A Closer Look into Collaborative Publishing at Software-Engineering Conferences

Rand Alchokr, Jacob Krüger, Yusra Shakeel, Gunter Saake, Thomas Leich

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Abstract

Computer science and particularly software engineering is a rapidly evolving research discipline increasingly conducted by large, collaborative teams. Unfortunately, there is little research on the underlying publication activity and collaboration patterns in software engineering. To address this gap, we study two properties of research collaborations in software engineering: the number of collaborators (i.e., authors of a paper) and their academic age (i.e., their experience of working in research). More precisely, we investigate collaborations for papers published at all main tracks of three top-level software-engineering conferences (i.e., ASE, ESEC/FSE, ICSE) and one top-level reference conference (i.e., JCDL), including a total of 5,188 papers and the corresponding 8,730 unique authors. Our results indicate that collaboration is more prevalent now than ever before, with a decline in the proportion of researchers who contribute single-author papers. Moreover, our analysis revealed that the ideal team size seems to range from two to four researchers, and that junior researchers seem to need the support of more experienced co-authors to get published at such top-level conferences. Ultimately, our goal is to understand how collaborations in software engineering have evolved and impact different researchers (e.g., newcomers, juniors), helping to highlight potential impediments and consequent improvements regarding the quality of research, collaborations, and mentoring.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLinking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries - 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2022, Proceedings
EditorsGianmaria Silvello, Oscar Corcho, Paolo Manghi, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Koraljka Golub, Nicola Ferro, Antonella Poggi
PublisherSpringer
Pages395-402
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783031168017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13541 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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Keywords

  • Junior researchers
  • Publications
  • Scientific collaboration
  • Software engineering

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