Marc Balcer

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
5 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Marc Balcer is a scholar working on Software, Control and Systems Engineering and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Marc Balcer has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Software, 2 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 2 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Marc Balcer's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (3 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (2 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (2 papers). Marc Balcer is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (3 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (2 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (2 papers). Marc Balcer collaborates with scholars based in United States. Marc Balcer's co-authors include Thomas J. Ostrand, Stephen J. Mellor and Kevin T. Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes.

In The Last Decade

Marc Balcer

5 papers receiving 1.1k 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. The category-partition method for specifying and generating functional tests
    1988 584 citations Thomas J. Ostrand, Marc Balcer Communications of the ACM profile →
  2. Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture
    2002 431 citations Stephen J. Mellor, Marc Balcer et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Marc Balcer United States 5 916 723 412 273 105 5 1.3k
Markus Voelter Germany 15 584 0.6× 630 0.9× 638 1.5× 224 0.8× 107 1.0× 47 1.1k
Derek Coleman United States 11 459 0.5× 647 0.9× 518 1.3× 221 0.8× 53 0.5× 42 967
W. Kozaczynski United States 12 655 0.7× 744 1.0× 496 1.2× 188 0.7× 57 0.5× 36 1.0k
W.B. Mugridge New Zealand 11 566 0.6× 495 0.7× 235 0.6× 160 0.6× 103 1.0× 35 849
Pei Hsia United States 18 825 0.9× 837 1.2× 369 0.9× 262 1.0× 26 0.2× 61 1.2k
Boris Beizer United States 8 831 0.9× 548 0.8× 208 0.5× 242 0.9× 125 1.2× 10 1.1k
Juergen Dingel Canada 18 673 0.7× 431 0.6× 509 1.2× 330 1.2× 123 1.2× 88 1.1k
John H R May United Kingdom 11 857 0.9× 684 0.9× 144 0.3× 267 1.0× 90 0.9× 50 1.2k
Robert V. Binder United States 7 967 1.1× 739 1.0× 299 0.7× 263 1.0× 57 0.5× 18 1.2k
Kevin Lano United Kingdom 19 858 0.9× 786 1.1× 667 1.6× 191 0.7× 41 0.4× 154 1.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Marc Balcer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marc Balcer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marc Balcer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marc Balcer 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 Marc Balcer. Marc Balcer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

5 of 5 papers shown
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Smith, Kevin T., et al.. (2008). Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 142 indexed citations
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Mellor, Stephen J., et al.. (2002). Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 431 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Balcer, Marc, et al.. (1989). Automatic generation of test scripts from formal test specifications. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 14(8). 210–218. 9 indexed citations
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Balcer, Marc, et al.. (1989). Automatic generation of test scripts from formal test specifications. 210–218. 88 indexed citations
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Ostrand, Thomas J. & Marc Balcer. (1988). The category-partition method for specifying and generating functional tests. Communications of the ACM. 31(6). 676–686. 584 indexed citations breakdown →

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