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Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Software Engineering Techniques and Practices is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 33k research works in it since 1954. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on agile software development, empirical studies, requirements engineering, global software development, systematic literature reviews, project risk management, pair programming, software process improvement, user feedback, and continuous integration in the context of software engineering research.

  • Agile Software Development
  • Empirical Studies
  • Requirements Engineering
  • Global Software Development
  • Systematic Literature Reviews
  • Project Risk Management
  • Pair Programming
  • Software Process Improvement
  • User Feedback
  • Continuous Integration
Research works
33k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Software Engineering Techniques and Practices

Which countries lead Software Engineering Techniques and Practices research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (986 and 464 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 986 works
  2. 2 Brazil 464 works
  3. 3 India 400 works
  4. 4 Germany 361 works
  5. 5 China 338 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 244 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 193 works
  8. 8 Canada 175 works
  9. 9 Sweden 122 works
  10. 10 Italy 118 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: 29.0%Brazil: 13.6%India: 11.8%Germany: 10.6%6 others listed: 35.0%29%largest
United States986 · 29.0%Brazil464 · 13.6%India400 · 11.8%Germany361 · 10.6%6 others listed1,190 · 35.0%

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

Which institutions lead Software Engineering Techniques and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Indonesia publishes the most Software Engineering Techniques and Practices research, followed by Blekinge Institute of Technology and Telkom University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of IndonesiaIndonesia 37 works
  2. 2 Blekinge Institute of TechnologySweden 26 works
  3. 3 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 25 works
  4. 4 Film IndependentUnited States 22 works
  5. 5 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 Monash UniversityAustralia 21 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 19 works
  8. 8 North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáBrazil 18 works
  10. 10 Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Software Engineering Techniques and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Software Engineering Techniques and Practices include Arnold B. Bakker, Herbert A. Simon and Jeffrey L. Cummings.

  1. 1 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  2. 2 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  3. 3 Jeffrey L. Cummings United States 176k citations
  4. 4 John Bannister Goodenough United States 175k citations
  5. 5 Kalyanmoy Deb United States 171k 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 Software Engineering Techniques and Practices?

The most cited paper in Software Engineering Techniques and Practices is "A metrics suite for object oriented design" (Shyam R. Chidamber, Chris F. Kemerer, 1994), with 5,691 citations. Next come "Software Architecture in Practice" (5,049) and "The Case Research Strategy in Studies of Information Systems" (4,734).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A metrics suite for object oriented design Shyam R. Chidamber, Chris F. Kemerer · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Open access Jun 1994 5,691
2 Software Architecture in Practice Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman 1997 5,049
3 The Case Research Strategy in Studies of Information Systems Izak Benbasat, David K. Goldstein, Melissa Mead · MIS Quarterly Sep 1987 4,734
4 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 ReviewOpen access 13 Nov 2008 4,507
5 Guidelines for snowballing in systematic literature studies and a replication in software engineering Claes Wohlin Conference paper 13 May 2014 3,928
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Where is Software Engineering Techniques and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Software Engineering Techniques and Practices research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), London (United Kingdom) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Karlskrona.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 79 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 53 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 46 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 43 works
  5. 5 BandungIndonesia 43 works
  6. 6 MunichGermany 42 works
  7. 7 DepokIndonesia 40 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 40 works
  9. 9 RecifeBrazil 37 works
  10. 10 IslamabadPakistan 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KarlskronaSE · 25.8 works155×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Software Engineering Techniques and Practices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Software Engineering Techniques and Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Monash University and University of Victoria 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.

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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
1Blekinge Institute of TechnologySweden 72.616.0%182.3×26 +1.6%
2Monash UniversityAustralia 70.225.5%4.3×21 +10.1%
3University of VictoriaCanada 70.029.2%9.1×10 +25.9%
4University of SalernoItaly 67.324.7%7.7×11 +112.0%
5Lappeenranta-Lahti University of TechnologyFinland 65.216.4%35.0×17 +128.3%
6Aalto UniversityFinland 62.219.7%6.7×10 +20.3%
7Karlstad UniversitySweden 61.430.5%29.2×9 +138.9%
8Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 59.920.6%10.8×22 -31.8%
9Chalmers University of TechnologySweden 59.617.3%12.8×16 -43.3%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 58.122.5%1.4×11 +29.0%

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 Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, country by country

Is Software Engineering Techniques and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Software Engineering Techniques and Practices.

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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 Software Engineering Techniques and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Software Engineering Techniques and Practices 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%Software Engineering Techniques and Practices9.8% 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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