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Lines Of Code

Lines of Code is a software metric that quantifies the size of a program by counting the number of lines in its source code, distinguishing it from other complexity or effort measures by focusing exclusively on textual length as an indicator of development effort or maintainability.

96

Publications

6.4K

Citations

278

Authors

131

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

24

Parents

Publications

96

Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation

Alan J. Albrecht, John E. Gaffney · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1983 · 1.6K citations

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Seesoft-a tool for visualizing line oriented software statistics

S.C. Eick, Joseph L. Steffen, Eric E. Sumner · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1992 · 625 citations

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A method-of-lines code for carbon and nutrient diagenesis in aquatic sediments

Bernard P. Boudreau · Computers & Geosciences · 1996 · 322 citations

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Function points in the estimation and evaluation of the software process

Graham Low, D. Ross Jeffery · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1990 · 212 citations

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A validation of the component-based method for software size estimation

José Javier Dolado · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2000 · 167 citations

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Authors

278

  1. LK
    Lo Ko

    Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, United States

    3 publications · 43 citations

    3

    h-index

  2. KL
    Kenneth Lind

    GlaxoSmithKline (United States), United States

    3 publications · 51 citations

    3

    h-index

  3. RH
    Rogardt Heldal

    Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

    3 publications · 51 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. DW
    David Whalley

    Florida State University, United States

    3 publications · 43 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. MG
    Marion G. Harmon

    Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, United States

    3 publications · 43 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 278

Institutions

131

  1. Chalmers University of Technology

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    5 h-index

    8 publications

    179 citations

  2. University of Coimbra

    Coimbra, Portugal

    3 h-index

    24 publications

    722 citations

  3. Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

    Tallahassee, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    43 citations

  4. Florida State University

    Tallahassee, United States

    3 h-index

    13 publications

    191 citations

  5. University of Sannio

    Benevento, Italy

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    172 citations

  6. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

    Haifa, Israel

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    56 citations

  7. Delft University of Technology

    Delft, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    42 citations

  8. University of Verona

    Verona, Italy

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    38 citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

    TSE · 9 publications · 2.9K citations

    9

    h-index

  2. Software Practice and Experience

    4 publications · 102 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. IEEE Software

    4 publications · 225 citations

    4

    h-index

  4. Journal of Systems and Software

    JSS · 3 publications · 96 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. The Journal of Object Technology

    JOT · 3 publications · 48 citations

    3

    h-index

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