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

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

## 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)*

| Year | Papers | With affiliations |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2024 | 101 | 88 |
| 2025 | 113 | 98 |
| 2026 | – | – |

## Sources

*Where OpenAlex lists the papers*

| OpenAlex source | Which papers |
|---|---|
| [S4210174939](https://openalex.org/S4210174939) | The conference's proceedings |

## Who publishes there

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

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Università della Svizzera italiana | 8 |
| 2 | Nara Institute of Science and Technology | 8 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 7 |
| 4 | University of Saskatchewan | 6 |
| 5 | [The University of Melbourne](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-melbourne.md) | 5 |
| 6 | Singapore Management University | 5 |
| 7 | [Nanjing University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/nanjing-university.md) | 5 |
| 8 | North Carolina State University | 4 |
| 9 | University of Auckland | 4 |
| 10 | William & Mary | 4 |

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

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 41 |
| 2 | China | 40 |
| 3 | Canada | 30 |
| 4 | Japan | 18 |
| 5 | Brazil | 10 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 10 |
| 7 | New Zealand | 10 |
| 8 | Australia | 9 |
| 9 | Switzerland | 9 |
| 10 | Germany | 9 |

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

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 46 |
| 2 | software maintenance | 16 |
| 3 | software evolution | 15 |
| 4 | software maintainability | 12 |
| 5 | static analysis | 12 |
| 6 | program comprehension | 10 |
| 7 | refactoring | 10 |
| 8 | Java | 9 |
| 9 | code quality | 9 |
| 10 | continuous integration | 9 |

## Most-cited papers

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

| # | Citations | Title | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 | [Next-Generation Refactoring: Combining LLM Insights and IDE Capabilities for Extract Method](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00034) | 2024-10-06 | Dorin Pomian, Abhiram Bellur, Malinda Dilhara et al. |
| 2 | 20 | [Take Loads Off Your Developers: Automated User Story Generation using Large Language Model](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00082) | 2024-10-06 | Tajmilur Rahman, Yuecai Zhu, Lamyea Maha et al. |
| 3 | 19 | [Developing a Llama-Based Chatbot for CI/CD Question Answering: A Case Study at Ericsson](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00075) | 2024-10-06 | Daksh Chaudhary, Sri Lakshmi Vadlamani, Dimple Thomas et al. |
| 4 | 16 | [Insights on Microservice Architecture Through the Eyes of Industry Practitioners](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00080) | 2024-10-06 | Vinicius L. Nogueira, Fernando S. Felizardo, Aline Maria Malachini Miotto Amaral et al. |
| 5 | 15 | [How Far Have We Gone in Binary Code Understanding Using Large Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00012) | 2024-10-06 | Xiuwei Shang, Shaoyin Cheng, Guoqiang Chen et al. |
| 6 | 14 | [Requirements Ambiguity Detection and Explanation with LLMS: An Industrial Study](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme64153.2025.00063) | 2025-09-07 | Sarmad Bashir, Alessio Ferrari, Abbas Khan et al. |
| 7 | 13 | [Unraveling the Impact of Code Smell Agglomerations on Code Stability](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00049) | 2024-10-06 | Amanda Santana, Eduardo Figueiredo, Juliana Alves Pereira |
| 8 | 12 | [Leveraging Large Vision-Language Model for Better Automatic Web GUI Testing](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00022) | 2024-10-06 | Siyi Wang, Sinan Wang, Yujia Fan et al. |
| 9 | 11 | [A Taxonomy of Inefficiencies in LLM-Generated Python Code](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme64153.2025.00043) | 2025-09-07 | Altaf Allah Abbassi, Léuson Da Silva, Amin Nikanjam et al. |
| 10 | 11 | [If it's not SBOM, then what? How Italian Practitioners Manage the Software Supply Chain](https://doi.org/10.1109/icsme58944.2024.00077) | 2024-10-06 | Sabato Nocera, Massimiliano Di Penta, Rita Francese et al. |

## Cite this page

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