DocumentCode :
685503
Title :
Factors Influencing Research Contributions and Researcher Interactions in Software Engineering: An Empirical Study
Author :
Datta, Soupayan ; Sajeev, A.S.M. ; Sarkar, Santonu ; Kumar, Narendra
Author_Institution :
Singapore Univ. of Technol. & Design, Singapore, Singapore
Volume :
1
fYear :
2013
fDate :
2-5 Dec. 2013
Firstpage :
34
Lastpage :
41
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.
Keywords :
computer science education; courseware; software engineering; teaching; SE education; SE research; citation rates; co-authoring; coursework programs; learning; meta analysis; publication patterns; publication rates; publishing; research contributions; research education; research publications; research students; researcher interactions; software engineering; teaching; Collaboration; Computer science; Education; Mathematical model; Publishing; Software; Software engineering; Bibliometrics; Citation Analysis; Empirical Analysis; Research Education; Software Engineering Research;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2013 20th Asia-Pacific
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
ISSN :
1530-1362
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-2143-0
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/APSEC.2013.16
Filename :
6805387
Link To Document :
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