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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Computer science
Among the 50 computer science journals in this index it has the 12th highest h-index and the 16th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
Listed article processing charge: about $2 645.
Where its authors come from
Share of the 771 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| China | 51% |
| United States | 20% |
| Canada | 13% |
| Singapore | 12% |
| Australia | 9% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 99% |
Main subject areas of those papers:
| Subject area | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| Software Engineering Research | 38% |
| Software Testing and Debugging Techniques | 27% |
| Software Engineering Techniques and Practices | 5% |
| Blockchain Technology Applications and Security | 4% |
| Software System Performance and Reliability | 4% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Software Testing With Large Language Models: Survey, Landscape, and Vision (2024, 558 citations)
- An Empirical Evaluation of Using Large Language Models for Automated Unit Test Generation (2023, 425 citations)
- Decomposition of Monolith Applications Into Microservices Architectures: A Systematic Review (2023, 143 citations)
- No Need to Lift a Finger Anymore? Assessing the Quality of Code Generation by ChatGPT (2024, 128 citations)
- LLM-Based Test-Driven Interactive Code Generation: User Study and Empirical Evaluation (2024, 117 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 0098-5589):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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