Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

12-2013

Abstract

Research into software engineering (SE) education is largely concentrated on teaching and learning issues in coursework programs. This paper, in contrast, provides a meta analysis of research publications in software engineering to help with research education in SE. Studying publication patterns in a discipline will assist research students and supervisors gain a deeper understanding of how successful research has occurred in the discipline. We present results from a large scale empirical study covering over three and a half decades of software engineering research publications. We identify how different factors of publishing relate to the number of papers published as well as citations received for a researcher, and how the most successful researchers collaborate and co-cite one another. Our results show that authors with high publication rates do not concentrate on a few selected venues to publish, researchers with high publication rates behave differently from researchers of high citation rates (with the latter group co-authoring and citing their peers to a much lesser extent than the former), and collaborators citing each other's works is not a significant phenomenon in SE research.

Discipline

Organizational Communication | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2013 20th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC): Bangkok, December 2-5: Proceedings

First Page

34

Last Page

41

ISBN

9780769549224

Identifier

10.1109/APSEC.2013.16

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

City or Country

Los Alamitos, CA

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/APSEC.2013.16

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