2026 Meiyappan Nagappan: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	37	10874	10572	430	411	116	5029

Overview

Meiyappan Nagappan is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a particular focus on Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Software, and Communication as subfields.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics, including:

Software Engineering Research
Open Source Software Innovations
Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Wikis in Education and Collaboration
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques

Frequent publication venues for Meiyappan Nagappan include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Empirical Software Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
IEEE Software

Recent papers published by Meiyappan Nagappan focus on software engineering topics and research into collaborative development environments, including:

Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review, 2021, Empirical Software Engineering
Is GitHub's Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code?, 2023, Empirical Software Engineering
Watch Out for Extrinsic Bugs! A Case Study of Their Impact in Just-In-Time Bug Prediction Models on the OpenStack Project, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Insights Into Nonmerged Pull Requests in GitHub: Is There Evidence of Bias Based on Perceptible Race?, 2020, IEEE Software
How are project-specific forums utilized? A study of participation, content, and sentiment in the Eclipse ecosystem, 2021, Empirical Software Engineering

Meiyappan Nagappan has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Gema Rodríguez-Pérez
Mahmoud Alfadel
Noble Saji Mathews
Reza Nadri
Ifraz Rehman

Best Publications

What Do Mobile App Users Complain About

Hammad Khalid;Emad Shihab;Meiyappan Nagappan;Ahmed E. Hassan

493
Citations
Curating GitHub for engineered software projects

Nuthan Munaiah;Steven Kroh;Craig Cabrey;Meiyappan Nagappan

369
Citations
What are the characteristics of high-rated apps? A case study on free Android Applications

Yuan Tian;Meiyappan Nagappan;David Lo;Ahmed E. Hassan

213
Citations
Diversity in software engineering research

Meiyappan Nagappan;Thomas Zimmermann;Christian Bird

211
Citations
Abstracting log lines to log event types for mining software system logs

Meiyappan Nagappan;Mladen A. Vouk

200
Citations
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Software Reuse in Mobile Apps

Israel J. Mojica;Bram Adams;Meiyappan Nagappan;Steffen Dienst

181
Citations
Understanding reuse in the Android Market

Israel J. Mojica Ruiz;Meiyappan Nagappan;Bram Adams;Ahmed E. Hassan

172
Citations
Future Trends in Software Engineering Research for Mobile Apps

Meiyappan Nagappan;Emad Shihab

151
Citations
Think locally, act globally: improving defect and effort prediction models

Nicolas Bettenburg;Meiyappan Nagappan;Ahmed E. Hassan

140
Citations
Truth in advertising: the hidden cost of mobile ads for software developers

Jiaping Gui;Stuart Mcilroy;Meiyappan Nagappan;William G. J. Halfond

133
Citations
The Impact of Classifier Configuration and Classifier Combination on Bug Localization

Stephen W. Thomas;Meiyappan Nagappan;Dorothea Blostein;Ahmed E. Hassan

131
Citations
Perceived diversity in software engineering: a systematic literature review.

Gema Rodríguez-Pérez;Reza Nadri;Meiyappan Nagappan

128
Citations
Prioritizing the devices to test your app on: a case study of Android game apps

Hammad Khalid;Meiyappan Nagappan;Emad Shihab;Ahmed E. Hassan

118
Citations
Is GitHub’s Copilot as bad as humans at introducing vulnerabilities in code?

Unknown

116
Citations
Predicting Bugs Using Antipatterns

Seyyed Ehsan Salamati Taba;Foutse Khomh;Ying Zou;Ahmed E. Hassan

108
Citations
Examining the Rating System Used in Mobile-App Stores

Israel J. Mojica Ruiz;Meiyappan Nagappan;Bram Adams;Thorsten Berger

99
Citations
An empirical study of dormant bugs

Tse-Hsun Chen;Meiyappan Nagappan;Emad Shihab;Ahmed E. Hassan

98
Citations
What went right and what went wrong: an analysis of 155 postmortems from game development

Michael Washburn;Pavithra Sathiyanarayanan;Meiyappan Nagappan;Thomas Zimmermann

93
Citations
An Examination of the Current Rating System used in Mobile App Stores

Israel Mojica Ruiz;Meiyappan Nagappan;Bram Adams;Thorsten Berger

88
Citations
Explaining software defects using topic models

Tse-Hsun Chen;Stephen W. Thomas;Meiyappan Nagappan;Ahmed E. Hassan

87
Citations
Revisiting prior empirical findings for mobile apps: an empirical case study on the 15 most popular open-source Android apps

Mark D. Syer;Meiyappan Nagappan;Ahmed E. Hassan;Bram Adams

84
Citations
Diversity in software engineering research.

H. Valdivia-Garcia;M. Nagappan

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University

Bram Adams Queen's University

Mladen A. Vouk North Carolina State University

Emad Shihab Concordia University

Yasutaka Kamei Kyushu University

Shane McIntosh McGill University

Thorsten Berger Ruhr University Bochum

Audris Mockus University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Christian Bird Microsoft (United States)

Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft (United States)

External Links

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