Romain Robbes

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
98 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Romain Robbes is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Romain Robbes has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Information Systems, 47 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 25 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Romain Robbes's work include Software Engineering Research (87 papers), Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (37 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (20 papers). Romain Robbes is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (87 papers), Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (37 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (20 papers). Romain Robbes collaborates with scholars based in Chile, Switzerland and Italy. Romain Robbes's co-authors include Michele Lanza, Marco D’Ambros, Mircea Lungu, Alberto Bacchelli, David Röthlisberger, Stefan Hanenberg, Richard Wettel, Andreas Stefik, Éric Tanter and Alexandre Bergel and has published in prestigious journals such as Evolution, ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Romain Robbes

95 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

An extensive comparison of bug prediction approaches 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 2011 100 200 300 400
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. An extensive comparison of bug prediction approaches
    2010 457 citations Marco D’Ambros, Michele Lanza et al. View profile →
  2. Evaluating defect prediction approaches: a benchmark and an extensive comparison
    2011 433 citations Marco D’Ambros, Michele Lanza et al. Empirical Software Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Romain Robbes Chile 31 2.9k 1.5k 989 921 517 98 3.3k
Reid Holmes Canada 28 2.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.0× 688 0.7× 670 0.7× 556 1.1× 87 3.1k
Michael W. Godfrey Canada 33 3.3k 1.1× 1.6k 1.0× 975 1.0× 936 1.0× 757 1.5× 141 3.7k
Lori Pollock United States 35 3.2k 1.1× 1.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.4× 1.4k 1.5× 676 1.3× 202 4.7k
Sebastiano Panichella Switzerland 33 2.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.9× 772 0.8× 650 0.7× 612 1.2× 108 3.5k
E. James Whitehead United States 25 2.9k 1.0× 1.9k 1.2× 906 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 238 0.5× 66 3.3k
Abram Hindle Canada 32 2.9k 1.0× 1.2k 0.8× 857 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 561 1.1× 152 3.9k
Andy Zaidman Netherlands 44 4.4k 1.5× 2.6k 1.7× 899 0.9× 1.7k 1.9× 759 1.5× 175 5.2k
Foutse Khomh Canada 37 4.1k 1.4× 2.4k 1.6× 1.3k 1.3× 1.5k 1.7× 601 1.2× 248 5.1k
Václav Rajlich United States 28 3.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 1.4k 1.4× 921 1.0× 432 0.8× 96 3.5k
Martin P. Robillard Canada 40 4.7k 1.6× 1.7k 1.1× 1.8k 1.8× 1.4k 1.5× 894 1.7× 117 5.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Degueule, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Automatic Classification of Software Repositories: a Systematic Mapping Study. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 102–113.
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Robbes, Romain, et al.. (2024). Out of Context: How important is Local Context in Neural Program Repair?. 1–13. 4 indexed citations
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Allamanis, Miltiadis, et al.. (2023). JEMMA: An extensible Java dataset for ML4Code applications. Empirical Software Engineering. 28(2). 3 indexed citations
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Robbes, Romain, et al.. (2020). Big Code != Big Vocabulary: Open-Vocabulary Models for Source Code. arXiv (Cornell University). 34 indexed citations
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Sawant, Anand Ashok, Romain Robbes, & Alberto Bacchelli. (2019). To react, or not to react: Patterns of reaction to API deprecation. Empirical Software Engineering. 24(6). 3824–3870. 22 indexed citations
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Sawant, Anand Ashok, Romain Robbes, & Alberto Bacchelli. (2017). On the reaction to deprecation of clients of 4 + 1 popular Java APIs and the JDK. Empirical Software Engineering. 23(4). 2158–2197. 33 indexed citations
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Ochoa, Sergio F., et al.. (2017). What Differentiates Chilean Niche Software Companies: Business Knowledge and Reputation. IEEE Software. 34(3). 96–103. 9 indexed citations
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Robbes, Romain, Sté́phane Ducasse, & Michele Lanza. (2017). Microprints: A Pixel-based Semantically Rich Visualization of Methods. Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern. 169–185. 3 indexed citations
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Penta, Massimiliano Di, Martin Pinzger, & Romain Robbes. (2015). Proceedings of the 12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories. 5 indexed citations
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Nagappan, Meiyappan, Romain Robbes, Yasutaka Kamei, et al.. (2015). An empirical study of goto in C code from GitHub repositories. View. 404–414. 18 indexed citations
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Robbes, Romain & Gregório Robles. (2013). Proceedings of the 2013 International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution. 39–41. 3 indexed citations
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Cleve, Anthony & Romain Robbes. (2011). Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution and the 7th annual ERCIM Workshop on Software Evolution. 2 indexed citations
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D’Ambros, Marco, Michele Lanza, & Romain Robbes. (2010). An extensive comparison of bug prediction approaches. View. 31–41. 457 indexed citations breakdown →
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D’Ambros, Marco, Michele Lanza, & Romain Robbes. (2009). On the Relationship Between Change Coupling and Software Defects. 135–144. 96 indexed citations
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Lungu, Mircea, Michele Lanza, Tudor Gîrba, & Romain Robbes. (2009). The Small Project Observatory: Visualizing software ecosystems. Science of Computer Programming. 75(4). 264–275. 72 indexed citations
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Bacchelli, Alberto, Marco D’Ambros, Michele Lanza, & Romain Robbes. (2009). Benchmarking Lightweight Techniques to Link E-Mails and Source Code. View. 205–214. 31 indexed citations
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Robbes, Romain, Michele Lanza, & Damien Pollet. (2008). A Benchmark for Change Prediction. reroDoc Digital Library. 4 indexed citations
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Robbes, Romain & Michele Lanza. (2008). SpyWare. View. 847–850. 60 indexed citations
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Lanza, Michele, et al.. (2008). A teamwork-based approach to programming fundamentals with scheme, smalltalk & java. View. 787–790. 3 indexed citations
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Robbes, Romain & Michele Lanza. (2006). Change-based Software Evolution.. Evolution. 159–164. 7 indexed citations

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