TY - GEN
T1 - A Closer Look into Collaborative Publishing at Software-Engineering Conferences
AU - Alchokr, Rand
AU - Krüger, Jacob
AU - Shakeel, Yusra
AU - Saake, Gunter
AU - Leich, Thomas
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Junior researchers
KW - Publications
KW - Scientific collaboration
KW - Software engineering
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_38
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_38
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783031168017
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 395
EP - 402
BT - Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries - 26th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, TPDL 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Silvello, Gianmaria
A2 - Corcho, Oscar
A2 - Manghi, Paolo
A2 - Di Nunzio, Giorgio Maria
A2 - Golub, Koraljka
A2 - Ferro, Nicola
A2 - Poggi, Antonella
PB - Springer
ER -