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Papers

(The median citation count of Requirements Engineering is 3. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
GRLMerger: an automatic approach for integrating GRL models	50
WEBAPIK: a body of structured knowledge on designing web APIs	47
An empirical investigation of challenges of specifying training data and runtime monitors for critical software with machine learning and their relation to architectural decisions	39
Testing software’s changing features with environment-driven abstraction identification	33
Leveraging machines to derive domain models from user stories	31
Editorial	28
Requirements management methods and practices for improving the quality of agile software development processes: a review of the literature	26
Crowd-based requirements elicitation via pull feedback: method and case studies	25
Tracing content requirements in financial documents using multi-granularity text analysis	24
Including business strategy in model-driven methods: an experiment	21
Guidelines adopted by agile teams in privacy requirements elicitation after the Brazilian general data protection law (LGPD) implementation	20
The state-of-practice in requirements specification: an extended interview study at 12 companies	20
A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development	17
Non-functional requirements for machine learning: understanding current use and challenges among practitioners	16
A natural language-based method to specify privacy requirements: an evaluation with practitioners	16
Editorial	16
BPMN extension evaluation for security requirements engineering framework	14
Extracting use case elements from requirement documents: a natural language processing approach	11
iStar2uml: toward automatic generation of UML model from iStar model	11
Recommending and release planning of user-driven functionality deletion for mobile apps	10
Editorial Special issue on IEEE RE 2023	9
Requirements engineering for sustainable software systems: a systematic mapping study	7
Ontology-based NLP tool for tracing software requirements and conceptual models: an empirical study	7
Processes-of-business processes: a novel information source of systems-of-systems requirements	6
How mature is requirements engineering for AI-based systems? A systematic mapping study on practices, challenges, and future research directions	6

OntoReD: requirements debt ontology	6
A systematic literature review of pre-requirements specification traceability	5
Are prompts all you need? Evaluating prompt-based Large Language Models (LLM)s for software requirements classification	5
ReqCompletion: domain-enhanced automatic completion for software requirements	5
Assessing user stories: the influence of template differences and gender-related problem-solving styles	5
Editorial for the REFSQ’23 special issue	5
Addressing trust requirements in the design of an open-source multi-agent LLM-based domain-specific chatbot	4
Why don’t we trace? A study on the barriers to software traceability in practice	4
The role of informal communication in building shared understanding of non-functional requirements in remote continuous software engineering	4
Design of explanation user interfaces for interactive machine learning using the example of a knowledge graph-based approach to explainable process analysis	4
Enhancing the requirements engineering of configurable systems by the ongoing use of variability models	4
Adding liveness to behavioral programming: theory, implementation, and user study	3
Measuring and improving software requirements elicitation in a small-sized software organization: a lightweight implementation of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15939:2017—systems and software engineering—measurement p	3
How do requirements evolve during elicitation? An empirical study combining interviews and app store analysis	3
A knowledge-driven approach for designing data analytics platforms	3
TraceLLM: leveraging large language models with prompt engineering for enhanced requirements traceability	3
Introduction and assessment of the thematic hierarchy process method for prioritisation of requirements for software product lines	3