Normalized Top-100 Software Engineering Journal Papers
This webpage is an attempt to assemble a ranking of top-cited journal papers from the area of software engineering. The ranking has been created based on citations of papers published at top software engineering venues. More details are available here.
Absolute citations are not necessarily a good indicator for the impact of a paper, as the number of citations usually grows with the age of a paper. The following list shows an alternative ranking, where the citations are normalized by the age of each paper. Papers from 2026 are not included, as their citation counts have not stabilized yet.
Top 100 journal papers normalized by age ⌄
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1
Xinyi Hou, Yanjie Zhao, Yue Liu, Zhou Yang, Kailong Wang, Li Li, Xiapu Luo, David Lo, John Grundy, and Haoyu Wang:
Large Language Models for Software Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
5634% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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2
Barry W. Boehm:
Software Engineering Economics.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1984
3588% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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3
Junjie Wang, Yuchao Huang, Chunyang Chen, Zhe Liu, Song Wang, and Qing Wang:
Software Testing With Large Language Models: Survey, Landscape, and Vision.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2024
3057% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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4
Gerard J. Holzmann:
The Model Checker SPIN.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
2658% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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5
Per Runeson and Martin Höst:
Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting Case Study Research in Software Engineering.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2009
2614% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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6
Max Schäfer, Sarah Nadi, Aryaz Eghbali, and Frank Tip:
An Empirical Evaluation of Using Large Language Models for Automated Unit Test Generation.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2024
2605% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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7
Jia Li, Ge Li, Yongmin Li, and Zhi Jin:
Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Code Generation.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
2580% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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8
Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Lei Ma, and Yang Liu:
Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2022
2483% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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9
Shuyin Ouyang, Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, and Meng Wang:
An Empirical Study of the Non-Determinism of ChatGPT in Code Generation.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
2345% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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10
Yihong Dong, Xue Jiang, Zhi Jin, and Ge Li:
Self-Collaboration Code Generation via ChatGPT.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
2316% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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11
Junda He, Christoph Treude, and David Lo:
LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Software Engineering: Literature Review, Vision, and the Road Ahead.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
2281% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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12
Saikat Chakraborty, Rahul Krishna, Yangruibo Ding, and Baishakhi Ray:
Deep Learning Based Vulnerability Detection: Are We There Yet?
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2022
2277% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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13
Allan J. Albrecht and John E. Gaffney Jr.:
Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1983
2191% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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14
Shyam R. Chidamber and Chris F. Kemerer:
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
1998% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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15
Thomas J. McCabe:
A Complexity Measure.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1976
1923% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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16
Earl T. Barr, Mark Harman, Phil McMinn, Muzammil Shahbaz, and Shin Yoo:
The Oracle Problem in Software Testing: A Survey.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2015
1830% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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17
Liangzhao Zeng, Boualem Benatallah, Anne H. H. Ngu, Marlon Dumas, Jayant Kalagnanam, and Henry Chang:
QoS-Aware Middleware for Web Services Composition.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2004
1823% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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18
Tsun S. Chow:
Testing Software Design Modeled by Finite-State Machines.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1978
1805% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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19
W. Eric Wong, Ruizhi Gao, Yihao Li, Rui Abreu, and Franz Wotawa:
A Survey on Software Fault Localization.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
1780% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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20
Nenad Medvidovic and Richard N. Taylor:
A Classification and Comparison Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2000
1756% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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21
Victor R. Basili and H. Dieter Rombach:
The TAME Project: Towards Improvement-Oriented Software Environments.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1988
1707% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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22
Claire Le Goues, ThanhVu Nguyen, Stephanie Forrest, and Westley Weimer:
GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
1480% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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23
Valentin J. M. Manès, HyungSeok Han, Choongwoo Han, Sang Kil Cha, Manuel Egele, Edward J. Schwartz, and Maverick Woo:
The Art, Science, and Engineering of Fuzzing: A Survey.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021
1395% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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24
Zibin Zheng, Kaiwen Ning, Qingyuan Zhong, Jiachi Chen, Wenqing Chen, Lianghong Guo, Weicheng Wang, and Yanlin Wang:
Towards an Understanding of Large Language Models in Software Engineering Tasks.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2025
