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#	Title	Journal	Year	Citations
1	Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	2009	2,471
2	Supporting Controlled Experimentation with Testing Techniques: An Infrastructure and its Potential Impact	Empirical Software Engineering	2005	908
3	On the relative value of cross-company and within-company data for defect prediction	Empirical Software Engineering	2009	548
4	(null)	Empirical Software Engineering	2000	482
5	Evaluating defect prediction approaches: a benchmark and an extensive comparison	Empirical Software Engineering	2012	444
6	What are developers talking about? An analysis of topics and trends in Stack Overflow	Empirical Software Engineering	2014	407
7	The empirical investigation of Perspective-Based Reading	Empirical Software Engineering	1996	360
8	A Unified Framework for Cohesion Measurement in Object-Oriented Systems	Empirical Software Engineering	1998	342
9	Studying Software Engineers: Data Collection Techniques for Software Field Studies	Empirical Software Engineering	2005	341
10	An exploratory study of the impact of antipatterns on class change- and fault-proneness	Empirical Software Engineering	2012	277
11	A field study of API learning obstacles	Empirical Software Engineering	2011	271
12	Parameter tuning or default values? An empirical investigation in search-based software engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	2013	264
13	“Cloning considered harmful” considered harmful: patterns of cloning in software	Empirical Software Engineering	2008	259
14	Comparing and experimenting machine learning techniques for code smell detection	Empirical Software Engineering	2016	259
15	Empirical evidence in global software engineering: a systematic review	Empirical Software Engineering	2010	250
16	The role of replications in Empirical Software Engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	2008	249
17	The impact of agile practices on communication in software development	Empirical Software Engineering	2008	228
18	Techniques for evaluating fault prediction models	Empirical Software Engineering	2008	225
19	Software defect prediction using Bayesian networks	Empirical Software Engineering	2014	224
20	Curating GitHub for engineered software projects	Empirical Software Engineering	2017	217
21	What are mobile developers asking about? A large scale study using stack overflow	Empirical Software Engineering	2016	213
22	A method for evaluating rigor and industrial relevance of technology evaluations	Empirical Software Engineering	2011	212
23	Evaluating improvements to a meta-heuristic search for constrained interaction testing	Empirical Software Engineering	2011	209
24	An empirical study of the impact of modern code review practices on software quality	Empirical Software Engineering	2016	196
25	An Empirical Study of Analogy-based Software Effort Estimation	Empirical Software Engineering	1999	190
26	Do developers update their library dependencies?	Empirical Software Engineering	2018	189
27	On the diffuseness and the impact on maintainability of code smells: a large scale empirical investigation	Empirical Software Engineering	2018	183
28	A Simulation Tool for Efficient Analogy Based Cost Estimation	Empirical Software Engineering	2000	178
29	Toward an understanding of bug fix patterns	Empirical Software Engineering	2009	176
30	A practical guide to controlled experiments of software engineering tools with human participants	Empirical Software Engineering	2015	173
31	Automatic repair of real bugs in java: a large-scale experiment on the defects4j dataset	Empirical Software Engineering	2017	172
32	Using information retrieval based coupling measures for impact analysis	Empirical Software Engineering	2009	171
33	Bug characteristics in open source software	Empirical Software Engineering	2014	171
34	An in-depth study of the promises and perils of mining GitHub	Empirical Software Engineering	2016	170
35	Reviewing 25 Years of Testing Technique Experiments	Empirical Software Engineering	2004	167
36	A Comparative Study of Cost Estimation Models for Web Hypermedia Applications	Empirical Software Engineering	2003	164
37	Using grounded theory to study the experience of software development	Empirical Software Engineering	2011	164
38	Studying just-in-time defect prediction using cross-project models	Empirical Software Engineering	2016	164
39	Sentiment Polarity Detection for Software Development	Empirical Software Engineering	2018	154
40	Empirical Evaluation of Aesthetics-based Graph Layout	Empirical Software Engineering	2002	151
41	Do too many cooks spoil the broth? Using the number of developers to enhance defect prediction models	Empirical Software Engineering	2008	150
42	Can traditional fault prediction models be used for vulnerability prediction?	Empirical Software Engineering	2013	148
43	Hints for Reviewing Empirical Work in Software Engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	2000	147
44	Naming the pain in requirements engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	2017	147
45	Monitoring Smoothly Degrading Systems for Increased Dependability	Empirical Software Engineering	1997	146
46	Robust Statistical Methods for Empirical Software Engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	2017	146
47	On the application of measurement theory in software engineering	Empirical Software Engineering	1996	144
48	An empirical study on the maintenance of source code clones	Empirical Software Engineering	2010	144
49	Pandemic programming	Empirical Software Engineering	2020	144
50	Developing a grounded theory to explain the practices of self-organizing Agile teams	Empirical Software Engineering	2012	143

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