OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Empirical Software Engineering is 30. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension	104
TestEvoViz: visualizing genetically-based test coverage evolution	88
Consensus task interaction trace recommender to guide developers’ software navigation	88
Shaky structures: The wobbly world of causal graphs in software analytics	80
Underproduction analysis of open source software	71
The human experience of comprehending source code in virtual reality	66
Security by documentation? characterizing GitHub SECURITY.md policy and their adoption in Python libraries	55
The design space of lockfiles across package managers	51
(In)Security of mobile apps in developing countries: a systematic literature review	50
Seeing the invisible: test prioritization for object detection system	45
Optimal priority assignment for real-time systems: a coevolution-based approach	42
Can static analysis tools find more defects?	41
Fuzzing-based mutation testing of C/C++ software in cyber-physical systems	40
Understanding the characteristics and the role of visual issue reports	40
Evaluating software user feedback classifier performance on unseen apps, datasets, and metadata	39
More than React: Investigating the Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests	38
An empirical study on the effectiveness of large language models for SATD identification and classification	38
On the adoption and effects of source code reuse on defect proneness and maintenance effort	37
Mitigating omitted variable bias in empirical software engineering	37
Does the first response matter for future contributions? A study of first contributions	35
Bugs in machine learning-based systems: a faultload benchmark	35
Evaluating few-shot and contrastive learning methods for code clone detection	34
A study of documentation for software architecture	33
Toward effective secure code reviews: an empirical study of security-related coding weaknesses	33
Cross-status communication and project outcomes in OSS development	32

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s contribution to public code	32
Automated test generation for Scratch programs	32
Developers’ perception matters: machine learning to detect developer-sensitive smells	32
Automatic prediction of rejected edits in Stack Overflow	31
The impact of class imbalance techniques on crashing fault residence prediction models	30
On the emergence of testing strategies: A socio-technical grounded theory	30