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Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques

Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques is a research topic within Software. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1952. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the principles, practices, and tools related to Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) in software development. It covers topics such as domain-specific languages, model transformation, metamodeling, UML, model consistency, graph transformation, and the practical application of MDE in industry.

  • Model-Driven Engineering
  • Domain-Specific Languages
  • Model Transformation
  • Metamodeling
  • UML
  • Software Development
  • Model Consistency
  • Graph Transformation
  • MDE Practices
  • Tool Integration
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques

Which countries lead Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (394 and 371 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 394 works
  2. 2 Germany 371 works
  3. 3 China 250 works
  4. 4 France 135 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 131 works
  6. 6 Italy 97 works
  7. 7 India 84 works
  8. 8 Canada 75 works
  9. 9 Spain 67 works
  10. 10 Austria 66 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: 23.6%Germany: 22.2%China: 15.0%France: 8.1%6 others listed: 31.2%24%largest
United States394 · 23.6%Germany371 · 22.2%China250 · 15.0%France135 · 8.1%6 others listed521 · 31.2%

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

Which institutions lead Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques research, followed by Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and RWTH Aachen University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 35 works
  2. 2 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 27 works
  3. 3 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 27 works
  4. 4 Johannes Kepler University of LinzAustria 20 works
  5. 5 TU WienAustria 17 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 15 works
  7. 7 University of YorkUnited Kingdom 15 works
  8. 8 University of StuttgartGermany 15 works
  9. 9 Technical University of MunichGermany 13 works
  10. 10 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques include Robert John Tibshirani, Trevor Hastie and M. Weber.

  1. 1 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  2. 2 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  3. 3 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  4. 4 Mark Gerstein United States 250k citations
  5. 5 Rafael Lozano United States 224k 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 Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques?

The most cited paper in Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques is "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" (Erich Gamma, Richard F. Helm, Ralph E. Johnson et al., 1994), with 21,853 citations. Next come "Statecharts: a visual formalism for complex systems" (6,762) and "A theory of timed automata" (6,524).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software Erich Gamma, Richard F. Helm, Ralph E. Johnson et al. 1994 21,853
2 Statecharts: a visual formalism for complex systems David Harel · Science of Computer Programming Open access Jun 1987 6,762
3 A theory of timed automata Rajeev Alur, David L. Dill · Theoretical Computer Science Open access Apr 1994 6,524
4 UCSF ChimeraX : Tools for structure building and analysis Elaine C. Meng, Thomas D. Goddard, Eric F. Pettersen et al. · Protein Science Open access 29 Sep 2023 4,712
5 The Unified Modeling Language reference manual James E. Rumbaugh, Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) 1999 4,185
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques research done?

The largest centres of Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Munich (Germany), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Linz, Karlsruhe and Aachen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 66 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 37 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 33 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 32 works
  6. 6 AachenGermany 28 works
  7. 7 MontrealCanada 28 works
  8. 8 ViennaAustria 25 works
  9. 9 KarlsruheGermany 24 works
  10. 10 LinzAustria 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LinzAT · 23.8 works40×
  2. KarlsruheDE · 24.2 works14×
  3. AachenDE · 28.2 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques?

Among universities, judged by research, RWTH Aachen University, University of L'Aquila and TU Wien 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%20%40%mean 16.77%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of L'AquilaRWTH Aachen UniversityTU WienJohannes Kepler Univ…
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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
1RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 57.514.9%16.7×27 -2.3%
2University of L'AquilaItaly 54.836.5%23.6×8 -15.0%
3TU WienAustria 53.114.9%27.0×17 +5.3%
4Johannes Kepler University of LinzAustria 51.78.9%54.8×20 +9.9%
5Mälardalen UniversitySweden 49.423.4%106.1×11 +2.0%
6Technical University of MunichGermany 46.926.0%6.9×12 -21.2%
7King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 40.712.9%6.7×12 -1.9%
8University of YorkUnited Kingdom 39.55.1%21.4×15 +8.7%
9University of StuttgartGermany 39.113.4%20.2×14 +42.0%
10Technische Universität DresdenGermany 37.311.7%9.7×11 +51.6%

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 Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques, country by country

Is Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

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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 Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques 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%Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques9.7% 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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