Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

8-2013

Abstract

In the three and half decades since the inception of organized research publication in software engineering, the discipline has gained a significant maturity. This journey to maturity has been guided by the synergy of ideas, individuals and interactions. In this journey software engineering has evolved into an increasingly empirical discipline. Empirical sciences involve significant collaboration, leading to large teams working on research problems. In this paper we analyze a corpus of 19,000+ papers, written by 21,000+ authors from 16 publication venues between 1975 to 2010, to understand what is the ideal team size that has produced maximum impact in software engineering research, and whether researchers in software engineering have maintained the same co-authorship relations over long periods of time as a means of achieving research impact.

Keywords

Annova, benchmarking, collaboration, DBLP, software engineering research, T test, topic analysis, virtualization

Discipline

Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

COMPUTE 2013: Proceedings of the 6th ACM India Computing Convention, Vellore, India, August 22-24

First Page

1

Last Page

8

ISBN

9781450325455

Identifier

10.1145/2522548.2522603

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/2522548.2522603

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