OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Information and Software Technology is 35. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	264
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	228
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	166
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	132
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	113
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	101
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	96
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	91
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	91
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	84
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	72
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	65
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	63
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	58
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	55
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	53
Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report	50
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	48
Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	48
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	47
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	47
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	46
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	45
Editorial Board	45
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	44

Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	43
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	42
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	40
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	40
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	39
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	38
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	38
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	38
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	37
A survey of selected characteristics and contexts of the analysis and planning phase of software development projects and their connections to project success	36