A Bibliometric/Geographic Assessment of 40 Years of Software Engineering Research (1969-2009)

dc.authorid Garousi, Vahid/0000-0001-6590-7576
dc.authorscopusid 13408954200
dc.authorscopusid 6603731510
dc.contributor.author Garousi, Vahid
dc.contributor.author Ruhe, Guenther
dc.contributor.other Software Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-05T14:28:31Z
dc.date.available 2024-07-05T14:28:31Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp [Garousi, Vahid] Atilim Univ, Dept Software Engn, Syst & Software Qual Engn Res Grp SySoQual, Ankara, Turkey; [Garousi, Vahid; Ruhe, Guenther] Univ Calgary, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada; [Ruhe, Guenther] Univ Calgary, Dept Comp Sci, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada en_US
dc.description Garousi, Vahid/0000-0001-6590-7576 en_US
dc.description.abstract Bibliometric rankings are quite common in the field of software engineering. For example, there are a series of ranking repeated every year which identify the top researchers and institutions at the international level in the field. There are also other studies to determine the most cited articles in software engineering journals, the most popular research topics in this area, or identify the top researchers and institutions in regional levels. However, there exists no existing bibliometric quantitative analysis of publications in the area of software engineering (SE), including relative and absolute growth in the number of all SE publications as well as an analysis among countries. This is the main goal and motivation of this article. Besides, this study intends to provide an overall quantitative trend of the software engineering papers, and compare that trend to research output in other areas of science. The bibliometric study reported in this paper is motivated by the fact that understanding the amount of geographical research contributions to the field of software engineering can help identify different countries' level of commitment to support research activities in this area over years. We analyze how the contribution levels of top-ranked countries have changed over the years and how SE compares to other disciplines of engineering and science. Among the most interesting findings of this study are: (1) Over 40 years, in total about 60% of the SE literature has been contributed by only 7% of all countries, (2) the SE research output of different countries does not necessarily correlate with their GDPs, (3) the share of contributions to the SE discipline by the American researchers has declined from 71.43% ( in 1980) to 14.90% ( in 2008), and ( 4) China is the country with the biggest share growth in the number of publications ( from 0.82% of the entire SE publications in 1991 to 13.82% in 2009). en_US
dc.description.sponsorship Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) [341511-07]; Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty [200600673]; Atilim University; Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) [2221] en_US
dc.description.sponsorship This project was supported by the Discovery Grant no. 341511-07 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and also by the Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award no. 200600673. Vahid Garousi was further supported by Atilim University and the Visiting Scientist Fellowship Program (#2221) of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). en_US
dc.identifier.citationcount 20
dc.identifier.doi 10.1142/S0218194013500423
dc.identifier.endpage 1366 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 0218-1940
dc.identifier.issn 1793-6403
dc.identifier.issue 9 en_US
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-84899106725
dc.identifier.startpage 1343 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218194013500423
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14411/401
dc.identifier.volume 23 en_US
dc.identifier.wos WOS:000335514900006
dc.identifier.wosquality Q4
dc.institutionauthor Garousi, Vahid
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess en_US
dc.scopus.citedbyCount 24
dc.subject Bibliometric study en_US
dc.subject software engineering en_US
dc.subject geographic bibliometric assessment en_US
dc.title A Bibliometric/Geographic Assessment of 40 Years of Software Engineering Research (1969-2009) en_US
dc.type Article en_US
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