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

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/2740908.2741734

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