Luca Guarnera

763 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 307 citations indexed

About

Luca Guarnera is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Guarnera has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 307 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Luca Guarnera's work include Digital Media Forensic Detection (8 papers), Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (7 papers) and Advanced Image Processing Techniques (3 papers). Luca Guarnera is often cited by papers focused on Digital Media Forensic Detection (8 papers), Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis (7 papers) and Advanced Image Processing Techniques (3 papers). Luca Guarnera collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Germany. Luca Guarnera's co-authors include Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Pasquale Caponnetto, A. Paratore, Antonella Agodi, Roberta Magnano San Lio, Alessandro Ortis, Giuliana Favara, Giovanni Maria Farinella and Matthias Niesner and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Nutrients and Applied Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luca Guarnera

15 papers receiving 289 citations

Hit Papers

AI Chatbots for Mental Health: A Scoping Review of Effect... 2024 2026 2025 2024 10 20 30
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. AI Chatbots for Mental Health: A Scoping Review of Effectiveness, Feasibility, and Applications
    2024 33 citations Sebastiano Battiato, Luca Guarnera et al. Applied Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luca Guarnera Italy 9 199 78 29 16 15 18 307
Roma Patel United States 9 176 0.9× 208 2.7× 13 0.4× 6 0.4× 15 1.0× 19 375
Ana Paula Cláudio Portugal 9 56 0.3× 31 0.4× 29 1.0× 4 0.3× 26 1.7× 53 242
Rami Albatal Ireland 7 92 0.5× 40 0.5× 27 0.9× 3 0.2× 13 0.9× 19 170
Alina Trifan Portugal 8 52 0.3× 62 0.8× 63 2.2× 47 2.9× 25 1.7× 27 265
Benjamin Guthier Germany 12 215 1.1× 54 0.7× 15 0.5× 26 1.6× 29 1.9× 43 336
Suah Kim South Korea 10 262 1.3× 19 0.2× 4 0.1× 10 0.6× 25 1.7× 22 403
Jinyeong Yim South Korea 6 55 0.3× 86 1.1× 35 1.2× 38 2.4× 5 0.3× 9 224
Faisal Alquaddoomi United States 6 36 0.2× 15 0.2× 55 1.9× 29 1.8× 26 1.7× 10 191
Kimmo Kärkkäinen United States 5 152 0.8× 133 1.7× 3 0.1× 18 1.1× 20 1.3× 10 311
Isabelle Guyon France 8 66 0.3× 73 0.9× 5 0.2× 61 3.8× 8 0.5× 12 260

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Guarnera

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luca Guarnera

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Guarnera

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Guarnera, Luca, et al.. (2025). Cloud Detection Challenge-Methods and Results. IEEE Access. 13. 53394–53406.
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Battiato, Sebastiano, et al.. (2024). AI Chatbots for Mental Health: A Scoping Review of Effectiveness, Feasibility, and Applications. Applied Sciences. 14(13). 5889–5889. 33 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guarnera, Luca, et al.. (2024). GenAI mirage: The impostor bias and the deepfake detection challenge in the era of artificial illusions. Forensic Science International Digital Investigation. 50. 301795–301795. 8 indexed citations
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Guarnera, Luca, Oliver Giudice, & Sebastiano Battiato. (2024). Mastering Deepfake Detection: A Cutting-edge Approach to Distinguish GAN and Diffusion-model Images. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications. 20(11). 1–24. 25 indexed citations
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Guarnera, Luca, et al.. (2024). MITS-GAN: Safeguarding medical imaging from tampering with generative adversarial networks. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 183. 109248–109248. 4 indexed citations
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Maugeri, Andrea, Roberta Magnano San Lio, Giuliana Favara, et al.. (2022). Impact of Eating Context on Dietary Choices of College Students: Evidence from the HEALTHY-UNICT Project. Nutrients. 14(20). 4418–4418. 7 indexed citations
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Guarnera, Luca, Oliver Giudice, Alessandro Ortis, et al.. (2022). The Face Deepfake Detection Challenge. Journal of Imaging. 8(10). 263–263. 34 indexed citations
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Guarnera, Luca, et al.. (2022). Assessing forensic ballistics three-dimensionally through graphical reconstruction and immersive VR observation. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 82(13). 20655–20681. 5 indexed citations
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Barchitta, Martina, Andrea Maugeri, Giuliana Favara, et al.. (2022). Development of a Web-App for the Ecological Momentary Assessment of Dietary Habits among College Students: The HEALTHY-UNICT Project. Nutrients. 14(2). 330–330. 17 indexed citations
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Guarnera, Luca, Oliver Giudice, Matthias Niesner, & Sebastiano Battiato. (2022). On the Exploitation of Deepfake Model Recognition. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). 61–70. 10 indexed citations
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Giudice, Oliver, Luca Guarnera, & Sebastiano Battiato. (2021). Fighting Deepfakes by Detecting GAN DCT Anomalies. Journal of Imaging. 7(8). 128–128. 64 indexed citations
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Guarnera, Luca, Oliver Giudice, & Sebastiano Battiato. (2020). Fighting Deepfake by Exposing the Convolutional Traces on Images. IEEE Access. 8. 165085–165098. 80 indexed citations
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Giudice, Oliver, Luca Guarnera, A. Paratore, Giovanni Maria Farinella, & Sebastiano Battiato. (2019). Siamese Ballistics Neural Network. 99. 4045–4049. 7 indexed citations
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Guarnera, Luca, et al.. (2018). Localization of Visitors for Cultural Sites Management. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 573–579. 3 indexed citations
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Guarnera, Luca, et al.. (2018). Forensic analysis of handwritten documents with GRAPHJ. Journal of Electronic Imaging. 27(5). 1–1. 8 indexed citations

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