Scientific Collaboration, Citation and Topic Analysis of International Conference on Agile Software Development Papers

Abstract

The International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP) was established almost sixteen years ago. Based on data from Scopus database, a total of 789 papers have been published in between years of 2002 and 2018. We employed bibliometrics analysis and topic modeling with R/RStudio to analyze these published papers from various dimensions, including the most active authors, collaboration of authorship, most cited papers, used keywords and trends of probable topics from the titles and abstracts of those papers. The results show that the first five years of XP conference cover nearly 40% of the papers published until now and almost 62% of the XP papers have been cited at least once. Mining of XP conference paper titles and abstracts result in these hot research topics: "Coordination", "Technical Debt", "Teamwork", "Startups" and "Agile Practices", thus strongly focusing on practical issues and problems faced by the practitioners in the industry. The results high-light the most influential researchers and institutions, and the collaboration between the authors in the conference papers. The approach applied in this study can be extended to other software engineering venues and can be applied to large-scale studies.

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“…www.nature.com/scientificreports/ in the process of the development of technologies. These methods aid smooth adaptation to changing requirements throughout the development process by using iterative planning and feedbacks from developers and the end users 73,75 . With the process model and computer simulations, analysis of the effect of possible changes and their eligibility aids making right decisions and adaptations during the agile sessions.…”