Software

3.3M citations
208.4k papers · · since 1950

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Software

26.7k papers receiving 206.2k citations

Countries where authors publish papers about Software

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This map shows the geographic impact of research in Software. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers about Software with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Software more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers about Software

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers covering Software. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers covering Software.

About Software

208.4k papers covering Software have received a total of 3.3M indexed citations since 1950 . Papers on Software are most often about the specific topic of Software Reliability and Analysis Research, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, Software Engineering Research, Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques, Formal Methods in Verification, Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies, Software System Performance and Reliability and Reliability and Maintenance Optimization and also cover the fields of Information Systems, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Hardware and Architecture, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Papers citing work on Software are usually about Information Systems, Hardware and Architecture, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Some of the most active scholars covering Software are Mark Harman, Rajeev Alur, David Harel, Edmund M. Clarke, Lionel Briand, Mary Jean Harrold, Martin Fowler, Kenneth L. McMillan, Gerard J. Holzmann and Patrice Godefroid.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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