What are the characteristics of highly-selected packages? A case study on the npm ecosystem
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Practitioners use star counts as an important (and often the most important) signal for decisions, including high-stakes decisions like open-source component adoption and repository reputation evaluation.
“Yet, study after study shows how practitioners use star counts as an important (and often as the most important) signal for all kinds of decisions, including high-stakes decisions like open-source component adoption [69, 89, 95] and repository reputation evaluation [76, 88].”
From Six Million (Suspected) Fake Stars on GitHub: A Growing Spiral of Popularity Contests, Spams, and Malware (2026) · cites this paper as [69]
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The Signals that Potential Contributors Look for When Choosing Open-source Projects
Qiu, H. S., Li, Y. L., Padala, S., Sarma, A., & Vasilescu, B. (2019) · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/3359224 · Cited by 75 · see citing works
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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
- Authors
- Mujahid, S., Abdalkareem, R., & Shihab, E.
- Affiliations
- Concordia University (CA)
- Omar Al-Mukhtar University (LY)
- Corresponding author
- Mujahid, Suhaib
- Venue
- Journal of Systems and Software
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2023-04
- Volume
- 198
- Pages
- 111588
- ISSN
- 0164-1212 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4313419628
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 3.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Systems and Software (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Open Source Software Innovations
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Keywords
- open source software, JavaScript packages, developer perceptions, package selection, software quality, documentation, downloads, vulnerability (computer security), software ecosystems
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