Journal of Systems and Software

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Systems and Software is 38. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board240
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards177
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting170
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives131
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process113
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert112
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation94
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers78
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets77
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code75
Editorial Board69
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps67
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems64
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution64
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells62
Dear Researchers: Think about the future, for sure, but please don't forget about the present – the Odense Manifesto for academia–industry collaboration at ICSA 202561
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems61
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications60
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects60
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review59
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications58
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing58
On measuring coupling between microservices57
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds56
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells53
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software52
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry50
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers48
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community46
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community45
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers44
Investigating the performance of personalized models for software defect prediction42
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging42
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements41
An evidence-based roadmap for IoT software systems engineering40
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability40
Flexible control flow graph alignment for delivering data-driven feedback to novice programming learners38
Explaining software fault predictions to spreadsheet users38
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