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.

Top 100 journal papers normalized by age ⌄

  1. 1
    Juyong Jiang, Fan Wang, Jiasi Shen, Sungju Kim, and Sung Hun Kim:
    A Survey on Large Language Models for Code Generation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2026
    957 cites at Semantic Scholar
    15691% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  2. 2
    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
    1010 cites at Semantic Scholar
    5183% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  3. 3
    Barry W. Boehm:
    Software Engineering Economics.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1984
    7040 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3587% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  4. 4
    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
    603 cites at Semantic Scholar
    3054% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  5. 5
    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
    326 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2936% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  6. 6
    Per Runeson and Martin Höst:
    Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting Case Study Research in Software Engineering.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2009
    4237 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2588% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  7. 7
    Jie M. Zhang, Mark Harman, Lei Ma, and Yang Liu:
    Machine Learning Testing: Survey, Landscapes and Horizons.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2022
    863 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2546% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  8. 8
    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
    501 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2521% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  9. 9
    Yihong Dong, Xue Jiang, Zhi Jin, and Ge Li:
    Self-Collaboration Code Generation via ChatGPT.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
    498 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2505% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  10. 10
    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
    276 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2471% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  11. 11
    Gerard J. Holzmann:
    The Model Checker SPIN.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1997
    4462 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2216% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  12. 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
    747 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2190% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  13. 13
    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
    228 cites at Semantic Scholar
    2024% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  14. 14
    Shyam R. Chidamber and Chris F. Kemerer:
    A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1994
    2519 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1780% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  15. 15
    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
    1091 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1758% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  16. 16
    Nenad Medvidovic and Richard N. Taylor:
    A Classification and Comparison Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2000
    2334 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1748% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  17. 17
    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
    1075 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1711% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  18. 18
    Victor R. Basili and H. Dieter Rombach:
    The TAME Project: Towards Improvement-Oriented Software Environments.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1988
    1572 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1705% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  19. 19
    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
    2964 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1705% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  20. 20
    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
    175 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1530% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  21. 21
    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
    1193 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1422% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  22. 22
    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
    601 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1342% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  23. 23
    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
    593 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1323% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  24. 24
    Thomas L. Casavant and Jon G. Kuhl:
    A Taxonomy of Scheduling in General-Purpose Distributed Computing Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1988
    1226 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1308% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  25. 25
    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
    1089 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1289% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  26. 26
    Dong Huang, Jie M. Zhang, Qingwen Bu, Xiaofei Xie, Junjie Chen, and Heming Cui:
    Bias Testing and Mitigation in LLM-Based Code Generation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2026
    83 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1270% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  27. 27
    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
    145 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1251% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  28. 28
    Yue Jia and Mark Harman:
    An Analysis and Survey of the Development of Mutation Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2011
    1700 cites at OpenAlex
    1235% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  29. 29
    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
    535 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1184% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  30. 30
    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
    135 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1157% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  31. 31
    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
    134 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1148% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  32. 32
    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
    1939 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1131% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  33. 33
    Sandra Rapps and Elaine J. Weyuker:
    Selecting Software Test Data Using Data Flow Information.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1985
    1157 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1124% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  34. 34
    Sebastian Baltes and Paul Ralph:
    Sampling in Software Engineering Research: A Critical Review and Guidelines.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2022
