Empirical Software Engineering

Papers
(The H4-Index of Empirical Software Engineering is 28. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension203
An empirical study on the effectiveness of large language models for SATD identification and classification96
Optimal priority assignment for real-time systems: a coevolution-based approach81
Consensus task interaction trace recommender to guide developers’ software navigation64
Effects of variability in models: a family of experiments64
Path context augmented statement and network for learning programs63
On the adoption and effects of source code reuse on defect proneness and maintenance effort63
Does the first response matter for future contributions? A study of first contributions58
Dynamical analysis of diversity in rule-based open source network intrusion detection systems57
The human experience of comprehending source code in virtual reality50
Can static analysis tools find more defects?44
More than React: Investigating the Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests44
Toward effective secure code reviews: an empirical study of security-related coding weaknesses41
Understanding the characteristics and the role of visual issue reports40
An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow40
Seeing the invisible: test prioritization for object detection system39
A study of documentation for software architecture38
Evaluating few-shot and contrastive learning methods for code clone detection35
Efficient static analysis and verification of featured transition systems34
TestEvoViz: visualizing genetically-based test coverage evolution33
Bugs in machine learning-based systems: a faultload benchmark32
Evaluating software user feedback classifier performance on unseen apps, datasets, and metadata32
Smells in system user interactive tests32
Cross-status communication and project outcomes in OSS development31
Collaboration failure analysis in cyber-physical system-of-systems using context fuzzy clustering30
A fine-grained taxonomy of code review feedback in TypeScript projects30
The impact of class imbalance techniques on crashing fault residence prediction models29
On the use of commit-relevant mutants28
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s contribution to public code28
Testing the past: can we still run tests in past snapshots for Java projects?28
App review driven collaborative bug finding28
What causes exceptions in machine learning applications? Mining machine learning-related stack traces on Stack Overflow28
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