OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue on program comprehension	203
An empirical study on the effectiveness of large language models for SATD identification and classification	96
Optimal priority assignment for real-time systems: a coevolution-based approach	81
Consensus task interaction trace recommender to guide developers’ software navigation	64
Effects of variability in models: a family of experiments	64
Path context augmented statement and network for learning programs	63
On the adoption and effects of source code reuse on defect proneness and maintenance effort	63
Does the first response matter for future contributions? A study of first contributions	58
Dynamical analysis of diversity in rule-based open source network intrusion detection systems	57
The human experience of comprehending source code in virtual reality	50
Can static analysis tools find more defects?	44
More than React: Investigating the Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests	44
Toward effective secure code reviews: an empirical study of security-related coding weaknesses	41
Understanding the characteristics and the role of visual issue reports	40
An empirical study of IoT topics in IoT developer discussions on Stack Overflow	40
Seeing the invisible: test prioritization for object detection system	39
A study of documentation for software architecture	38
Evaluating few-shot and contrastive learning methods for code clone detection	35
Efficient static analysis and verification of featured transition systems	34
TestEvoViz: visualizing genetically-based test coverage evolution	33
Bugs in machine learning-based systems: a faultload benchmark	32
Evaluating software user feedback classifier performance on unseen apps, datasets, and metadata	32
Smells in system user interactive tests	32
Cross-status communication and project outcomes in OSS development	31
Collaboration failure analysis in cyber-physical system-of-systems using context fuzzy clustering	30

A fine-grained taxonomy of code review feedback in TypeScript projects	30
The impact of class imbalance techniques on crashing fault residence prediction models	29
On the use of commit-relevant mutants	28
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s contribution to public code	28
Testing the past: can we still run tests in past snapshots for Java projects?	28
App review driven collaborative bug finding	28
What causes exceptions in machine learning applications? Mining machine learning-related stack traces on Stack Overflow	28