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Conference Paper: An extended abstract of 'Metamorphic robustness testing: Exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors'
Title | An extended abstract of 'Metamorphic robustness testing: Exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors' |
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Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | IEEE, Computer Society |
Citation | The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '20), Virtual Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 6-11 July 2020 How to Cite? |
Abstract | We propose a robustness testing approach for software systems that process large amounts of data. Our method uses metamorphic relations to check software output for erroneous input in the absence of a tangible test oracle. We use this technique to test two major citation database systems: Scopus and the Web of Science. We report a surprising finding that the inclusion of hyphens in paper titles impedes citation counts, and that this is a result of the lack of robustness of the citation database systems in handling hyphenated paper titles. Our results are valid for the entire literature as well as for individual fields such as chemistry. We further find a strong and significant negative correlation between the journal impact factor (JIF) of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) and the percentage of hyphenated paper titles published in TSE. Similar results are found for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. A software engineering field-wide study reveals that the higher JIF-ranked journals are publishing a lower percentage of papers with hyphenated titles. Our results challenge the common belief that citation counts and JIFs are reliable measures of the impact of papers and journals, as they can be distorted simply by the presence of hyphens in paper titles. |
Description | ICSE Journal First Track - Session: Meta Studies, I1-Metastudies |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286698 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhou, ZQ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Tse, TH | - |
dc.contributor.author | Witheridge, M | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-04T13:29:08Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-04T13:29:08Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '20), Virtual Conference, Seoul, South Korea, 6-11 July 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/286698 | - |
dc.description | ICSE Journal First Track - Session: Meta Studies, I1-Metastudies | - |
dc.description.abstract | We propose a robustness testing approach for software systems that process large amounts of data. Our method uses metamorphic relations to check software output for erroneous input in the absence of a tangible test oracle. We use this technique to test two major citation database systems: Scopus and the Web of Science. We report a surprising finding that the inclusion of hyphens in paper titles impedes citation counts, and that this is a result of the lack of robustness of the citation database systems in handling hyphenated paper titles. Our results are valid for the entire literature as well as for individual fields such as chemistry. We further find a strong and significant negative correlation between the journal impact factor (JIF) of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) and the percentage of hyphenated paper titles published in TSE. Similar results are found for ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. A software engineering field-wide study reveals that the higher JIF-ranked journals are publishing a lower percentage of papers with hyphenated titles. Our results challenge the common belief that citation counts and JIFs are reliable measures of the impact of papers and journals, as they can be distorted simply by the presence of hyphens in paper titles. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | IEEE, Computer Society | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | IEEE/ACM The 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '20) | - |
dc.title | An extended abstract of 'Metamorphic robustness testing: Exposing hidden defects in citation statistics and journal impact factors' | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Tse, TH: thtse@cs.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Tse, TH=rp00546 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 313908 | - |