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title: "ICSA (A): papers and universities"
description: "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)."
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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.

All conferences: https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings.md

## 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)*

| Year | Papers | With affiliations |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2024 | 26 | 18 |
| 2025 | 31 | 20 |
| 2026 | 42 | 34 |

## Sources

*Where OpenAlex lists the papers*

| OpenAlex source | Which papers |
|---|---|
| [S7407089048](https://openalex.org/S7407089048) | The conference's proceedings |

## Who publishes there

*Institutions with the most ICSA papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Gran Sasso Science Institute | 9 |
| 2 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | 7 |
| 3 | [Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam.md) | 6 |
| 4 | International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad | 5 |
| 5 | University of Stuttgart | 4 |
| 6 | University of Vienna | 4 |
| 7 | University of Southern Denmark | 4 |
| 8 | University of Salerno | 3 |
| 9 | Universität Hamburg | 3 |
| 10 | Tilburg University | 3 |

*Countries with the most ICSA papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Italy | 20 |
| 2 | Germany | 18 |
| 3 | Netherlands | 10 |
| 4 | Sweden | 7 |
| 5 | United States | 6 |
| 6 | Australia | 5 |
| 7 | India | 5 |
| 8 | Austria | 4 |
| 9 | Denmark | 4 |
| 10 | Finland | 4 |

*Keywords with the most ICSA papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | software architecture | 21 |
| 2 | microservices | 17 |
| 3 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 11 |
| 4 | architectural design decisions | 6 |
| 5 | open source software | 6 |
| 6 | Industry 4.0 | 3 |
| 7 | energy consumption | 3 |
| 8 | reference architecture | 3 |
| 9 | software security | 3 |
| 10 | API usability | 2 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited ICSA papers of 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)*

| # | Citations | Title | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---|---|---|
| 1 | 56 | [Can LLMs Generate Architectural Design Decisions? - An Exploratory Empirical Study](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa59870.2024.00016) | 2024-06-04 | Rudra Dhar, Karthik Vaidhyanathan, Vasudeva Varma |
| 2 | 29 | [Smart HPA: A Resource-Efficient Horizontal Pod Auto-Scaler for Microservice Architectures](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa59870.2024.00013) | 2024-06-04 | Ahmad Hussain, Christoph Treude, Markus Wagner et al. |
| 3 | 15 | [Architectural Design Decisions for Self-Serve Data Platforms in Data Meshes](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa59870.2024.00021) | 2024-06-04 | Tom van Eijk, Indika Kumara, Dario Di Nucci et al. |
| 4 | 15 | [Informed and Assessable Observability Design Decisions in Cloud-Native Microservice Applications](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa59870.2024.00015) | 2024-06-04 | Maria C. Borges, Joshua Bauer, Sebastian Werner et al. |
| 5 | 13 | [Supporting Architectural Decision Making on Training Strategies in Reinforcement Learning Architectures](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa59870.2024.00017) | 2024-06-04 | Evangelos Ntentos, Stephen John Warnett, Uwe Zdun |
| 6 | 12 | [Continuous Conformance of Software Architectures](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa59870.2024.00019) | 2024-06-04 | Alessio Bucaioni, Amleto Di Salle, Ludovico Iovino et al. |
| 7 | 10 | [Do Large Language Models Contain Software Architectural Knowledge? : An Exploratory Case Study with GPT](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa65012.2025.00012) | 2025-03-31 | Mohamed Soliman, Jan Keim |
| 8 | 9 | [Swiss Cheese Model for AI Safety: A Taxonomy and Reference Architecture for Multi-Layered Guardrails of Foundation Model Based Agents](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa65012.2025.00014) | 2025-03-31 | Md. Shamsujjoha, Qinghua Lu, Dehai Zhao et al. |
| 9 | 9 | [Architecture as Code](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa65012.2025.00027) | 2025-03-31 | Alessio Bucaioni, Amleto Di Salle, Ludovico Iovino et al. |
| 10 | 9 | [Network Centrality as a New Perspective on Microservice Architecture](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsa65012.2025.00017) | 2025-03-31 | Alexander Bakhtin, Matteo Esposito, Valentina Lenarduzzi et al. |

## Cite this page

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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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).