OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Information and Software Technology is 32. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Predictive maintenance using digital twins: A systematic literature review	141
Automation of systematic literature reviews: A systematic literature review	129
BGNN4VD: Constructing Bidirectional Graph Neural-Network for Vulnerability Detection	122
Successful combination of database search and snowballing for identification of primary studies in systematic literature studies	108
Large-scale machine learning systems in real-world industrial settings: A review of challenges and solutions	84
Improving high-impact bug report prediction with combination of interactive machine learning and active learning	78
Understanding and addressing quality attributes of microservices architecture: A Systematic literature review	72
A risk prediction model for software project management based on similarity analysis of context histories	70
COSTE: Complexity-based OverSampling TEchnique to alleviate the class imbalance problem in software defect prediction	69
Investigation on the stability of SMOTE-based oversampling techniques in software defect prediction	67
From monolithic systems to Microservices: An assessment framework	62
Guidelines for the search strategy to update systematic literature reviews in software engineering	60
Quantum computing challenges in the software industry. A fuzzy AHP-based approach	59
Drivers, barriers and impacts of digitalisation in rural areas from the viewpoint of experts	58
Challenges and solutions when adopting DevSecOps: A systematic review	50
Quality Assessment in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Software Engineering Perspective	50
VUDENC: Vulnerability Detection with Deep Learning on a Natural Codebase for Python	49
Towards a unified criteria model for usability evaluation in the context of open source software based on a fuzzy Delphi method	45
On the generalizability of Neural Program Models with respect to semantic-preserving program transformations	42
Transparency and explainability of AI systems: From ethical guidelines to requirements	42
Toward successful DevSecOps in software development organizations: A decision-making framework	41
An Abstract Syntax Tree based static fuzzing mutation for vulnerability evolution analysis	39
The impact of using biased performance metrics on software defect prediction research	38
A study of effectiveness of deep learning in locating real faults	37
Code smell detection using feature selection and stacking ensemble: An empirical investigation	37

A microservice composition approach based on the choreography of BPMN fragments	34
A Systematic Comparison of search-Based approaches for LDA hyperparameter tuning	34
Case Study Research in Software Engineering—It is a Case, and it is a Study, but is it a Case Study?	34
Software security patch management - A systematic literature review of challenges, approaches, tools and practices	34
Security in agile software development: A practitioner survey	33
Self-Attention Networks for Code Search	33
The do’s and don’ts of infrastructure code: A systematic gray literature review	32