OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Information and Software Technology 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	437
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	353
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	303
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	263
Unsupervised, robust, and lightweight detection of data pattern anomalies and outliers	133
Metamorphic Testing of Multimodal Human Trajectory Prediction	98
Gamified or Glorified? A systematic review of serious games for security & privacy in the SDLC	97
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	95
User-centric requirements prioritization in mHealth applications: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment	94
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	92
LocVul: Line-level vulnerability localization based on a Sequence-to-Sequence approach	89
Toward a non-invasive robotic-supported approach for data loss detection in android applications	87
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	81
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	75
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	63
Taxonomy of Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions for the Superintelligent Systems	61
Uncovering challenges of cybersecurity cross-regulation in EU legislation	60
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	60
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	59
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	57
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	55
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	54
SEDMR: A spreadsheet error detection approach based on metamorphic testing	53
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	51
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	48

Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	47
Vulnerability detection with Graph Attention Network and Metric Learning	47
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	44
Editorial Board	42
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	42
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	40
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	39
EdgeSim: Firmware vulnerability detection with control transfer-enhanced binary code similarity detection	38
Multiple Fault Localization of statements with an evolutionary algorithm that combines Ochiai and LDA as fitness function	38
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	38
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	38
VulATMHD: Joint adaptive triplet mining and hybrid distillation for type-aware vulnerability classification	37
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	37
CSJSS: Augmenting code summarization with joint structural semantic of abstract syntax trees	37