An Analysis of Research in Software Engineering: Assessment and Trends.

摘要: Glass published the first report on assessment of systems and software engineering scholars institutions two decades ago. The ongoing, annual survey publications in this field provides fund managers, young scholars, graduate students, etc. with useful information for different purposes. However, studies have been questioned by some critics because a few shortcomings evaluation method. It is actually very hard to reach widely recognized consensus such an institutions. This paper presents module automated method trends analysis compared prior studies. To achieve more reasonable result, we take into consideration high-quality publications, rank each publication analyzed, roles authors named question. According 7638 papers 36 from 2008 2013, statistics research subjects roughly follow power laws, implying interesting Matthew Effect. We then identify Top 20 countries or regions terms new rule based frequently-used one. top-ranked scholar Mark Harman University College London, UK, institution California, USA, country USA. Besides, also show levels trend changes EI classification system user-defined uncontrolled keywords, as well noteworthy specific area. believe that our results would provide valuable insight students seek possible potential collaborators grasp popular topics engineering.