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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pandemic programming141
Testing machine learning based systems: a systematic mapping120
An exploratory study of smart contracts in the Ethereum blockchain platform99
FixMiner: Mining relevant fix patterns for automated program repair91
Predictors of well-being and productivity among software professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic – a longitudinal study73
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines73
What do Programmers Discuss about Deep Learning Frameworks50
A practical guide on conducting eye tracking studies in software engineering48
The state of adoption and the challenges of systematic variability management in industry46
The practitioners’ point of view on the concept of technical debt and its causes and consequences: a design for a global family of industrial surveys and its first results from Brazil43
The who, what, how of software engineering research: a socio-technical framework42
Detection, assessment and mitigation of vulnerabilities in open source dependencies41
A comprehensive study of bloated dependencies in the Maven ecosystem39
The impact of automated feature selection techniques on the interpretation of defect models39
A privacy and security analysis of early-deployed COVID-19 contact tracing Android apps36
Code cloning in smart contracts: a case study on verified contracts from the Ethereum blockchain platform34
Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review34
Systematic mapping study on domain-specific language development tools33
Automated patch assessment for program repair at scale33
Test case selection and prioritization using machine learning: a systematic literature review32
An empirical investigation on the relationship between design and architecture smells31
Understanding and improving the quality and reproducibility of Jupyter notebooks31
Topic modeling in software engineering research31
AI lifecycle models need to be revised29
Promises and challenges of microservices: an exploratory study29
Formal methods in dependable systems engineering: a survey of professionals from Europe and North America28
Enjoy your observability: an industrial survey of microservice tracing and analysis28
Lags in the release, adoption, and propagation of npm vulnerability fixes27
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