OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Systems and Software is 34. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
An efficient heuristic algorithm for software module clustering optimization	156
Enhancing concurrency vulnerability detection through AST-based static fuzz mutation	142
Job satisfaction at risk: Measuring the role of process debt in agile software development	135
Characterizing and detecting Python version incompatibilities caused by inconsistent version specifications	132
Best practices for evaluating IRFL approaches	93
METFORD – Mutation tEsTing Framework fOR anDroid	88
Automatic instantiation of assurance cases from patterns using large language models	88
An empirical study of code reuse between GitHub and stack overflow during software development	73
Systematic literature review of validation methods for AI systems	70
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	69
Why do builds fail?—A conceptual replication study	67
Detection of backdoor attacks using targeted universal adversarial perturbations for deep neural networks	64
Mutation testing of PL/SQL programs	62
Sentiment overflow in the testing stack: Analyzing software testing posts on Stack Overflow	56
Global Software Engineering: Challenges and solutions	55
Editorial Board	54
Editorial Board	52
Selenium-Jupiter: A JUnit 5 extension for Selenium WebDriver	51
Editorial Board	47
Introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2018	46
Test flakiness’ causes, detection, impact and responses: A multivocal review	45
Introduction to Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation	45
ETune: Efficient configuration tuning for big-data software systems via configuration space reduction	42
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	42
Diversity-driven unit test generation	42

Programming under the influence: On the effect of Heat, Noise, and Alcohol on novice programmers	39
A study on classifying Stack Overflow questions based on difficulty by utilizing contextual features	38
CIT-daily: A combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process	37
Missing standard features compared with similar apps? A feature recommendation method based on the knowledge from user interface	36
Research artifacts in software engineering publications: Status and trends	36
Editorial Board	35
Editorial Board	35
Editorial Board	34
Assessing industrial end-user programming of robotic production cells: A controlled experiment	34
Editorial Board	34