OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Systems and Software is 35. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	164
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	140
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	140
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	103
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	95
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	92
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	76
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	76
Editorial Board	74
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	72
Editorial Board	65
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	62
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	59
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	58
Why do builds fail?—A conceptual replication study	58
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	57
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	55
Introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2018	53
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	48
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	47
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	46
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	45
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	45
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	45
Machine learning based success prediction for crowdsourcing software projects	44

The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	43
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	40
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	39
On measuring coupling between microservices	39
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	38
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	37
Exploring the use of static and dynamic analysis to improve the performance of the mining sandbox approach for android malware identification	36
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	35
A speech-enabled virtual assistant for efficient human–robot interaction in industrial environments	35
Investigating the performance of personalized models for software defect prediction	35
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	35
DLAP: A Deep Learning Augmented Large Language Model Prompting framework for software vulnerability detection	35