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Software Reliability and Analysis Research

Software Reliability and Analysis Research is a research topic within Software. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1951. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the assessment and prediction of software reliability, utilizing architecture-based approaches, testing-effort dependent models, neural networks, and fault detection and correction processes. It also explores the reliability of component-based systems, NHPP models, open source software, and sensitivity analysis using Markov chain models.

  • Architecture-Based Approach
  • Software Reliability Modeling
  • Testing-Effort Dependent Models
  • Component-Based Systems
  • Neural Network
  • Fault Detection and Correction
  • NHPP Models
  • Open Source Software
  • Sensitivity Analysis
  • Markov Chain Models
Research works
34k
fractional, since 1951
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
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Software Reliability and Analysis Research

Which countries lead Software Reliability and Analysis Research research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 698 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 698 works
  3. 3 India 607 works
  4. 4 Germany 260 works
  5. 5 Canada 148 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 143 works
  7. 7 Italy 135 works
  8. 8 Japan 132 works
  9. 9 Brazil 119 works
  10. 10 France 108 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.

China: 33.0%United States: 19.9%India: 17.3%Germany: 7.4%6 others listed: 22.4%33%largest
China1,159 · 33.0%United States698 · 19.9%India607 · 17.3%Germany260 · 7.4%6 others listed784 · 22.4%

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

Which institutions lead Software Reliability and Analysis Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beihang University publishes the most Software Reliability and Analysis Research research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and National University of Defense Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beihang UniversityChina 59 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 40 works
  3. 3 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 32 works
  4. 4 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 29 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 28 works
  6. 6 Nanjing UniversityChina 26 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 23 works
  8. 8 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 19 works
  9. 9 Amity UniversityIndia 19 works
  10. 10 Hiroshima UniversityJapan 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Software Reliability and Analysis Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Software Reliability and Analysis Research include Xiangyu Zhang, Wei Huang and Peter M. Bentler.

  1. 1 Xiangyu Zhang 327k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Peter M. Bentler United States 233k citations
  4. 4 Michael I. Jordan United States 182k 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 Reliability and Analysis Research?

The most cited paper in Software Reliability and Analysis Research is "The model checker SPIN" (Gerard J. Holzmann, 1997), with 3,802 citations. Next come "Symbolic model checking" (2,856) and "Symbolic model checking: 1020 States and beyond" (2,711).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The model checker SPIN Gerard J. Holzmann · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering May 1997 3,802
2 Symbolic model checking Emma L. Clarke, K. McMillan, Sérgio Campos et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1996 2,856
3 Symbolic model checking: 1020 States and beyond Jerry R. Burch, E. M. Clarke, Kenneth L. McMillan et al. · Information and Computation Open access Jun 1992 2,711
4 KLEE: unassisted and automatic generation of high-coverage tests for complex systems programs Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dunbar, Dawson Engler 8 Dec 2008 2,669
5 Probability and Statistics With Reliability, Queuing, and Computer Science Applications. W. A. Thompson, Kishor Shridharbhai Trivedi · Journal of the American Statistical Association Dec 1983 2,613
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Where is Software Reliability and Analysis Research research done?

The largest centres of Software Reliability and Analysis Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Shanghai (China) and New Delhi (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 296 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 92 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 88 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 62 works
  5. 5 Xi'anChina 52 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 46 works
  7. 7 MunichGermany 44 works
  8. 8 ChangshaChina 44 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 43 works
  10. 10 GuangzhouChina 39 works
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Where is the best place to study Software Reliability and Analysis Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Singapore Management University, Nanjing University and University of Luxembourg 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 23.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Singapore Management…Nanjing UniversityBeihang UniversityUniversity of Luxemb…
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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
1Singapore Management UniversitySingapore 67.328.5%17.5×8 +11.7%
2Nanjing UniversityChina 57.320.6%6.3×26 +48.1%
3University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 55.518.5%14.2×15 -6.9%
4Beihang UniversityChina 55.118.6%12.1×59 -19.8%
5Peking UniversityChina 53.524.3%1.9×17 +35.7%
6Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 51.835.2%3.7×19 -40.3%
7Polytechnique MontréalCanada 50.315.1%16.1×10 +43.3%
8Tianjin UniversityChina 49.230.1%1.9×10 +50.6%
9National Tsing Hua UniversityTaiwan 48.620.2%8.8×9 +106.4%
10University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 47.224.1%3.4×13 -11.7%

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 Reliability and Analysis Research, country by country

Is Software Reliability and Analysis Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2013.

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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 Reliability and Analysis Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Software Reliability and Analysis Research 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 Reliability and Analysis Research10.0% 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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