Class information for:
Level 1: SOFTWARE METRICS//JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE//EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Basic class information
ID Publications Average number
of references		 Avg. shr. active
ref. in WoS
1253 2661 31.8 31%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Classes in level above (level 2)


ID, lev.
above		 Publications Label for level above
154 22100 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY//IEEE SOFTWARE//JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE

Terms with highest relevance score


Rank Term Type of term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 SOFTWARE METRICS Author keyword 77 31% 8% 207
2 JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE Journal 41 11% 13% 358
3 EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Journal 39 31% 4% 106
4 SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION Author keyword 39 52% 2% 53
5 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY Journal 34 12% 10% 271
6 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Journal 33 11% 11% 293
7 SOFTWARE QUALITY JOURNAL Journal 32 26% 4% 109
8 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT Author keyword 30 100% 0% 12
9 SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION Author keyword 28 52% 1% 38
10 FUNCTION POINTS Author keyword 25 57% 1% 30

Web of Science journal categories

Author Key Words


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 SOFTWARE METRICS 77 31% 8% 207 Search SOFTWARE+METRICS Search SOFTWARE+METRICS
2 SOFTWARE COST ESTIMATION 39 52% 2% 53 Search SOFTWARE+COST+ESTIMATION Search SOFTWARE+COST+ESTIMATION
3 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EFFORT 30 100% 0% 12 Search SOFTWARE+DEVELOPMENT+EFFORT Search SOFTWARE+DEVELOPMENT+EFFORT
4 SOFTWARE EFFORT ESTIMATION 28 52% 1% 38 Search SOFTWARE+EFFORT+ESTIMATION Search SOFTWARE+EFFORT+ESTIMATION
5 FUNCTION POINTS 25 57% 1% 30 Search FUNCTION+POINTS Search FUNCTION+POINTS
6 DEFECT PREDICTION 23 41% 2% 43 Search DEFECT+PREDICTION Search DEFECT+PREDICTION
7 EFFORT ESTIMATION 21 33% 2% 53 Search EFFORT+ESTIMATION Search EFFORT+ESTIMATION
8 OBJECT ORIENTED METRICS 20 43% 1% 37 Search OBJECT+ORIENTED+METRICS Search OBJECT+ORIENTED+METRICS
9 PRODUCT METRICS 20 63% 1% 20 Search PRODUCT+METRICS Search PRODUCT+METRICS
10 SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT 18 30% 2% 50 Search SOFTWARE+MEASUREMENT Search SOFTWARE+MEASUREMENT

Key Words Plus


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 COST ESTIMATION MODELS 69 93% 1% 26
2 OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN 42 35% 4% 96
3 DESIGN METRICS 42 75% 1% 30
4 FUNCTION POINTS 40 66% 1% 37
5 STATIC CODE ATTRIBUTES 38 69% 1% 33
6 COST ESTIMATION 38 39% 3% 77
7 FAULT PREDICTION 36 70% 1% 30
8 MAINTAINABILITY 29 38% 2% 61
9 EFFORT PREDICTION 26 67% 1% 24
10 OBJECT ORIENTED SYSTEMS 26 45% 2% 43

Journals


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE 41 11% 13% 358
2 EMPIRICAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 39 31% 4% 106
3 INFORMATION AND SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY 34 12% 10% 271
4 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 33 11% 11% 293
5 SOFTWARE QUALITY JOURNAL 32 26% 4% 109
6 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION-RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 21 29% 2% 62
7 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE-RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 10 27% 1% 33
8 IET SOFTWARE 5 13% 1% 37
9 JOURNAL OF SOFTWARE-EVOLUTION AND PROCESS 3 11% 1% 22
10 AUTOMATED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING 2 12% 1% 15

Reviews


Title Publ. year Cit. Active references % act. ref.
to same field
A Systematic Literature Review on Fault Prediction Performance in Software Engineering 2012 43 51 96%
Software fault prediction metrics: A systematic literature review 2013 17 65 95%
A systematic review of machine learning techniques for software fault prediction 2015 1 50 94%
Potential and limitations of the ISBSG dataset in enhancing software engineering research: A mapping review 2014 4 11 82%
A systematic review of software development cost estimation studies 2007 185 218 82%
Software fault prediction: A literature review and current trends 2011 24 32 100%
A systematic review of software fault prediction studies 2009 47 10 90%
Systematic literature review of machine learning based software development effort estimation models 2012 13 73 90%
On the application of genetic programming for software engineering predictive modeling: A systematic review 2011 15 23 74%
Measuring and predicting software productivity: A systematic map and review 2011 14 27 70%

Address terms


Rank Address term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 EMPIR SOFTWARE ENGN 14 59% 0.6% 16
2 MAINTENANCE CONSTRUCT INTELLIGENCE SOFTWARE 6 100% 0.2% 4
3 EMPIR SOFTWARE ENGN GRP 5 47% 0.3% 8
4 SAIL 4 28% 0.4% 11
5 RMOD TEAM 3 50% 0.2% 4
6 EXPT SOFTWARE ENGN 3 60% 0.1% 3
7 PL SOFTWARE ENGN 3 35% 0.2% 6
8 CUCEA 2 33% 0.2% 6
9 PTIDEJ TEAM 2 38% 0.2% 5
10 DGIGL 2 36% 0.2% 5

Related classes at same level (level 1)


Rank Relatedness score Related classes
1 0.0000217697 SOFTWARE INSPECTION//READING TECHNIQUE//PERSPECTIVE BASED READING
2 0.0000177990 HYBRID SCIENCE//MICRO POLICY//SOFTWARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
3 0.0000143526 SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT//IEEE SOFTWARE//TOP SCHOLARS
4 0.0000124633 AGENT ORIENTED ARCHITECTURES//INFOSTATION NETWORK//DATABASE REVERSE ENGINEERING
5 0.0000117284 WORD SPACE//SHANNON LANGUAGES//UAB BUSINESS
6 0.0000114253 SOFTWARE REUSE//FACETED TAXONOMIES//SPECIFICATION REUSE
7 0.0000106886 SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES//SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE//FEATURE ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
8 0.0000105700 PTIDEJ TEAM//DESIGN PATTERN DETECTION//DESIGN PATTERN RECOVERY
9 0.0000103262 SOFTWARE CLONE//SOFTWARE BIRTHMARK//SOFTWARE THEFT DETECTION
10 0.0000098404 ASYMMETRIC MULTIPROCESSOR//CASE APPLICATIONS//CONTEXT AWARENESS FUNCTION