Daniel M. Germán

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
142 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Daniel M. Germán is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Science Applications and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel M. Germán has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 125 papers in Information Systems, 76 papers in Computer Science Applications and 30 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Daniel M. Germán's work include Software Engineering Research (113 papers), Open Source Software Innovations (72 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (25 papers). Daniel M. Germán is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (113 papers), Open Source Software Innovations (72 papers) and Scientific Computing and Data Management (25 papers). Daniel M. Germán collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Japan. Daniel M. Germán's co-authors include Margaret‐Anne Storey, Abram Hindle, Leif Singer, Peter C. Rigby, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Daniela Damian, Kelly Blincoe, Katsuro Inoue, Ahmed E. Hassan and Massimiliano Di Penta 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

Daniel M. Germán

137 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

The promises and perils of mining GitHub

2014 449 citations Daniel M. Germán et al. profile →
Do developers update their library dependencies?

2017 209 citations Raula Gaikovina Kula, Daniel M. Germán et al. Empirical Software Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel M. Germán Canada	36	4.0k	1.8k	1.3k	1.0k	861	142	4.6k
Alberto Bacchelli Switzerland	34	3.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 1.4×	811 0.8×	796 0.9×	132	4.3k
Georgios Gousios Netherlands	27	3.0k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	940 0.9×	565 0.7×	73	3.5k
Martin P. Robillard Canada	40	4.7k 1.2×	894 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	1.4k 1.3×	1.8k 2.1×	117	5.1k
Jeffrey C. Carver United States	32	2.8k 0.7×	808 0.4×	1.1k 0.9×	585 0.6×	815 0.9×	179	3.7k
Forrest Shull United States	39	4.8k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	2.2k 1.7×	975 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	143	5.8k
Andy Zaidman Netherlands	44	4.4k 1.1×	759 0.4×	2.6k 2.1×	1.7k 1.7×	899 1.0×	175	5.2k
Christoph Treude Australia	27	2.3k 0.6×	1.1k 0.6×	532 0.4×	473 0.5×	807 0.9×	157	2.9k
Tom Mens Belgium	34	4.1k 1.0×	656 0.4×	2.2k 1.7×	1.2k 1.2×	2.2k 2.5×	173	4.9k
Zhenchang Xing Australia	39	4.2k 1.0×	621 0.3×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	2.3k 2.6×	237	5.3k
Bram Adams Canada	47	5.6k 1.4×	1.1k 0.6×	2.8k 2.2×	2.3k 2.3×	1.4k 1.7×	224	6.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel M. Germán

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel M. Germán

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel M. Germán

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Germán, Daniel M., et al.. (2024). An empirical study of token-based micro commits. Empirical Software Engineering. 29(6). 1 indexed citations

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Proksch, Sebastian, et al.. (2024). What is an app store? The software engineering perspective. Empirical Software Engineering. 29(1). 5 indexed citations

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Germán, Daniel M., et al.. (2023). PyVerDetector: A Chrome Extension Detecting the Python Version of Stack Overflow Code Snippets. OUKA (Osaka University Knowledge Archive) (Osaka University). 25–29. 1 indexed citations

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Sun, Yiming, Daniel M. Germán, & Stefano Zacchiroli. (2023). Using the uniqueness of global identifiers to determine the provenance of Python software source code. Empirical Software Engineering. 28(5). 2 indexed citations

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Kapitsaki, Georgia M., et al.. (2020). What do developers talk about open source software licensing?. 72–79. 2 indexed citations

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Kula, Raula Gaikovina, Daniel M. Germán, Takashi Ishio, Ali Ouni, & Katsuro Inoue. (2017). An exploratory study on library aging by monitoring client usage in a software ecosystem. Espace ÉTS (ETS). 407–411. 13 indexed citations

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Germán, Daniel M., et al.. (2016). Merge-Tree: Visualizing the Integration of Commits into Linux. 1–10. 2 indexed citations

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Germán, Daniel M., et al.. (2015). What is the Gist?: understanding the use of public Gists on GitHub. 314–323. 4 indexed citations

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Vendome, Christopher, Mario Linares‐Vásquez, Gabriele Bavota, et al.. (2015). License usage and changes: a large-scale study of Java projects on GitHub. 218–228. 16 indexed citations

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Germán, Daniel M., Bram Adams, & Ahmed E. Hassan. (2015). A dataset of the activity of the git super-repository of Linux in 2012. 470–473. 1 indexed citations

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Lee, Sanghoon, Daniel M. Germán, Seung-won Hwang, & Sunghun Kim. (2015). Crowdsourcing Identification of License Violations. Journal of Computing Science and Engineering. 9(4). 190–203. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Yuhao, et al.. (2015). A Method to Detect License Inconsistencies in Large-Scale Open Source Projects. 324–333. 21 indexed citations

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Adams, Bram, et al.. (2013). Will my patch make it? And how fast? Case study on the Linux kernel. PolyPublie (École Polytechnique de Montréal). 101–110. 95 indexed citations

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Robles, Gregório, Israel Herraiz, Daniel M. Germán, & Daniel Izquierdo-Cortázar. (2012). Modification and developer metrics at the function level: metrics for the study of the evolution of a software project. 49–55. 1 indexed citations

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Herraiz, Israel, Daniel M. Germán, & Ahmed E. Hassan. (2011). ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOURCE CODE FILE SIZES. 5–14. 12 indexed citations

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Germán, Daniel M., et al.. (2010). Understanding and Auditing the Licensing of Open Source Software Distributions. 84–93. 48 indexed citations

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Bird, Christian, Peter C. Rigby, Earl T. Barr, et al.. (2009). The promises and perils of mining git. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1–10. 201 indexed citations

18.

Hindle, Abram, Daniel M. Germán, Michael W. Godfrey, & Richard C. Holt. (2009). Automatic classication of large changes into maintenance categories. 30–39. 84 indexed citations

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Germán, Daniel M., Massimiliano Di Penta, Giuliano Antoniol, & Yann‐Gaël Guéhéneuc. (2009). Code siblings: Phenotype evolution. 2 indexed citations

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Germán, Daniel M. & Donald Cowan. (1996). A Federated Database for Hypermedia Development for the WWW.. 178–181. 1 indexed citations

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