Empirical Software Engineering

Papers
(The H4-Index of Empirical Software Engineering is 27. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension211
Effects of variability in models: a family of experiments99
Consensus task interaction trace recommender to guide developers’ software navigation69
On the adoption and effects of source code reuse on defect proneness and maintenance effort66
Path context augmented statement and network for learning programs65
Efficient static analysis and verification of featured transition systems63
Shaky structures: The wobbly world of causal graphs in software analytics57
Optimal priority assignment for real-time systems: a coevolution-based approach51
An empirical study on the effectiveness of large language models for SATD identification and classification50
Does the first response matter for future contributions? A study of first contributions44
The human experience of comprehending source code in virtual reality43
Can static analysis tools find more defects?41
Toward effective secure code reviews: an empirical study of security-related coding weaknesses40
More than React: Investigating the Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests40
Understanding the characteristics and the role of visual issue reports40
An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow36
Seeing the invisible: test prioritization for object detection system35
A study of documentation for software architecture34
Evaluating few-shot and contrastive learning methods for code clone detection32
Evaluating software user feedback classifier performance on unseen apps, datasets, and metadata31
Bugs in machine learning-based systems: a faultload benchmark30
(In)Security of mobile apps in developing countries: a systematic literature review28
Smells in system user interactive tests28
TestEvoViz: visualizing genetically-based test coverage evolution28
Collaboration failure analysis in cyber-physical system-of-systems using context fuzzy clustering28
Dynamical analysis of diversity in rule-based open source network intrusion detection systems28
Cross-status communication and project outcomes in OSS development28
A fine-grained taxonomy of code review feedback in TypeScript projects27
Deep learning based identification of inconsistent method names: How far are we?27
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