Licia Capra

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
126 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Licia Capra is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Transportation. According to data from OpenAlex, Licia Capra has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 41 papers in Information Systems and 29 papers in Transportation. Recurrent topics in Licia Capra's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (26 papers), Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing (17 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (15 papers). Licia Capra is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (26 papers), Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing (17 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (15 papers). Licia Capra collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Licia Capra's co-authors include Ouri Wolfson, Hai Yang, Yu Zheng, Cecilia Mascolo, Neal Lathia, Daniele Quercia, Giovanni Quattrone, Stephen Hailes, W. Emmerich and Wolfgang Emmerich and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies.

In The Last Decade

Licia Capra

122 papers receiving 4.7k 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.

Urban Computing

2014 963 citations Licia Capra et al. profile →
A survey of the use of crowdsourcing in software engineering

2016 270 citations Licia Capra, Mark Harman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Licia Capra United Kingdom	34	1.4k	1.4k	1.3k	943	774	126	5.0k
Bin Guo China	41	2.2k 1.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.2×	1.8k 1.9×	1.2k 1.6×	437	7.5k
Yu Zheng China	23	2.0k 1.4×	1.8k 1.2×	482 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	600 0.8×	63	4.1k
Alan Borning United States	40	458 0.3×	728 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	596 0.8×	125	5.2k
Nicholas Jing Yuan China	34	1.5k 1.1×	1.7k 1.2×	422 0.3×	2.1k 2.2×	812 1.0×	80	4.7k
Arkady Zaslavsky Australia	28	411 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	3.5k 2.7×	1.4k 1.5×	2.0k 2.5×	289	6.5k
Ejaz Ahmed Malaysia	39	403 0.3×	2.6k 1.8×	5.0k 4.0×	1.4k 1.5×	963 1.2×	81	8.1k
Karl Aberer Switzerland	44	650 0.4×	2.4k 1.7×	3.9k 3.1×	2.5k 2.6×	984 1.3×	421	7.9k
Rashid Mehmood Saudi Arabia	33	579 0.4×	658 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	936 1.0×	397 0.5×	141	4.0k
Jason J. Jung South Korea	31	333 0.2×	1.3k 0.9×	775 0.6×	1.4k 1.5×	591 0.8×	251	3.9k
Yong Ge United States	28	997 0.7×	1.4k 1.0×	375 0.3×	1.1k 1.1×	423 0.5×	80	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Licia Capra

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Fields of papers citing papers by Licia Capra

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Licia Capra

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Licia Capra. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Licia Capra 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 Licia Capra. Licia Capra 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

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Capra, Licia, et al.. (2025). Uncovering drivers of climate research in policy with pretrained language models. Patterns. 6(11). 101342–101342. 1 indexed citations

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Quercia, Daniele, et al.. (2023). The role of the big geographic sort in online news circulation among U.S. Reddit users. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6711–6711. 3 indexed citations

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Quattrone, Giovanni, et al.. (2022). A global-scale analysis of the sharing economy model – an AirBnB case study. EPJ Data Science. 11(1). 36–36. 13 indexed citations

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Quercia, Daniele, Marios Constantinides, Matteo Montecchi, et al.. (2022). Depression at Work: Exploring Depression in Major US Companies from Online Reviews. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 6(CSCW2). 1–21. 7 indexed citations

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Hristova, Desislava, Afra Mashhadi, Giovanni Quattrone, & Licia Capra. (2021). Mapping Community Engagement with Urban Crowd-Sourcing. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 6(5). 14–19.

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Sarro, Federica, et al.. (2019). App Store Effects on Software Engineering Practices. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 47(2). 300–319. 55 indexed citations

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Capra, Licia, et al.. (2017). Private Peer Feedback as Engagement Driver in Humanitarian Mapping. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 1(CSCW). 1–18. 6 indexed citations

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Capra, Licia, et al.. (2016). Beyond the Baseline. 425–434. 10 indexed citations

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Saeidi, Marzieh, et al.. (2015). Lower Dimensional Representations of City Neighbourhoods.. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations

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Quattrone, Giovanni, Afra Mashhadi, & Licia Capra. (2014). Mind the map. 934–944. 25 indexed citations

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Quattrone, Giovanni, et al.. (2014). Modelling growth of urban crowd-sourced information. 563–572. 9 indexed citations

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Mashhadi, Afra, Giovanni Quattrone, & Licia Capra. (2013). Putting ubiquitous crowd-sourcing into context. 611–622. 33 indexed citations

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Lathia, Neal & Licia Capra. (2011). Mining mobility data to minimise travellers' spending on public transport. 1181–1189. 39 indexed citations

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Mokhtar, Sonia Ben, Liam McNamara, & Licia Capra. (2009). A middleware service for pervasive social networking. 1–6. 24 indexed citations

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Capra, Licia, et al.. (2008). Social Ranking: Finding Relevant Content in Web 2.0. European Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 6 indexed citations

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Capra, Licia, et al.. (2008). MoSCA. 5–10. 3 indexed citations

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Lathia, Neal, Stephen Hailes, & Licia Capra. (2008). kNN CF. 227–234. 33 indexed citations

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Capra, Licia, Stefanos Zachariadis, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2005). Q-CAD: QoS and Context Aware Discovery framework for adaptive mobile systems. UCL Discovery (University College London). 11 indexed citations

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Capra, Licia, W. Emmerich, & Cecilia Mascolo. (2003). CARISMA: Context-Aware Reflective mIddleware System for Mobile Applications. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 29(10). 929–944. 301 indexed citations

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Zachariadis, Stefanos, et al.. (2003). XMIDDLE: information sharing middleware for a mobile environment. 712–712. 2 indexed citations

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