OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Systems and Software is 38. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	230
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	169
Editorial Board	165
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	125
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	123
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	109
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	109
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	91
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	89
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	77
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	76
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	72
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	67
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	66
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	65
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	63
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	62
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	60
Editorial Board	59
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	57
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	57
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	56
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	55
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	54
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	54

Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	54
On measuring coupling between microservices	51
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	50
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	49
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	47
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	46
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	45
Code search engines for the next generation	42
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	40
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	40
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	39
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	39
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	38