Ettore Merlo

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Ettore Merlo is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Ettore Merlo has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Information Systems, 61 papers in Software and 55 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Ettore Merlo's work include Software Engineering Research (80 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (43 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (34 papers). Ettore Merlo is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (80 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (43 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (34 papers). Ettore Merlo collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Italy and France. Ettore Merlo's co-authors include Giuliano Antoniol, G. Casazza, Giulio Antoniol, Andrea De Lucia, Gerardo Canfora, Rainer Koschke, Jens Krinke, Kostas Kontogiannis, Massimiliano Di Penta and Michel Dagenais and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Hypertension and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Ettore Merlo

117 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Recovering traceability links between code and documentation 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2007 200 400 600
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. Recovering traceability links between code and documentation
    2002 702 citations Giuliano Antoniol, Ettore Merlo et al. profile →
  2. Comparison and Evaluation of Clone Detection Tools
    2007 540 citations Ettore Merlo 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
Ettore Merlo Canada 26 2.9k 1.9k 928 895 561 120 3.3k
Anna Rita Fasolino Italy 27 1.8k 0.6× 1.5k 0.8× 836 0.9× 541 0.6× 780 1.4× 105 2.6k
Atif M. Memon United States 33 2.2k 0.8× 3.4k 1.8× 1.1k 1.2× 414 0.5× 1.3k 2.3× 108 4.0k
Ferdian Thung Singapore 26 1.5k 0.5× 934 0.5× 337 0.4× 474 0.5× 464 0.8× 64 1.8k
Spiros Mancoridis United States 23 2.1k 0.7× 976 0.5× 332 0.4× 1.3k 1.4× 985 1.8× 83 2.5k
James A. Jones United States 23 3.1k 1.1× 3.5k 1.8× 300 0.3× 316 0.4× 1.2k 2.1× 70 4.1k
Rudolf Ferenć Hungary 25 2.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 276 0.3× 696 0.8× 703 1.3× 93 2.5k
Leonardo de Moura United States 17 1.0k 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 454 0.5× 827 0.9× 370 0.7× 43 2.1k
Porfirio Tramontana Italy 19 1.2k 0.4× 1.0k 0.5× 701 0.8× 347 0.4× 515 0.9× 71 1.7k
Joshua Garcia United States 24 1.3k 0.4× 725 0.4× 566 0.6× 782 0.9× 1.0k 1.8× 62 1.8k
Kostas Kontogiannis Canada 24 1.8k 0.6× 898 0.5× 265 0.3× 919 1.0× 606 1.1× 122 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ettore Merlo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ettore Merlo

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ettore Merlo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ettore Merlo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ettore Merlo 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 Ettore Merlo. Ettore Merlo 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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Merlo, Ettore, et al.. (2025). Representation-based fairness evaluation and bias correction robustness assessment in neural networks. Information and Software Technology. 188. 107876–107876. 1 indexed citations
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Merlo, Ettore, Carlo Pinciroli, Jacopo Panerati, Michalis Famelis, & Giovanni Beltrame. (2022). Automated extraction and checking of property models from source code for robot swarms. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 47–54. 1 indexed citations
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Merlo, Ettore, et al.. (2021). RBAC protection-impacting changes identification: A case study of the security evolution of two PHP applications. Information and Software Technology. 139. 106630–106630. 2 indexed citations
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Khomh, Foutse, et al.. (2018). Just-in-Time Detection of Protection-Impacting Changes on Wordpress and Mediawiki. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 178–188. 1 indexed citations
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Litoiu, Marin, et al.. (2018). A DevOps framework for quality-driven self-protection in web software systems. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 270–274. 5 indexed citations
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Gauthier, François, et al.. (2015). Evolutionary analysis of access control models: a formal concept analysis method. 261–264. 1 indexed citations
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Merlo, Ettore, et al.. (2012). Locating features in dynamically configured avionics software. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1453–1454. 4 indexed citations
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Merlo, Ettore, et al.. (2011). Automated type-3 clone oracle using Levenshtein metric. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 34–40. 21 indexed citations
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Merlo, Ettore, et al.. (2007). SQL-Injection Security Evolution Analysis in PHP. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 45–49. 6 indexed citations
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Bouktif, Salah, Giuliano Antoniol, Ettore Merlo, & Markus Neteler. (2006). A novel approach to optimize clone refactoring activity. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 1885–1892. 46 indexed citations
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Antoniol, Giuliano, et al.. (2005). Improving network applications security. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 1037–1043. 34 indexed citations
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Antoniol, Giuliano, Massimiliano Di Penta, & Ettore Merlo. (2004). An automatic approach to identify class evolution discontinuities. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 31–40. 38 indexed citations
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Merlo, Ettore & Giuliano Antoniol. (1999). A static measure of a subset of intra-procedural data flow testing coverage based on node coverage. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 10 indexed citations
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Dagenais, Michel, et al.. (1998). Clones occurence in large object oriented software packages. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 10. 2 indexed citations
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April, Alain, Alain Abran, & Ettore Merlo. (1998). Process assurance audits: lessons learned. International Conference on Software Engineering. 482–485. 4 indexed citations
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Mylopoulos, John, Martin Stanley, Kenny Wong, et al.. (1994). Towards an integrated toolset for program understanding. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 48. 7 indexed citations
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Mori, Renato De, W. Morven Gentleman, Hilary Johnson, et al.. (1994). Investigating reverse engineering technologies for the CAS program understanding project. IBM Systems Journal. 33(3). 477–500. 48 indexed citations
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Merlo, Ettore, et al.. (1993). Source Code Informal Information Analysis Using Connectionist Models.. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1339–1345. 35 indexed citations
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Kontogiannis, Kostas, et al.. (1993). The development of a partial design recovery environment for legacy systems. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 206–216. 6 indexed citations

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