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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
GRLMerger: an automatic approach for integrating GRL models	52
WEBAPIK: a body of structured knowledge on designing web APIs	51
Testing software’s changing features with environment-driven abstraction identification	47
An empirical investigation of challenges of specifying training data and runtime monitors for critical software with machine learning and their relation to architectural decisions	37
Leveraging machines to derive domain models from user stories	35
Requirements management methods and practices for improving the quality of agile software development processes: a review of the literature	31
Editorial	30
Crowd-based requirements elicitation via pull feedback: method and case studies	28
Including business strategy in model-driven methods: an experiment	22
Guidelines adopted by agile teams in privacy requirements elicitation after the Brazilian general data protection law (LGPD) implementation	21
Tracing content requirements in financial documents using multi-granularity text analysis	20
The state-of-practice in requirements specification: an extended interview study at 12 companies	20
A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development	19
Non-functional requirements for machine learning: understanding current use and challenges among practitioners	17
Editorial	16
BPMN extension evaluation for security requirements engineering framework	16
A natural language-based method to specify privacy requirements: an evaluation with practitioners	13
Extracting use case elements from requirement documents: a natural language processing approach	12
iStar2uml: toward automatic generation of UML model from iStar model	12
Recommending and release planning of user-driven functionality deletion for mobile apps	10
Editorial Special issue on IEEE RE 2023	8
Large language models for agile effort estimation: a post-mortem study incorporating developer experience and optimism	7
How mature is requirements engineering for AI-based systems? A systematic mapping study on practices, challenges, and future research directions	7
Ontology-based NLP tool for tracing software requirements and conceptual models: an empirical study	7
OntoReD: requirements debt ontology	6

Requirements engineering for sustainable software systems: a systematic mapping study	6
Processes-of-business processes: a novel information source of systems-of-systems requirements	6
Assessing user stories: the influence of template differences and gender-related problem-solving styles	5
ReqCompletion: domain-enhanced automatic completion for software requirements	5
Are prompts all you need? Evaluating prompt-based Large Language Models (LLM)s for software requirements classification	5
A systematic literature review of pre-requirements specification traceability	5
Editorial for the REFSQ’23 special issue	5
The role of informal communication in building shared understanding of non-functional requirements in remote continuous software engineering	4
Enhancing the requirements engineering of configurable systems by the ongoing use of variability models	4
A knowledge-driven approach for designing data analytics platforms	3
Why don’t we trace? A study on the barriers to software traceability in practice	3
Addressing trust requirements in the design of an open-source multi-agent LLM-based domain-specific chatbot	3
Adding liveness to behavioral programming: theory, implementation, and user study	3
Design of explanation user interfaces for interactive machine learning using the example of a knowledge graph-based approach to explainable process analysis	3
How do requirements evolve during elicitation? An empirical study combining interviews and app store analysis	3
TraceLLM: leveraging large language models with prompt engineering for enhanced requirements traceability	3
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
Philanthropic conference-based requirements engineering in time of pandemic and beyond	2
Editorial: Special issue on IEEE RE 2024	2
Improving requirements elicitation in large-scale software projects with reduced customer engagement: a proposed cost-effective model	2
On understanding and predicting issue links	2
Introduction and assessment of the thematic hierarchy process method for prioritisation of requirements for software product lines	2
Systematic adaptation and investigation of the understandability of a formal pattern language	2