OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Information and Software Technology is 36. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	324
Metamorphic Testing of Multimodal Human Trajectory Prediction	277
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	228
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	191
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	124
Gamified or Glorified? A systematic review of serious games for security & privacy in the SDLC	117
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	116
LocVul: Line-level vulnerability localization based on a Sequence-to-Sequence approach	97
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	81
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	79
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	78
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	76
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	65
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	64
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	64
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	54
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	54
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	54
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	54
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	54
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	51
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	50
Research artifacts in secondary studies: A systematic mapping in software engineering	48
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	46
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	43

Vulnerability detection with Graph Attention Network and Metric Learning	43
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	43
A survey of coverage-guided greybox fuzzing with deep neural models	41
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	41
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	40
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	39
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	39
Editorial Board	38
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	38
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	37
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	37
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	36