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ICSA: International Conference on Software Architecture (was previously WICSA) — papers and institutions, 2024–2026

Papers of ICSA, International Conference on Software Architecture (was previously WICSA) (CORE rank A; field: Software engineering), 2024–2026: per year, the institutions, countries and topics, and the most-cited papers. Ranks are those of the CORE Conference Rankings, edition ICORE2026 (portal.core.edu.au), applied to every year shown. Papers are the works OpenAlex lists for the conference's proceedings, or for the issues of a conference-linked journal that publishes its papers (such as PACMPL, PVLDB or ACM TOG), by publication year; workshops, companion volumes, posters and Findings are left out. A paper counts once for each institution and country among its authors' affiliations as OpenAlex assigns them; papers without affiliations in OpenAlex count for none. For conferences published in book series that OpenAlex files as one source (LNCS, LIPIcs, SIAM and IOS Press proceedings), the papers are found by DOI: those of the volumes with the conference's title in Crossref, or LIPIcs DOIs, which name the conference. Conferences without DOIs (PMLR, USENIX, OpenReview) are listed without counts. A dash (–) for a year means OpenAlex has no papers of the conference for it yet: the proceedings are not published or indexed yet, or the conference did not meet that year (some meet every other year). 2026 counts what OpenAlex had indexed by 2026-11-02. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

  • ICSA (International Conference on Software Architecture (was previously WICSA)) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 99 of its papers from 2024–2026 (26 in 2024, 31 in 2025, 42 in 2026).
  • By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from Italy (20), Germany (18) and the Netherlands (10).
  • The institutions with the most papers are Gran Sasso Science Institute (9), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (7) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (6).
  • Its most-cited paper of these years is “Can LLMs Generate Architectural Design Decisions? - An Exploratory Empirical Study” (2024), with 56 citations.
  • OpenAlex has affiliations for only 73% of its papers, so the institution and country counts are incomplete.

Papers per year#

ICSA papers per publication year in OpenAlex (–: not in OpenAlex yet)
YearPapersWith affiliations
20242618
20253120
20264234

Sources#

Where OpenAlex lists the papers
OpenAlex sourceWhich papers
S7407089048The conference's proceedings

Who publishes there#

Institutions with the most ICSA papers, 2024–2026
#InstitutionPapers
1Gran Sasso Science Institute9
2Karlsruhe Institute of Technology7
3Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam6
4International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad5
5University of Stuttgart4
6University of Vienna4
7University of Southern Denmark4
8University of Salerno3
9Universität Hamburg3
10Tilburg University3
Countries with the most ICSA papers, 2024–2026
#CountryPapers
1Italy20
2Germany18
3Netherlands10
4Sweden7
5United States6
6Australia5
7India5
8Austria4
9Denmark4
10Finland4
Keywords with the most ICSA papers, 2024–2026
#KeywordPapers
1software architecture21
2microservices17
3large language models11
4architectural design decisions6
5open source software6
6Industry 4.03
7energy consumption3
8reference architecture3
9software security3
10API usability2

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited ICSA papers of 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)
#CitationsTitlePublishedAuthors
156Can LLMs Generate Architectural Design Decisions? - An Exploratory Empirical Study2024-06-04Rudra Dhar, Karthik Vaidhyanathan, Vasudeva Varma
229Smart HPA: A Resource-Efficient Horizontal Pod Auto-Scaler for Microservice Architectures2024-06-04Ahmad Hussain, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner et al.
315Architectural Design Decisions for Self-Serve Data Platforms in Data Meshes2024-06-04Tom van Eijk, Indika Kumara, Dario Di Nucci et al.
415Informed and Assessable Observability Design Decisions in Cloud-Native Microservice Applications2024-06-04Maria C. Borges, Joshua Bauer, Sebastian Werner et al.
513Supporting Architectural Decision Making on Training Strategies in Reinforcement Learning Architectures2024-06-04Evangelos Ntentos, Stephen John Warnett, Uwe Zdun
612Continuous Conformance of Software Architectures2024-06-04Alessio Bucaioni, Amleto Di Salle, Ludovico Iovino et al.
710Do Large Language Models Contain Software Architectural Knowledge? : An Exploratory Case Study with GPT2025-03-31Mohamed Soliman, Jan Keim
89Swiss Cheese Model for AI Safety: A Taxonomy and Reference Architecture for Multi-Layered Guardrails of Foundation Model Based Agents2025-03-31Md. Shamsujjoha, Qinghua Lu, Dehai Zhao et al.
99Architecture as Code2025-03-31Alessio Bucaioni, Amleto Di Salle, Ludovico Iovino et al.
109Network Centrality as a New Perspective on Microservice Architecture2025-03-31Alexander Bakhtin, Matteo Esposito, Valentina Lenarduzzi et al.

Conferences in the same field#

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Scholar4AI. (2026). ICSA: International Conference on Software Architecture (was previously WICSA) — papers and institutions, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/icsa

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