Ram Chillarege

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Ram Chillarege is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Ram Chillarege has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Software, 23 papers in Information Systems and 16 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Ram Chillarege's work include Software Reliability and Analysis Research (31 papers), Software Engineering Research (22 papers) and Software System Performance and Reliability (10 papers). Ram Chillarege is often cited by papers focused on Software Reliability and Analysis Research (31 papers), Software Engineering Research (22 papers) and Software System Performance and Reliability (10 papers). Ram Chillarege collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Egypt. Ram Chillarege's co-authors include Mark P. Sullivan, I.S. Bhandari, Michael Halliday, J.K. Chaar, Baishakhi Ray, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, N.S. Bowen, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk and Ravishankar K. Iyer and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Computer and IEEE Transactions on Computers.

In The Last Decade

Ram Chillarege

39 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Orthogonal defect classification-a concept for in-process... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 100 200 300 400 500
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. Orthogonal defect classification-a concept for in-process measurements
    1992 543 citations Ram Chillarege, I.S. Bhandari et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ram Chillarege United States 17 1.0k 927 639 264 215 43 1.5k
Roberto Natella Italy 21 693 0.7× 632 0.7× 1.0k 1.6× 280 1.1× 389 1.8× 85 1.5k
Alberto Avritzer United States 18 521 0.5× 582 0.6× 832 1.3× 339 1.3× 67 0.3× 85 1.2k
Michael W. Whalen United States 19 973 0.9× 534 0.6× 193 0.3× 338 1.3× 53 0.2× 91 1.4k
Guillaume Brat United States 13 978 0.9× 353 0.4× 261 0.4× 533 2.0× 58 0.3× 46 1.5k
Mark Utting New Zealand 12 1.1k 1.1× 500 0.5× 337 0.5× 395 1.5× 34 0.2× 46 1.4k
Hyunsook Do United States 21 2.2k 2.1× 1.8k 1.9× 569 0.9× 195 0.7× 44 0.2× 71 2.5k
John Penix United States 15 926 0.9× 888 1.0× 292 0.5× 385 1.5× 39 0.2× 46 1.4k
R.C. Linger United States 13 383 0.4× 552 0.6× 310 0.5× 268 1.0× 32 0.1× 34 914
Elvinia Riccobene Italy 15 417 0.4× 361 0.4× 324 0.5× 448 1.7× 39 0.2× 101 958
Yihao Li China 11 1.0k 1.0× 890 1.0× 381 0.6× 190 0.7× 51 0.2× 41 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ram Chillarege

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ram Chillarege

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ram Chillarege

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chillarege, Ram. (2024). Software Reliability: What Went Wrong? How to Fix It?. Computer. 57(11). 92–94. 1 indexed citations
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Chillarege, Ram, et al.. (2020). Towards Creation of Automated Prediction Systems for Trust and Dependability Evaluation. Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 1–6. 1 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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Siewiorek, Daniel P., Ram Chillarege, & Zbigniew Kalbarczyk. (2004). Reflections on industry trends and experimental research in dependability. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 1(2). 109–127. 32 indexed citations
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Chillarege, Ram, et al.. (2003). Test and development process retrospective - a case study using ODC triggers. 669–678. 33 indexed citations
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Ray, Baishakhi, I.S. Bhandari, & Ram Chillarege. (2003). Reliability growth for typed defects (software development). 327–336. 3 indexed citations
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Sullivan, Mark P. & Ram Chillarege. (2003). A comparison of software defects in database management systems and operating systems. 475–484. 69 indexed citations
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Spainhower, Lisa, et al.. (2003). Design for fault-tolerance in system ES model 900. 38–47. 6 indexed citations
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Chillarege, Ram, et al.. (2002). Defect type and its impact on the growth curve (software development). 246–255. 21 indexed citations
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Chaar, J.K., Michael Halliday, I.S. Bhandari, & Ram Chillarege. (2002). On the evaluation of software inspections and tests. 180–189. 1 indexed citations
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Chillarege, Ram. (1999). Software Testing Best Practices. 16 indexed citations
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Chillarege, Ram. (1994). Self-testing software probe system for failure detection and diagnosis. Conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research. 10. 7 indexed citations
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Ray, Bonnie K., et al.. (1994). An inference structure for process feedback: technique and implementation. Software Quality Journal. 3(3). 167–189. 2 indexed citations
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Ray, Bonnie K., et al.. (1992). Reliability Growth for Typed Defects. 327–336. 9 indexed citations
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Chillarege, Ram, et al.. (1991). Defect type and its impact on the growth curve. International Conference on Software Engineering. 246–255. 37 indexed citations
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Chillarege, Ram, et al.. (1985). The effect of system workload on error latency. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review. 13(2). 69–77. 7 indexed citations
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Chillarege, Ram, et al.. (1985). The effect of system workload on error latency. 69–77. 4 indexed citations

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