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Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Software is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
IEEE Computer Society D&I Fund	68
IEEE Computer Society Information	66
IEEE Quantum Week	63
Staff Listing	62
Mom, Where Are the Girls?	57
A Watershed Moment for Search-Based Software Engineering	53
Infrastructure From Code: The Next Generation of Cloud Lifecycle Automation	41
Software Safety Analysis to Support ISO 26262-6 Compliance in Agile Development	39
IEEE Trans on Big Data filler	37
Masthead	35
IEEE SP Subscribe	32
IEEE Trans On Sustainable Computing filler	31
Creativity Clogs: Identifying and Addressing Barriers to Innovation	29
A Metamodel-Based Approach to Quantum Software Development	27
Contracts in System Development: From Multiconcern Analysis to Assurance With the Architecture Analysis and Design Language	27
IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society	25
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine Subscribe	25
IEEE IT Professional Call for Articles	24
Masthead	24
James Smith on Software Bugs and Quality	23
Improving Parallelism in Git and GNU Compiler Collection: Strategies, Difficulties, and Lessons Learned	23
Visualizing Change in Agile Safety-Critical Systems	22
The Blockchain Trilemma: An Evaluation Framework	21
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing	21
Masthead	18

How Trans-Inclusive Are Hackathons?	18
IEEE CS CFP Filler	16
IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society	16
From Specialized Mechanics to Project Butlers: The Usage of Bots in Open Source Software Development	15
The Future of Hybrid Software Development: Challenging Current Assumptions	15
IEEE Transactions on Computers Call for Papers	14
Polyglot Software Development: Wait, What?	14
Continuous Software Engineering: Introducing an Industry Readiness Model	13
IEEE Security and Privacy Subscription	13
Quantum Advantage and the Y2K Bug: A Comparison	12
Toward Quality-Aware Transaction Validation in Blockchains	12
Fuzzing, Symbolic Execution, and Expert Guidance for Better Testing	12
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications	12
Technology Trends 2023: The Competence Challenge	12
IEEE Computer Society Call For Papers	11
IEEE Career Center	11
IEEE Computer Society Call for Papers	10
How New Zealand Software Companies Are Adapting Work Settings With Changing Times	10
Postgres Server Developer Bruce Momjian Discusses Multiversion Concurrency Control	10
Front Cover	10
Barry Boehm: 1935–2022	10
Advancing More Inclusive Tech Careers: How People Develop Their Potential and Thrive	10
Requirements on Technical Debt: Dare to Specify Them!	9
Digital Banking Accelerator: A Service-Oriented Architecture Starter Kit for Banks	9
The Psychology of Architecture Decision Records	8
Observability and Explainability for Software Systems Decision Making	8
Feature Interactions on Steroids: On the Composition of ML Models	8
IEEE Computing Edge	8
IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering	8
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	8
Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 7: Software Quality	8
IEEE Computer Society Member Benefits	7
IEEE Computer Society Information	7
IEEE Computer Society: Call for Papers	7
Luke Hoban on Infrastructure as Code	7
IEEE Computer Society Benefits	7
IEEE Transactions on Computers Call for Papers	7
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	7
Automated authoring, onboarding developers, and extracting decision rationale [Practitioners’ Digest]	7
Garbage Collect Your Technical Debt	7
IEEE Computer Society Information	7
Correction	7
IEEE Computer Society Election	7
Table of Contents	7
IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine Subscribe	6
ComputingEdge	6
A Plea to Tool Vendors: Do Not Mislead How Technical Debt Is Managed	6
IEEE Computer Society Diversity and Inclusion Fund	6
What Else Is New? Open Data Users Need to Know What’s Changed	6
Table of Contents	6

Measuring the Adequacy of a Test Suite With Respect to a Modeled Test Space	5
AI/ML for safety-critical software: the case of the space domain	5
IEEE Computer Society Information	5
Staff Listing	5
Creating a Low-Code Business Process Execution Platform With Python, BPMN, and DMN	5
A Gap in the Analysis of Technical Debt in Procedural Languages: An Experiential Report on Go	5
