Empirical Software Engineering

Papers
(The H4-Index of Empirical Software Engineering is 24. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines114
Predictors of well-being and productivity among software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic – a longitudinal study90
Test case selection and prioritization using machine learning: a systematic literature review57
Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review50
A comprehensive study of bloated dependencies in the Maven ecosystem49
Automated patch assessment for program repair at scale45
AI lifecycle models need to be revised43
Enjoy your observability: an industrial survey of microservice tracing and analysis43
Topic modeling in software engineering research43
A teamwork effectiveness model for agile software development40
A privacy and security analysis of early-deployed COVID-19 contact tracing Android apps40
Promises and challenges of microservices: an exploratory study38
Understanding and improving the quality and reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks37
Predicting the objective and priority of issue reports in software repositories35
Problems with SZZ and features: An empirical study of the state of practice of defect prediction data collection33
Lags in the release, adoption, and propagation of npm vulnerability fixes32
StateAFL: Greybox fuzzing for stateful network servers31
Analysing app reviews for software engineering: a systematic literature review29
An exploratory study on confusion in code reviews28
On the impact of security vulnerabilities in the npm and RubyGems dependency networks27
How do i refactor this? An empirical study on refactoring trends and topics in Stack Overflow27
Out of sight, out of mind? How vulnerable dependencies affect open-source projects27
Software development with feature toggles: practices used by practitioners25
The secret life of test smells - an empirical study on test smell evolution and maintenance25
Is GitHub’s Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code?24
Topic recommendation for software repositories using multi-label classification algorithms24
World of code: enabling a research workflow for mining and analyzing the universe of open source VCS data24
A large scale analysis of mHealth app user reviews24
Game-based Sprint retrospectives: multiple action research24
Self-admitted technical debt practices: a comparison between industry and open-source24
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