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. 27.9% 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%
- 9.6k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 27.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -39% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research?
By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (292 and 282 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 United States 292 works
- 2 Germany 282 works
- 3 China 187 works
- 4 France 108 works
- 5 India 97 works
- 6 Brazil 96 works
- 7 Italy 94 works
- 8 Canada 80 works
- 9 United Kingdom 78 works
- 10 Spain 71 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Johannes Kepler University of Linz publishes the most Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research, followed by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and University of Stuttgart.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Johannes Kepler University of Linz Austria 23 works
- 2 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany 17 works
- 3 University of Stuttgart Germany 15 works
- 4 Technical University of Munich Germany 15 works
- 5 RWTH Aachen University Germany 14 works
- 6 Technische Universität Dresden Germany 13 works
- 7 Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands 11 works
- 8 Carnegie Mellon University United States 11 works
- 9 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France 10 works
- 10 Universidad de Málaga Spain 10 works
Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies include John B. Goodenough, Wil M. P. van der Aalst and MengChu Zhou.
- 1 John B. Goodenough 6.2k citations
- 2 Wil M. P. van der Aalst 5.5k citations
- 3 MengChu Zhou 4.4k citations
- 4 Armando Fox 4.2k citations
- 5 Yang Liu 3.4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research done?
The largest centres of Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Munich (Germany), Linz (Austria) and Stuttgart (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Linz, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- LinzAT · 24.8 works46×
- StuttgartDE · 24.4 works13×
- KarlsruheDE · 21.0 works13×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies?
Among universities, judged by research, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, University of Stuttgart 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johannes Kepler University of Linz Austria | 69.2 | 18.7% | 68.0× | 23 | -18.6% |
| 2 | University of Stuttgart Germany | 67.2 | 23.0% | 20.5× | 15 | -0.6% |
| 3 | Universidad de Sevilla Spain | 62.2 | 32.4% | 8.7× | 10 | -25.2% |
| 4 | Technical University of Munich Germany | 56.2 | 17.3% | 9.1× | 15 | -18.0% |
| 5 | Universidad de Málaga Spain | 55.7 | 27.6% | 15.3× | 10 | -41.0% |
| 6 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany | 54.7 | 17.6% | 15.7× | 17 | -44.1% |
| 7 | Eindhoven University of Technology Netherlands | 53.1 | 17.7% | 15.2× | 11 | -23.9% |
| 8 | Carnegie Mellon University United States | 50.8 | 12.4% | 13.3× | 11 | +11.9% |
| 9 | Technische Universität Dresden Germany | 50.4 | 14.5% | 13.5× | 13 | -18.4% |
| 10 | RWTH Aachen University Germany | 50.2 | 10.9% | 9.7× | 14 | +3.3% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 39% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2010.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.