1350% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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25
Thomas L. Casavant and Jon G. Kuhl:
A Taxonomy of Scheduling in General-Purpose Distributed Computing Systems.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1988
1309% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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26
Tracy Hall, Sarah Beecham, David Bowes, David Gray, and Steve Counsell:
A Systematic Literature Review on Fault Prediction Performance in Software Engineering.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2012
1299% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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27
Weiqin Zou, David Lo, Pavneet Singh Kochhar, Xuan-Bach Dinh Le, Xin Xia, Yang Feng, Zhenyu Chen, and Baowen Xu:
Smart Contract Development: Challenges and Opportunities.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021
1297% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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28
Yue Jia and Mark Harman:
An Analysis and Survey of the Development of Mutation Testing.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
1246% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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29
Sallie M. Henry and Dennis G. Kafura:
Software Structure Metrics Based on Information Flow.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1981
1224% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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30
Zimin Chen, Steve Kommrusch, Michele Tufano, Louis-Noël Pouchet, Denys Poshyvanyk, and Martin Monperrus:
SequenceR: Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for End-to-End Program Repair.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021
1188% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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31
Sebastian Baltes and Paul Ralph:
Sampling in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2022
1174% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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32
Carolyn B. Seaman:
Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
1159% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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33
Xin Zhou, Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, and David Lo:
Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
1158% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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34
Xue Jiang, Yihong Dong, Lecheng Wang, Zheng Fang, Qiwei Shang, Ge Li, Zhi Jin, and Wenpin Jiao:
Self-Planning Code Generation with Large Language Models.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
1128% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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35
Algirdas Avizienis:
The N-Version Approach to Fault-Tolerant Software.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1985
1122% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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36
Sandra Rapps and Elaine J. Weyuker:
Selecting Software Test Data Using Data Flow Information.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1985
1117% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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37
Federico Cassano, John Gouwar, Daniel Nguyen, Sydney Nguyen, Luna Phipps-Costin, Donald Pinckney, Ming-Ho Yee, Yangtian Zi, Carolyn Jane Anderson, Molly Q. Feldman, Arjun Guha, Michael Greenberg, and Abhinav Jangda:
MultiPL-E: A Scalable and Polyglot Approach to Benchmarking Neural Code Generation.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2023
1103% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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38
Bogdan Korel:
Automated Software Test Data Generation.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
1102% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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39
Chong Chen, Jianzhong Su, Jiachi Chen, Tingting Bi, Jianxing Yu, Yanlin Wang, Xingwei Lin, Ting Chen, and Zibin Zheng:
When ChatGPT Meets Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection: How Far Are We?
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
1094% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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40
Daniel Russo:
Navigating the Complexity of Generative AI Adoption in Software Engineering.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
1071% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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41
K. Mani Chandy and Jayadev Misra:
Distributed Simulation: A Case Study in Design and Verification of Distributed Programs.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1979
1067% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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42
Lawrence H. Putnam:
A General Empirical Solution to the Macro Software Sizing and Estimating Problem.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1978
1064% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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43
Victor R. Basili, Lionel C. Briand, and Walcélio L. Melo:
A Validation of Object-Oriented Design Metrics as Quality Indicators.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1996
1056% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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44
Yue Liu, Thanh Le-Cong, Ratnadira Widyasari, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Li Li, Xuan-Bach Dinh Le, and David Lo:
Refining ChatGPT-Generated Code: Characterizing and Mitigating Code Quality Issues.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
1027% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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45
Stefan Lessmann, Bart Baesens, Christophe Mues, and Swantje Pietsch:
Benchmarking Classification Models for Software Defect Prediction: A Proposed Framework and Novel Findings.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2008
1004% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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46
Elaine J. Weyuker:
Evaluating Software Complexity Measures.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1988
999% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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47
Anton Barua, Stephen W. Thomas, and Ahmed E. Hassan:
What Are Developers Talking About? An Analysis of Topics and Trends in Stack Overflow.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2014
984% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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48
Yihong Dong, Jiazheng Ding, Xue Jiang, Ge Li, Zhuo Li, and Zhi Jin:
CodeScore: Evaluating Code Generation by Learning Code Execution.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
973% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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49
Franco Zambonelli, Nicholas R. Jennings, and Michael J. Wooldridge:
Developing Multiagent Systems: The Gaia Methodology.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2003
959% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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50
Tim Menzies, Jeremy Greenwald, and Art Frank:
Data Mining Static Code Attributes to Learn Defect Predictors.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2007
945% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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51
Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee:
The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
916% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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52
Amrit L. Goel:
Software Reliability Models: Assumptions, Limitations, and Applicability.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1985
915% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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53
Yasutaka Kamei, Emad Shihab, Bram Adams, Ahmed E. Hassan, Audris Mockus, Anand Sinha, and Naoyasu Ubayashi:
A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Just-in-Time Quality Assurance.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
879% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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54
Sergio Segura, Gordon Fraser, Ana Belén Sánchez, and Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
A Survey on Metamorphic Testing.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
862% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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55
Silverio Martínez-Fernández, Justus Bogner, Xavier Franch, Marc Oriol, Julien Siebert, Adam Trendowicz, Anna Maria Vollmer, and Stefan Wagner:
Software Engineering for AI-Based Systems: A Survey.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2022
851% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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56
Bernard Berthomieu and Michel Diaz:
Modeling and Verification of Time Dependent Systems Using Time Petri Nets.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
851% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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57
Florian Tambon, Arghavan Moradi Dakhel, Amin Nikanjam, Foutse Khomh, Michel C. Desmarais, and Giuliano Antoniol:
Bugs in Large Language Models Generated Code: An Empirical Study.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2025
845% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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58
Robert Allen and David Garlan:
A Formal Basis for Architectural Connection.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 1997
842% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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59
Derek L. Eager, Edward D. Lazowska, and John Zahorjan:
Adaptive Load Sharing in Homogeneous Distributed Systems.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1986
830% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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60
Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
An Empirical Comparison of Model Validation Techniques for Defect Prediction Models.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
829% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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61
Grady Booch:
Object-Oriented Development.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1986
813% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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62
Xiaodong Gu, Meng Chen, Yalan Lin, Yuhan Hu, Hongyu Zhang, Chengcheng Wan, Zhao Wei, Yong Xu, and Juhong Wang:
On the Effectiveness of Large Language Models in Domain-Specific Code Generation.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
810% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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63
Barry W. Boehm and Philip N. Papaccio:
Understanding and Controlling Software Costs.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1988
805% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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64
Naouel Moha, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Laurence Duchien, and Anne-Françoise Le Meur:
DECOR: A Method for the Specification and Detection of Code and Design Smells.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2010
804% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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65
Tom Mens and Tom Tourwé:
A Survey of Software Refactoring.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2004
783% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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66
André Silva, Sen Fang, and Martin Monperrus:
RepairLLaMA: Efficient Representations and Fine-Tuned Adapters for Program Repair.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2025
781% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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67
Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri:
Whole Test Suite Generation.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
775% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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68
Leslie Lamport:
Proving the Correctness of Multiprocess Programs.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1977
773% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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69
Audris Mockus, Roy T. Fielding, and James D. Herbsleb:
Two Case Studies of Open Source Software Development: Apache and Mozilla.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2002
769% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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70
Michele Tufano, Cody Watson, Gabriele Bavota, Massimiliano Di Penta, Martin White, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
An Empirical Study on Learning Bug-Fixing Patches in the Wild via Neural Machine Translation.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2019
767% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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71
Norman E. Fenton and Martin Neil:
A Critique of Software Defect Prediction Models.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
766% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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72
John Mylopoulos, Lawrence Chung, and Brian A. Nixon:
Representing and Using Nonfunctional Requirements: A Process-Oriented Approach.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
763% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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73
Emden R. Gansner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen C. North, and Kiem-Phong Vo:
A Technique for Drawing Directed Graphs.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1993
763% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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74
Michele Tufano, Fabio Palomba, Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, Andrea De Lucia, and Denys Poshyvanyk:
When and Why Your Code Starts to Smell Bad (and Whether the Smells Go Away).
