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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
50 Years of Transactions on Software Engineering	489
Prevent: An Unsupervised Approach to Predict Software Failures in Production	446
Confirmation Bias and Time Pressure: A Family of Experiments in Software Testing	331
To Do or Not to Do: Semantics and Patterns for Do Activities in UML PSSM State Machines	217
What Leads to a Confirmatory or Disconfirmatory Behavior of Software Testers?	167
Just-in-Time Prediction of Software Architectural Changes Through Commit-Level Analyses	152
The Why, When, What, and How About Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation	137
Recommending API Function Calls and Code Snippets to Support Software Development	114
A Retrospective on Whole Test Suite Generation: On the Role of SBST in the Age of LLMs	110
Enhancing Project-Specific Code Completion by Inferring Internal API Information	109
Automatic Fairness Testing of Neural Classifiers Through Adversarial Sampling	107
Computation Tree Logic Guided Program Repair	103
Enhancing Protocol Fuzzing via Diverse Seed Corpus Generation	100
Review Dynamics and Their Impact on Software Quality	100
Question Selection for Multimodal Code Search Synthesis Using Probabilistic Version Spaces	98
Influence of the 1990 IEEE TSE Paper “Automated Software Test Data Generation” on Software Engineering	92
Do as You Say: Consistency Detection of Data Practice in Program Code and Privacy Policy in Mini-App	92
Grammar Based Directed Testing of Machine Learning Systems	88
Are Your Dependencies Code Reviewed?: Measuring Code Review Coverage in Dependency Updates	86
Theoretical and Empirical Analyses of the Effectiveness of Metamorphic Relation Composition	79
DSSDPP: Data Selection and Sampling Based Domain Programming Predictor for Cross-Project Defect Prediction	79
Combining Genetic Programming and Model Checking to Generate Environment Assumptions	77
Towards Scalable Model Checking of Reflective Systems via Labeled Transition Systems	74
Mission Specification Patterns for Mobile Robots: Providing Support for Quantitative Properties	72
Efficiently Testing Distributed Systems via Abstract State Space Prioritization	67

Enhancing Mobile App Bug Reporting via Real-Time Understanding of Reproduction Steps	66
A Declarative Metamorphic Testing Framework for Autonomous Driving	65
Advanced Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection via LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems	65
Answering Uncertain, Under-Specified API Queries Assisted by Knowledge-Aware Human-AI Dialogue	64
Multi-Granularity Detector for Vulnerability Fixes	62
2023 Reviewers List	61
Socio-Technical Grounded Theory for Software Engineering	61
Multimodal Fusion for Android Malware Detection Based on Large Pre-Trained Models	61
Can We Trust the Phone Vendors? Comprehensive Security Measurements on the Android Firmware Ecosystem	61
An Empirical Study of Software Refactorings in Real-World Open-Source Java Projects	60
Mask–Mediator–Wrapper Architecture as a Data Mesh Driver	58
Mole: Efficient Crash Reproduction in Android Applications With Enforcing Necessary UI Events	58
T-Evos: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on CI Test Execution and Failure	57
Towards a Cognitive Model of Dynamic Debugging: Does Identifier Construction Matter?	57
A Theory of Pending Schemas in Combinatorial Testing	57
Multi-Objective Software Defect Prediction via Multi-Source Uncertain Information Fusion and Multi-Task Multi-View Learning	56
Detecting Malicious Packages in PyPI and npm by Clustering Installation Scripts	54
Efficient state identification for finite state machine-based testing	54
Mutation Testing in Practice: Insights From Open-Source Software Developers	54
PerfJIT: Test-Level Just-in-Time Prediction for Performance Regression Introducing Commits	53
Measuring the Fidelity of a Physical and a Digital Twin Using Trace Alignments	53
Neural Library Recommendation by Embedding Project-Library Knowledge Graph	53
Robust Test Selection for Deep Neural Networks	53
An Empirical Study of Refactoring Rhythms and Tactics in the Software Development Process	52
Trace Diagnostics for Signal-Based Temporal Properties	51
Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Methods Tools for Railway Signaling System Design	51