Christof Ebert

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
162 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Christof Ebert is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Christof Ebert has authored 162 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Information Systems, 41 papers in Software and 38 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Christof Ebert's work include Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (65 papers), Software Engineering Research (61 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (36 papers). Christof Ebert is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (65 papers), Software Engineering Research (61 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (36 papers). Christof Ebert collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Spain. Christof Ebert's co-authors include Michael Weyrich, Πάνος Λουρίδας, Carlos Henrique C. Duarte, Capers Jones, Josune Hernantes, Nicolás Serrano, Aurora Vizcaíno, Rafael Prikladnicki, Filippo Lanubile and Reiner Dumke and has published in prestigious journals such as Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Fuzzy Sets and Systems.

In The Last Decade

Christof Ebert

152 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

DevOps 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 50 100 150 200 250
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.

  1. DevOps
    2016 282 citations Christof Ebert, Josune Hernantes et al. IEEE Software profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Christof Ebert 2.0k 790 746 546 518 162 3.6k
John Bailey 1.6k 0.8× 602 0.8× 671 0.9× 467 0.9× 383 0.7× 27 3.5k
Roel Wieringa 2.2k 1.1× 609 0.8× 1.3k 1.8× 454 0.8× 954 1.8× 161 3.8k
Mahmood Niazi 3.5k 1.7× 672 0.9× 688 0.9× 454 0.8× 1.5k 3.0× 123 4.8k
Kari Smolander 2.2k 1.1× 760 1.0× 473 0.6× 321 0.6× 769 1.5× 121 3.3k
Félix García 1.7k 0.8× 413 0.5× 524 0.7× 360 0.7× 862 1.7× 177 2.7k
Patricia Lago 2.6k 1.3× 1.1k 1.5× 1.4k 1.9× 360 0.7× 354 0.7× 257 3.9k
Xavier Franch 2.3k 1.1× 825 1.0× 1.4k 1.9× 520 1.0× 587 1.1× 310 3.3k
Mika Mäntylä 2.9k 1.4× 854 1.1× 774 1.0× 1.6k 3.0× 265 0.5× 111 4.4k
Tony Gorschek 3.0k 1.5× 414 0.5× 849 1.1× 695 1.3× 621 1.2× 143 3.9k
Muhammad Ali Babar 3.2k 1.6× 1.6k 2.0× 1.9k 2.6× 685 1.3× 416 0.8× 212 5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Christof Ebert

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christof Ebert

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christof Ebert

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christof Ebert. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christof Ebert based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christof Ebert. Christof Ebert is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ebert, Christof, et al.. (2025). DevOps 2.0. IEEE Software. 42(2). 24–32. 1 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof, et al.. (2025). AI for Cloud and SaaS: Technologies and Business Models. Computer. 58(4). 100–105.
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Ebert, Christof, et al.. (2024). Hints for Generative AI Software Development. IEEE Software. 41(5). 24–33. 3 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof, et al.. (2024). Generative Artificial Intelligence for Automotive Cybersecurity. 19(1-2). 50–54. 1 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof, et al.. (2024). Grow Your Artificial Intelligence Competence. Computer. 57(10). 144–150. 2 indexed citations
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Schuster, Alexander K., et al.. (2023). Synthetic data generation for the continuous development and testing of autonomous construction machinery. at - Automatisierungstechnik. 71(11). 953–968. 3 indexed citations
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Gea, Juan Manuel Carrillo de, Christof Ebert, Mohamed Hosni, et al.. (2021). Requirements Engineering Tools: An Evaluation. IEEE Software. 38(3). 17–24. 6 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof. (2021). Verteilt arbeiten, gemeinsam gewinnen. HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik. 58(4). 800–815. 1 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof, et al.. (2021). Agile Systems Engineering. IEEE Software. 38(4). 7–15. 4 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof. (2020). Efficient Implementation of Standards for Security, Safety and UNECE. 15(9). 40–43. 1 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof, Jens Heidrich, Silverio Martínez‐Fernández, & Adam Trendowicz. (2019). Data Science: Technologies for Better Software. IEEE Software. 36(6). 66–72. 5 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof, et al.. (2016). Cyclomatic Complexity. IEEE Software. 33(6). 27–29. 62 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof, Marco Kuhrmann, & Rafael Prikladnicki. (2016). Global Software Engineering: Evolution and Trends. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 144–153. 38 indexed citations
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Abran, Alain, et al.. (2016). Measurement of software size: Contributions of cosmic to estimation improvements. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 3 indexed citations
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Paulisch, Frances & Christof Ebert. (2008). Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Business impact of process improvements. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1 indexed citations
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Paulisch, Frances & Christof Ebert. (2008). Business impact of process improvements. 1073–1074. 1 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof. (2006). Trends im Requirements Management.. Praxis Der Wirtschaftsinformatik. 248. 1 indexed citations
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Kruchten, Philippe, et al.. (2006). Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Global software development for the practitioner. 8 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof, et al.. (2003). Tricks and traps of initiating a product line concept in existing products. International Conference on Software Engineering. 520–525. 17 indexed citations
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Ebert, Christof. (1998). Experiences with colored predicate-transition nets for specifying and prototyping embedded systems. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Part B (Cybernetics). 28(5). 641–652. 5 indexed citations

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