M. Blaha

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 729 citations indexed

About

M. Blaha is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Blaha has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 729 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 10 papers in Information Systems and 6 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in M. Blaha's work include Advanced Database Systems and Queries (12 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (5 papers) and Software Engineering Research (4 papers). M. Blaha is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Database Systems and Queries (12 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (5 papers) and Software Engineering Research (4 papers). M. Blaha collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Italy. M. Blaha's co-authors include William Premerlani, James Rumbaugh, Chris Smith, R. L. Motard, Duccio Rocchini, Michele Torresani, David Kleijn and Piero Zannini and has published in prestigious journals such as Information Sciences, Computer and Computers & Chemical Engineering.

In The Last Decade

M. Blaha

22 papers receiving 582 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Object-Oriented Modelling and Design

1991 542 citations James Rumbaugh, M. Blaha et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. Blaha United States	11	365	337	255	140	100	22	729
Dan Harkey United States	9	424 1.2×	333 1.0×	451 1.8×	83 0.6×	135 1.4×	13	918
Robert Orfali United States	9	432 1.2×	332 1.0×	454 1.8×	84 0.6×	138 1.4×	14	924
Miguel Toro Spain	16	541 1.5×	456 1.4×	222 0.9×	186 1.3×	116 1.2×	73	892
Brad Cox United States	6	328 0.9×	360 1.1×	248 1.0×	144 1.0×	78 0.8×	17	830
Rainer Unland Germany	17	568 1.6×	644 1.9×	475 1.9×	104 0.7×	99 1.0×	96	1.1k
Kendall Scott United States	5	332 0.9×	275 0.8×	131 0.5×	178 1.3×	117 1.2×	8	621
Brian Wilkerson United States	5	446 1.2×	431 1.3×	159 0.6×	231 1.6×	79 0.8×	6	751
Johannes Sametinger Austria	12	422 1.2×	299 0.9×	165 0.6×	156 1.1×	48 0.5×	55	699
Lauren Wiener United States	2	344 0.9×	332 1.0×	128 0.5×	184 1.3×	70 0.7×	5	621
David L. Spooner United States	12	190 0.5×	145 0.4×	166 0.7×	175 1.3×	59 0.6×	65	627

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Blaha

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

All Works

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Torresani, Michele, et al.. (2025). Machine learning for biodiversity: UAV-based flower detection as an indirect proxy for bee abundance. Ecological Informatics. 91. 103346–103346. 1 indexed citations

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Blaha, M.. (2003). An industrial example of database reverse engineering. 196–203. 3 indexed citations

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Blaha, M.. (2002). A retrospective on industrial database reverse engineering projects. 1. 136–146. 14 indexed citations

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Blaha, M., et al.. (2002). Requirements for repository software. 27. 164–173. 4 indexed citations

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Blaha, M.. (2002). A retrospective on industrial database reverse engineering projects - part 2. 147–153. 11 indexed citations

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Blaha, M., et al.. (2002). Teaching database reverse engineering. 79–85. 2 indexed citations

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Blaha, M.. (2002). On reverse engineering of vendor databases. 183–190. 12 indexed citations

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Blaha, M. & Chris Smith. (2002). A pattern for softcoded values. Computer. 35(5). 28–34. 3 indexed citations

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Blaha, M.. (2002). Dimensions of database reverse engineering. 176–183. 11 indexed citations

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Blaha, M., et al.. (2002). Bill-of-material configuration generation. 237–244. 5 indexed citations

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Blaha, M. & William Premerlani. (2002). A catalog of object model transformations. 87–96. 16 indexed citations

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Blaha, M. & William Premerlani. (2002). Observed idiosyncracies of relational database designs. 116–125. 23 indexed citations

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Premerlani, William & M. Blaha. (2002). An approach for reverse engineering of relational databases. 151–160. 17 indexed citations

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Blaha, M.. (2001). Data warehouses and decision support systems. Computer. 34(12). 38–39. 9 indexed citations

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Blaha, M.. (1999). The case for reverse engineering. IT Professional. 1(2). 35–41. 18 indexed citations

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Blaha, M.. (1999). How to recognize database winners and losers. IT Professional. 1(3). 20–25. 2 indexed citations

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Blaha, M., et al.. (1994). Converting OO models into RDBMS schema. IEEE Software. 11(3). 28–39. 21 indexed citations

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Rumbaugh, James, et al.. (1991). Object-Oriented Modelling and Design. 542 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blaha, M., et al.. (1989). A database I/O server with a learning expert system. Information Sciences. 48(1). 53–74. 2 indexed citations

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Blaha, M., et al.. (1989). An extensible AE&C database model. Computers & Chemical Engineering. 13(7). 753–766. 1 indexed citations

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