OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Systems and Software is 37. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	266
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	188
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	185
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	147
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	130
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	98
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	92
Editorial Board	81
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	71
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	70
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	70
Novel framework for automated testing of ill-defined human–robot interaction environments	69
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	68
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	67
On measuring coupling between microservices	66
Experimental investigation of memory-related software aging in LLM systems	66
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	65
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	64
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	63
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	63
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	57
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	54
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	52
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	49
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	48

Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	48
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	46
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	45
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	45
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	45
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	44
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	42
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	40
VeriFix: Verifying your fix towards an atomicity violation	40
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	39
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	39
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	37
Managing security issues in software containers: From practitioners’ perspective	37
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	37
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	37