citations
Introduction and Roadmap: History and Challenges of Software Evolution

Tom Mens

520
Citations
Towards a taxonomy of software change

Jim Buckley;Tom Mens;Matthias Zenger;Awais Rashid

437
Citations
Challenges in software evolution

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

387
Citations
Software Evolution

Tom Mens;Serge Demeyer

368
Citations
Using Description Logic to Maintain Consistency between UML Models

Ragnhild Van Der Straeten;Tom Mens;Jocelyn Simmonds;Viviane Jonckers

275
Citations
Identifying refactoring opportunities using logic meta programming

T. Tourwe;T. Mens

257
Citations
On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm package dependency network

Alexandre Decan;Tom Mens;Eleni Constantinou

244
Citations
An empirical comparison of dependency network evolution in seven software packaging ecosystems

Alexandre Decan;Tom Mens;Philippe Grosjean

241
Citations
Analysing refactoring dependencies using graph transformation

Tom Mens;Gabriele Taentzer;Olga Runge

227
Citations
Detecting model inconsistency through operation-based model construction

Xavier Blanc;Isabelle Mounier;Alix Mougenot;Tom Mens

226
Citations
Formalizing refactorings with graph transformations

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

225
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
Detecting and resolving model inconsistencies using transformation dependency analysis

Tom Mens;Ragnhild Van Der Straeten;Maja D'Hondt

175
Citations
Towards automating source-consistent UML refactorings

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

167
Citations
On the use of graph transformations for model refactoring

Tom Mens

146
Citations
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments

Mehdi Golzadeh;Alexandre Decan;Damien Legay;Tom Mens

145
Citations
On the variation and specialisation of workload--A case study of the Gnome ecosystem community

Bogdan Vasilescu;Alexander Serebrenik;Mathieu Goeminne;Tom Mens

126
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Serge Demeyer University of Antwerp

Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology

Gregorio Robles King Juan Carlos University

Gabriele Taentzer Philipp University of Marburg

Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona King Juan Carlos University

Stéphane Ducasse University of Lille

Reiko Heckel University of Leicester

Krzysztof Czarnecki University of Waterloo

Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc Concordia University

Bernhard Rumpe RWTH Aachen University

External Links

Personal website of Tom Mens Google Scholar page

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