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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	266
Portfolio Evolution Analysis for SPL Scoping: Unveiling the dynamics with dedicated time-series dashboards	188
EFACT: An External Function Auto-Completion Tool to strengthen static binary lifting	185
Evolution patterns of software-architecture smells: An empirical study of intra- and inter-version smells	147
Feature models to boost the vulnerability management process	130
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers	98
Modeling and safety analysis for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets	92
Editorial Board	81
Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications	71
Data preparation for Deep Learning based Code Smell Detection: A systematic literature review	70
Translating meaning representations to behavioural interface specifications	70
Novel framework for automated testing of ill-defined human–robot interaction environments	69
The effect of advice network connectedness on problem-solving competence among software developers	68
VULOC: Vulnerability location framework based on assembly code slicing	67
On measuring coupling between microservices	66
Experimental investigation of memory-related software aging in LLM systems	66
On misbehaviour and fault tolerance in machine learning systems	65
A survey on machine learning techniques applied to source code	64
Managing the changing understanding of benefits in software initiatives	63
Fault-tolerant scheduling and data placement for scientific workflow processing in geo-distributed clouds	63
The uphill journey of FaaS in the open-source community	57
Prevalence, common causes and effects of technical debt: Results from a family of surveys with the IT industry	54
Uncovering gender gap in academia: A comprehensive analysis within the software engineering community	52
A systematic literature review on Android-specific smells	49
Mining user reviews of COVID contact-tracing apps: An exploratory analysis of nine European apps	48

Usability inspection: Novice crowd inspectors versus expert	48
A MILP model on coordinated coverage path planning system for UAV-ship hybrid team scheduling software	46
Deep learning framework testing via hierarchical and heuristic model generation	45
GitHub repositories with links to academic papers: Public access, traceability, and evolution	45
Understanding participation and corporatization in service of diversity in free/libre and open source software development projects	45
Challenges and opportunities: Implementing diversity and inclusion in software engineering university level education in Finland	44
Improve cross-project just-in-time defect prediction with dynamic transfer learning	42
VeriFix: Verifying your fix towards an atomicity violation	40
A data-driven active learning approach to reusing ML solutions in scientific applications	40
Leveraging belief uncertainty for informed decision making in software product line evolution	39
Discovering boundary values of feature-based machine learning classifiers through exploratory datamorphic testing	39
VIBE: Looking for Variability In amBiguous rEquirements	37
A comprehensive empirical investigation on failure clustering in parallel debugging	37
A modular metamodel and refactoring rules to achieve software product line interoperability	37
Managing security issues in software containers: From practitioners’ perspective	37