An analysis of the most cited articles in software engineering journals – 2002

A metrics suite for object oriented design

Shyam R. Chidamber, Chris F. Kemerer · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1994 · 5.7K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Information Technology +16

Reverse engineering and design recovery: a taxonomy

Elliot J. Chikofsky, James H. Cross · IEEE Software · 1990 · 2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Systems Engineering +13

A classification and comparison framework for software architecture description languages

Nenad Medvidović, Richard N. Taylor · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2000 · 2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Programming Languages +12

CCFinder: a multilinguistic token-based code clone detection system for large scale source code

T. Kamiya, S. Kusumoto, Koji Inoue · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2002 · 1.7K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Operating Systems +13

Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering

Barbara Kitchenham, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Lesley M. Pickard et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2002 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Evidence-based Practice +10