The Future of Software Engineering Education and Training in the Age of AI	5
Can We Really Achieve Software Quality?	5
From Idea to Impact: Survival Guide for Successful Products	5
Fix Tech Debt With Virtuous Cycles	5
Gray Literature Versus Academic Literature in Software Engineering: A Call for Epistemological Analysis	5
Staff Listing	5
IEEE Software Call for Special Issue Proposals	5
The Monolith Strikes Back: Why Istio Migrated From Microservices to a Monolithic Architecture	5
IEEE Computer Society - Call for Papers	5
Architectural Concerns of Digital Twins	5
Using Hypotheses to Manage Technical Uncertainty and Architecture Evolution in a Software Start-up	4
Insights Into Nonmerged Pull Requests in GitHub: Is There Evidence of Bias Based on Perceptible Race?	4
Axispot: A Distributed Spatiotemporal Data Management System for Digital Twins of Moving Objects	4
Computer Still Says …	4
A Typology of Chatbots in Public Service Delivery	4
Combined Intuition and Rationality Increases Software Feature Novelty for Female Software Designers	4
Modular Data Analytics	4
Decentralizing Infrastructure as Code	4
Challenges and Strategies for Managing Requirements Selection in Software Ecosystems	4
Tug Grall On Redis	4
Medical Software Needs Calm Compliance	4
Powering Down: An Interview With Federica Sarro on Tackling Energy Consumption in AI-Powered Software Systems	4
An Overview and Comparison of Technical Debt Measurement Tools	4
Generative AI: Redefining the Future of Software Engineering	4
How Trustworthy Is Your Continuous Integration (CI) Accelerator?: A Comparison of the Trustworthiness of CI Acceleration Products	4
SOBO: A Feedback Bot to Nudge Code Quality in Programming Courses	4
openEuler: Advancing a Hardware and Software Application Ecosystem	4
Jason C. McDonald on Quantified Tasks	4
Explainable AI for SE: Challenges and Future Directions	4
Rust Library Fuzzing	4
Test-Driven Development Tool for IoT Systems	4
Technology Trends: Strategies for the New Normal	4
Engineering Data Processing Workflows	4
Over the Rainbow: 21st Century Security & Privacy Podcast	3
Go Serverless With RADON! A Practical DevOps Experience Report	3
IEEE Career Center	3
Deep-learning based visualization tool for air pollution forecast	3
IEEE Computer Society	3
ComputingEdge	3
Humphrey Award	3
Automating a Massive Open Online Course’s Production	3
Guidelines for Developing Bots for GitHub	3
AI Engineering: Realizing the Potential of AI	3
The Advantages of Maintaining a Multitask, Project-Specific Bot: An Experience Report	3
IEEE Transactions on Big Data	3
IEEE Computer Society - Publications Seek 2025 Editors in Chief	3
Fostering Professionalism in Software Engineering: An Early-Exposure Approach	3
IEEE Pervasive Computing	3
Over the Rainbow	3
Software Principles	3
Requirements Engineering and Large Language Models: Insights From a Panel	3
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing	3
Can RE Help Better Prepare Industrial AI for Commercial Scale?	3
IEEE Security and Privacy Subscription	3
A State-of-the-Practice Release-Readiness Checklist for Generative AI-Based Software Products: A Gray Literature Survey	3
Front Cover	3
Recommendations for Developers Identifying Code Smells	3
IEEE Pervasive Computing: Call for Articles	3
Don’t Lie to Me: Avoiding Malicious Explanations With STEALTH	3
IEEE Computer Society CFP filler	2
Resist the Hype!: Practical Recommendations to Cope With Résumé-Driven Development	2
Open Source Software: Communities and Quality	2
Toward Autonomic, Software-Intensive Digital Twin Systems	2
IEEE IT Professional Call for Articles	2
IEEE Computer Society Benefits	2
Front Cover	2
IEEE SP Over the Rainbow filler	2
How to “Sell” Ethics (Using AI): An Interview With Alexander Serebrenik	2
Can We Trust Theorem Provers for Industrial AI?	2
Staff Listing	2
[Front cover]	2
IEEE IT Professional Call for Articles	2
A Data-Centric Study of Software Tutorial Design	2
What People Focus on When Reviewing Your App-An Analysis Across App Categories	2

Seven Lessons Learned From Automotive Software Supplier Collaborations	2
IEEE Computer Society Call for Papers	2
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing	2
IEEE Transactions on Computers Call For Papers	2
On the Usage of New JavaScript Features Through Transpilers: The Babel Case	2
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications	2
Two Kinds of Iteration	2
