Kai Petersen

10.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Kai Petersen is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Petersen has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Information Systems, 33 papers in Software and 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Kai Petersen's work include Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (85 papers), Software Engineering Research (82 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (21 papers). Kai Petersen is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (85 papers), Software Engineering Research (82 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (21 papers). Kai Petersen collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, Germany and Italy. Kai Petersen's co-authors include Sairam Vakkalanka, Ludwik Kuźniarz, Robert Feldt, Michael Mattsson, Claes Wohlin, Nauman bin Ali, Mika Mäntylä, Çiğdem Gencel, Deepika Badampudi and Vahid Garousi and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Access and AIChE Journal.

In The Last Decade

Kai Petersen

115 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

Systematic Mapping Studies in Software Engineering 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2015 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kai Petersen Sweden 33 4.2k 1.4k 1.2k 1.2k 962 120 6.9k
Pearl Brereton United Kingdom 30 3.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.9× 1.5k 1.2× 703 0.6× 732 0.8× 107 6.4k
Tore Dybå Norway 35 5.1k 1.2× 1.0k 0.8× 941 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 67 6.5k
Björn Regnell Sweden 30 6.1k 1.5× 1.3k 0.9× 2.5k 2.0× 2.1k 1.8× 1.2k 1.2× 99 7.8k
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger United States 37 5.6k 1.3× 1.1k 0.8× 1.8k 1.5× 2.3k 1.9× 839 0.9× 118 7.1k
Alain Abran Canada 34 4.6k 1.1× 965 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 2.6k 2.2× 527 0.5× 403 6.3k
Mario Piattini Spain 44 5.7k 1.4× 1.6k 1.2× 2.5k 2.0× 1.4k 1.2× 811 0.8× 639 8.3k
Natália Juristo Spain 33 3.7k 0.9× 635 0.5× 1.7k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 610 0.6× 146 5.2k
Philippe Kruchten Canada 36 6.0k 1.4× 1.7k 1.2× 3.3k 2.7× 1.6k 1.3× 925 1.0× 155 7.8k
O. Pearl Brereton United Kingdom 14 2.4k 0.6× 811 0.6× 961 0.8× 498 0.4× 607 0.6× 24 4.9k
David Budgen United Kingdom 34 5.4k 1.3× 1.9k 1.4× 2.3k 1.9× 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 130 10.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kai Petersen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Petersen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Petersen, Kai, Jürgen Börstler, Nauman bin Ali, & Emelie Engström. (2024). Revisiting the construct and assessment of industrial relevance in software engineering research. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 17–20.
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Petersen, Kai, et al.. (2024). On the road to interactive LLM-based systematic mapping studies. Information and Software Technology. 178. 107611–107611. 1 indexed citations
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Salleh, Norsaremah, et al.. (2023). Value-based Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 17(1). 230106–230106. 1 indexed citations
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Minhas, Nasir Mehmood, Jürgen Börstler, & Kai Petersen. (2023). Checklists to support decision-making in regression testing. Journal of Systems and Software. 202. 111697–111697. 2 indexed citations
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Molléri, Jefferson Seide, Emília Mendes, Kai Petersen, & Michael Felderer. (2022). Determining a core view of research quality in empirical software engineering. Computer Standards & Interfaces. 84. 103688–103688. 1 indexed citations
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Petersen, Kai & Nauman bin Ali. (2021). An analysis of top author citations in software engineering and a comparison with other fields. Scientometrics. 126(11). 9147–9183. 6 indexed citations
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Molléri, Jefferson Seide, Michael Felderer, Emília Mendes, & Kai Petersen. (2019). Reasoning about Research Quality Alignment in Software Engineering. Journal of Systems and Software. 1 indexed citations
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Ali, Nauman bin, et al.. (2018). Towards a benefits dependency network for DevOps based on a systematic literature review. Journal of Software Evolution and Process. 30(11). 42 indexed citations
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Petersen, Kai, et al.. (2018). Levels of Exploration in Exploratory Testing: From Freestyle to Fully Scripted. IEEE Access. 6. 26416–26423. 12 indexed citations
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Petersen, Kai, et al.. (2017). A systematic literature review of software requirements reuse approaches. Information and Software Technology. 93. 223–245. 33 indexed citations
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Usman, Muhammad, Jürgen Börstler, & Kai Petersen. (2017). An Effort Estimation Taxonomy for Agile Software Development. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. 27(4). 641–674. 29 indexed citations
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Bjarnason, Elizabeth, Markus Borg, Marian Daun, et al.. (2016). Joint Proceedings of the REFSQ 2016 Co-Located Events : Joint Proceedings of REFSQ-2016 Workshops, Doctoral Symposium, Research Method Track, and Poster Track co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2016). publication.editionName. 1 indexed citations
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Petersen, Kai & Nauman bin Ali. (2015). Operationalizing the requirements selection process with study selection procedures from systematic literature reviews. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 1342. 102–113. 3 indexed citations
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Penzenstadler, Birgit, et al.. (2014). State of the Practice for Sustainability as an Explicit Objective.. 117–135. 1 indexed citations
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Petersen, Kai, et al.. (2014). Extending value stream mapping through waste definition beyond customer perspective. Journal of Software Evolution and Process. 26(12). 1074–1105. 27 indexed citations
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Andriluka, Mykhaylo, Joachim Meyer, Stefan Kohlbrecher, et al.. (2010). Vision based victim detection from unmanned aerial vehicles. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 1740–1747. 80 indexed citations
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Petersen, Kai & Claes Wohlin. (2008). Issues and advantages of using agile and incremental practices. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations
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Petersen, Kai, et al.. (2008). Systematic Mapping Studies in Software Engineering. Electronic workshops in computing. 2012 indexed citations breakdown →

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