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ICSME: IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (prior to 2014 was ICSM, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance) — papers and institutions, 2024–2026

Papers of ICSME, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (prior to 2014 was ICSM, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance) (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#

  • ICSME (IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (prior to 2014 was ICSM, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance)) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 214 of its papers from 2024–2026 (101 in 2024, 113 in 2025; 2026 not in OpenAlex yet).
  • By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from the United States (41), China (40) and Canada (30).
  • The institutions with the most papers are Università della Svizzera italiana (8), Nara Institute of Science and Technology (8) and Zhejiang University (7).
  • Its most-cited paper of these years is “Next-Generation Refactoring: Combining LLM Insights and IDE Capabilities for Extract Method” (2024), with 27 citations.
  • OpenAlex has affiliations for only 87% of its papers, so the institution and country counts are incomplete.

Papers per year#

ICSME papers per publication year in OpenAlex (–: not in OpenAlex yet)
YearPapersWith affiliations
202410188
202511398
2026––

Sources#

Where OpenAlex lists the papers
OpenAlex sourceWhich papers
S4210174939The conference's proceedings

Who publishes there#

Institutions with the most ICSME papers, 2024–2026
#InstitutionPapers
1Università della Svizzera italiana8
2Nara Institute of Science and Technology8
3Zhejiang University7
4University of Saskatchewan6
5The University of Melbourne5
6Singapore Management University5
7Nanjing University5
8North Carolina State University4
9University of Auckland4
10William & Mary4
Countries with the most ICSME papers, 2024–2026
#CountryPapers
1United States41
2China40
3Canada30
4Japan18
5Brazil10
6Netherlands10
7New Zealand10
8Australia9
9Switzerland9
10Germany9
Keywords with the most ICSME papers, 2024–2026
#KeywordPapers
1large language models46
2software maintenance16
3software evolution15
4software maintainability12
5static analysis12
6program comprehension10
7refactoring10
8Java9
9code quality9
10continuous integration9

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited ICSME papers of 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)
#CitationsTitlePublishedAuthors
127Next-Generation Refactoring: Combining LLM Insights and IDE Capabilities for Extract Method2024-10-06Dorin Pomian, Abhiram Bellur, Malinda Dilhara et al.
220Take Loads Off Your Developers: Automated User Story Generation using Large Language Model2024-10-06Tajmilur Rahman, Yuecai Zhu, Lamyea Maha et al.
319Developing a Llama-Based Chatbot for CI/CD Question Answering: A Case Study at Ericsson2024-10-06Daksh Chaudhary, Sri Lakshmi Vadlamani, Dimple Thomas et al.
416Insights on Microservice Architecture Through the Eyes of Industry Practitioners2024-10-06Vinicius L. Nogueira, Fernando S. Felizardo, Aline Maria Malachini Miotto Amaral et al.
515How Far Have We Gone in Binary Code Understanding Using Large Language Models2024-10-06Xiuwei Shang, Shaoyin Cheng, Guoqiang Chen et al.
614Requirements Ambiguity Detection and Explanation with LLMS: An Industrial Study2025-09-07Sarmad Bashir, Alessio Ferrari, Abbas Khan et al.
713Unraveling the Impact of Code Smell Agglomerations on Code Stability2024-10-06Amanda Santana, Eduardo Figueiredo, Juliana Alves Pereira
812Leveraging Large Vision-Language Model for Better Automatic Web GUI Testing2024-10-06Siyi Wang, Sinan Wang, Yujia Fan et al.
911A Taxonomy of Inefficiencies in LLM-Generated Python Code2025-09-07Altaf Allah Abbassi, Léuson Da Silva, Amin Nikanjam et al.
1011If it's not SBOM, then what? How Italian Practitioners Manage the Software Supply Chain2024-10-06Sabato Nocera, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rita Francese et al.

Conferences in the same field#

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Scholar4AI. (2026). ICSME: IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (prior to 2014 was ICSM, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance) — papers and institutions, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/icsme

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