OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology is 31. 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
Horus : Accelerating Kernel Fuzzing through Efficient Host-VM Memory Access Procedures	144
Neuron Semantic-Guided Test Generation for Deep Neural Networks Fuzzing	121
Automatic Identification of Game Stuttering via Gameplay Videos Analysis	113
KAPE: k NN-based Performance Testing for Deep Code Search	92
Test Generation Strategies for Building Failure Models and Explaining Spurious Failures	76
History-Driven Fuzzing for Deep Learning Libraries	74
Preference-wise Testing of Android Apps via Test Amplification	73
Mutant Reduction Evaluation: What is There and What is Missing?	57
Understanding the OSS Communities of Deep Learning Frameworks: A Comparative Case Study of P y T orch and T ensor	55
Bounded Verification of Atomicity Violations for Interrupt-Driven Programs via Lazy Sequentialization	52
Enhancing Android Malware Detection: The Influence of ChatGPT on Decision-centric Task	52
Better Supporting Human Aspects in Mobile eHealth Apps: Development and Validation of Enhanced Guidelines	51
An empirical study on vulnerability disclosure management of open source software systems	50
Assessing the Robustness of Test Selection Methods for Deep Neural Networks	48
Reusing d-DNNFs for Efficient Feature-Model Counting	45
Finding Information Leaks with Information Flow Fuzzing - RCR Report	45
FoC: Figure out the Cryptographic Functions in Stripped Binaries with LLMs	44
Deceiving Humans and Machines Alike: Search-based Test Input Generation for DNNs Using Variational Autoencoders	43
FairGenerate: Enhancing Fairness Through Synthetic Data Generation and Two-Fold Biased Labels Removal	42
An Empirical Study of the Non-Determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation	42
I Depended on You and You Broke Me: An Empirical Study of Manifesting Breaking Changes in Client Packages	40
Securing the Ethereum from Smart Ponzi Schemes: Identification Using Static Features	39
Communicating Study Design Trade-offs in Software Engineering	36
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Improve Accuracy and Comprehensibility of Automated Code Review	35
Supporting Emotional Intelligence, Productivity and Team Goals while Handling Software Requirements Changes	35

Toward Interpretable Graph Tensor Convolution Neural Network for Code Semantics Embedding	35
An Accurate Identifier Renaming Prediction and Suggestion Approach	34
Storage State Analysis and Extraction of Ethereum Blockchain Smart Contracts	34
I Know What You Are Searching for: Code Snippet Recommendation from Stack Overflow Posts	33
Model Transformation Development Using Automated Requirements Analysis, Metamodel Matching, and Transformation by Example	32
JavaScript SBST Heuristics to Enable Effective Fuzzing of NodeJS Web APIs	31
FormatFuzzer : Effective Fuzzing of Binary File Formats	31
An Empirical Study on Governance in Bitcoin’s Consensus Evolution	31
Introducing Interactions in Multi-Objective Optimization of Software Architectures	31
Assessing and Analyzing the Correctness of GitHub Copilot’s Code Suggestions	31
HeMiRCA: Fine-Grained Root Cause Analysis for Microservices with Heterogeneous Data Sources	31