University of Bologna researcher bridging AI and law: legal reasoning, multi-agent systems, and EU AI Act governance
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works · OpenAlex
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h-index · OpenAlex
Bibliometric figures come from OpenAlex (2026-10-16) and cover the author's entire public record, not just the papers listed here. Reproducibility signal comes from Evolve's own reviews.
Research profile
Output—
No output score has been computed yet. This axis would measure publication volume and productivity; the underlying data is not yet sufficient in this snapshot, so only the provided raw counts (38 works in the last three years) should be cited.
Impact—
No impact score has been computed yet. This axis would measure citation-based influence; the snapshot reports summary figures (h-index 30, i10-index 64) but not the per-paper citation detail a score requires, so none is estimated.
Focus0/100
The focus score of 0 reflects unusual breadth: the reviewed papers split evenly (50/50) between legal-AI NLP and AI-governance work, and the topic profile spans five clusters — Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (183), Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (154), Artificial Intelligence in Law (82), Access Control and Trust (51), and AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (40). Recent output moves between retrieval-augmented legal reasoning and EU AI Act regulation.
Collaboration56/100
Collaboration scores 56 on a base of 16 distinct coauthors in the snapshot. Twelve names recur most often — Qingjing Chen, Junkai Zhang, Shaochun Wang, Jiahao Ding, Siyuan Zheng, Yukun Yan, Zhi Zheng, Yun Liu, Weixing Shen, Alessio Buscemi, Tom Deckenbrunnen, and Imane Hmiddou — suggesting two active circles of partners. On the reviewed papers he is a middle author on LEGO and last author on MARLA.
Activity100/100
Activity is the standout axis at 100: the record shows works in every year from 1996 through 2026, with 38 works in the last three years and 21 works in 2025 — the highest single-year figure in the snapshot. The 2020s pace (2023: 11; 2024: 9; 2025: 21; 2026: 8 so far) matches or exceeds the mid-2000s peak years.
Reproducibility38/100
Reproducibility averages 38 across the 2 papers Evolve has assessed: LEGO, an expert-GraphRAG plus chain-of-thought approach to legal reasoning, is rated medium readiness, while MARLA, a conceptual regulatory-learning scaffold, is rated low because it is empirically unvalidated. Two papers is a thin base, so this score describes the reviewed slice rather than the whole record.
Research summary
Antonino Rotolo is a University of Bologna (Italy) researcher whose record, name-resolved from OpenAlex public bibliographic data, sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence and law. The snapshot reports an h-index of 30 and an i10-index of 64, with works recorded every year from 1996 to 2026, 38 works in the last three years, and a single-year peak of 21 in 2025. The topical profile is broad: Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (183) and Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (154) lead, followed by Artificial Intelligence in Law (82), Access Control and Trust (51), and AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (40). Recent cataloged work splits evenly between two fields: legal-AI natural language processing and AI governance under the EU AI Act. In the 2026 LEGO paper he contributes to an expert-GraphRAG plus chain-of-thought approach for Chinese civil-law reasoning, which Evolve credits with strong same-backbone retrieval gains while flagging statistically unsupported parity claims; the 2026 MARLA paper, where he is last author, proposes a five-stage regulatory-learning cycle judged well-grounded but empirically unvalidated. Reproducibility readiness is rated medium for LEGO and low for MARLA, averaging 38 across the two assessed papers.
Collaboration pattern
The snapshot lists 16 distinct coauthors with a collaboration score of 56. Twelve names recur most often — Qingjing Chen, Junkai Zhang, Shaochun Wang, Jiahao Ding, Siyuan Zheng, Yukun Yan, Zhi Zheng, Yun Liu, Weixing Shen, Alessio Buscemi, Tom Deckenbrunnen, and Imane Hmiddou — suggesting two active circles of partners. On the reviewed papers Rotolo appears as a middle author on LEGO and last author on MARLA, a senior-contributor pattern on team-written work.
Research keywords
Highlights
Expert GraphRAG with syllogistic chain-of-thought for Chinese civil-law reasoning
MARLA: a five-stage scaffold for regulatory learning under the EU AI Act
Timeline
- 1996Earliest works appear in the resolved record, with 1 work recorded that year.
- 2007Peak of the mid-2000s run: 20 works recorded in a single year.
- 2013Another high-output year, with 18 works recorded.
- 2025Highest annual figure in the whole record: 21 works.
- 2026Two Evolve-reviewed papers — LEGO (legal reasoning) and MARLA (AI governance) — mark the current legal-AI and regulation phase.
Papers in the Evolve catalog
Frequent co-authors
About this profile
This profile is AI-structured by Evolve.Pub from public bibliographic data (OpenAlex) and Evolve's own paper reviews. It is not written or endorsed by the researcher unless the profile is claimed. Radar dimensions are computed from real bibliometrics with fixed formulas — raw figures are shown alongside; missing dimensions mean insufficient data, never zero. Errors? Claim the profile to correct or hide it.
- Bibliometric identity is name-resolved from OpenAlex public data; figures reflect the resolved profile, not a manually verified publication list.
- Output and impact radar scores are not computed; only raw indicators (h-index 30, i10-index 64, per-year works counts) are available.
- Reproducibility rests on only 2 papers assessed by Evolve (reproMean 38), a thin slice of the full record.
- Annual counts (1996–2026) come from the resolved profile and may include name-variant attributions.