Donatella Firmani

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 651 citations indexed

About

Donatella Firmani is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Donatella Firmani has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 651 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 13 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 11 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in Donatella Firmani's work include Data Quality and Management (11 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 papers) and Topic Modeling (7 papers). Donatella Firmani is often cited by papers focused on Data Quality and Management (11 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (8 papers) and Topic Modeling (7 papers). Donatella Firmani collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Canada. Donatella Firmani's co-authors include Paolo Merialdo, Andrea Rossi, Denilson Barbosa, Divesh Srivastava, Barna Saha, Massimo Mecella, Monica Scannapieco, Carlo Batini, Riccardo Torlone and Graham Cormode and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Information Processing & Management and ACM SIGMOD Record.

In The Last Decade

Donatella Firmani

37 papers receiving 630 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. Knowledge Graph Embedding for Link Prediction
    2021 251 citations Andrea Rossi, Denilson Barbosa et al. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Donatella Firmani Italy 11 423 200 133 98 85 37 651
Nitish Korula United States 10 258 0.6× 124 0.6× 93 0.7× 133 1.4× 31 0.4× 26 491
Achim Rettinger Germany 14 470 1.1× 128 0.6× 173 1.3× 67 0.7× 80 0.9× 50 645
Alantha Newman France 5 232 0.5× 109 0.5× 66 0.5× 87 0.9× 48 0.6× 17 497
Weiwen Liu China 16 448 1.1× 94 0.5× 367 2.8× 58 0.6× 164 1.9× 54 750
Francesco Folino Italy 12 238 0.6× 86 0.4× 154 1.2× 161 1.6× 50 0.6× 46 570
Sujith Ravi United States 15 498 1.2× 43 0.2× 177 1.3× 159 1.6× 104 1.2× 24 809
Mehrnoush Shamsfard Iran 15 765 1.8× 63 0.3× 353 2.7× 74 0.8× 103 1.2× 77 927
Atsuyoshi Nakamura Japan 8 129 0.3× 63 0.3× 152 1.1× 75 0.8× 48 0.6× 47 384
Anastasia Dimou Belgium 10 363 0.9× 142 0.7× 170 1.3× 132 1.3× 55 0.6× 67 534
Saravanan Thirumuruganathan United States 16 436 1.0× 304 1.5× 196 1.5× 209 2.1× 95 1.1× 62 831

Countries citing papers authored by Donatella Firmani

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donatella Firmani

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donatella Firmani

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Donatella Firmani. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Donatella Firmani 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 Donatella Firmani. Donatella Firmani 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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Firmani, Donatella, et al.. (2023). NLP-Based Management of Large Multiple-Choice Test Item Repositories. Journal of Learning Analytics. 10(3). 28–44. 2 indexed citations
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Mazzei, Maurizio, Paolo Merialdo, Giovanni Simonini, et al.. (2023). Experiences and Lessons Learned from the SIGMOD Entity Resolution Programming Contests. ACM SIGMOD Record. 52(2). 43–47. 1 indexed citations
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Firmani, Donatella, et al.. (2022). Managing Large Multiple-choice Test Items Repositories. 1254. 275–279. 1 indexed citations
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Firmani, Donatella, et al.. (2022). Effective Explanations for Entity Resolution Models. 2022 IEEE 38th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE). 2709–2721. 9 indexed citations
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Firmani, Donatella, et al.. (2022). Self-supervised learning for medieval handwriting identification: A case study from the Vatican Apostolic Library. Information Processing & Management. 59(3). 102875–102875. 9 indexed citations
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Galhotra, Sainyam, Donatella Firmani, Barna Saha, & Divesh Srivastava. (2022). Hierarchical Entity Resolution using an Oracle. Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data. 414–428. 1 indexed citations
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Rossi, Andrea, et al.. (2022). Explaining Link Prediction Systems based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings. Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Management of Data. 2062–2075. 22 indexed citations
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Firmani, Donatella, et al.. (2021). In Codice Ratio: A crowd-enabled solution for low resource machine transcription of the Vatican Registers. Information Processing & Management. 58(5). 102606–102606. 8 indexed citations
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Rossi, Andrea, et al.. (2021). Knowledge Graph Embedding for Link Prediction. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. 15(2). 1–49. 251 indexed citations breakdown →
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Galhotra, Sainyam, Donatella Firmani, Barna Saha, & Divesh Srivastava. (2021). BEER. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 2711–2715. 6 indexed citations
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Firmani, Donatella, Sainyam Galhotra, Barna Saha, & Divesh Srivastava. (2018). Robust Entity Resolution Using a CrowdOracle.. IEEE Data(base) Engineering Bulletin. 41. 91–103. 4 indexed citations
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Galhotra, Sainyam, Donatella Firmani, Barna Saha, & Divesh Srivastava. (2018). Robust Entity Resolution using Random Graphs. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 3–18. 15 indexed citations
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Conte, Alessio, et al.. (2017). Fast Enumeration of Large k-Plexes. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 115–124. 38 indexed citations
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Firmani, Donatella, et al.. (2015). Strong Articulation Points and Strong Bridges in Large Scale Graphs. Algorithmica. 74(3). 1123–1147. 4 indexed citations
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Cormode, Graham & Donatella Firmani. (2013). A unifying framework for ℓ 0-sampling algorithms. Distributed and Parallel Databases. 32(3). 315–335. 16 indexed citations
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Ausiello, Giorgio, Donatella Firmani, & Luigi Laura. (2013). The (betweenness) centrality of critical nodes and network cores. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 90–95. 12 indexed citations
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Ausiello, Giorgio, et al.. (2012). Large-Scale Graph Biconnectivity in MapReduce. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4(4). 2 indexed citations
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Ausiello, Giorgio, Donatella Firmani, & Luigi Laura. (2012). Real-time analysis of critical nodes in network cores. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 1930. 42–46. 1 indexed citations
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Ausiello, Giorgio, Camil Demetrescu, Irene Finocchi, & Donatella Firmani. (2012). k-Calling context profiling. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 47(10). 867–878. 1 indexed citations
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Ausiello, Giorgio, Donatella Firmani, & Luigi Laura. (2012). Real‐time monitoring of undirected networks: Articulation points, bridges, and connected and biconnected components. Networks. 59(3). 275–288. 7 indexed citations

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