Philipp Leitner

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Philipp Leitner is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp Leitner has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Information Systems, 78 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 22 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Philipp Leitner's work include Software System Performance and Reliability (57 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (38 papers) and Software Engineering Research (32 papers). Philipp Leitner is often cited by papers focused on Software System Performance and Reliability (57 papers), Cloud Computing and Resource Management (38 papers) and Software Engineering Research (32 papers). Philipp Leitner collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Switzerland and Austria. Philipp Leitner's co-authors include Jürgen Cito, Stefan Schulte, Harald C. Gall, Olena Skarlat, Joel Scheuner, Michael Borkowski, Waldemar Hummer, Gerald Schermann, Schahram Dustdar and Matteo Nardelli and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Computer and IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems.

In The Last Decade

Philipp Leitner

96 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Optimized IoT service placement in the fog 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200 250
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. Optimized IoT service placement in the fog
    2017 253 citations Olena Skarlat, Matteo Nardelli et al. Service Oriented Computing and Applications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Philipp Leitner Sweden 25 1.6k 1.6k 404 355 153 100 2.2k
Elisabetta Di Nitto Italy 27 1.6k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 781 1.9× 222 0.6× 387 2.5× 138 2.5k
Wei‐Tek Tsai China 23 1.1k 0.6× 812 0.5× 352 0.9× 312 0.9× 139 0.9× 85 1.5k
Rami Bahsoon United Kingdom 23 1.1k 0.7× 928 0.6× 558 1.4× 185 0.5× 95 0.6× 135 1.7k
Marin Litoiu Canada 26 1.6k 1.0× 1.7k 1.0× 787 1.9× 195 0.5× 173 1.1× 162 2.3k
Xiaoying Bai China 24 1.3k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 383 0.9× 611 1.7× 174 1.1× 101 1.7k
Fuyuki Ishikawa Japan 20 862 0.5× 646 0.4× 386 1.0× 225 0.6× 133 0.9× 113 1.4k
Henry Muccini Italy 23 993 0.6× 716 0.4× 941 2.3× 754 2.1× 146 1.0× 144 1.9k
Shinichi Honiden Japan 22 914 0.6× 812 0.5× 683 1.7× 179 0.5× 109 0.7× 211 1.7k
Jidong Ge China 21 952 0.6× 824 0.5× 344 0.9× 156 0.4× 91 0.6× 98 1.4k
Yingnong Dang United States 28 1.4k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 915 2.3× 719 2.0× 57 0.4× 58 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Philipp Leitner

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Fields of papers citing papers by Philipp Leitner

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philipp Leitner

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Philipp Leitner. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Philipp Leitner 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 Philipp Leitner. Philipp Leitner 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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Neto, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira, et al.. (2025). The Impact of Prompt Programming on Function-Level Code Generation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 51(8). 2381–2395. 2 indexed citations
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Hebig, Regina, et al.. (2024). The Roles, Responsibilities, and Skills of Engineers in the Era of Microservices-Based Architectures. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 13–23.
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Neto, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Compiler Warnings on Code Quality in C++ Projects. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 270–279.
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Zhang, Huaifeng, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning Systems are Bloated and Vulnerable. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems. 8(1). 1–30. 1 indexed citations
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Neto, Francisco Gomes de Oliveira, et al.. (2024). From Human-to-Human to Human-to-Bot Conversations in Software Engineering. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 38–44.
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Zhang, Huaifeng, et al.. (2024). Machine Learning Systems are Bloated and Vulnerable. Chalmers Research (Chalmers University of Technology). 37–38. 2 indexed citations
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Leitner, Philipp, et al.. (2024). Beyond Code Generation: An Observational Study of ChatGPT Usage in Software Engineering Practice. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 1(FSE). 1819–1840. 25 indexed citations
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Leitner, Philipp, et al.. (2022). Automated Generation and Evaluation of JMH Microbenchmark Suites From Unit Tests. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49(4). 1704–1725. 7 indexed citations
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Leitner, Philipp, et al.. (2022). Using Microbenchmark Suites to Detect Application Performance Changes. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 11(3). 2575–2590. 6 indexed citations
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Leitner, Philipp, et al.. (2021). Using application benchmark call graphs to quantify and improve the practical relevance of microbenchmark suites. PeerJ Computer Science. 7. e548–e548. 5 indexed citations
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Gall, Harald C., et al.. (2021). Applying test case prioritization to software microbenchmarks. Empirical Software Engineering. 26(6). 133–133. 9 indexed citations
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Gall, Harald C., et al.. (2020). Dynamically reconfiguring software microbenchmarks: reducing execution time without sacrificing result quality. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 989–1001. 19 indexed citations
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Costa, Diego Elias, Cor‐Paul Bezemer, Philipp Leitner, & Artur Andrzejak. (2019). What's Wrong with My Benchmark Results? Studying Bad Practices in JMH Benchmarks. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 47(7). 1452–1467. 29 indexed citations
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Zdun, Uwe, Erik Wittern, & Philipp Leitner. (2019). Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Experiences in DevOps and Microservice APIs. IEEE Software. 37(1). 87–91. 17 indexed citations
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Scheuner, Joel, et al.. (2019). Software microbenchmarking in the cloud. How bad is it really?. Empirical Software Engineering. 24(4). 2469–2508. 38 indexed citations
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Varghese, Blesson, Philipp Leitner, Suprio Ray, et al.. (2019). Cloud Futurology. Computer. 52(9). 68–77. 22 indexed citations
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Skarlat, Olena, Matteo Nardelli, Stefan Schulte, Michael Borkowski, & Philipp Leitner. (2017). Optimized IoT service placement in the fog. Service Oriented Computing and Applications. 11(4). 427–443. 253 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vassallo, Carmine, Gerald Schermann, Fiorella Zampetti, et al.. (2017). A Tale of CI Build Failures: An Open Source and a Financial Organization Perspective. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 183–193. 60 indexed citations
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Cito, Jürgen, et al.. (2017). Extraction of Microservices from Monolithic Software Architectures. 524–531. 153 indexed citations
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Marin, Ricardo, et al.. (2006). A Distributed Policy Based Solution in a Fault Management Scenario. Global Communications Conference. 1 indexed citations

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