noWorkflow: a Tool for Collecting, Analyzing, and Managing Provenance from Python Scripts

Summary: noWorkflow systematically collects provenance from Python scripts, including execution data and script evolution. Open-source provenance management enables reproducibility and analysis of computational experiments for research workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11466
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 8.7561396e-05
Overall Rank: 2,463 | 82.87%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 10 of 10 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,482	Automating Large-Scale Data Quality Verification	2018	VLDB	0.00011725533
2,456	Production Machine Learning Pipelines: Empirical Analysis and Optimization Opportunities	2021	SIGMOD	8.7733773e-05
5,086	Improving Reproducibility of Data Science Pipelines through Transparent Provenance Capture	2020	VLDB	5.7078462e-05
5,288	Bolt-on, Compact, and Rapid Program Slicing for Notebooks	2022	VLDB	5.5836876e-05
6,291	Lightweight Inspection of Data Preprocessing in Native Machine Learning Pipelines	2021	CIDR	5.1269764e-05
7,482	Provenance-Enabled Explainable AI	2024	SIGMOD	4.7180617e-05
8,163	Capturing and Querying Fine-grained Provenance of Preprocessing Pipelines in Data Science	2021	VLDB	4.5723431e-05
9,912	ElasticNotebook: Enabling Live Migration for Computational Notebooks	2024	VLDB	4.2565279e-05
10,820	APEX-DAG: Library and Language independent Pipeline EXtraction	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,743	DfAnalyzer: Runtime Dataflow Analysis of Scientific Applications using Provenance	2018	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,933	Querying and Re-Using Workflows with VisTrails	2008	SIGMOD	4.427232e-05

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