Walid Maalej

5.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
101 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Walid Maalej is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Walid Maalej has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Information Systems, 44 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 19 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Walid Maalej's work include Software Engineering Research (56 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (40 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (19 papers). Walid Maalej is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (56 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (40 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (19 papers). Walid Maalej collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and Italy. Walid Maalej's co-authors include Dennis Pagano, Emitzá Guzmán, Zijad Kurtanović, Martin P. Robillard, Hans-Jörg Happel, Christoph Stanik, Timo Johann, Tobias Roehm, Rebecca Tiarks and Rainer Koschke and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Computer and IEEE Software.

In The Last Decade

Walid Maalej

96 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

How Do Users Like This Feature? A Fine Grained Sentiment ... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2014 2013 2015 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. How Do Users Like This Feature? A Fine Grained Sentiment Analysis of App Reviews
    2014 414 citations Emitzá Guzmán, Walid Maalej profile →
  2. User feedback in the appstore: An empirical study
    2013 356 citations Walid Maalej et al. profile →
  3. Bug report, feature request, or simply praise? On automatically classifying app reviews
    2015 295 citations Walid Maalej 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
Walid Maalej Germany 28 2.6k 1.1k 667 452 389 101 3.4k
Emerson Murphy-Hill United States 36 3.1k 1.2× 863 0.8× 864 1.3× 321 0.7× 1.5k 3.8× 151 4.1k
Bogdan Vasilescu United States 34 2.5k 0.9× 700 0.6× 1.4k 2.2× 221 0.5× 509 1.3× 91 3.4k
David Redmiles United States 30 2.1k 0.8× 980 0.9× 993 1.5× 346 0.8× 359 0.9× 155 3.4k
Anders Wesslén Sweden 9 3.8k 1.4× 1.5k 1.4× 714 1.1× 230 0.5× 1.6k 4.2× 11 5.1k
Alexander Serebrenik Netherlands 43 3.8k 1.5× 1.4k 1.2× 1.8k 2.7× 331 0.7× 1.2k 3.0× 236 5.4k
Meiyappan Nagappan Canada 30 2.1k 0.8× 491 0.4× 403 0.6× 246 0.5× 1.0k 2.7× 91 2.8k
Christoph Treude Australia 27 2.3k 0.9× 807 0.7× 1.1k 1.6× 105 0.2× 532 1.4× 157 2.9k
Magnus C. Ohlsson Sweden 12 3.8k 1.5× 1.5k 1.4× 717 1.1× 227 0.5× 1.7k 4.4× 17 5.2k
Rachel Harrison United Kingdom 21 1.6k 0.6× 639 0.6× 228 0.3× 187 0.4× 745 1.9× 108 2.2k
Blase Ur United States 33 1.7k 0.7× 726 0.7× 264 0.4× 1.4k 3.1× 296 0.8× 85 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Walid Maalej

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walid Maalej

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walid Maalej

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Walid Maalej. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Walid Maalej 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 Walid Maalej. Walid Maalej 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
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Dray, Gérard, et al.. (2025). On AI-Inspired User Interface Design. IEEE Software. 42(3). 50–58.
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Widyasari, Ratnadira, et al.. (2024). Explaining Explanations: An Empirical Study of Explanations in Code Reviews. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34(6). 1–30. 1 indexed citations
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Maalej, Walid, et al.. (2023). Developers' Visuo-spatial Mental Model and Program Comprehension. 1920–1932. 1 indexed citations
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Maalej, Walid, et al.. (2023). On understanding and predicting issue links. Requirements Engineering. 28(4). 541–565. 1 indexed citations
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Maalej, Walid, et al.. (2022). A Chatbot for the Elicitation of Contextual Information from User Feedback. 272–273. 2 indexed citations
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Fucci, Davide, et al.. (2022). Empirical research on requirements quality: a systematic mapping study. Requirements Engineering. 27(2). 183–209. 26 indexed citations
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Reimer, Julius, et al.. (2021). Content Analyses of User Comments in Journalism: A Systematic Literature Review Spanning Communication Studies and Computer Science. Digital Journalism. 11(7). 1328–1352. 16 indexed citations
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Hayes, Jane Huffman, Irit Hadar, Alessio Ferrari, et al.. (2019). Requirements Engineering (RE) for Social Good: RE Cares [Requirements]. IEEE Software. 36(1). 86–94. 4 indexed citations
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Fucci, Davide, et al.. (2018). Research on NLP for RE at the University of Hamburg: A Report.. 1 indexed citations
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Novielli, Nicole, Andrew Begel, & Walid Maalej. (2017). Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering. International Conference on Software Engineering. 7 indexed citations
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Guzmán, Emitzá & Walid Maalej. (2015). Do Users Like This Feature? A Fine Grained Sentiment Analysis of App Reviews.. 140. 3 indexed citations
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Maalej, Walid, et al.. (2015). On the Comprehension of Program Comprehension.. 65–68. 5 indexed citations
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Johann, Timo & Walid Maalej. (2015). Democratic mass participation of users in Requirements Engineering?. 256–261. 37 indexed citations
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Roehm, Tobias & Walid Maalej. (2012). Automatically detecting developer activities and problems in software development work. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1261–1264. 7 indexed citations
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Roehm, Tobias, Rebecca Tiarks, Rainer Koschke, & Walid Maalej. (2012). How do professional developers comprehend software?. 255–265. 1 indexed citations
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Maalej, Walid, et al.. (2010). Switch! Recommending Artifacts Needed Next Based on Personal and Shared Context.. 473–484. 2 indexed citations
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Ebner, Martin, Imed Hammouda, Hans-Jörg Happel, Walid Maalej, & Wolfgang Reinhardt. (2010). 3rd InternationalWorkshop on Social Software Engineering.. 445–448. 2 indexed citations
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Happel, Hans-Jörg, et al.. (2009). Social Aspects in Software Engineering.. 239–242. 3 indexed citations

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