OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineerin is 2. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Graph-Based Root Cause Localization in Microservice Systems with Protection Mechanisms	29
An Efficient Sorting Algorithm for Non-Volatile Memory	27
Recommending Relevant Tutorial Fragments for API-Related Natural Language Questions	13
An Optimal WSN Coverage Based on Adapted Transit Search Algorithm	12
Personalized API Recommendations	11
Software Quality Assessment Model: A New Approach for Software Testing Tools	10
OdegVul: An Approach for Statement-Level Defect Prediction	10
Model-Driven Approach for Making Citizen Science Data FAIR	9
Automated Test Case Generation for Path Coverage by Using Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with Reinforcement Learning and Relationship Matrix Strategies	9
A Fully Parallel Approach of Model Checking Via Probe Machine	8
Using Peer Assessment Leveraging Large Language Models in Software Engineering Education	8
Credit Card Fraud Detection Algorithm Based on a Stacked Ensemble Model	7
Forecasting Stock Index Using a Volume-Aware Positional Attention-Based Recurrent Neural Network	7
Multi-Energy Complementary Scheduling Based on Interval Many-Objective Optimization of Power Grid for Sustainable Cloud Computing Center	7
MOID: Many-to-One Patent Graph Embedding Base Infringement Detection Model	6
Selecting Third-Party Libraries: The Web Developers’ Perspective	6
Deep Tasks Summarization for Comprehending Mixed Tasks in a Commit	6
A Combined Usage of NLP Libraries Towards Analyzing Software Documents	6
A Hierarchical Feature Ensemble Deep Learning Approach for Software Defect Prediction	6
Flaky Test Detection Based on Adaptive Latest Position Execution for Concurrent Android Applications	6
Specifying Requirements for Modern Software Development: A Test-Oriented Methodology	5
A Novel Method for Identifying Microservices by Considering Quality Expectations and Deployment Constraints	5
A Model-Based Evaluation Metric for Question Answering Systems	5
Toward Pointer-Analysis-Based Vulnerability Discovery in Human–Machine Pair Programming	5
Modeling Structural Features with Structure Position-aware Attention for Code Summarization	4

MalRGBDet: Windows Malware Detection Method Based on RGB Image Representation and Heterogeneous Neural Network	4
A Constructive Heuristic for Automated Parallel Tests Assembly	4
Identifying Notable Tuples in Multi-Concept Web Tables	4
An Empirical Study on the Impact of Python Dynamic Typing on the Project Maintenance	4
Understanding the Working Habits of GH-SO Users on GitHub Commit Activity and Stack Overflow Post Activity	4
Spectral Test Generation for Boolean Expressions	4
Inconsistency-Tolerant Hierarchical Probabilistic CTL Model Checking: Logical Foundations and Illustrative Examples	4
A Semantic Web-Enabled Approach for Dependency Management	4
ATLDesigner: ATL Model Checking Using An Attribute Grammar	4
Use of Journey Maps and Personas in Software Requirements Elicitation	4
Influential Spreaders Identification by Fusing Network Topology	4
An Empirical Study on Code Smell Introduction and Removal in Deep Learning Software Projects	4
EVaDe: Efficient and Lightweight Mirai Variants Detection via Approximate Largest Submatrix Search	3
An Empirical Study on Higher-Order Mutation-Based Fault Localization	3
Guest Editor’s Introduction — Special Issue on Social Computing and Engineering	3
TC4MT: A Specification-Driven Testing Framework for Model Transformations	3
Quantum Software Engineering: Practical Challenges	3
Mapping Modern JVM Language Code to Analysis-Friendly Graphs: A Study with Kotlin	3
Video Multimodal Entity Linking via Multi-Perspective Enhanced Subgraph Contrastive Network	3
Predicting Ride Hailing Service Demand Using Autoencoder and Convolutional Neural Network	3
Quantum Software Encompasses Classical Software: Density Matrix from the Laplacian	3
On the Succinctness of Modal μ-Calculus Based on Covariant–Contravariant Refinement	3
Verification of Safety for Synchronous-Reactive System Using Bounded Model Checking	3
Python API Misuse Mining and Classification Based on Hybrid Analysis and Attention Mechanism	3
Consistency Checking for Refactoring from Coarse-Grained Locks to Fine-Grained Locks	3
CodeGen-Search: A Code Generation Model Incorporating Similar Sample Information	3
CodeQG: Automated Multiple Question Generation for Source Code Comprehension	3
Making Technical Debt Visible Using Hybrid Sankey Diagrams: An Industrial Case Study	3
Evaluating a Method to Select Software Developers from Source Code Analysis	3
Multiclass Classification of UML Diagrams from Images Using Deep Learning	2
Automatically Generating Release Notes with Content Classification Models	2
A Robot Control Knowledge Recommendation Model PKGAT Based on Multimodal Knowledge Graph	2
An Iterative Group-Based MOPSO with Isomap-Guided Leaders and DQN-Adaptive Parameters for Automated Path Coverage Test Case Generation	2
Deriving Thresholds of Object-Oriented Metrics to Predict Defect-Proneness of Classes: A Large-Scale Meta-Analysis	2
BAQoS: a Burst I/O Aware Quality of Service Optimization for Cloud Storage Service	2
A Case Study of Software Project Replacement: A Time Series Analysis	2
Bug Localization with Features Crossing and Structured Semantic Information Matching	2
STMultiple: Sparse Transformer Based on RFID for Multi-Object Activity Recognition	2
Enhancing Code Summarization with Graph Embedding and Pre-Trained Model	2
A Cross-Project Defect Prediction Approach Based on Code Semantics and Cross-Version Structural Information	2
Understanding the Role of Stack Overflow in Supporting Software Development Tasks: A Research Perspective	2
A Change-Level Defect Prediction Approach based on Teacher–Student Network	2
PEAPOD: A Heterogeneous Defect Prediction Approach Based on Deep Density Sampling and Deep Domain Adaptation	2
Person Event Detection Method in Computer Discipline Domain Based on BiGRU and CNN in Series	2
SPERT: Reinforcement Learning-Enhanced Transformer Model for Agile Story Point Estimation	2
BPMN Data Model for Multi-Perspective Process Mining on Blockchain	2
A Novel Entity and Relation Joint Interaction Learning Approach for Entity Alignment	2
CodeLabeller: A Web-Based Code Annotation Tool for Java Design Patterns and Summaries	2
TRAFMEL: Multimodal Entity Linking Based on Transformer Reranking and Multimodal Co-Attention Fusion	2
An Adaptive Semantic Annotation Tool for Teachers Based on Context-Aware and Internet of Things	2

Detecting Interaction Related Bugs in a Multi-Tenant Setting Using Kubernetes	2
Remaining Activity Sequence Prediction for Ongoing Process Instances	2
How Did COVID-19 Impact Software Design Activities in Global Software Engineering — Systematic Review	2
Author Index Volume 33 (2023)	2
The Effect of Environmental Metrics on Software Fault Prediction	2
Paraphrase-Augmented Evaluation for Dialogue Models: A Unified Framework with AMR and GPT-based Rewriting	2
EFSP: An Enhanced Full Scrum Process Model	2
Embodying the Number of an Entity’s Relations for Knowledge Representation Learning	2
Identifying Temporal Corpus for Enhanced User Comments Analysis	2
Hybrid Model with Multi-Level Code Representation for Multi-Label Code Smell Detection (077)	2
A Static Analysis Framework for Investigating Tainted Data Sources in Software Systems	2