Rocco Oliveto

13.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
219 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Rocco Oliveto is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Rocco Oliveto has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 185 papers in Information Systems, 106 papers in Software and 45 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Rocco Oliveto's work include Software Engineering Research (176 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (86 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (47 papers). Rocco Oliveto is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (176 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (86 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (47 papers). Rocco Oliveto collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Switzerland. Rocco Oliveto's co-authors include Andrea De Lucia, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Denys Poshyvanyk, Fabio Palomba, Annibale Panichella, Mario Linares‐Vásquez, Fausto Fasano, Genoveffa Tortora and Simone Scalabrino and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Rocco Oliveto

211 papers receiving 9.4k citations

Hit Papers

On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of c... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rocco Oliveto Italy 61 8.6k 5.0k 2.1k 1.9k 1.7k 219 9.7k
Gabriele Bavota Italy 54 7.1k 0.8× 3.9k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 1.8k 1.0× 1.5k 0.9× 193 8.1k
Denys Poshyvanyk United States 63 9.4k 1.1× 5.2k 1.1× 2.7k 1.3× 2.5k 1.3× 2.0k 1.2× 203 10.5k
Nachiappan Nagappan United States 48 8.6k 1.0× 5.2k 1.1× 3.6k 1.7× 1.5k 0.8× 782 0.5× 166 10.5k
Massimiliano Di Penta Italy 64 11.8k 1.4× 5.8k 1.2× 3.6k 1.7× 3.4k 1.8× 2.2k 1.3× 342 13.4k
Harald C. Gall Switzerland 46 7.6k 0.9× 3.8k 0.8× 2.8k 1.3× 2.6k 1.4× 786 0.5× 249 8.9k
Andreas Zeller Germany 55 10.1k 1.2× 9.4k 1.9× 3.6k 1.7× 1.9k 1.0× 2.2k 1.3× 234 12.5k
Bram Adams Canada 47 5.6k 0.6× 2.8k 0.6× 2.3k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 755 0.4× 224 6.6k
Gerardo Canfora Italy 51 7.1k 0.8× 2.9k 0.6× 2.8k 1.3× 2.6k 1.4× 1.3k 0.7× 261 8.4k
Prémkumar Dévanbu United States 53 8.0k 0.9× 4.0k 0.8× 2.4k 1.1× 2.8k 1.5× 1.2k 0.7× 192 9.6k
Tao Xie United States 57 7.8k 0.9× 5.8k 1.2× 4.1k 1.9× 2.7k 1.4× 2.1k 1.2× 381 11.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Rocco Oliveto

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rocco Oliveto

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Rocco Oliveto. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Rocco Oliveto 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 Rocco Oliveto. Rocco Oliveto 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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Scalabrino, Simone, et al.. (2025). Why and how developers maintain smart contracts. Empirical Software Engineering. 30(3).
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Scalabrino, Simone, et al.. (2023). An Empirical Study on the Effectiveness of Privacy Indicators. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49(10). 4610–4623.
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Mastropaolo, Antonio, et al.. (2022). Using Transfer Learning for Code-Related Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49(4). 1580–1598. 46 indexed citations
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Scalabrino, Simone, et al.. (2020). MIPHAS: Military Performances and Health Analysis System. 198–207.
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Palomba, Fabio, Damian A. Tamburri, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, et al.. (2018). Beyond Technical Aspects: How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells?. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 47(1). 108–129. 85 indexed citations
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Palomba, Fabio, Annibale Panichella, Andy Zaidman, Rocco Oliveto, & Andrea De Lucia. (2018). [Journal First] The Scent of a Smell: An Extensive Comparison Between Textual and Structural Smells. International Conference on Software Engineering. 2 indexed citations
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Palomba, Fabio, Damian A. Tamburri, Alexander Serebrenik, et al.. (2018). Poster: How Do Community Smells Influence Code Smells?. International Conference on Software Engineering. 2 indexed citations
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Palomba, Fabio, Marco Zanoni, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Andrea De Lucia, & Rocco Oliveto. (2017). Toward a Smell-Aware Bug Prediction Model. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 45(2). 194–218. 79 indexed citations
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Scalabrino, Simone, Gabriele Bavota, Christopher Vendome, et al.. (2017). Automatically assessing code understandability: How far are we?. 417–427. 67 indexed citations
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Palomba, Fabio, Andy Zaidman, Rocco Oliveto, & Andrea De Lucia. (2017). An Exploratory Study on the Relationship between Changes and Refactoring. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 176–185. 66 indexed citations
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Lucia, Andrea De, Christian Bird, & Rocco Oliveto. (2015). Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Program Comprehension. International Conference on Software Engineering. 22 indexed citations
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Palomba, Fabio, Dario Di Nucci, Michele Tufano, et al.. (2015). Landfill: an open dataset of code smells with public evaluation. 482–485. 31 indexed citations
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Moreno, Laura, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, & Andrian Marcus. (2015). How Can I Use This Method?. View. 71 indexed citations
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Bavota, Gabriele, et al.. (2013). Using code ownership to improve IR-based Traceability Link Recovery. View. 123–132. 27 indexed citations
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Bavota, Gabriele, Andrea De Lucia, Andrian Marcus, Rocco Oliveto, & Fabio Palomba. (2012). Supporting extract class refactoring in eclipse: the ARIES project. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1419–1422. 17 indexed citations
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Lucia, Andrea De, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rocco Oliveto, & Annibale Panichella. (2012). On the role of diversity measures for multi-objective test case selection. 145–151. 14 indexed citations
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Oliveto, Rocco, Malcom Gethers, Gabriele Bavota, Denys Poshyvanyk, & Andrea De Lucia. (2011). Identifying method friendships to remove the feature envy bad smell.. International Conference on Software Engineering. 820–823. 13 indexed citations
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Lucia, Andrea De, et al.. (2006). Incremental Approach and User Feedbacks: a Silver Bullet for Traceability Recovery. 299–309. 65 indexed citations
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Lucia, Andrea De, et al.. (2006). Improving Comprehensibility of Source Code via Traceability Information. 317–326. 1 indexed citations

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