    399 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1123% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  35. 35
    Algirdas Avizienis:
    The N-Version Approach to Fault-Tolerant Software.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1985
    1148 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1114% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  36. 36
    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
    231 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1108% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  37. 37
    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
    230 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1103% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  38. 38
    Bogdan Korel:
    Automated Software Test Data Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    1083 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1101% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  39. 39
    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
    265 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1098% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  40. 40
    Martin Weyssow, Aton Kamanda, Xin Zhou, and Houari A. Sahraoui:
    CodeUltraFeedback: An LLM-as-a-Judge Dataset for Aligning Large Language Models to Coding Preferences.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2026
    72 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1088% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  41. 41
    Carolyn B. Seaman:
    Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    1713 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1042% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  42. 42
    Daniel Russo:
    Navigating the Complexity of Generative AI Adoption in Software Engineering.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
    217 cites at Semantic Scholar
    1035% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  43. 43
    Elaine J. Weyuker:
    Evaluating Software Complexity Measures.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1988
    955 cites at Semantic Scholar
    997% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  44. 44
    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
    1212 cites at Semantic Scholar
    989% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  45. 45
    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
    613 cites at Semantic Scholar
    985% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  46. 46
    Franco Zambonelli, Nicholas R. Jennings, and Michael J. Wooldridge:
    Developing Multiagent Systems: The Gaia Methodology.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2003
    1427 cites at Semantic Scholar
    947% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  47. 47
    Tim Menzies, Jeremy Greenwald, and Art Frank:
    Data Mining Static Code Attributes to Learn Defect Predictors.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2007
    1516 cites at Semantic Scholar
    936% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  48. 48
    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
    110 cites at Semantic Scholar
    925% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  49. 49
    Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee:
    The Evolving Philosophers Problem: Dynamic Change Management.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    919 cites at Semantic Scholar
    920% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  50. 50
    Amrit L. Goel:
    Software Reliability Models: Assumptions, Limitations, and Applicability.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1985
    961 cites at Semantic Scholar
    916% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  51. 51
    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
    107 cites at Semantic Scholar
    897% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  52. 52
    André Silva, Sen Fang, and Martin Monperrus:
    RepairLLaMA: Efficient Representations and Fine-Tuned Adapters for Program Repair.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2025
    105 cites at Semantic Scholar
    878% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  53. 53
    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
    802 cites at Semantic Scholar
    860% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  54. 54
    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
    103 cites at Semantic Scholar
    859% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  55. 55
    Bernard Berthomieu and Michel Diaz:
    Modeling and Verification of Time Dependent Systems Using Time Petri Nets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1991
    1173 cites at Semantic Scholar
    854% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  56. 56
    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
    311 cites at Semantic Scholar
    854% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  57. 57
    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
    679 cites at Semantic Scholar
    850% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  58. 58
    Derek L. Eager, Edward D. Lazowska, and John Zahorjan:
    Adaptive Load Sharing in Homogeneous Distributed Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1986
    1099 cites at Semantic Scholar
    830% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  59. 59
    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
    506 cites at Semantic Scholar
    828% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  60. 60
    Grady Booch:
    Object-Oriented Development.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1986
    1082 cites at Semantic Scholar
    816% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  61. 61
    Sergio Segura, Gordon Fraser, Ana Belén Sánchez, and Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
    A Survey on Metamorphic Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2016
    532 cites at Semantic Scholar
    806% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  62. 62
    Barry W. Boehm and Philip N. Papaccio:
    Understanding and Controlling Software Costs.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1988
    784 cites at Semantic Scholar
    800% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  63. 63
    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
    815 cites at Semantic Scholar
    797% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  64. 64
    John Mylopoulos, Lawrence Chung, and Brian A. Nixon:
    Representing and Using Nonfunctional Requirements: A Process-Oriented Approach.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1992
    1182 cites at Semantic Scholar
    792% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  65. 65
    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
    1945 cites at Semantic Scholar
    768% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  66. 66
    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
    93 cites at Semantic Scholar
    766% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  67. 67
    Gordon Fraser and Andrea Arcuri:
    Whole Test Suite Generation.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    618 cites at Semantic Scholar
    764% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  68. 68
    Richard Koo and Sam Toueg:
    Checkpointing and Rollback-Recovery for Distributed Systems.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1987
