OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Empirical Software Engineering 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension	119
Consensus task interaction trace recommender to guide developers’ software navigation	107
Underproduction analysis of open source software	101
The human experience of comprehending source code in virtual reality	92
Security by documentation? characterizing GitHub SECURITY.md policy and their adoption in Python libraries	81
The design space of lockfiles across package managers	79
(In)Security of mobile apps in developing countries: a systematic literature review	64
Optimal priority assignment for real-time systems: a coevolution-based approach	59
Bugs in machine learning-based systems: a faultload benchmark	58
Fuzzing-based mutation testing of C/C++ software in cyber-physical systems	56
Evaluating software user feedback classifier performance on unseen apps, datasets, and metadata	53
Does the first response matter for future contributions? A study of first contributions	53
Evaluating few-shot and contrastive learning methods for code clone detection	51
Can static analysis tools find more defects?	43
Understanding the characteristics and the role of visual issue reports	42
On the adoption and effects of source code reuse on defect proneness and maintenance effort	41
More than React: Investigating the Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests	40
Seeing the invisible: test prioritization for object detection system	40
Mitigating omitted variable bias in empirical software engineering	40
An empirical study on the effectiveness of large language models for SATD identification and classification	39
TestEvoViz: visualizing genetically-based test coverage evolution	38
Shaky structures: The wobbly world of causal graphs in software analytics	38
Toward effective secure code reviews: an empirical study of security-related coding weaknesses	38
A study of documentation for software architecture	36
Developers’ perception matters: machine learning to detect developer-sensitive smells	36

Cross-status communication and project outcomes in OSS development	34
Maintaining shared understanding of non-functional requirements in small companies using continuous software engineering	33
Output format biases in the evaluation of large language models for code translation	33
What causes exceptions in machine learning applications? Mining machine learning-related stack traces on Stack Overflow	32
Towards cost-benefit evaluation for continuous software engineering activities	32
Testing the past: can we still run tests in past snapshots for Java projects?	32
Collaboration failure analysis in cyber-physical system-of-systems using context fuzzy clustering	32
The impact of class imbalance techniques on crashing fault residence prediction models	32