OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Information and Software Technology is 34. 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.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the lab: An in-depth analysis of real-world practices in government-to-citizen software user documentation	289
What do developers consider magic literals? A smalltalk perspective	254
A Delphi study to recognize and assess systems of systems vulnerabilities	193
CADV: A software visualization approach for code annotations distribution	160
Burnout in software engineering: A systematic mapping study	120
Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research	110
Feature-based insight for forks in social coding platforms	103
Automatically inferring user behavior models in large-scale web applications	101
A vulnerability detection framework by focusing on critical execution paths	90
CriticalFuzz: A critical neuron coverage-guided fuzz testing framework for deep neural networks	73
Finding the best learning to rank algorithms for effort-aware defect prediction	69
A systematic review of shared personal informatics	69
Early prediction for merged vs abandoned code changes in modern code reviews	68
Software defect prediction with semantic and structural information of codes based on Graph Neural Networks	59
Research artifacts in secondary studies: A systematic mapping in software engineering	58
SFIDMT-ART: A metamorphic group generation method based on Adaptive Random Testing applied to source and follow-up input domains	53
GNPSum: A code summarization enhancement framework based on Graph Node Position	53
ENZZ: Effective N-gram coverage assisted fuzzing with nearest neighboring branch estimation	50
Vulnerability detection with Graph Attention Network and Metric Learning	50
Exploring continual learning in code intelligence with domain-wise distilled prompts	50
A systematic literature review of agile software development projects	47
A survey of coverage-guided greybox fuzzing with deep neural models	47
Improved measurement of software development effort estimation bias	46
Leveraging execution traces to enhance traceability links recovery in BPMN models	45
A model-driven approach to reengineering processes in cloud computing	42

Boosting input data sequences generation for testing EFSM-specified systems using deep reinforcement learning	41
Warnings: Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion	40
A hybrid model for efficient decision-making in self-adaptive systems	39
Context2Vector: Accelerating security event triage via context representation learning	39
An exploratory study of bug prediction at the method level	39
Threats to validity in software engineering research: A critical reflection	37
Editorial Board	37
Ambiguity in user stories: A systematic literature review	36
Energize sustainability: EnSAF for sustainability aware, software intensive energy management systems	35
Exploring the use of LLMs for the selection phase in systematic literature studies	34
An end-to-end deep learning system for requirements classification using recurrent neural networks	34
UXH-GEDAPP: A set of user experience heuristics for evaluating generative design applications	34
CSJSS: Augmenting code summarization with joint structural semantic of abstract syntax trees	34