OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Empirical Software Engineering is 27. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Unveiling overlooked performance variance in serverless computing	173
Assessing the adoption of security policies by developers in terraform across different cloud providers	103
GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process	78
A fine-grained data set and analysis of tangling in bug fixing commits	68
Finding the sweet spot for organizational control and team autonomy in large-scale agile software development	56
Fixing Dockerfile smells: an empirical study	54
Calling relationship investigation and application on Ethereum Blockchain System	54
UPC sentinel: An accurate approach for detecting upgradeability proxy contracts in Ethereum	49
Reflections on the Empirical Software Engineering journal	45
A review of automatic source code summarization	43
Adversarial domain adaptation for cross-project defect prediction	43
Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension	42
A machine and deep learning analysis among SonarQube rules, product, and process metrics for fault prediction	42
Assessing exception handling testing practices in open-source libraries	38
Transformers and meta-tokenization in sentiment analysis for software engineering	35
Explainable automated debugging via large language model-driven scientific debugging	34
A fine-grained evaluation of mutation operators to boost mutation testing for deep learning systems	33
Prioritizing code review requests to improve review efficiency: a simulation study	33
Computation offloading for ground robotic systems communicating over WiFi – an empirical exploration on performance and energy trade-offs	32
An empirical study on release notes patterns of popular apps in the Google Play Store	32
Hold on! is my feedback useful? evaluating the usefulness of code review comments	32
Evaluating the robustness of source code plagiarism detection tools to pervasive plagiarism-hiding modifications	31
Detection and evaluation of bias-inducing features in machine learning	30
APR4Vul: an empirical study of automatic program repair techniques on real-world Java vulnerabilities	28
SAFe transformation in a large financial corporation	27

Reviewing rounds prediction for code patches	27
Software development metrics: to VR or not to VR	27