Rahul Pandita

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 704 citations indexed

About

Rahul Pandita is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Rahul Pandita has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 704 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Information Systems, 9 papers in Software and 7 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Rahul Pandita's work include Software Engineering Research (19 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (8 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (7 papers). Rahul Pandita is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (19 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (8 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (7 papers). Rahul Pandita collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and China. Rahul Pandita's co-authors include Tao Xie, Xusheng Xiao, William Enck, Wei Yang, Amit Paradkar, Hao Zhong, Stephen Oney, Laurie Williams, Patrick Morrison and Akond Rahman and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Rahul Pandita

31 papers receiving 672 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.

WHYPER: towards automating risk assessment of mobile applications

2013 245 citations Rahul Pandita, Xusheng Xiao et al. USENIX Security Symposium profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rahul Pandita United States	13	528	328	246	187	145	32	704
Ana C. R. Paiva Portugal	15	372 0.7×	181 0.6×	454 1.8×	176 0.9×	123 0.8×	79	659
Luca Pascarella Switzerland	16	654 1.2×	122 0.4×	406 1.7×	206 1.1×	222 1.5×	42	822
Rabe Abdalkareem Canada	12	525 1.0×	120 0.4×	192 0.8×	173 0.9×	154 1.1×	31	655
Kenny Wong Canada	12	526 1.0×	90 0.3×	225 0.9×	210 1.1×	288 2.0×	36	657
Ahmed Tamrawi United States	10	546 1.0×	126 0.4×	251 1.0×	191 1.0×	178 1.2×	21	632
Andrew Meneely United States	18	1.2k 2.3×	378 1.2×	638 2.6×	267 1.4×	124 0.9×	46	1.4k
Maurício Aniche Netherlands	17	636 1.2×	100 0.3×	368 1.5×	215 1.1×	133 0.9×	39	781
Diego Elias Costa Canada	12	326 0.6×	102 0.3×	120 0.5×	157 0.8×	158 1.1×	43	515
Jeffrey Stylos United States	15	599 1.1×	98 0.3×	162 0.7×	128 0.7×	263 1.8×	21	745
Csaba Nagy Switzerland	14	491 0.9×	69 0.2×	226 0.9×	193 1.0×	148 1.0×	43	570

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rahul Pandita

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rahul Pandita

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Parnin, Chris, Gustavo Soares, Rahul Pandita, et al.. (2025). Building Your Own Product Copilot: Challenges, Opportunities, and Needs. 338–348. 2 indexed citations

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Pandita, Rahul, et al.. (2024). Follow-Up Attention: An Empirical Study of Developer and Neural Model Code Exploration. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 50(10). 2568–2582. 1 indexed citations

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Rahman, Akond, et al.. (2023). Defect Categorization in Compilers: A Multi-vocal Literature Review. ACM Computing Surveys. 56(4). 1–42. 2 indexed citations

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Rahman, Akond, et al.. (2023). Security Misconfigurations in Open Source Kubernetes Manifests: An Empirical Study. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 32(4). 1–36. 42 indexed citations

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Rahman, Akond, et al.. (2023). An empirical study of task infections in Ansible scripts. Empirical Software Engineering. 29(1). 4 indexed citations

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Rahman, Akond, et al.. (2023). Come for syntax, stay for speed, understand defects: an empirical study of defects in Julia programs. Empirical Software Engineering. 28(4). 2 indexed citations

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Nelson, Nicholas, et al.. (2019). Latent Patterns in Activities: A Field Study of How Developers Manage Context. 373–383. 13 indexed citations

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Pandita, Rahul, Chris Parnin, Felienne Hermans, & Emerson Murphy-Hill. (2018). No half-measures: A study of manual and tool-assisted end-user programming tasks in Excel. 95–103. 4 indexed citations

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Vuković, Maja, et al.. (2018). A Conceptual Framework for Engineering Chatbots. IEEE Internet Computing. 22(6). 54–59. 12 indexed citations

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Morrison, Patrick, et al.. (2018). Mapping the field of software life cycle security metrics. Information and Software Technology. 102. 146–159. 38 indexed citations

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Morrison, Patrick, Rahul Pandita, Xusheng Xiao, Ram Chillarege, & Laurie Williams. (2018). Are vulnerabilities discovered and resolved like other defects?. 498–498. 1 indexed citations

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Morrison, Patrick, Rahul Pandita, Xusheng Xiao, Ram Chillarege, & Laurie Williams. (2017). Are vulnerabilities discovered and resolved like other defects?. Empirical Software Engineering. 23(3). 1383–1421. 27 indexed citations

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Pandita, Rahul, et al.. (2017). TMAP: Discovering relevant API methods through text mining of API documentation. Journal of Software Evolution and Process. 29(12). 5 indexed citations

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Morrison, Patrick, Rahul Pandita, Emerson Murphy-Hill, & Anne Collins McLaughlin. (2016). Veteran developers' contributions and motivations: An open source perspective. 171–179. 5 indexed citations

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Barik, Titus, Rahul Pandita, Justin Middleton, & Emerson Murphy-Hill. (2016). Designing for dystopia: software engineering research for the post-apocalypse. 3 indexed citations

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Johnson, Brittany, Rahul Pandita, Emerson Murphy-Hill, & Sarah Heckman. (2015). Bespoke tools: adapted to the concepts developers know. 878–881. 10 indexed citations

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Pandita, Rahul, et al.. (2015). Enabling forensics by proposing heuristics to identify mandatory log events. 1–11. 8 indexed citations

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Pandita, Rahul, Xusheng Xiao, Wei Yang, William Enck, & Tao Xie. (2013). WHYPER: towards automating risk assessment of mobile applications. USENIX Security Symposium. 527–542. 245 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pandey, Sachin, et al.. (2013). Smoke and Fire Detection. 5 indexed citations

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Pandita, Rahul, Xusheng Xiao, Hao Zhong, et al.. (2012). Inferring method specifications from natural language API descriptions. International Conference on Software Engineering. 815–825. 77 indexed citations

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