Christoph Treude

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
157 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Christoph Treude is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Science Applications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Treude has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Information Systems, 56 papers in Computer Science Applications and 36 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Christoph Treude's work include Software Engineering Research (103 papers), Open Source Software Innovations (52 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (45 papers). Christoph Treude is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (103 papers), Open Source Software Innovations (52 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (45 papers). Christoph Treude collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Canada and Brazil. Christoph Treude's co-authors include Margaret‐Anne Storey, Martin P. Robillard, Marco Aurélio Gerosa, Ohad Barzilay, Igor Steinmacher, Arie van Deursen, Chris Parnin, Fernando Figueira Filho, Li-Te Cheng and Jirayus Jiarpakdee and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software and Journal of Systems and Software.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Treude

144 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. How do programmers ask and answer questions on the web? (NIER track)
    2011 296 citations Christoph Treude, Margaret‐Anne Storey et al. profile →
  2. LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Software Engineering: Literature Review, Vision, and the Road Ahead
    2025 24 citations Christoph Treude et al. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology profile →

Peers

Christoph Treude
Bogdan Vasilescu United States
Georgios Gousios Netherlands
Jesús M. González-Barahona Spain
Filippo Lanubile Italy
Damian A. Tamburri Netherlands
Ioannis Stamelos Greece
Anita Sarma United States
Walid Maalej Germany
Daniela Damian Canada
Daniel M. Germán Canada
Bogdan Vasilescu United States
Christoph Treude
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Countries citing papers authored by Christoph Treude

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christoph Treude

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Treude

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christoph Treude. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christoph Treude based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christoph Treude. Christoph Treude is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Chunhua, et al.. (2025). CodeReviewQA: The Code Review Comprehension Assessment for Large Language Models. 9138–9166. 1 indexed citations
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Treude, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Developer reactions to protestware in open source software: the cases of color.js and es5.ext. Empirical Software Engineering. 30(2).
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Thongtanunam, Patanamon, et al.. (2025). Leveraging Reviewer Experience in Code Review Comment Generation. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
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Treude, Christoph, et al.. (2024). Reproducibility Debt: Challenges and Future Pathways. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 462–466.
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Xiao, Tao, Hideaki Hata, Christoph Treude, & Kenichi Matsumoto. (2024). Generative AI for Pull Request Descriptions: Adoption, Impact, and Developer Interventions. Proceedings of the ACM on software engineering.. 1(FSE). 1043–1065. 4 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao, Christoph Treude, Hideaki Hata, & Kenichi Matsumoto. (2024). DevGPT: Studying Developer-ChatGPT Conversations. 227–230. 20 indexed citations
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Treude, Christoph, et al.. (2024). StagedVulBERT: Multigranular Vulnerability Detection With a Novel Pretrained Code Model. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50(12). 3454–3471. 2 indexed citations
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Treude, Christoph, et al.. (2024). MicroKarta: Visualising Microservice Architectures. Monash University Research Portal (Monash University). 607–611.
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Wessel, Mairieli, et al.. (2023). GitHub Actions: The Impact on the Pull Request Process. Empirical Software Engineering. 28(6). 12 indexed citations
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Xiao, Tao, Sebastian Baltes, Hideaki Hata, et al.. (2023). 18 million links in commit messages: purpose, evolution, and decay. Empirical Software Engineering. 28(4). 3 indexed citations
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Kula, Raula Gaikovina, et al.. (2023). Understanding the role of external pull requests in the NPM ecosystem. Empirical Software Engineering. 28(4). 1 indexed citations
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Kula, Raula Gaikovina, et al.. (2022). Giving Back: Contributions Congruent to Library Dependency Changes in a Software Ecosystem. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 49(4). 2566–2579. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Mingwei, et al.. (2021). API-Related Developer Information Needs in Stack Overflow. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 48(11). 4485–4500. 16 indexed citations
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Treude, Christoph, et al.. (2020). How Successful Are Open Source Contributions From Countries With Different Levels of Human Development?. IEEE Software. 38(2). 58–63. 12 indexed citations
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Jiarpakdee, Jirayus, Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn, & Christoph Treude. (2020). The impact of automated feature selection techniques on the interpretation of defect models. Empirical Software Engineering. 25(5). 3590–3638. 60 indexed citations
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Robillard, Martin P., Andrian Marcus, Christoph Treude, et al.. (2017). On-demand Developer Documentation. 479–483. 61 indexed citations
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Begel, Andrew, Fabio Calefato, & Christoph Treude. (2016). Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering. 1 indexed citations
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Treude, Christoph, et al.. (2012). WorkItemExplorer: visualizing software development tasks using an interactive exploration environment. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1399–1402. 4 indexed citations
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Treude, Christoph, Margaret‐Anne Storey, Kate Ehrlich, & Arie van Deursen. (2010). Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Web 2.0 for Software Engineering. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1 indexed citations

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