Francesco Longo

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Francesco Longo is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Longo has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 50 papers in Information Systems and 29 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Francesco Longo's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (68 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (35 papers) and Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (24 papers). Francesco Longo is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (68 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (35 papers) and Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (24 papers). Francesco Longo collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Russia and United States. Francesco Longo's co-authors include Antonio Puliafito, Giovanni Merlino, Salvatore Distefano, Dario Bruneo, Nachiket Tapas, Alfonso Panarello, Rahul Ghosh, Carlo Puliafito, Enzo Mingozzi and Vijay K. Naik and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Access and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Longo

116 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Blockchain and IoT Integration: A Systematic Survey

2018 467 citations Alfonso Panarello, Nachiket Tapas et al. Sensors profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Francesco Longo Italy	24	1.8k	1.4k	348	315	271	125	2.4k
Giovanni Merlino Italy	23	1.3k 0.7×	959 0.7×	246 0.7×	326 1.0×	233 0.9×	103	1.9k
Walter de Donato Italy	12	2.2k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	448 1.3×	316 1.0×	530 2.0×	23	2.7k
Dominique Guinard Switzerland	19	1.6k 0.9×	840 0.6×	432 1.2×	792 2.5×	263 1.0×	41	2.3k
Nik Bessis United Kingdom	28	1.6k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	395 1.1×	348 1.1×	387 1.4×	185	2.5k
Flávia C. Delicato Brazil	27	1.8k 1.0×	814 0.6×	582 1.7×	425 1.3×	376 1.4×	172	2.4k
Manuel Díáz Spain	17	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	312 0.9×	266 0.8×	378 1.4×	107	2.5k
Christos Stergiou Greece	18	1.2k 0.7×	849 0.6×	406 1.2×	291 0.9×	581 2.1×	37	2.3k
Blesson Varghese United Kingdom	17	1.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	367 1.1×	336 1.1×	371 1.4×	81	2.2k
Stefan Schulte Austria	26	1.5k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	290 0.8×	388 1.2×	388 1.4×	148	2.4k
Amir Vahid Dastjerdi Australia	23	2.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.3×	698 2.0×	564 1.8×	374 1.4×	33	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Francesco Longo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Francesco Longo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Longo

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francesco Longo. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francesco Longo 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 Francesco Longo. Francesco Longo is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Mauro, Manuela, Francesco Longo, Mario Lo Valvo, et al.. (2025). The Use of Environmental DNA as Preliminary Description of Invertebrate Diversity in Three Sicilian Lakes. Animals. 15(3). 355–355.

García, Laura, Rafael Asorey-Cacheda, Francesco Longo, et al.. (2025). Seamless remote roaming activation in LoRaWAN via an API-driven gateway bridge service. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 242. 104268–104268. 1 indexed citations

Longo, Francesco, et al.. (2024). Enhancing UAV Operational Efficiency through Cloud Computing and Autopilot System Integration. 85–92. 2 indexed citations

Gupta, Harshit, et al.. (2024). Operational Technologies in Industrial Control System: Cybersecurity Perspectives and Research Trends. 1–8.

Tricomi, Giuseppe, et al.. (2024). Paving the Way for an Urban Intelligence OpenStack-Based Architecture. 5. 284–289. 1 indexed citations

Longo, Francesco, et al.. (2024). MocapMe: DeepLabCut-Enhanced Neural Network for Enhanced Markerless Stability in Sit-to-Stand Motion Capture. Sensors. 24(10). 3022–3022. 4 indexed citations

Tricomi, Giuseppe, et al.. (2023). A Deep Learning-Driven Self-Conscious Distributed Cyber-Physical System for Renewable Energy Communities. Sensors. 23(9). 4549–4549. 25 indexed citations

Longo, Francesco, et al.. (2021). How 5G-based industrial IoT is transforming human-centered smart factories: a Quality of Experience model for Operator 4.0 applications. IFAC-PapersOnLine. 54(1). 255–262. 11 indexed citations

Longo, Francesco, et al.. (2021). Cloud-based Network Virtualization in IoT with OpenStack. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. 22(1). 1–26. 10 indexed citations

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Longo, Francesco, et al.. (2021). A Cloud-Based and Dynamic DNS Approach to Enable the Web of Things. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. 9(6). 3968–3978. 7 indexed citations

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Tricomi, Giuseppe, et al.. (2021). A Resilient Fire Protection System for Software-Defined Factories. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(4). 3151–3164. 10 indexed citations

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Ferretti, Luca, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, et al.. (2021). Verifiable and auditable authorizations for smart industries and industrial Internet-of-Things. Journal of Information Security and Applications. 59. 102848–102848. 7 indexed citations

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Campobello, Giuseppe, et al.. (2021). A Fog-Based Architecture for Latency-Sensitive Monitoring Applications in Industrial Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(3). 1908–1918. 12 indexed citations

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Longo, Fabio, Francesco Longo, & Corrado Santoro. (2020). A Reactive Cognitive Architecture based on Natural Language Processing for the task of Decision-Making using a Rich Semantic.. 201–218. 1 indexed citations

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Puliafito, Carlo, Enzo Mingozzi, Francesco Longo, Antonio Puliafito, & Omer Rana. (2019). Fog Computing for the Internet of Things. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. 19(2). 1–41. 229 indexed citations

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Merlino, Giovanni, et al.. (2019). Design of a Trustless Smart City system: The #SmartME experiment. Internet of Things. 10. 100126–100126. 9 indexed citations

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Panarello, Alfonso, Nachiket Tapas, Giovanni Merlino, Francesco Longo, & Antonio Puliafito. (2018). Blockchain and IoT Integration: A Systematic Survey. Sensors. 18(8). 2575–2575. 467 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dautov, Rustem, Salvatore Distefano, Dario Bruneo, et al.. (2018). Data agility through clustered edge computing and stream processing. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 33(7). 1–1. 7 indexed citations

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Distefano, Salvatore, Dario Bruneo, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, & Antonio Puliafito. (2016). Hospitalized Patient Monitoring and Early Treatment Using IoT and Cloud. BioNanoScience. 7(2). 382–385. 13 indexed citations

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Distefano, Salvatore, Dario Bruneo, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, & Antonio Puliafito. (2016). Personalized Health Tracking with Edge Computing Technologies. BioNanoScience. 7(2). 439–441. 4 indexed citations

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