OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Information and Software Technology is 34. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	214
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	192
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	182
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	159
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	104
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	92
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	87
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	85
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	83
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	81
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	79
Stakeholder engagement in enterprise architecture practice: What inhibitors are there?	74
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	70
Game industry problems: An extensive analysis of the gray literature	66
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	54
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	53
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	52
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	49
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	45
On the generalizability of Neural Program Models with respect to semantic-preserving program transformations	44
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	43
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	42
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	40
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	40
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	40

An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	39
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	39
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	39
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	38
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	37
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	36
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	36
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	35
Editorial Board	35
A multi-objective agile project planning model and a comparative meta-heuristic approach	34
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report	34
Graph-based code semantics learning for efficient semantic code clone detection	34
To group or not to group? Group sizes for requirements elicitation	34