OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering is 51. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering	642
Computation Tree Logic Guided Program Repair	444
Confirmation Bias and Time Pressure: A Family of Experiments in Software Testing	323
Shield Broken: Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on LLM-Based Vulnerability Detectors	152
Towards Scalable Model Checking of Reflective Systems via Labeled Transition Systems	150
Can We Trust the Phone Vendors? Comprehensive Security Measurements on the Android Firmware Ecosystem	144
Prevent: An Unsupervised Approach to Predict Software Failures in Production	143
Just-in-Time Prediction of Software Architectural Changes Through Commit-Level Analyses	143
The Why, When, What, and How About Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation	125
A Retrospective on Whole Test Suite Generation: On the Role of SBST in the Age of LLMs	120
Deobfuscation of Control Flow Flattening Based on Abstract Interpretation	117
Do as You Say: Consistency Detection of Data Practice in Program Code and Privacy Policy in Mini-App	109
How Composite Metamorphic Relations Enhance Test Effectiveness of DNN Testing: An Empirical Study	102
Visibility of Domain Elements in the Elicitation Process Interviews: A Family of Empirical Studies	102
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue	95
Efficiently Testing Distributed Systems via Abstract State Space Prioritization	92
Question Selection for Multimodal Code Search Synthesis Using Probabilistic Version Spaces	90
Tackling Expressive Feature-Modeling Constructs with Pseudo-Boolean d-DNNF Compilation	88
MalElves: Reinforcement Learning-Driven Adversarial Example Generation for Evading Cross-Platform ELF Malware Detection	87
LHGLink: LLM—Enhanced Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Issue–Issue Link Prediction	86
DPSSX: Detecting and Preventing SQLi and Stored XSS Induced by Expressions in Web Application SQL Statements via Static-Dynamic Analysis	85
Influence of the 1990 IEEE TSE Paper “Automated Software Test Data Generation” on Software Engineering	84
To Do or Not to Do: Semantics and Patterns for Do Activities in UML PSSM State Machines	83
Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates	82
Enhancing Blockchain Robustness through Efficient Feedback-Driven Chaos Engineering	78

Spotting Setting-Related UI Display Bugs in Android Apps	78
A Declarative Metamorphic Testing Framework for Autonomous Driving	76
RPHunter: Unveiling Rug Pull Schemes in Crypto Token via Code-and-Transaction Fusion Analysis	75
DSSDPP: Data Selection and Sampling Based Domain Programming Predictor for Cross-Project Defect Prediction	72
Enhancing Protocol Fuzzing via Diverse Seed Corpus Generation	71
Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers Through Adversarial Sampling	70
Advanced Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems	69
Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps	67
Enhancing Project-Specific Code Completion by Inferring Internal API Information	66
Mission Specification Patterns for Mobile Robots: Providing Support for Quantitative Properties	61
Combining Genetic Programming and Model Checking to Generate Environment Assumptions	61
Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes	60
2023 Reviewers List	59
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering	59
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure	58
Detecting Malicious Packages in PyPI and NPM by Clustering Installation Scripts	58
Mole: Efficient Crash Reproduction in Android Applications With Enforcing Necessary UI Events	58
An Empirical Study of Refactoring Rhythms and Tactics in the Software Development Process	57
Boosting Compiler Fault Localization: Getting the Best of Both Worlds by Fusing Dynamic and Historical Data	57
A Theory of Pending Schemas in Combinatorial Testing	57
An Empirical Study of Software Refactorings in Real-World Open-Source Java Projects	55
δ-SCALPEL: Docker Image Slimming Based on Source Code Static Analysis	53
Efficient State Identification for Finite State Machine-Based Testing	53
Towards Automated Discovery of Asymmetric Mempool DoS in Blockchains	52
Measuring the Fidelity of a Physical and a Digital Twin Using Trace Alignments	52
GenMorph: Automatically Generating Metamorphic Relations via Genetic Programming	51
Esale: Enhancing Code-Summary Alignment Learning for Source Code Summarization	51