Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
5-2015
Abstract
For researchers and practitioners of a relatively young discipline like software engineering, an enduring concern is to identify the acorns that will grow into oaks -- ideas remaining most current in the long run. Additionally, it is interesting to know how the ideas have risen in importance, and fallen, perhaps to rise again. We analyzed a corpus of 19,000+ papers written by 21,000+ authors across 16 software engineering publication venues from 1975 to 2010, to empirically determine the half-life of software engineering research topics. We adapted existing measures of half-life as well as defined a specific measure based on publication and citation counts. The results from this empirical study are a presented in this paper.
Keywords
Half-life, Publication, Software engineering research
Discipline
Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering
Research Areas
Information Systems and Management
Publication
WWW '15 Companion: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web, Florence, Italy, May 18-22
First Page
585
Last Page
590
ISBN
9781450334730
Identifier
10.1145/2740908.2741734
Publisher
ACM
City or Country
New York
Citation
1
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2741734