Topic · Software Engineering Research
Most cited papers in Software Engineering Research
What are the most cited papers in Software Engineering Research?
The most cited paper in Software Engineering Research is "Harvard Business Review" (J. Scott Armstrong, David M. Georgoff, 1988), with 18,225 citations. Next come "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" (6,615) and "Graph drawing by force‐directed placement" (6,481).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,088 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard Business Review J. Scott Armstrong, David M. Georgoff · International Journal of Forecasting | 1988 | 18,225 |
| 2 | On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major et al. | Mar 2021 | 6,615 |
| 3 | Graph drawing by force‐directed placement Thomas M. J. Fruchterman, Edward M. Reingold · Software Practice and Experience | Nov 1991 | 6,481 |
| 4 | A Complexity Measure Thomas J. McCabe · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Dec 1976 | 5,923 |
| 5 | A metrics suite for object oriented design Shyam R. Chidamber, Chris F. Kemerer · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Jun 1994 | 5,691 |
| 6 | On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules David Lorge Parnas · Communications of the ACM | Dec 1972 | 4,715 |
| 7 | Systematic literature reviews in software engineering – A systematic literature review Barbara Ann Kitchenham, O. Pearl Brereton, DAVID E. BUDGEN et al. · Information and Software Technology | 13 Nov 2008 | 4,507 |
| 8 | Evaluation: from precision, recall and F-measure to ROC, informedness, markedness and correlation David M W Powers · arXiv (Cornell University) | 11 Oct 2020 | 4,430 |
| 9 | Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering Claes Wohlin | 13 May 2014 | 3,928 |
| 10 | Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering Per Runeson, Martin Höst · Empirical Software Engineering | 18 Dec 2008 | 3,880 |
| 11 | The C++ Programming Language Bjarne Stroustrup | 1985 | 3,847 |
| 12 | Lateral Collinearity and Misleading Results in Variance-Based SEM: An Illustration and Recommendations Ned Kock, Gary S. Lynn · Journal of the Association for Information Systems | Jul 2012 | 3,716 |
| 13 | Systematic Mapping Studies in Software Engineering Kai Petersen, ROBERT H. FELDT, Shahid Mujtaba et al. · Electronic workshops in computing | Jun 2008 | 3,166 |
| 14 | Symbolic execution and program testing James C. King · Communications of the ACM | Jul 1976 | 3,043 |
| 15 | Constructing Induction Rules for Deductive Synthesis Proofs Alan Bundy, Lucas Dixon, Jeremy Gow et al. · Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science | Mar 2006 | 2,818 |
| 16 | An Overview of AspectJ Gregor Kiczales, Erik Hilsdale, Jim Hugunin et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2001 | 2,768 |
| 17 | Empirical studies of agile software development: A systematic review Tore Dybå, Torgeir Dingsøyr · Information and Software Technology | 18 Mar 2008 | 2,679 |
| 18 | KLEE: unassisted and automatic generation of high-coverage tests for complex systems programs Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar, Dawson Engler | 8 Dec 2008 | 2,669 |
| 19 | Guidelines for conducting systematic mapping studies in software engineering: An update Kai Petersen, Sairam Vakkalanka, Ludwik Kuźniarz · Information and Software Technology | 8 Apr 2015 | 2,658 |
| 20 | Aspect-oriented programming Gregor Kiczales, John Lamping, Anurag Mendhekar et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 1997 | 2,543 |
| 21 | Lessons from applying the systematic literature review process within the software engineering domain Pearl Brereton, Barbara Ann Kitchenham, DAVID E. BUDGEN et al. · Journal of Systems and Software | 18 Aug 2006 | 2,392 |
| 22 | Mediation analysis in partial least squares path modeling Christian Nitzl, José Luis Roldán, Gabriel Cepeda‐Carrión · Industrial Management & Data Systems | 17 Oct 2016 | 2,273 |
| 23 | Efficiently computing static single assignment form and the control dependence graph Ron K. Cytron, Jeanne Ferrante, Barry K. Rosen et al. · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems | Oct 1991 | 2,259 |