    654 cites at Semantic Scholar
    764% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  69. 69
    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
    469 cites at Semantic Scholar
    760% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  70. 70
    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
    1350 cites at Semantic Scholar
    756% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  71. 71
    Gregg Rothermel, Roland H. Untch, Chengyun Chu, and Mary Jean Harrold:
    Prioritizing Test Cases For Regression Testing.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2001
    1330 cites at OpenAlex
    755% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  72. 72
    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
    440 cites at Semantic Scholar
    754% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  73. 73
    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
    1900 cites at Semantic Scholar
    748% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  74. 74
    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
    462 cites at Semantic Scholar
    747% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  75. 75
    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
    1195 cites at Semantic Scholar
    740% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  76. 76
    Barry W. Boehm and Rony Ross:
    Theory-W Software Project Management: Principles and Examples.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1989
    535 cites at Semantic Scholar
    725% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  77. 77
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    Paper: DOI
  78. 78
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    1348 cites at Semantic Scholar
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    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2023
    181 cites at Semantic Scholar
    718% above average of year
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    Xiang Zhou, Xin Peng, Tao Xie, Jun Sun, Chao Ji, Wenhai Li, and Dan Ding:
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    338 cites at Semantic Scholar
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    Paper: DOI
  82. 82
    Norman C. Hutchinson and Larry L. Peterson:
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    978 cites at Semantic Scholar
    695% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  83. 83
    Norman E. Fenton and Martin Neil:
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    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1999
    1188 cites at Semantic Scholar
    692% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  84. 84
    Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, and Giovanni Vigna:
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    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1998
    1304 cites at Semantic Scholar
    688% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  85. 85
    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
    1073 cites at Semantic Scholar
    687% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  86. 86
    Yair Wand and Ron Weber:
    An Ontological Model of an Information System.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1990
    709 cites at Semantic Scholar
    687% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  87. 87
    Zhijie Liu, Yutian Tang, Xiapu Luo, Yuming Zhou, and Liang Feng Zhang:
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    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2024
    150 cites at Semantic Scholar
    685% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  88. 88
    Jia Li, Chongyang Tao, Jia Li, Ge Li, Zhi Jin, Huangzhao Zhang, Zheng Fang, and Fang Liu:
    Large Language Model-Aware In-Context Learning for Code Generation.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
    84 cites at Semantic Scholar
    682% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  89. 89
    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
    83 cites at Semantic Scholar
    673% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  90. 90
    Marco D'Ambros, Michele Lanza, and Romain Robbes:
    Evaluating Defect Prediction Approaches: A Benchmark and an Extensive Comparison.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2012
    606 cites at Semantic Scholar
    673% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  91. 91
    Victor R. Basili and Richard W. Selby:
    Comparing the Effectiveness of Software Testing Strategies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1987
    579 cites at Semantic Scholar
    665% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  92. 92
    Mahmoud Alfadel, Diego Elias Costa, and Emad Shihab:
    Empirical Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in Python Packages.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2023
    168 cites at Semantic Scholar
    660% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  93. 93
    John C. Knight and Nancy G. Leveson:
    An Experimental Evaluation of the Assumption of Independence in Multiversion Programming.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1986
    881 cites at Semantic Scholar
    646% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  94. 94
    Michael R. Lyu, Baishakhi Ray, Abhik Roychoudhury, Shin Hwei Tan, and Patanamon Thongtanunam:
    Automatic Programming: Large Language Models and Beyond.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2025
    80 cites at Semantic Scholar
    645% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  95. 95
    Martin J. Shepperd, Qinbao Song, Zhongbin Sun, and Carolyn Mair:
    Data Quality: Some Comments on the NASA Software Defect Datasets.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2013
    530 cites at Semantic Scholar
    641% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  96. 96
    Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, Shane McIntosh, Ahmed E. Hassan, and Kenichi Matsumoto:
    The Impact of Automated Parameter Optimization on Defect Prediction Models.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2019
    381 cites at Semantic Scholar
    640% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  97. 97
    Zhenpeng Chen, Jie M. Zhang, Max Hort, Mark Harman, and Federica Sarro:
    Fairness Testing: A Comprehensive Survey and Analysis of Trends.
    ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), 2024
    141 cites at Semantic Scholar
    638% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  98. 98
    Houssine Chetto and Maryline Silly-Chetto:
    Some Results of the Earliest Deadline Scheduling Algorithm.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 1989
    478 cites at Semantic Scholar
    637% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  99. 99
    Nuthan Munaiah, Steven Kroh, Craig Cabrey, and Meiyappan Nagappan:
    Curating GitHub for Engineered Software Projects.
    Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2017
    402 cites at Semantic Scholar
    637% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI
  100. 100
    Magne Jørgensen and Martin J. Shepperd:
    A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies.
    IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2007
    1074 cites at Semantic Scholar
    634% above average of year
    Visited: Jun-2026
    Paper: DOI

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