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Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies

Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1963. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on autonomic computing, self-adaptive systems, and their related concepts such as software architecture, aspect-oriented programming, requirements engineering, feature models, variability management, middleware, and dynamic software product lines. The papers cover topics like modeling and reasoning support for early-phase requirements engineering, architecture-based self-adaptation, automated analysis of feature models, and the challenges in automotive software engineering.

  • Autonomic Computing
  • Self-Adaptive Systems
  • Software Architecture
  • Aspect-Oriented Programming
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Feature Models
  • Variability Management
  • Middleware
  • Dynamic Software Product Lines
  • Model-Based Development
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1963
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies

Which countries lead Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (427 and 315 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 427 works
  2. 2 Germany 315 works
  3. 3 China 252 works
  4. 4 India 131 works
  5. 5 France 121 works
  6. 6 Italy 112 works
  7. 7 Brazil 110 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 99 works
  9. 9 Canada 93 works
  10. 10 Spain 81 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 24.6%Germany: 18.1%China: 14.5%India: 7.5%6 others listed: 35.3%25%largest
United States427 · 24.6%Germany315 · 18.1%China252 · 14.5%India131 · 7.5%6 others listed615 · 35.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research, followed by Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and Film Independent.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 33 works
  2. 2 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 31 works
  3. 3 Film IndependentUnited States 24 works
  4. 4 Johannes Kepler University of LinzAustria 23 works
  5. 5 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 17 works
  6. 6 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 17 works
  7. 7 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 17 works
  8. 8 University of StuttgartGermany 16 works
  9. 9 Technical University of MunichGermany 16 works
  10. 10 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies include M. Weber, John Bannister Goodenough and Kalyanmoy Deb.

  1. 1 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  2. 2 John Bannister Goodenough United States 175k citations
  3. 3 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k citations
  4. 4 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k citations
  5. 5 Robert B. Jackson United States 149k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies?

The most cited paper in Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies is "Harvard Business Review" (J. Scott Armstrong, David M. Georgoff, 1988), with 18,225 citations. Next come "Statecharts: a visual formalism for complex systems" (6,762) and "A metrics suite for object oriented design" (5,691).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Harvard Business Review J. Scott Armstrong, David M. Georgoff · International Journal of Forecasting 1988 18,225
2 Statecharts: a visual formalism for complex systems David Harel · Science of Computer Programming Open access Jun 1987 6,762
3 A metrics suite for object oriented design Shyam R. Chidamber, Chris F. Kemerer · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Open access Jun 1994 5,691
4 Basic concepts and taxonomy of dependable and secure computing A. Avižienis, J.-C. Laprie, Brian Randell et al. · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Open access 2004 5,213
5 Aspect-oriented programming Gregor Kiczales · ACM Computing Surveys Dec 1996 5,164
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Munich (Germany), Los Angeles (United States) and Stuttgart (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Linz, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 65 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 33 works
  3. 3 Los AngelesUnited States 28 works
  4. 4 StuttgartGermany 27 works
  5. 5 MontrealCanada 27 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 25 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 25 works
  8. 8 LinzAustria 25 works
  9. 9 KarlsruheGermany 25 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LinzAT · 25.0 works38×
  2. KarlsruheDE · 24.5 works13×
  3. StuttgartDE · 26.8 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Carnegie Mellon University and Universidad de Sevilla score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 14.75%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Technical University…Carnegie Mellon Univ…Johannes Kepler Univ…Universidad de Sevilla
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Johannes Kepler University of LinzAustria 76.616.6%56.4×23 -15.1%
2Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 71.317.5%17.5×17 -64.3%
3Universidad de SevillaSpain 65.416.3%8.6×11 -4.9%
4Technical University of MunichGermany 58.718.3%7.9×16 -29.7%
5Universidad de MálagaSpain 58.420.5%16.6×12 +8.1%
6RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 54.012.7%9.6×17 -29.9%
7Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 53.315.4%8.8×8 +1.8%
8University of StuttgartGermany 45.810.6%20.0×16 -19.6%
9Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 44.79.7%16.4×14 -6.6%
10Technische Universität DresdenGermany 44.49.9%11.9×15 -5.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies, country by country

Is Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0091% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies0.0100% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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