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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	412
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	334
Uncovering challenges of cybersecurity cross-regulation in EU legislation	284
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	250
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	133
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	131
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	96
Unsupervised, robust, and lightweight detection of data pattern anomalies and outliers	94
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	92
Metamorphic Testing of Multimodal Human Trajectory Prediction	90
LocVul: Line-level vulnerability localization based on a Sequence-to-Sequence approach	88
Gamified or Glorified? A systematic review of serious games for security & privacy in the SDLC	85
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	79
Taxonomy of Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions for the Superintelligent Systems	77
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	70
User-centric requirements prioritization in mHealth applications: Insights from a Discrete Choice Experiment	62
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	59
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	57
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	57
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	56
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	55
EdgeSim: Firmware vulnerability detection with control transfer-enhanced binary code similarity detection	53
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	51
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	51
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	48

A survey of coverage-guided greybox fuzzing with deep neural models	45
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	45
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	44
Editorial Board	43
Research artifacts in secondary studies: A systematic mapping in software engineering	42
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	42
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	41
Vulnerability detection with Graph Attention Network and Metric Learning	39
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	38
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	37
CSJSS: Augmenting code summarization with joint structural semantic of abstract syntax trees	37
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	37
VulATMHD: Joint adaptive triplet mining and hybrid distillation for type-aware vulnerability classification	37
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	37
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	37