Salvatore Distefano

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
190 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Salvatore Distefano is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Salvatore Distefano has authored 190 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 39 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 36 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Salvatore Distefano's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (49 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (26 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (25 papers). Salvatore Distefano is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (49 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (26 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (25 papers). Salvatore Distefano collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Russia and United States. Salvatore Distefano's co-authors include Antonio Puliafito, Giovanni Merlino, Francesco Longo, Manuel Mazzara, Muhammad Ahmad, Dario Bruneo, Adil Khan, Marco Scarpa, Rustem Dautov and Sidrah Shabbir and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of The Electrochemical Society and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Salvatore Distefano

180 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

  1. Hyperspectral Image Classification—Traditional to Deep Models: A Survey for Future Prospects
    2021 284 citations Muhammad Ahmad, Sidrah Shabbir et al. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Salvatore Distefano Italy 32 1.2k 774 686 547 381 190 3.2k
Bo Tang United States 29 716 0.6× 252 0.3× 504 0.7× 927 1.7× 530 1.4× 129 3.5k
Paolo Nesi Italy 27 739 0.6× 405 0.5× 833 1.2× 700 1.3× 305 0.8× 240 3.3k
Sheng‐De Wang Taiwan 19 464 0.4× 121 0.2× 293 0.4× 756 1.4× 260 0.7× 126 2.5k
Xiaohui Cui China 27 521 0.4× 291 0.4× 634 0.9× 556 1.0× 218 0.6× 198 3.0k
Peng Li China 23 550 0.4× 378 0.5× 309 0.5× 376 0.7× 724 1.9× 228 2.1k
Pradeep Kumar Singh India 30 1.1k 0.9× 123 0.2× 759 1.1× 597 1.1× 522 1.4× 171 3.3k
Sigeru Omatu Japan 28 295 0.2× 169 0.2× 212 0.3× 716 1.3× 317 0.8× 323 3.3k
Michał Woźniak Poland 29 503 0.4× 177 0.2× 442 0.6× 657 1.2× 641 1.7× 206 4.6k
Celal Öztürk Türkiye 26 1.4k 1.1× 122 0.2× 280 0.4× 631 1.2× 854 2.2× 67 4.8k
Juan J. Rodríguez Spain 25 150 0.1× 213 0.3× 330 0.5× 699 1.3× 281 0.7× 76 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Salvatore Distefano

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Fields of papers citing papers by Salvatore Distefano

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Salvatore Distefano

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Salvatore Distefano. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Salvatore Distefano 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 Salvatore Distefano. Salvatore Distefano 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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Usama, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). EnergyFormer: Energy Attention With Fourier Embedding for Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 22. 1–5.
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Ahmad, Muhammad, Salvatore Distefano, Adil Khan, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive survey for Hyperspectral Image Classification: The evolution from conventional to transformers and Mamba models. Neurocomputing. 644. 130428–130428. 9 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Muhammad, Muhammad Usama, Adil Khan, et al.. (2024). Spatial–Spectral Transformer With Conditional Position Encoding for Hyperspectral Image Classification. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 21. 1–5. 13 indexed citations
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Tartarisco, Gennaro, Alessandro Tonacci, Salvatore Vitabile, et al.. (2023). An intelligent Medical Cyber–Physical System to support heart valve disease screening and diagnosis. Expert Systems with Applications. 238. 121772–121772. 13 indexed citations
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Randazzo, Giovanni, et al.. (2023). An Intelligent Hierarchical Cyber-Physical System for Beach Waste Management: The BIOBLU Case Study. IEEE Access. 11. 134421–134445. 10 indexed citations
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Bonnici, Vincenzo, et al.. (2022). Covid19/IT the digital side of Covid19: A picture from Italy with clustering and taxonomy. PLoS ONE. 17(6). e0269687–e0269687. 4 indexed citations
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Ahmad, Muhammad, Sidrah Shabbir, Swalpa Kumar Roy, et al.. (2021). Hyperspectral Image Classification—Traditional to Deep Models: A Survey for Future Prospects. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 15. 968–999. 284 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ahmad, Muhammad, et al.. (2021). Artifacts of different dimension reduction methods on hybrid CNN feature hierarchy for Hyperspectral Image Classification. Optik. 246. 167757–167757. 31 indexed citations
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Tricomi, Giuseppe, et al.. (2021). A Resilient Fire Protection System for Software-Defined Factories. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 10(4). 3151–3164. 10 indexed citations
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Distefano, Salvatore, et al.. (2020). Internet of Things Network Infrastructure for The Educational Purpose. 1–9. 12 indexed citations
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Dautov, Rustem & Salvatore Distefano. (2020). Stream Processing on Clustered Edge Devices. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 10(2). 885–898. 26 indexed citations
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Dautov, Rustem & Salvatore Distefano. (2019). Automating IoT Data-Intensive Application Allocation in Clustered Edge Computing. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 33(1). 55–69. 15 indexed citations
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Dautov, Rustem, Salvatore Distefano, Dario Bruneo, et al.. (2018). Data agility through clustered edge computing and stream processing. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 33(7). 1–1. 7 indexed citations
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Distefano, Salvatore, Dario Bruneo, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino, & Antonio Puliafito. (2016). Hospitalized Patient Monitoring and Early Treatment Using IoT and Cloud. BioNanoScience. 7(2). 382–385. 13 indexed citations
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Distefano, Salvatore, et al.. (2012). Cloud@Home on Top of RESERVOIR. IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science.
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Distefano, Salvatore, Giovanni Merlino, & Antonio Puliafito. (2012). SAaaS: a framework for volunteer-based sensing Clouds. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 9 indexed citations
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Distefano, Salvatore. (2011). Dynamic Aspects and Behaviors in System Reliability Evaluation. International Journal of Performability Engineering. 7(5). 493. 1 indexed citations
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Distefano, Salvatore, et al.. (2005). Design and Implementation of a Performance Plug-In for the ArgoUML Tool.. 337–342. 8 indexed citations
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Distefano, Salvatore. (2002). Il Palmento di Acremonte. Contributo alla storia dei vini dell'ager Acrensis tra Tardo antico e Medioevo. 35(100). 89–112.
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Gupta, A., et al.. (1982). Photothermal characterization of encapsulant materials for photovoltaic modules. NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). 82. 31774. 2 indexed citations

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