International Conference on Software Engineering

Top Research Topics at International Conference on Software Engineering?

• Software engineering (30.93%)
• Software (26.79%)
• Software development (16.88%)

The conference facilitates discussions on Software engineering, Software, Software development, Programming language and Software system. The research on Software engineering featured in the event combines topics in other fields like Systems engineering, Component-based software engineering, Software quality and Software development process. Topics in Software explored in International Conference on Software Engineering were investigated in conjunction with research in Process (engineering) and Source code.

Software construction, Social software engineering, Personal software process, Package development process and Software Engineering Process Group are among the concentrations of Software development that garnered much attention in International Conference on Software Engineering. The study on Software construction presented in International Conference on Software Engineering intersects with subjects under the field of Software design. The work on Social software engineering tackled in the conference brings together disciplines like Software analytics, Software project management, Software requirements, Software walkthrough and Software peer review.

Java and Formal specification are all aspects of Programming language research featured in the event. Software framework is a focus of the presented Software system works and it dives deep in Software framework.

What are the most cited papers published at the conference?

• Requirements engineering: a roadmap (1609 citations)
• N degrees of separation: multi-dimensional separation of concerns (1255 citations)
• Patterns in property specifications for finite-state verification (1215 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at International Conference on Software Engineering:

The published papers mainly tackle studies in Software engineering, Software, Programming language, Software development and Software system. The most cited publications hold forums on Software engineering that merge themes from other disciplines such as Systems engineering, Software maintenance, Component-based software engineering and Software development process. The works on Software tackled in the conference articles bring together disciplines like Data mining and Source code.

What topics the last edition of the conference is best known for?

• Artificial intelligence
• Operating system
• Law

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The conference primarily tackles Software, Artificial intelligence, Software engineering, Machine learning and Software bug. While Software is the focus of International Conference on Software Engineering, it also provided insights into the studies of Task analysis and Source code. The study of Task (project management) serves as the foundation of the Task analysis research discussed in it.

The conference dives deep in exploring the relationship between the study of Artificial intelligence and Natural language processing. Some problems in Software engineering that were presented in the event overlapped with concepts under Context (language use), Process (engineering) and Code (cryptography). The discussions emphasized the topic of Software bug in an attempt to further explore the field of Programming language.

The most cited articles from the last conference are:

• Challenges and Gratitude: A Diary Study of Software Engineers Working From Home During Covid-19 Pandemic (12 citations)
• "How Was Your Weekend?" Software Development Teams Working From Home During COVID-19 (10 citations)
• InferCode: Self-Supervised Learning of Code Representations by Predicting Subtrees (9 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each conference is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

Top authors and change over time

The top authors publishing at International Conference on Software Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

• Barry Boehm (50 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Tien N. Nguyen (49 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
• Tao Xie (46 papers) absent at the last edition,
• Denys Poshyvanyk (45 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
• Thomas Zimmermann (43 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing at this conference is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the conference for top authors.

Top affiliations and change over time

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing at International Conference on Software Engineering (based on the number of publications) are:

• Carnegie Mellon University (259 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
• Microsoft (246 papers) published 20 papers at the last edition, 7 more than at the previous edition,
• IBM (199 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
• North Carolina State University (148 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
• University of California, Irvine (142 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing at this conference is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the conference for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions at the conference edition to all articles published within that conference. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the conference.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 7.45% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 14.71% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing at the conference. Another 6.44% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.31% of all publications and 59.54% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of conferences they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same conference from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the conference in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing at a conference. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a conference, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

• Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
• Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
• Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
• Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
• Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.