2026 Oscar Nierstrasz: 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	58	3585	3484	82	82	413	15763

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Oscar Nierstrasz is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, with a particular focus on software engineering and related subfields.

The main fields of study covered by their research include:

Computer Science

Within this broad field, their work spans several notable subfields, including:

Information Systems
Signal Processing
Software
Sociology and Political Science
Computer Networks and Communications

Oscar Nierstrasz's research addresses various topics, emphasizing areas such as:

Software Engineering Research
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
Spam and Phishing Detection
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Web Application Security Vulnerabilities

Recent publications highlight different aspects of these topics, including:

"A decade of code comment quality assessment: A systematic literature review" (2022) in the Journal of Systems and Software
"Analyzing Module Diversity" (2020) in HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
"What do class comments tell us? An investigation of comment evolution and practices in Pharo Smalltalk" (2021) in Empirical Software Engineering
"Interactive Behavior-driven Development: a Low-code Perspective" (2021) in the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C)
"Security Header Fields in HTTP Clients" (2021) in the 2021 IEEE 21st International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS)

The recurring publication venues where Oscar Nierstrasz's work appears include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)
Journal of Systems and Software
2021 IEEE 21st International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS)
Empirical Software Engineering

Frequent collaborators contributing to their research efforts include:

Mohammad Ghafari
Pooja Rani
Nataliia Stulova
Pascal Gadient
Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand

Best Publications

Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems : A Second Research Roadmap

Rogério de Lemos;Holger Giese;Hausi A. Müller;Mary Shaw

2250
Citations
Regular types for active objects

Oscar Nierstrasz

826
Citations
Context-oriented Programming

Robert Hirschfeld;Pascal Costanza;Oscar Nierstrasz

693
Citations
Object-oriented reengineering patterns

Oscar Nierstrasz;Serge Demeyer

672
Citations
Traits: Composable Units of Behavior

Nathanael Shärli;Stéphane Ducasse;Oscar Nierstrasz;Andrew Black

562
Citations
Finding refactorings via change metrics

Serge Demeyer;Stéphane Ducasse;Oscar Nierstrasz

432
Citations
Traits: A mechanism for fine-grained reuse

Stéphane Ducasse;Oscar Nierstrasz;Nathanael Schärli;Roel Wuyts

342
Citations
Assigning bug reports using a vocabulary-based expertise model of developers

Dominique Matter;Adrian Kuhn;Oscar Nierstrasz

311
Citations
Component-oriented software development

Oscar Nierstrasz;Simon Gibbs;Dennis Tsichritzis

286
Citations
A survey of object-oriented concepts

Oscar Nierstrasz

275
Citations
The story of moose: an agile reengineering environment

Oscar Nierstrasz;Stéphane Ducasse;Tudor Gǐrba

242
Citations
Active objects in hybrid

O. M. Nierstrasz

224
Citations
Research directions in software composition

Oscar Nierstrasz;Theo Dirk Meijler

224
Citations
Component-oriented software technology

Oscar Nierstrasz;Laurent Dami

217
Citations
Pharo by Example

Andrew P. Black;Stéphane Ducasse;Oscar Nierstrasz;Damien Pollet

212
Citations
Object-oriented software composition

Oscar Nierstrasz;Dennis Tsichritzis

197
Citations
Class management for software communities

Simon Gibbs;Eduardo Casais;Oscar Nierstrasz;X. Pintado

180
Citations
A meta-model for language-independent refactoring

S. Tichelaar;S. Ducasse;S. Demeyer;O. Nierstrasz

173
Citations
The effect of object-oriented frameworks on developer productivity

S. Moser;O. Nierstrasz

161
Citations
Requirements for a Composition Language

Oscar Nierstrasz;Theo Dirk Meijler

161
Citations
Object-based models and languages for concurrent systems : ECOOP '94 Workshop on Models and Languages for Coordination of Parallelism and Distribution, Bologna, Italy, July 5, 1994 : proceedings

Paolo Ciancarini;Oscar Marius Nierstrasz;明憲米沢

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stéphane Ducasse University of Lille

Tudor Gîrba feenk

Serge Demeyer University of Antwerp

Michele Lanza Universita della Svizzera Italiana

Krzysztof Czarnecki University of Waterloo

Sven Apel Saarland University

Daniel Weiskopf University of Stuttgart

William R. Cook The University of Texas at Austin

Jon Whittle Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Gabor Karsai Vanderbilt University

External Links

Wikipedia of Oscar Nierstrasz Personal website of Oscar Nierstrasz Google Scholar page

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