Michael W. Godfrey

5.3k total citations
141 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Michael W. Godfrey is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael W. Godfrey has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Information Systems, 53 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 43 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Michael W. Godfrey's work include Software Engineering Research (107 papers), Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (44 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (30 papers). Michael W. Godfrey is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (107 papers), Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (44 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (30 papers). Michael W. Godfrey collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. Michael W. Godfrey's co-authors include Cory Kapser, Olga Baysal, Abram Hindle, Oleksii Kononenko, Richard C. Holt, Qiang Tu, Daniel M. Germán, Reid Holmes, Wei Wang and Ahmed E. Hassan and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and IEEE Software.

In The Last Decade

Michael W. Godfrey

134 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael W. Godfrey Canada 33 3.3k 1.6k 975 936 757 141 3.7k
Romain Robbes Chile 31 2.9k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 989 1.0× 921 1.0× 517 0.7× 98 3.3k
Sebastiano Panichella Switzerland 33 2.9k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 772 0.8× 650 0.7× 612 0.8× 108 3.5k
Martin P. Robillard Canada 40 4.7k 1.4× 1.7k 1.1× 1.8k 1.9× 1.4k 1.5× 894 1.2× 117 5.1k
Reid Holmes Canada 28 2.5k 0.8× 1.5k 0.9× 688 0.7× 670 0.7× 556 0.7× 87 3.1k
Shane McIntosh Canada 32 4.0k 1.2× 2.5k 1.6× 786 0.8× 1.3k 1.4× 659 0.9× 111 4.4k
Martin Pinzger Austria 29 3.1k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 890 0.9× 1.1k 1.2× 716 0.9× 107 3.5k
Andy Zaidman Netherlands 44 4.4k 1.3× 2.6k 1.7× 899 0.9× 1.7k 1.8× 759 1.0× 175 5.2k
Georgios Gousios Netherlands 27 3.0k 0.9× 1.0k 0.7× 565 0.6× 940 1.0× 1.2k 1.6× 73 3.5k
Miryung Kim United States 36 3.9k 1.2× 2.5k 1.6× 1.1k 1.2× 1.4k 1.5× 494 0.7× 114 4.8k
Jane Cleland‐Huang United States 37 4.0k 1.2× 1.6k 1.0× 1.7k 1.7× 806 0.9× 413 0.5× 215 4.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael W. Godfrey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael W. Godfrey

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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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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Godfrey, Michael W., et al.. (2024). Reevaluating the Defect Proneness of Atoms of Confusion in Java Systems. 154–164.
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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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Malik, Haroon, Peng Zhao, & Michael W. Godfrey. (2015). Going green: an exploratory analysis of energy-related questions. 418–421. 13 indexed citations
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Hemmati, Hadi, et al.. (2013). Regression-based utilization prediction algorithms: an empirical investigation. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 106–120. 5 indexed citations
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Baysal, Olga, Reid Holmes, & Michael W. Godfrey. (2013). Situational awareness: personalizing issue tracking systems. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1185–1188. 10 indexed citations
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Baysal, Olga, Reid Holmes, & Michael W. Godfrey. (2012). Mining usage data and development artifacts. 98–107. 3 indexed citations
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Wong, Kenny, et al.. (2012). Build system issues in multilanguage software. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 140–149. 24 indexed citations
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Wang, Wei & Michael W. Godfrey. (2012). We have all of the clones, now what?: toward integrating clone analysis into software quality assessment. 88–89. 2 indexed citations
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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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Berry, Daniel M., Michael W. Godfrey, Ric Holt, Cory Kapser, & Isabel Ramos. (2008). Requirements Specifications and Recovered Architectures as Grounded Theories. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8 indexed citations
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Hassan, Ahmed E., Michele Lanza, & Michael W. Godfrey. (2008). Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories. International Conference on Software Engineering. 6 indexed citations
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Lanza, Michele, Michael W. Godfrey, & Sunghun Kim. (2008). MSR 2008 - 5th working conference on mining software repositories. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 1037–1038. 3 indexed citations
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Bevan, Jennifer L., E. James Whitehead, Sung Hun Kim, & Michael W. Godfrey. (2005). Facilitating Soft- ware Evolution with Kenyon. 8 indexed citations
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Godfrey, Michael W., et al.. (2005). Using origin analysis to detect merging and splitting of source code entities. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 31(2). 166–181. 197 indexed citations
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Kapser, Cory & Michael W. Godfrey. (2004). Aiding comprehension of cloning through categorization. 85–94. 43 indexed citations
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Mikkonen, Tommi, et al.. (2003). Proceedings, sixth International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution, 1-2 September 2003, Helsinki, Finland. 1 indexed citations
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Tu, Qiang & Michael W. Godfrey. (2003). An integrated approach for studying architectural evolution. 127–136. 74 indexed citations
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Godfrey, Michael W., et al.. (2000). Secrets from the Monster: Extracting Mozilla’s Software Architecture. 35(6). 15–20. 66 indexed citations
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Godfrey, Michael W.. (1993). Visual formalisms for configuration management. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 120–127.

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