OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension	179
Seeing the invisible: test prioritization for object detection system	86
Optimal priority assignment for real-time systems: a coevolution-based approach	70
Evaluating software user feedback classifier performance on unseen apps, datasets, and metadata	59
Effects of variability in models: a family of experiments	56
Toward effective secure code reviews: an empirical study of security-related coding weaknesses	55
A study of documentation for software architecture	55
Can static analysis tools find more defects?	55
An empirical study on the effectiveness of large language models for SATD identification and classification	50
Consensus task interaction trace recommender to guide developers’ software navigation	49
On the adoption and effects of source code reuse on defect proneness and maintenance effort	47
Path context augmented statement and network for learning programs	46
TestEvoViz: visualizing genetically-based test coverage evolution	39
Efficient static analysis and verification of featured transition systems	38
Understanding the characteristics and the role of visual issue reports	38
Bugs in machine learning-based systems: a faultload benchmark	37
An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow	35
Assessing practitioner beliefs about software engineering	34
More than React: Investigating the Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests	32
Evaluating few-shot and contrastive learning methods for code clone detection	32
Dynamical analysis of diversity in rule-based open source network intrusion detection systems	31
Does the first response matter for future contributions? A study of first contributions	31
The human experience of comprehending source code in virtual reality	29
Analysing Time-Stamped Co-Editing Networks in Software Development Teams using git2net	29
The impact of class imbalance techniques on crashing fault residence prediction models	28

Deep learning based identification of inconsistent method names: How far are we?	27
Smells in system user interactive tests	27
Automatic prediction of rejected edits in Stack Overflow	27