Sergey Mechtaev

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 957 citations indexed

About

Sergey Mechtaev is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Sergey Mechtaev has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 957 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Software, 17 papers in Information Systems and 5 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Sergey Mechtaev's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (19 papers), Software Engineering Research (16 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (14 papers). Sergey Mechtaev is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (19 papers), Software Engineering Research (16 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (14 papers). Sergey Mechtaev collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, United Kingdom and United States. Sergey Mechtaev's co-authors include Abhik Roychoudhury, Jooyong Yi, Shin Hwei Tan, Xiang Gao, Lars Grunske, Hu Yang, Manh-Dung Nguyen, Ben Leong, Yannic Noller and Xiang Gao and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Empirical Software Engineering and ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.

In The Last Decade

Sergey Mechtaev

22 papers receiving 948 citations

Hit Papers

Angelix 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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. Angelix
    2016 341 citations Sergey Mechtaev, Jooyong Yi et al. Scholarworks@UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sergey Mechtaev Singapore 12 855 683 158 138 129 23 957
Caroline Lemieux United States 9 419 0.5× 329 0.5× 168 1.1× 112 0.8× 178 1.4× 21 607
Max Schäfer United States 15 393 0.5× 510 0.7× 232 1.5× 146 1.1× 216 1.7× 30 660
Nicos Malevris Greece 17 859 1.0× 599 0.9× 207 1.3× 83 0.6× 30 0.2× 43 900
Rohan Padhye United States 13 299 0.3× 276 0.4× 163 1.0× 123 0.9× 143 1.1× 30 505
Stefan Bucur Switzerland 7 441 0.5× 334 0.5× 164 1.0× 247 1.8× 108 0.8× 11 636
Kiran Lakhotia United Kingdom 13 593 0.7× 447 0.7× 56 0.4× 115 0.8× 57 0.4× 24 680
Zhenyu Zhang China 18 762 0.9× 719 1.1× 62 0.4× 309 2.2× 57 0.4× 57 911
Taweesup Apiwattanapong United States 12 753 0.9× 745 1.1× 107 0.7× 289 2.1× 163 1.3× 16 902
Janusz Łaski United States 11 1.1k 1.3× 763 1.1× 259 1.6× 227 1.6× 111 0.9× 24 1.2k
S. London United States 10 1.0k 1.2× 739 1.1× 79 0.5× 274 2.0× 88 0.7× 10 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sergey Mechtaev

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Sergey Mechtaev's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Sergey Mechtaev with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sergey Mechtaev more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Sergey Mechtaev

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sergey Mechtaev. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sergey Mechtaev. The network helps show where Sergey Mechtaev may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sergey Mechtaev

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Williams, D. A., James P. Callan, Serkan Kırbaş, et al.. (2024). User-Centric Deployment of Automated Program Repair at Bloomberg. 81–91. 2 indexed citations
2.
Fan, Zhiyu, et al.. (2024). Oracle-Guided Program Selection from Large Language Models. 628–640.
3.
Mechtaev, Sergey, et al.. (2023). Program Repair Guided by Datalog-Defined Static Analysis. 1216–1228. 8 indexed citations
4.
Barr, Earl T., Jonathan Bell, Michael Hilton, Sergey Mechtaev, & Christopher S. Timperley. (2023). Continuously Accelerating Research. 2014. 123–128. 1 indexed citations
5.
Barr, Earl T., et al.. (2023). Precise Data-Driven Approximation for Program Analysis via Fuzzing. 8. 611–623. 1 indexed citations
6.
Barr, Earl T., et al.. (2023). Rete: Learning Namespace Representation for Program Repair. 1264–1276. 8 indexed citations
7.
Mechtaev, Sergey, et al.. (2022). Use of General Repair Tool for Fixing Security Vulnerabilities. 135–140. 1 indexed citations
8.
Zhang, Jiang, Ivan Beschastnikh, Sergey Mechtaev, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2022). Fair decision making via automated repair of decision trees. 9–16. 2 indexed citations
9.
Barr, Earl T., et al.. (2022). Modus: a Datalog dialect for building container images. 595–606. 2 indexed citations
10.
Kechagia, Maria, Sergey Mechtaev, Federica Sarro, & Mark Harman. (2021). Evaluating Automatic Program Repair Capabilities to Repair API Misuses. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 48(7). 2658–2679. 23 indexed citations
11.
Yang, Hu, et al.. (2019). Re-Factoring Based Program Repair Applied to Programming Assignments. 388–398. 57 indexed citations
12.
Mechtaev, Sergey, Manh-Dung Nguyen, Yannic Noller, Lars Grunske, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2018). Semantic program repair using a reference implementation. 129–139. 55 indexed citations
13.
Mechtaev, Sergey, Xiang Gao, Shin Hwei Tan, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2018). Test-Equivalence Analysis for Automatic Patch Generation. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 27(4). 1–37. 32 indexed citations
14.
Mechtaev, Sergey, Alberto Griggio, Alessandro Cimatti, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2018). Symbolic execution with existential second-order constraints. Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento). 389–399. 20 indexed citations
15.
Yi, Jooyong, Shin Hwei Tan, Sergey Mechtaev, Marcel Böhme, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2018). A correlation study between automated program repair and test-suite metrics. 24–24. 12 indexed citations
16.
Tan, Shin Hwei, et al.. (2017). Codeflaws: a programming competition benchmark for evaluating automated program repair tools. Scholarworks@UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology). 180–182. 73 indexed citations
17.
Yi, Jooyong, Shin Hwei Tan, Sergey Mechtaev, Marcel Böhme, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2017). A correlation study between automated program repair and test-suite metrics. Empirical Software Engineering. 23(5). 2948–2979. 23 indexed citations
18.
Mechtaev, Sergey, Jooyong Yi, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2016). Angelix. Scholarworks@UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology). 691–701. 341 indexed citations breakdown →
19.
Mechtaev, Sergey, Jooyong Yi, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2015). DirectFix: looking for simple program repairs. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1. 448–458. 118 indexed citations
20.
Mechtaev, Sergey, Jooyong Yi, & Abhik Roychoudhury. (2015). DirectFix: Looking for Simple Program Repairs. 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. 448–458. 129 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Caroline Lemieux Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Max Schäfer Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nicos Malevris Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Rohan Padhye Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Stefan Bucur Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Kiran Lakhotia Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Zhenyu Zhang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Taweesup Apiwattanapong Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Janusz Łaski Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by S. London
Rankless by CCL
2026