Curating GitHub for engineered software projects
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The number of GitHub stars is widely used when stakeholders evaluate, select, and adopt open-source projects into their software supply chain.
“Many studies provided evidence that the number of GitHub stars is widely used when stakeholders evaluate, select, and adopt opensource projects into their software supply chain [33, 61, 71, 76, 89, 95].”
From Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars on GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware (2026) · cites this paper as [71]
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He, H., Yang, H., Burckhardt, P., Kapravelos, A., Vasilescu, B., & Kästner, C. (2026) · Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering · doi:10.1145/3744916.3764531 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
Self-Admitted GenAI Usage in Open-Source Software
Xiao, T., Fan, Y., Calefato, F., Treude, C., Kula, R. G., Hata, H., & Baltes, S. (2026) · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · doi:10.1109/tse.2026.3681886 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
- Authors
- Munaiah, N., Kroh, S., Cabrey, C., & Nagappan, M.
- Affiliations
- Rochester Institute of Technology (US)
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Munaiah, Nuthan
- Venue
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Published
- 2017-04-18
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 3219-3253
- ISSN
- 1382-3256 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7616
- OpenAlex
- W2559885217
- Cited by
- 365
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 39 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 56 · 2020: 51 · 2019: 45 · 2018: 28 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 65.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Empirical Software Engineering (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Keywords
- GitHub repositories, software forges, noise reduction, software engineering practices, Boas, Stargazer, classifier evaluation
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
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