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Papers

(The median citation count of Requirements Engineering is 2. 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
GRLMerger: an automatic approach for integrating GRL models	36
A systematic literature review of requirements engineering education	34
WEBAPIK: a body of structured knowledge on designing web APIs	32
Leveraging machines to derive domain models from user stories	29
Testing software’s changing features with environment-driven abstraction identification	28
Editorial	19
An empirical investigation of challenges of specifying training data and runtime monitors for critical software with machine learning and their relation to architectural decisions	19
Crowd-based requirements elicitation via pull feedback: method and case studies	19
Requirements management methods and practices for improving the quality of agile software development processes: a review of the literature	18
Tracing content requirements in financial documents using multi-granularity text analysis	17
The state-of-practice in requirements specification: an extended interview study at 12 companies	16
Guidelines adopted by agile teams in privacy requirements elicitation after the Brazilian general data protection law (LGPD) implementation	16
Including business strategy in model-driven methods: an experiment	15
A negotiation support system for defining utility functions for multi-stakeholder self-adaptive systems	15
An impact-driven approach to predict user stories instability	14
A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development	12
Non-functional requirements for machine learning: understanding current use and challenges among practitioners	11
A natural language-based method to specify privacy requirements: an evaluation with practitioners	10
Editorial	10
BPMN extension evaluation for security requirements engineering framework	10
Correction to: Empirical research on requirements quality: a systematic mapping study	9
TracIMo: a traceability introduction methodology and its evaluation in an Agile development team	8
iStar2uml: toward automatic generation of UML model from iStar model	8
Extracting use case elements from requirement documents: a natural language processing approach	8
Exploring the challenges and benefits for scaling agile project management to large projects: a review	7

Recommending and release planning of user-driven functionality deletion for mobile apps	7
Editorial Special issue on IEEE RE 2023	6
Causality in requirements artifacts: prevalence, detection, and impact	6
Ontology-based NLP tool for tracing software requirements and conceptual models: an empirical study	6
A validation of QDAcity-RE for domain modeling using qualitative data analysis	5
A systematic literature review of pre-requirements specification traceability	4
How mature is requirements engineering for AI-based systems? A systematic mapping study on practices, challenges, and future research directions	4
Requirements engineering for sustainable software systems: a systematic mapping study	4
ReqCompletion: domain-enhanced automatic completion for software requirements	3
Editorial for the REFSQ’23 special issue	3
Leveraging BPMN particularities to improve traceability links recovery among requirements and BPMN models	3
Enhancing the requirements engineering of configurable systems by the ongoing use of variability models	3
How assurance case development and requirements engineering interplay: a study with practitioners	3
Assessing user stories: the influence of template differences and gender-related problem-solving styles	3
Detecting coreferent entities in natural language requirements	2
Why don’t we trace? A study on the barriers to software traceability in practice	2
How do requirements evolve during elicitation? An empirical study combining interviews and app store analysis	2
Introduction and assessment of the thematic hierarchy process method for prioritisation of requirements for software product lines	2
The role of informal communication in building shared understanding of non-functional requirements in remote continuous software engineering	2
Design of explanation user interfaces for interactive machine learning using the example of a knowledge graph-based approach to explainable process analysis	2
A knowledge-driven approach for designing data analytics platforms	2
Measuring and improving software requirements elicitation in a small-sized software organization: a lightweight implementation of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15939:2017—systems and software engineering—measurement p	2
An approach for performance requirements verification and test environments generation	2
A use case driven approach to game modeling	2
Adding liveness to behavioral programming: theory, implementation, and user study	2
On understanding and predicting issue links	2