Requirements Engineering

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
WEBAPIK: a body of structured knowledge on designing web APIs38
A systematic literature review of requirements engineering education37
GRLMerger: an automatic approach for integrating GRL models36
An empirical investigation of challenges of specifying training data and runtime monitors for critical software with machine learning and their relation to architectural decisions26
Testing software’s changing features with environment-driven abstraction identification26
Crowd-based requirements elicitation via pull feedback: method and case studies23
Leveraging machines to derive domain models from user stories23
Editorial22
Requirements management methods and practices for improving the quality of agile software development processes: a review of the literature21
Tracing content requirements in financial documents using multi-granularity text analysis20
Guidelines adopted by agile teams in privacy requirements elicitation after the Brazilian general data protection law (LGPD) implementation17
Including business strategy in model-driven methods: an experiment17
The state-of-practice in requirements specification: an extended interview study at 12 companies16
A negotiation support system for defining utility functions for multi-stakeholder self-adaptive systems16
An impact-driven approach to predict user stories instability13
Non-functional requirements for machine learning: understanding current use and challenges among practitioners12
A hybrid technique using minimal spanning tree and analytic hierarchical process to prioritize functional requirements for parallel software development12
Editorial11
A natural language-based method to specify privacy requirements: an evaluation with practitioners10
Correction to: Empirical research on requirements quality: a systematic mapping study9
BPMN extension evaluation for security requirements engineering framework9
Extracting use case elements from requirement documents: a natural language processing approach8
iStar2uml: toward automatic generation of UML model from iStar model8
Editorial Special issue on IEEE RE 20237
Recommending and release planning of user-driven functionality deletion for mobile apps7
Requirements engineering for sustainable software systems: a systematic mapping study6
Causality in requirements artifacts: prevalence, detection, and impact6
How mature is requirements engineering for AI-based systems? A systematic mapping study on practices, challenges, and future research directions6
Ontology-based NLP tool for tracing software requirements and conceptual models: an empirical study6
A systematic literature review of pre-requirements specification traceability5
Are prompts all you need? Evaluating prompt-based Large Language Models (LLM)s for software requirements classification5
ReqCompletion: domain-enhanced automatic completion for software requirements5
How assurance case development and requirements engineering interplay: a study with practitioners5
Editorial for the REFSQ’23 special issue5
Assessing user stories: the influence of template differences and gender-related problem-solving styles4
Leveraging BPMN particularities to improve traceability links recovery among requirements and BPMN models4
Enhancing the requirements engineering of configurable systems by the ongoing use of variability models3
Detecting coreferent entities in natural language requirements3
The role of informal communication in building shared understanding of non-functional requirements in remote continuous software engineering3
Editorial: Special issue on IEEE RE 20242
Improving requirements elicitation in large-scale software projects with reduced customer engagement: a proposed cost-effective model2
An approach for performance requirements verification and test environments generation2
How do requirements evolve during elicitation? An empirical study combining interviews and app store analysis2
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 p2
Systematic adaptation and investigation of the understandability of a formal pattern language2
Design of explanation user interfaces for interactive machine learning using the example of a knowledge graph-based approach to explainable process analysis2
Introduction and assessment of the thematic hierarchy process method for prioritisation of requirements for software product lines2
On understanding and predicting issue links2
Theory as a source of software and system requirements2
Adding liveness to behavioral programming: theory, implementation, and user study2
Why don’t we trace? A study on the barriers to software traceability in practice2
A knowledge-driven approach for designing data analytics platforms2
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