Emad Shihab

7.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
133 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Emad Shihab is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Emad Shihab has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 110 papers in Information Systems, 56 papers in Software and 48 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Emad Shihab's work include Software Engineering Research (100 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (44 papers) and Software System Performance and Reliability (40 papers). Emad Shihab is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (100 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (44 papers) and Software System Performance and Reliability (40 papers). Emad Shihab collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Singapore. Emad Shihab's co-authors include Ahmed E. Hassan, Yasutaka Kamei, Bram Adams, Rabe Abdalkareem, Meiyappan Nagappan, Xin Xia, David Lo, Diego Elias Costa, Hammad Khalid and Suhaib Mujahid and has published in prestigious journals such as Sensors, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

In The Last Decade

Emad Shihab

129 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

A large-scale empirical study of just-in-time quality ass... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2014 2015 100 200 300 400
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. A large-scale empirical study of just-in-time quality assurance
    2012 486 citations Yasutaka Kamei, Emad Shihab et al. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering profile →
  2. What Do Mobile App Users Complain About?
    2014 302 citations Emad Shihab, Meiyappan Nagappan et al. profile →
  3. What are mobile developers asking about? A large scale study using stack overflow
    2015 217 citations Emad Shihab 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Emad Shihab Canada 40 4.1k 2.2k 1.4k 961 792 133 5.0k
Foutse Khomh Canada 37 4.1k 1.0× 2.4k 1.1× 1.5k 1.1× 1.3k 1.3× 601 0.8× 248 5.1k
Fabio Palomba Italy 46 5.3k 1.3× 3.5k 1.6× 1.4k 1.0× 779 0.8× 920 1.2× 210 6.3k
Bram Adams Canada 47 5.6k 1.4× 2.8k 1.3× 2.3k 1.7× 1.4k 1.5× 1.1k 1.4× 224 6.6k
Yue Jia United Kingdom 34 3.1k 0.8× 3.5k 1.6× 653 0.5× 731 0.8× 522 0.7× 75 4.9k
Magnus C. Ohlsson Sweden 12 3.8k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 1.5k 1.6× 717 0.9× 17 5.2k
Anders Wesslén Sweden 9 3.8k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 714 0.9× 11 5.1k
Abram Hindle Canada 32 2.9k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 1.2k 0.9× 857 0.9× 561 0.7× 152 3.9k
Yann‐Gaël Guéhéneuc Canada 40 5.8k 1.4× 3.4k 1.5× 1.8k 1.3× 1.8k 1.9× 676 0.9× 222 6.6k
Sebastiano Panichella Switzerland 33 2.9k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 650 0.5× 772 0.8× 612 0.8× 108 3.5k
Daniel M. Germán Canada 36 4.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 861 0.9× 1.8k 2.3× 142 4.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Emad Shihab

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emad Shihab

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All Works

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Shihab, Emad, et al.. (2024). LLM-Based Chatbots for Mining Software Repositories: Challenges and Opportunities. 201–210. 7 indexed citations
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Shihab, Emad, et al.. (2024). DVC in Open Source ML-development: The Action and the Reaction. 75–80. 1 indexed citations
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Costa, Diego Elias, et al.. (2023). Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 32(6). 1–29. 10 indexed citations
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Costa, Diego Elias, et al.. (2023). Empirical analysis of security-related code reviews in npm packages. Journal of Systems and Software. 203. 111752–111752. 4 indexed citations
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Costa, Diego Elias, et al.. (2023). Empirical analysis of security vulnerabilities in Python packages. Empirical Software Engineering. 28(3). 30 indexed citations
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Costa, Diego Elias, et al.. (2021). On the Impact of Biceps Muscle Fatigue in Human Activity Recognition. Sensors. 21(4). 1070–1070. 8 indexed citations
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Mujahid, Suhaib, Diego Elias Costa, Rabe Abdalkareem, et al.. (2021). Toward Using Package Centrality Trend to Identify Packages in Decline. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 69(6). 3618–3632. 11 indexed citations
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Costa, Diego Elias, et al.. (2021). Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 48(10). 3790–3807. 34 indexed citations
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Costa, Diego Elias, et al.. (2021). Empirical Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in Python Packages. 446–457. 52 indexed citations
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Shihab, Emad, et al.. (2020). Simplifying the Search of npm Packages. Information and Software Technology. 126. 106365–106365. 6 indexed citations
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Shihab, Emad, et al.. (2018). Test Re-Prioritization in Continuous Testing Environments. 69–79. 27 indexed citations
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Shang, Weiyi, et al.. (2018). Studying and detecting log-related issues. Empirical Software Engineering. 23(6). 3248–3280. 42 indexed citations
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Shihab, Emad, et al.. (2015). What are mobile developers asking about? A large scale study using stack overflow. Empirical Software Engineering. 21(3). 1192–1223. 217 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nagappan, Meiyappan, Emad Shihab, & Ahmed E. Hassan. (2013). Challenges in mobile apps: a multi-disciplinary perspective. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 33(8). 378–381. 2 indexed citations
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Shihab, Emad, Yasutaka Kamei, & Pamela Bhattacharya. (2012). Mining challenge 2012: the Android platform. 112–115. 21 indexed citations
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Shihab, Emad, Akinori Ihara, Yasutaka Kamei, et al.. (2010). Predicting Re-opened Bugs: A Case Study on the Eclipse Project. 249–258. 79 indexed citations
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Shihab, Emad & Lin Cai. (2007). IPTV Distribution Technologies in Broadband Home Networks. 765–768. 5 indexed citations

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