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Walter F. Tichy publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Walter F. Tichy sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 366 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Walter F. Tichy D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Walter F. Tichy sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - ACM Fellow For contributions to software engineering and revision control systems.
  • 2010 - ACM Distinguished Member
  • 2006 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Walter F. Tichy is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science with a focus on various subfields and topics that include:

  • Information Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Software
  • Information Systems and Management

The main topics covered in their body of work comprise:

  • Software Engineering Research
  • Topic Modeling
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Immune responses and vaccinations
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research

The publication venues where Walter F. Tichy's research has frequently appeared include:

  • Ubiquity
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Semantic Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
  • Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Walter F. Tichy include:

  • "Workings of science" (2022), published in Ubiquity
  • "How Does a COVID mRNA vaccine really work?" (2021), published in Ubiquity
  • "Supplementary Material of 'NoRBERT: Transfer Learning for Requirements Classification'" (2020), published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "Towards Programming in Natural Language: Learning New Functions from Spoken Utterances" (2020), published in International Journal of Semantic Computing
  • "Artificial Intelligence: ChatGPT's Astonishing Fabrications About Percy Ludgate" (2025), published in Ubiquity

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Tobias Hey
  • Sebastian Weigelt
  • Vanessa Steurer
  • Jan Keim
  • Brian Coghlan

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, specifically from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM):

  • ACM Fellow (2012) for contributions to software engineering and revision control systems
  • ACM Distinguished Member (2010)
  • ACM Senior Member (2006)

Best Publications

  • RCS—a system for version control

    Walter F. Tichy

  • Should computer scientists experiment more

    W.F. Tichy

  • Design, implementation, and evaluation of a Revision Control System

    Walter F. Tichy

  • Experimental evaluation in computer science: a quantitative study

    Walter F. Tichy;Paul Lukowicz;Lutz Prechelt;Ernst A. Heinz

  • The string-to-string correction problem with block moves

    Walter F. Tichy

  • Two controlled experiments assessing the usefulness of design pattern documentation in program maintenance

    L. Prechelt;B. Unger-Lamprecht;M. Philippsen;W.F. Tichy

  • A controlled experiment in maintenance: comparing design patterns to simpler solutions

    L. Prechelt;B. Unger;W.F. Tichy;P. Brossler

  • Impact of software engineering research on the practice of software configuration management

    Jacky Estublier;David Leblang;André van der Hoek;Reidar Conradi

  • Case study: extreme programming in a university environment

    Matthias M. Müller;Walter F. Tichy

  • Tools for Software Configuration Management.

    Walter F. Tichy

  • Hints for Reviewing Empirical Work in Software Engineering

    Walter F. Tichy

  • Delta algorithms: an empirical analysis

    James J. Hunt;Kiem-Phong Vo;Walter F. Tichy

  • Smart recompilation

    Walter F. Tichy

  • EDGE: an extendable graph editor

    F. Newberry Paulisch;W. F. Tichy

  • Highly parallel computation

    Peter J. Denning;Walter F. Tichy

  • A Controlled Experiment Comparing the Maintainability of Programs Designed with and without Design Patterns—A Replication in a Real Programming Environment

    Marek Vokáč;Walter Tichy;Dag I. K. Sjøberg;Erik Arisholm

  • NoRBERT: Transfer Learning for Requirements Classification

    Tobias Hey;Jan Keim;Anne Koziolek;Walter F. Tichy

  • Configuration management

    Walter F. Tichy

  • Software development control based on module interconnection

    Walter F. Tichy

  • Status of empirical research in software engineering

    Andreas Höfer;Walter F. Tichy

  • Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering

    Lori Clarke;Laurie Dillon;Walter Tichy

Frequent Co-Authors

Lutz Prechelt
Lutz Prechelt Freie Universität Berlin
Paul Lukowicz
Paul Lukowicz German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Felix Wolf
Felix Wolf Technical University of Darmstadt
Carsten Dachsbacher
Carsten Dachsbacher Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
André van der Hoek
André van der Hoek University of California, Irvine
Peter J. Denning
Peter J. Denning Naval Postgraduate School
David Notkin
David Notkin University of Washington
Matthias Jarke
Matthias Jarke RWTH Aachen University
Bernhard Rumpe
Bernhard Rumpe RWTH Aachen University
Carolyn Seaman
Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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