IEEE Computer Society Information	2
Randy Shoup on Evolving Architecture and Organization at eBay	2
IEEE PVC General filler	2
Embracing IaC Through the DevSecOps Philosophy: Concepts, Challenges, and a Reference Framework	2
IEEE Transactions on Big Data	2
Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 4: Build Latency, Predictability, and Developer Productivity	2
Front Cover	2
Toward Multiconcern Software Development With Everything as Code	2
IEEE Pervasive Computing Call for Articles	2
Quantum Computing	2
Data-Driven Technical Debt Management: Software Engineering or Data Science Challenge?	2
2022 IEEE World Congress on Services	2
IEEE Computer Society Member Benefits	2
Stakeholders: Going Beyond Just “End Users”	2
Infrastructure as Code and Software Architecture Conformance Checking	2
IEEE Trans on Big Data filler	2
Software Design Trends Supporting Multiconcern Assurance	1
What Does the Future Hold for Requirements Engineers?	1
Guidelines for Cultivating a Sense of Belonging to Reduce Developer Burnout	1
DRT: A Novel Tool for Data Archiving	1
Generative AI in the Software Modeling Classroom: An Experience Report With ChatGPT and Unified Modeling Language	1
IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering	1
10 Years of Technical Debt Research and Practice: Past, Present, and Future	1
Masthead	1
The State of Documentation Practices of Third-Party Machine Learning Models and Datasets	1
IEEE Computer Society Benefits	1
Reproducible Builds: Increasing the Integrity of Software Supply Chains	1
Hybrid Digital Twins: A Primer on Combining Physics-Based and Data Analytics Approaches	1
IEEE Computer Society Information	1
Addressing Bad Feelings in Agile Software Project Contexts: Considering Team Welfare and Developer Mental Health	1
Staff Listing	1
The Developer Nation	1
Rapid Yet Robust Continuous Delivery of Software for Disaster Management Scenarios	1
Pipeline Infrastructure Required to Meet the Requirements on AI	1
Masthead	1
IEEE 2430 Non-Functional Sizing Measurements: A Numerical Placebo	1
Testing, Debugging, and Log Analysis With Modern AI Tools	1
Table of Contents	1
Love Unrequited: The Story of Architecture, Agile, and How Architecture Decision Records Brought Them Together	1
IEEE Computing Edge	1
IEEE Open Journal CS	1
Are We Keeping up With the Innovation in Generative AI?	1
Computing in Science & Engineering	1
Naturally!: How Breakthroughs in Natural Language Processing Can Dramatically Help Developers	1
IEEE Transactions on Computers Call for Papers	1
No Silver Bullets, Only Disciplined Reflections to Guide Course Corrections [From the Editor]	1
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing	1
Understanding the Customization of Dependency Bots: The Case of Dependabot	1
New Privacy Practices for Blockchain Software	1
IEEE Computer Society Information	1
Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 5: Onboarding and Ramp-Up	1
Agile 2021	1
Why and How Your Traceability Should Evolve: Insights From an Automotive Supplier	1
Managing Technical Debt Under Uncertainty	1
Expert Perspectives on Explainability	1
IEEE Transactions on Big Data	1
Software Engineering Education and Training: Industry Demands, Curriculum Deficits, and Pedagogy Direction	1
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing	1
Headwinds to Redesign	1
Front Cover	1
Front Cover	1
IEEE Computer Society Career Center	1
IEEE Computer Society Information	1
Table of Contents	1
Generative AI for Software Security Analysis: Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges	1
IEEE COMPUTING EDGE	1
Automation Doesn’t Work the Way We Think It Does	1
Masthead	1
Teaching Methods in Software Engineering: A Systematic Review	1
AI, Tech, Energy, and Collaboration	1
The Current and Evolving Landscape of Requirements Engineering in Practice	1
Continuous Integration and Delivery in Open Source Development and Pattern Publishing: Lessons Learned With Tool Setup and Pipeline Evolution	1
IEEE Computer Society Information	1
Bumps in the Code: Error Handling During Software Development	1
[Front cover]	1
Challenges for Inclusion in Software Engineering: The Case of the Emerging Papua New Guinean Society	1
Keeping It Simple: Agile Analysis	1
Agile Systems Engineering	1
IEEE Job Boards	1
IEEE Computer Society Member Benefits	1
Automatic Recovery of Missing Issue Type Labels	1
ComputingEdge	1
Table of Contents	1