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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	250
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	225
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	218
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	167
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	143
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	118
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	109
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	98
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	91
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	88
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	87
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	80
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	72
Insights on the relationship between decision-making style and personality in software engineering	64
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	60
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	56
From a Scrum Reference Ontology to the Integration of Applications for Data-Driven Software Development	53
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	53
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report	50
Editorial Board	48
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	47
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	46
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	46
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	45
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	45

A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	44
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	42
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	42
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	41
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	40
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	40
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	39
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	38
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	38
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	37
Introduction to software architecture for quantum computing systems special issue	36