OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Information and Software Technology is 37. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	467
A hybrid approach for machine-generated code detection based on statistical, authorship, and semantic feature extraction	348
Taxonomy of Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions for the Superintelligent Systems	304
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	119
Unsupervised, robust, and lightweight detection of data pattern anomalies and outliers	113
Metamorphic Testing of Multimodal Human Trajectory Prediction	106
User-centric requirements prioritization in mHealth applications: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment	104
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	99
LocVul: Line-level vulnerability localization based on a Sequence-to-Sequence approach	99
Enabling a model-driven workflow for ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration in legal threat modeling	92
Toward a non-invasive robotic-supported approach for data loss detection in android applications	89
Gamified or Glorified? A systematic review of serious games for security & privacy in the SDLC	79
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	76
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	65
A hybrid XGBoost and SHAP framework for prioritization and interaction analysis of factors driving metaverse adoption in an engineering context	65
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	61
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	61
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	61
Uncovering challenges of cybersecurity cross-regulation in EU legislation	60
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	56
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	55
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	53
A data-centric method for microservice identification: From data models analysis to source code assignment	50
SEDMR: A spreadsheet error detection approach based on metamorphic testing	47
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	46

Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	45
Editorial Board	45
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	45
EdgeSim: Firmware vulnerability detection with control transfer-enhanced binary code similarity detection	43
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	42
VulATMHD: Joint adaptive triplet mining and hybrid distillation for type-aware vulnerability classification	41
Research artifacts in secondary studies: A systematic mapping in software engineering	41
Multiple Fault Localization of statements with an evolutionary algorithm that combines Ochiai and LDA as fitness function	41
CSJSS: Augmenting code summarization with joint structural semantic of abstract syntax trees	41
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	40
A survey of coverage-guided greybox fuzzing with deep neural models	39
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	38
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	37