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Software System Performance and Reliability

Software System Performance and Reliability is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 39k research works in it since 1952. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on log analysis, performance prediction, and system diagnosis in the context of microservices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures. It covers techniques for anomaly detection, fault localization, and model-driven performance prediction using system logs.

  • Log Analysis
  • Performance Prediction
  • Microservices
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Fault Localization
  • Distributed Systems
  • Model-driven Performance Prediction
  • Cloud-Native Architecture
  • DevOps
  • System Logs
Research works
39k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
3.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Software System Performance and Reliability

Which countries lead Software System Performance and Reliability research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.1k and 2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2.1k works
  2. 2 China 2k works
  3. 3 India 1.1k works
  4. 4 Germany 473 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 313 works
  6. 6 Italy 300 works
  7. 7 Canada 290 works
  8. 8 Brazil 279 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 199 works
  10. 10 France 190 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: 28.6%China: 27.5%India: 15.8%Germany: 6.5%6 others listed: 21.6%29%largest
United States2,078 · 28.6%China2,003 · 27.5%India1,148 · 15.8%Germany473 · 6.5%6 others listed1,572 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Software System Performance and Reliability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Film Independent publishes the most Software System Performance and Reliability research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and American Society of Genealogists.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 200 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 97 works
  3. 3 American Society of GenealogistsUnited States 56 works
  4. 4 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 52 works
  5. 5 Microsoft (United States)United States 49 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 49 works
  7. 7 Beihang UniversityChina 43 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 42 works
  9. 9 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 38 works
  10. 10 IBM (United States)United States 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Software System Performance and Reliability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Software System Performance and Reliability include Xiangyu Zhang, Ben Zhong Tang and Li Fei-Fei.

  1. 1 Xiangyu Zhang 327k citations
  2. 2 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  3. 3 Li Fei-Fei United States 225k citations
  4. 4 Rafael Lozano United States 224k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Aziz Sheikh United Kingdom 214k 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 System Performance and Reliability?

The most cited paper in Software System Performance and Reliability is "Pattern Classification" (Evan L. Russell, Leo H. Chiang, Richard D. Braatz, 2000), with 7,895 citations. Next come "Basic concepts and taxonomy of dependable and secure computing" (5,213) and "Software Architecture in Practice" (5,049).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Pattern Classification Evan L. Russell, Leo H. Chiang, Richard D. Braatz · Advances in industrial control Book chapter 2000 7,895
2 Basic concepts and taxonomy of dependable and secure computing A. Avižienis, J.-C. Laprie, Brian Randell et al. · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Open access 2004 5,213
3 Software Architecture in Practice Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman 1997 5,049
4 Pattern Classification Leo H. Chiang, Evan L. Russell, Richard D. Braatz · Advanced textbooks in control and signal processing Book chapter 2001 5,020
5 Extracting summary statistics to perform meta-analyses of the published literature for survival endpoints Mahesh Parmar, Valter Torri, Lesley A. Stewart · Statistics in Medicine 30 Dec 1998 4,856
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Where is Software System Performance and Reliability research done?

The largest centres of Software System Performance and Reliability research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Los Angeles (United States), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sharon and Redmond.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 537 works
  2. 2 Los AngelesUnited States 224 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 135 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 127 works
  5. 5 GuangzhouChina 100 works
  6. 6 ChennaiIndia 96 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 94 works
  8. 8 HangzhouChina 85 works
  9. 9 WuhanChina 84 works
  10. 10 Xi'anChina 82 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SharonUS · 56.0 works52×
  2. RedmondUS · 29.2 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Software System Performance and Reliability than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Software System Performance and Reliability?

Among universities, judged by research, Singapore Management University, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Tsinghua University score highest, combining citation 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 22.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Chinese University o…Singapore Management…Tsinghua UniversitySun Yat-sen University
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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.

Citation 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 72.134.2%13.3×13 +63.1%
2Chinese University of Hong KongChina 67.239.7%1.6×10 +163.6%
3Tsinghua UniversityChina 63.923.2%2.0×42 +48.2%
4Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 61.722.1%1.7×32 +189.9%
5Concordia UniversityCanada 61.115.0%10.6×28 +19.1%
6Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 60.912.2%9.1×52 +26.3%
7University of OuluFinland 59.126.4%5.6×14 +179.9%
8Polytechnique MontréalCanada 58.118.8%15.3×19 +33.0%
9Nanjing UniversityChina 56.716.2%3.9×32 +26.4%
10Peking UniversityChina 56.621.9%1.8×34 +5.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 System Performance and Reliability, country by country

Is Software System Performance and Reliability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Software System Performance and Reliability.

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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 System Performance and Reliability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Software System Performance and Reliability0.050% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Software System Performance and Reliability 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 System Performance and Reliability9.6% 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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