Ali Ouni

5.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
124 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Ali Ouni is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Ouni has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Information Systems, 61 papers in Software and 26 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Ali Ouni's work include Software Engineering Research (99 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (47 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (26 papers). Ali Ouni is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (99 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (47 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (26 papers). Ali Ouni collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Arab Emirates. Ali Ouni's co-authors include Marouane Kessentini, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Ali Fiaz, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Salah Bouktif, Katsuro Inoue, Houari Sahraoui, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Salah Bouktif and Eman Abdullah AlOmar and has published in prestigious journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, Sensors and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Ali Ouni

113 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Optimal Deep Learning LSTM Model for Electric Load Forecasting using Feature Selection and Genetic Algorithm: Comparison with Machine Learning Approaches †

2018 646 citations Salah Bouktif, Ali Ouni et al. profile →
Do developers update their library dependencies?

2017 209 citations Raula Gaikovina Kula, Daniel M. Germán et al. Empirical Software Engineering profile →
Many-Objective Software Remodularization Using NSGA-III

2015 191 citations Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Marouane Kessentini et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Ouni Canada	33	2.2k	1.3k	758	662	651	124	3.5k
Siobhán Clarke Ireland	28	1.8k 0.8×	315 0.3×	1.5k 2.0×	678 1.0×	1.8k 2.7×	187	4.1k
Marc Roper United Kingdom	26	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	472 0.6×	174 0.3×	314 0.5×	93	2.4k
Suman Nath United States	40	1.6k 0.7×	406 0.3×	1.2k 1.6×	993 1.5×	3.5k 5.4×	151	5.4k
Franz Wotawa Austria	24	1.5k 0.7×	2.3k 1.9×	949 1.3×	139 0.2×	646 1.0×	372	3.4k
Salah Bouktif United Arab Emirates	15	449 0.2×	254 0.2×	330 0.4×	485 0.7×	151 0.2×	50	1.4k
Pradeep Kumar Singh India	30	759 0.3×	116 0.1×	722 1.0×	522 0.8×	1.1k 1.7×	171	3.3k
Jie Xu United Kingdom	26	1.6k 0.7×	84 0.1×	503 0.7×	289 0.4×	1.9k 2.9×	150	2.7k
Munam Ali Shah Pakistan	31	1.0k 0.5×	76 0.1×	712 0.9×	985 1.5×	1.9k 2.9×	202	3.7k
Friedemann Mattern Switzerland	30	537 0.2×	91 0.1×	486 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	2.9k 4.5×	87	4.3k
Vicente García‐Díaz Spain	24	488 0.2×	84 0.1×	580 0.8×	218 0.3×	398 0.6×	120	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ali Ouni

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ali Ouni

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All Works

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Bouktif, Salah, et al.. (2025). Parameterized-action based deep reinforcement learning for intelligent traffic signal control. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 159. 111422–111422.

Ouni, Ali, et al.. (2025). Predicting wind turbines faults using Multi-Objective Genetic Programming. Expert Systems with Applications. 281. 127487–127487. 1 indexed citations

Bouktif, Salah, Akib Mohi Ud Din Khanday, & Ali Ouni. (2025). Explainable Predictive Model for Suicidal Ideation During COVID-19: Social Media Discourse Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 27. e65434–e65434. 2 indexed citations

Bouktif, Salah, Akib Mohi Ud Din Khanday, & Ali Ouni. (2024). CoML: Machine Learning based approach for COVID-19 related Suicidal Ideation detection. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 1–5.

Ouni, Ali, et al.. (2024). How Do Software Developers Use ChatGPT? An Exploratory Study on GitHub Pull Requests. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 212–216. 2 indexed citations

AlOmar, Eman Abdullah, et al.. (2024). AntiCopyPaster 2.0: Whitebox just-in-time code duplicates extraction. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 84–88.

Sayagh, Mohammed, et al.. (2024). How Much Logs Does My Source Code File Need? Learning to Predict the Density of Logs. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 140–149.

Ouni, Ali, et al.. (2024). GitRev: An LLM-Based Gamification Framework for Modern Code Review Activities. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 235–241.

Ouni, Ali, et al.. (2024). Fine-Grained Just-In-Time Defect Prediction at the Block Level in Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC). Espace ÉTS (ETS). 100–112. 2 indexed citations

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AlOmar, Eman Abdullah, et al.. (2023). Just-in-time code duplicates extraction. Information and Software Technology. 158. 107169–107169. 9 indexed citations

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Aljedaani, Wajdi, et al.. (2023). The State of Accessibility in Blackboard: Survey and User Reviews Case Study. RIT Scholar Works (Rochester Institute of Technology). 84–95. 15 indexed citations

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AlOmar, Eman Abdullah, et al.. (2022). AntiCopyPaster: Extracting Code Duplicates As Soon As They Are Introduced in the IDE. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 1–4. 6 indexed citations

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Aljedaani, Wajdi, et al.. (2022). Automatically detecting and understanding the perception of COVID-19 vaccination: a middle east case study. Social Network Analysis and Mining. 12(1). 128–128. 11 indexed citations

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Ouni, Ali, et al.. (2022). Improving microservices extraction using evolutionary search. Information and Software Technology. 151. 106996–106996. 14 indexed citations

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Peruma, Anthony, et al.. (2021). How do i refactor this? An empirical study on refactoring trends and topics in Stack Overflow. Empirical Software Engineering. 27(1). 33 indexed citations

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Mkaouer, Mohamed Wiem, Eman Abdullah AlOmar, & Ali Ouni. (2020). Toward the Automatic Classification of Self-Affirmed Refactoring. RIT Scholar Works (Rochester Institute of Technology). 31 indexed citations

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AlOmar, Eman Abdullah, Anthony Peruma, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, et al.. (2020). How we refactor and how we document it? On the use of supervised machine learning algorithms to classify refactoring documentation. Expert Systems with Applications. 167. 114176–114176. 38 indexed citations

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Peruma, Anthony, et al.. (2019). On the Distribution of Test Smells in Open Source Android Applications: An Exploratory Study. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 51 indexed citations

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Ouni, Ali, et al.. (2017). A Machine Learning-Based Approach to Detect Web Service Design Defects. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 532–539. 13 indexed citations

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Kula, Raula Gaikovina, Daniel M. Germán, Takashi Ishio, Ali Ouni, & Katsuro Inoue. (2017). An exploratory study on library aging by monitoring client usage in a software ecosystem. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 407–411. 13 indexed citations

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