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
763% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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75
Gregg Rothermel, Roland H. Untch, Chengyun Chu, and Mary Jean Harrold:
Prioritizing Test Cases For Regression Testing.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2001
763% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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76
Richard Koo and Sam Toueg:
Checkpointing and Rollback-Recovery for Distributed Systems.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1987
762% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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77
Jifeng Xuan, Matias Martinez, Favio Demarco, Maxime Clement, Sebastian R. Lamelas Marcote, Thomas Durieux, Daniel Le Berre, and Martin Monperrus:
Nopol: Automatic Repair of Conditional Statement Bugs in Java Programs.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
759% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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78
Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, and Giovanni Vigna:
Understanding Code Mobility.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
758% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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79
Jayadev Misra and K. Mani Chandy:
Proofs of Networks of Processes.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1981
755% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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80
Daniel L. Moody:
The “Physics” of Notations: Toward a Scientific Basis for Constructing Visual Notations in Software Engineering.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2009
754% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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81
Brian Randell:
System Structure for Software Fault Tolerance.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1975
752% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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82
Toshihiro Kamiya, Shinji Kusumoto, and Katsuro Inoue:
CCFinder: A Multilinguistic Token-Based Code Clone Detection System for Large Scale Source Code.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2002
749% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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83
Xiang Zhou, Xin Peng, Tao Xie, Jun Sun, Chao Ji, Wenhai Li, and Dan Ding:
Fault Analysis and Debugging of Microservice Systems: Industrial Survey, Benchmark System, and Empirical Study.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021
746% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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84
Hyunsook Do, Sebastian G. Elbaum, and Gregg Rothermel:
Supporting Controlled Experimentation with Testing Techniques: An Infrastructure and Its Potential Impact.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2005
744% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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85
Sungmin Kang, Bei Chen, Shin Yoo, and Jian-Guang Lou:
Explainable Automated Debugging via Large Language Model-Driven Scientific Debugging.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2025
732% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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86
Barry W. Boehm and Rony Ross:
Theory-W Software Project Management: Principles and Examples.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1989
728% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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87
William J. Martin, Federica Sarro, Yue Jia, Yuanyuan Zhang, and Mark Harman:
A Survey of App Store Analysis for Software Engineering.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2017
714% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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88
James D. Herbsleb and Audris Mockus:
An Empirical Study of Speed and Communication in Globally Distributed Software Development.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2003
709% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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89
Zimin Chen, Steve Kommrusch, and Martin Monperrus:
Neural Transfer Learning for Repairing Security Vulnerabilities in C Code.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2023
705% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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90
Juan Manuel Murillo, José García-Alonso, Enrique Moguel, Johanna Barzen, Frank Leymann, Shaukat Ali, Tao Yue, Paolo Arcaini, Ricardo Pérez-Castillo, Ignacio García Rodríguez de Guzmán, Mario Piattini, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés, Antonio Brogi, Jianjun Zhao, Andriy V. Miranskyy, and Manuel Wimmer:
Quantum Software Engineering: Roadmap and Challenges Ahead.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
703% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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91
Norman C. Hutchinson and Larry L. Peterson:
The X-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
690% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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92
Yair Wand and Ron Weber:
An Ontological Model of an Information System.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
687% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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93
William E. Howden:
Weak Mutation Testing and Completeness of Test Sets.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1982
683% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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94
Edward M. Reingold and John S. Tilford:
Tidier Drawings of Trees.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1981
680% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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95
Martin Weyssow, Xin Zhou, Kisub Kim, David Lo, and Houari A. Sahraoui:
Exploring Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Techniques for Code Generation with Large Language Models.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
675% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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96
Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, and Romain Robbes:
Evaluating Defect Prediction Approaches: A Benchmark and an Extensive Comparison.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
672% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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97
Yujia Fu, Peng Liang, Amjed Tahir, Zengyang Li, Mojtaba Shahin, Jiaxin Yu, and Jinfu Chen:
Security Weaknesses of Copilot-Generated Code in GitHub Projects: An Empirical Study.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
668% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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98
Victor R. Basili and Richard W. Selby:
Comparing the Effectiveness of Software Testing Strategies.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1987
662% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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99
Damiano Torre, Anitha Chennamaneni, JaeYun Jo, Gitika Vyas, and Brandon Sabrsula:
Toward Enhancing Privacy Preservation of a Federated Learning CNN Intrusion Detection System in IoT: Method and Empirical Study.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
661% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
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100
Nuthan Munaiah, Steven Kroh, Craig Cabrey, and Meiyappan Nagappan:
Curating GitHub for Engineered Software Projects.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
659% above average of year
Visited: Sep-2026
Most frequent authors in the top 100 ⌄
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1
David Lo
6 papers in this ranking
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2
Mark Harman
5 papers in this ranking
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3
Ge Li
4 papers in this ranking
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4
Martin Monperrus
4 papers in this ranking
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5
Zhi Jin
4 papers in this ranking
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6
Ahmed E. Hassan
3 papers in this ranking
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7
Audris Mockus
3 papers in this ranking
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8
Barry W. Boehm
3 papers in this ranking
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9
Denys Poshyvanyk
3 papers in this ranking
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10
Michele Tufano
3 papers in this ranking
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11
Victor R. Basili
3 papers in this ranking
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12
Xue Jiang
3 papers in this ranking
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13
Yihong Dong
3 papers in this ranking
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14
Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn
2 papers in this ranking
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15
Elaine J. Weyuker
2 papers in this ranking
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16
Gabriele Bavota
2 papers in this ranking
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17
Gordon Fraser
2 papers in this ranking
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18
Gregg Rothermel
2 papers in this ranking
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19
James D. Herbsleb
2 papers in this ranking
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20
Jayadev Misra
2 papers in this ranking