| 24 | On Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering Lawrence Chung, Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite · Lecture notes in computer science | 2009 | 2,248 |
| 25 | Types and Programming Languages Benjamin C. Pierce | 2002 | 2,242 |
| 26 | The 4+1 View Model of architecture Philippe B. Kruchten · IEEE Software | 1995 | 2,162 |
| 27 | End-To-End Arguments In System Design Saltzer Reed And, Jerome H. Saltzer, David P. Reed et al. | 1984 | 2,133 |
| 28 | A field study of the software design process for large systems Bill Curtis, Herb Krasner, Neil Iscoe · Communications of the ACM | Nov 1988 | 2,093 |
| 29 | Refactoring improving the design of existing code Mauricio A. Saca | Nov 2017 | 2,080 |
| 30 | DART Patrice Godefroid, Nils Klarlund, Koushik Sen · ACM SIGPLAN Notices | 12 Jun 2005 | 2,077 |
| 31 | Diagnosing multiple faults Johan de Kleer, Brian C. Williams · Artificial Intelligence | Apr 1987 | 2,053 |
| 32 | Reverse engineering and design recovery: a taxonomy Elliot J. Chikofsky, James H. Cross · IEEE Software | 1990 | 2,005 |
| 33 | A classification and comparison framework for software architecture description languages Nenad Medvidović, Richard N. Taylor · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | 2000 | 1,986 |
| 34 | Managing the Software Process Watts S. Humphrey · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 1989 | 1,971 |
| 35 | Time-Dependent Error-Detection Rate Model for Software Reliability and Other Performance Measures Amrit L. Goel, Kazu Okumoto · IEEE Transactions on Reliability | Aug 1979 | 1,852 |
| 36 | A truth maintenance system Jon Doyle · Artificial Intelligence | Nov 1979 | 1,782 |
| 37 | CCFinder: a multilinguistic token-based code clone detection system for large scale source code T. Kamiya, Shinya Kusumoto, Koji Inoue · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Jul 2002 | 1,737 |
| 38 | When and how to develop domain-specific languages Marjan Mernik, Jan Heering, Anthony M. Sloane · ACM Computing Surveys | Dec 2005 | 1,735 |
| 39 | A validation of object-oriented design metrics as quality indicators Victor Robert Basili, Lionel Briand, Walcélio L. Melo · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Oct 1996 | 1,731 |
| 40 | Two case studies of open source software development Audris Mockus, Roy T. Fielding, James D. Herbsleb · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology | Jul 2002 | 1,703 |
| 41 | Automatically characterizing large scale program behavior Timothy Sherwood, Erez Perelman, Greg Hamerly et al. | Oct 2002 | 1,682 |
| 42 | Process modeling Bill Curtis, Marc I. Kellner, Jim Over · Communications of the ACM | Sep 1992 | 1,629 |
| 43 | Automatic discovery of linear restraints among variables of a program Patrick M. Cousot, Nicolas Halbwachs | 1978 | 1,615 |
| 44 | The DaCapo benchmarks Stephen Michael Blackburn, Robin J. Garner, Chris Hoffmann et al. | 16 Oct 2006 | 1,604 |
| 45 | bayestestR: Describing Effects and their Uncertainty, Existence and Significance within the Bayesian Framework Dominique Makowski, Mattan S. Ben‐Shachar, Daniel Lüdecke · The Journal of Open Source Software | 12 Aug 2019 | 1,587 |
| 46 | Software risk management: principles and practices BARRY W. BOEHM · IEEE Software | 1991 | 1,584 |
| 47 | Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation Alan J. Albrecht, John E. Gaffney · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Nov 1983 | 1,563 |
| 48 | PARSIMONY JACKKNIFING OUTPERFORMS NEIGHBOR‐JOINING James S. Farris, Victor A. Albert, Mari Källersjö et al. · Cladistics | Jun 1996 | 1,534 |
| 49 | Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering Barbara Ann Kitchenham, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Lesley M. Pickard et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Aug 2002 | 1,516 |
| 50 | Qualitative methods in empirical studies of software engineering Carolyn Budinger Seaman · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering | Jul 1999 | 1,504 |
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