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most citedSuccessful Combination of Database Search and Snowballing for Identification of Primary Studies in Systematic Literature Studies

423 citations · 634 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.SE2023★ 423 cited

Successful Combination of Database Search and Snowballing for Identification of Primary Studies in Systematic Literature Studies

Claes Wohlin, Marcos Kalinowski, Katia Romero Felizardo +1

Background: A good search strategy is essential for a successful systematic literature study. Historically, database searches have been the norm, which has later been complemented…

cs.SE2021★ 2 cited

Recruiting credible participants for field studies in software engineering research

Austen Rainer, Claes Wohlin

Context: Software practitioners are a primary provider of information for field studies in software engineering. Research typically recruits practitioners through some kind of samp…

cs.SE2021★ 16 cited

A Quality Assessment Instrument for Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering

Muhammad Usman, Nauman bin Ali, Claes Wohlin

Context: Systematic literature reviews (SLRs) have become standard practise as part of software engineering research, although their quality varies. To build on the reviews, both f…

cs.SE2020

Guidelines for the Search Strategy to Update Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering

Claes Wohlin, Emilia Mendes, Katia Romero Felizardo +1

Context: Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) have been adopted within Software Engineering (SE) for more than a decade to provide meaningful summaries of evidence on several topic…

cs.DL2020★ 192 cited

On the Performance of Hybrid Search Strategies for Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering

Erica Mourão, João Felipe Pimentel, Leonardo Murta +3

Context: When conducting a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), researchers usually face the challenge of designing a search strategy that appropriately balances result quality and…

cs.SE2020

When to Update Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering

Emilia Mendes, Claes Wohlin, Katia Felizardo +1

[Context] Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) have been adopted by the Software Engineering (SE) community for approximately 15 years to provide meaningful summaries of evidence o…