OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Systems and Software is 37. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	211
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	158
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	155
Editorial Board	115
Editorial Board	111
ECCOLA — A method for implementing ethically aligned AI systems	103
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	98
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	84
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	83
On measuring coupling between microservices	72
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	70
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	65
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	62
Introduction to the Special Issue on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation 2018	62
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	61
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	61
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	55
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	54
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	53
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	53
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	51
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	51
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	49
Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	49
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	47

A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	47
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	45
Machine learning based success prediction for crowdsourcing software projects	45
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	43
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	42
BEACon-TD: Classifying Technical Debt and its types across diverse software projects issues using transformers	42
Multi-granularity coverage criteria for deep reinforcement learning systems	42
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	40
A fuzzy logic-based quality model for identifying microservices with low maintainability	38
A novel blockchain protocol for selecting microservices providers and auditing contracts	37
Taxonomy of security weaknesses in Java and Kotlin Android apps	37
A three-step hybrid specification approach to error prevention	37
Advancing modern code review effectiveness through human error mechanisms	37
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	37