OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Systems and Software is 40. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	288
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	212
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	208
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	173
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	148
Novel framework for automated testing of ill-defined human–robot interaction environments	119
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	103
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	92
Integrating pair programming as a work practice	89
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	85
Editorial Board	76
Domain-specific conflict resolution and model merge	76
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	76
Experimental investigation of memory-related software aging in LLM systems	76
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	75
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	73
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	69
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	66
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	65
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	62
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	60
Dear Researchers: Think about the future, for sure, but please don't forget about the present – the Odense Manifesto for academia–industry collaboration at ICSA 2025	56
On measuring coupling between microservices	52
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	51
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	51

Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	50
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	49
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	48
Automatically recognizing the semantic elements from UML class diagram images	46
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	46
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	45
Reproducibility of issues reported in stack overflow questions: Challenges, impact & estimation	45
Managing security issues in software containers: From practitioners’ perspective	45
Maximizing integrative learning in software development teams: A systematic review of key drivers and future research agenda	44
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	43
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	42
Conformance assessment of Architectural Design Decisions on API endpoint designs derived from domain models	41
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	40
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users	40
Diverse title generation for Stack Overflow posts with multiple-sampling-enhanced transformer	40