Thirteen Years of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Conference - What is the Bibliography Data Telling Us?
This is an incremental analysis for the MSR community to assess conference trends and guide development.
The authors conducted a bibliometric and publication mining study of the Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference over 13 years (2004-2016) to analyze its evolution, aiming to help the community identify strengths, areas for improvement, and future directions.
The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference is a reputed, long-running and flagship conference in the area of Software Analytics which has successfully completed more than one decade as of year 2016. We conduct a bibliometric and scientific publication mining based study to study how the conference has evolved over the recent past 13 years (from 2004 to 2007 as a workshop and then from 2008 to 2016 as a conference). Our objective is to perform an examination of the state of MSR so that the MSR community can identify strengths, areas of improvements and future directions for the conference.