Dan Hao

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Dan Hao is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Dan Hao has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Software, 77 papers in Information Systems and 29 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Dan Hao's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (80 papers), Software Engineering Research (72 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (56 papers). Dan Hao is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (80 papers), Software Engineering Research (72 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (56 papers). Dan Hao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Dan Hao's co-authors include Lu Zhang, Hong Mei, Junjie Chen, Lingming Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Yingfei Xiong, Yiling Lou, Gregg Rothermel, Bing Xie and Jie M. Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemistry of Materials, Bioresource Technology and Molecules.

In The Last Decade

Dan Hao

115 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.

  1. Context-aware patch generation for better automated program repair
    2018 217 citations Junjie Chen, Dan Hao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dan Hao China 37 2.5k 2.2k 748 424 381 125 3.5k
Mu Zhang China 15 319 0.1× 435 0.2× 471 0.6× 264 0.6× 703 1.8× 71 1.2k
Sen Chen China 25 551 0.2× 836 0.4× 565 0.8× 459 1.1× 930 2.4× 88 1.7k
Rosana Balzer Brazil 21 287 0.1× 494 0.2× 264 0.4× 566 1.3× 47 0.1× 51 1.3k
Lin Chen China 20 765 0.3× 939 0.4× 347 0.5× 284 0.7× 189 0.5× 133 1.6k
Xiaodong Gu China 17 335 0.1× 899 0.4× 199 0.3× 573 1.4× 242 0.6× 36 1.5k
Hassan Gomaa United States 27 639 0.3× 1.4k 0.7× 877 1.2× 1.6k 3.9× 44 0.1× 165 2.5k
Markus Wenzel Germany 8 214 0.1× 186 0.1× 236 0.3× 1.0k 2.4× 81 0.2× 12 1.5k
Shiqing Ma United States 26 313 0.1× 545 0.2× 699 0.9× 1.7k 3.9× 867 2.3× 61 2.5k
Frits Vaandrager Netherlands 23 641 0.3× 130 0.1× 446 0.6× 1.0k 2.4× 54 0.1× 97 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Dan Hao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dan Hao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Dan Hao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Dan Hao. The network helps show where Dan Hao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dan Hao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dan Hao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dan Hao 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 Dan Hao. Dan Hao 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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Wang, Hui, et al.. (2025). The Influence of Ceramsite and Superphosphate on Humification in the Composting Process of Garden Wastes. Sustainability. 17(2). 538–538. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Bo, et al.. (2025). Fuzzing C++ Compilers via Type-Driven Mutation. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages. 9(OOPSLA2). 1232–1260.
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Sun, Zeyu, et al.. (2025). Do advanced language models eliminate the need for prompt engineering in software engineering?. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
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Sun, Jun, et al.. (2025). ConTested: Consistency-Aided Tested Code Generation with LLM. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 2(ISSTA). 596–617.
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Sun, Zeyu, et al.. (2025). From Cryptic to Clear - Training on LLM Explanations to Detect Smart Contract Vulnerabilities. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
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Xie, Xiaofei, et al.. (2025). GUI Test Migration via Abstraction and Concretization. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 35(2). 1–29.
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Sun, Zeyu, et al.. (2024). Spotting Code Mutation for Predictive Mutation Testing. 1133–1145.
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Sun, Zeyu, et al.. (2024). Is It Hard to Generate Holistic Commit Message?. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34(2). 1–28. 1 indexed citations
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Lou, Yiling, et al.. (2024). When Automated Program Repair Meets Regression Testing—An Extensive Study on Two Million Patches. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 33(7). 1–23.
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Sun, Zeyu, Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, & Dan Hao. (2024). Fairness Testing of Machine Translation Systems. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 33(6). 1–27. 5 indexed citations
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Zhu, Qihao, et al.. (2024). Synthesis-Based Enhancement for GUI Test Case Migration. 869–881. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Zeyu, et al.. (2024). Commit Artifact Preserving Build Prediction. 1236–1248.
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Hao, Dan, et al.. (2024). Compiler Autotuning through Multiple-phase Learning. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 33(4). 1–38. 5 indexed citations
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Hao, Dan, et al.. (2024). Compiler Bug Isolation via Enhanced Test Program Mutation. 819–830. 1 indexed citations
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Li, Suyan, et al.. (2023). Prediction of composting maturity and identification of critical parameters for green waste compost using machine learning. Bioresource Technology. 385. 129444–129444. 41 indexed citations
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Sun, Ke, et al.. (2022). Static Type Recommendation for Python. 1–13. 4 indexed citations
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Hao, Dan, et al.. (2019). A Study of Programming Languages and Their Bug Resolution Characteristics. UCL Discovery (University College London). 2 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jie M., Feng Li, Dan Hao, et al.. (2019). A Study of Bug Resolution Characteristics in Popular Programming Languages. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 47(12). 2684–2697. 13 indexed citations
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Liu, Yahui, Cai’e Zhang, Dan Hao, et al.. (2018). Enhancing the Performance of Organic Solar Cells by Hierarchically Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Fused-Ring Electron Acceptors. Chemistry of Materials. 30(13). 4307–4312. 122 indexed citations
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Chen, Junjie, Dan Hao, Yingfei Xiong, et al.. (2018). Coverage Prediction for Accelerating Compiler Testing. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 47(2). 261–278. 38 indexed citations

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