OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Systems and Software is 32. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Code smells and refactoring: A tertiary systematic review of challenges and observations	94
A systematic literature review of blockchain and smart contract development: Techniques, tools, and open challenges	91
On testing machine learning programs	79
iFogSim2: An extended iFogSim simulator for mobility, clustering, and microservice management in edge and fog computing environments	76
A Systematic Mapping Study on Microservices Architecture in DevOps	75
Requirements engineering challenges and practices in large-scale agile system development	70
A software engineering perspective on engineering machine learning systems: State of the art and challenges	70
Exploring the intersection between software industry and Software Engineering education - A systematic mapping of Software Engineering Trends	67
A systematic literature review on Technical Debt prioritization: Strategies, processes, factors, and tools	64
Work-from-home is here to stay: Call for flexibility in post-pandemic work policies	57
Understanding coordination in global software engineering: A mixed-methods study on the use of meetings and Slack	56
Function-as-a-Service performance evaluation: A multivocal literature review	55
QMM-VANET: An efficient clustering algorithm based on QoS and monitoring of malicious vehicles in vehicular ad hoc networks	50
A large empirical assessment of the role of data balancing in machine-learning-based code smell detection	47
Design, monitoring, and testing of microservices systems: The practitioners’ perspective	46
Software defect prediction based on enhanced metaheuristic feature selection optimization and a hybrid deep neural network	46
A ground-truth dataset and classification model for detecting bots in GitHub issue and PR comments	45
General framework, opportunities and challenges for crowdsourcing techniques: A Comprehensive survey	45
Code smell detection by deep direct-learning and transfer-learning	44
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering—enhancement of the study selection process using Cohen’s Kappa statistic	43
Interpretability application of the Just-in-Time software defect prediction model	41
Software-testing education: A systematic literature mapping	40
Changes in perceived productivity of software engineers during COVID-19 pandemic: The voice of evidence	39
Toward a catalog of software quality metrics for infrastructure code	39
The role of the project manager in agile software development projects	37

A novel Security-by-Design methodology: Modeling and assessing security by SLAs with a quantitative approach	36
A critical review on the evaluation of automated program repair systems	35
ThermoSim: Deep learning based framework for modeling and simulation of thermal-aware resource management for cloud computing environments	35
HUNTER: AI based holistic resource management for sustainable cloud computing	33
Bug severity prediction using question-and-answer pairs from Stack Overflow	33
Concepts of variation control systems	32
When to update systematic literature reviews in software engineering	32
Cost-efficient dynamic scheduling of big data applications in apache spark on cloud	32
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	32