Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution

Aims & Scope

The “Journal of Software: Evolution and Process” is an archival journal that publishes high quality, state-of-the-art research and practice papers dealing with the conception, development, testing, management, quality, maintenance, and evolution of software, systems, and services, as well as the continuous improvement of processes and capabilities surrounding them.

The journal continues the tradition of “The Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice” and “Software Process: Improvements and Practice”.

We will therefore continue to cover the traditional topics related to software maintenance and evolution as well as software process improvement and practice.

At the same time, the concept behind the journal has evolved into a unified vision that recognizes the fundamental changes and transformations that are occurring in the fields of software and systems engineering and the need for us to adapt by broadening the topics that we address and the research methods that are used coupled with the perspectives that are utilised.

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• A survey and taxonomy of approaches for mining software repositories in the context of software evolution

  Citation: 254

  Authors: Huzefa, Michael L., Jonathan I.

• Types of software evolution and software maintenance

  Citation: 219

  Authors: Ned, Joanne E., Khaled Md., Juan F., Wui‐Gee

• Capturing variability in business process models: the Provop approach

  Citation: 190

  Authors: Alena, Thomas, Manfred

• PHILharmonicFlows: towards a framework for object‐aware process management

  Citation: 163

  Authors: Vera, Manfred

• How do APIs evolve? A story of refactoring

  Citation: 146

  Authors: Danny, Ralph

• Code Bad Smells: a review of current knowledge

  Citation: 145

  Authors: Min, Tracy, Nathan

• Software visualization in software maintenance, reverse engineering, and re‐engineering: a research survey

  Citation: 133

  Authors: Rainer

• Towards a taxonomy of software change

  Citation: 130

  Authors: Jim, Tom, Matthias, Awais, Günter

• Key challenges for enabling agile BPM with social software

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Giorgio, Frank, Ben, Rania, Selmin, Michael, Marcello, Rainer, Rito

• Finding software metrics threshold values using ROC curves

  Citation: 88

  Authors: Raed, Wei, James, Tim