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Metadata
- Authors
- Zhang, H., Babar, M. A., & Tell, P.
- Venue
- Information and Software Technology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-06
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 625-637
- ISSN
- 0950-5849 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2133933998
- Cited by
- 557
- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 18.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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