Bibliometric Analysis of Agile Software Development
This provides a systematic overview of research trends in agile software development for the software engineering community, but it is incremental as it applies existing bibliometric methods to this domain.
The study conducted a bibliometric analysis of agile software development research from 2010 to 2016, finding a significant increase in publications peaking in 2015, with literature reviews being the most common type and qualitative and quantitative methods equally represented.
Agile methodologies are currently considered one of the main paradigms of software development. Its study, from a scientific point of view, has deserved prominence in recent years by the scientific community related to the area of software engineering. This study intends to perform a bibliometric analysis of the quantity, characteristics and scope of the most relevant studies published in this area of knowledge. The findings indicate that the number of studies published from 2010 to 2016 significantly increased, having reached a peak in 2015. The study identifies the main journals and conferences in the field and we also concluded that the majority of published studies are literature reviews of agile software development, and qualitative and quantitative research methods have identical number of publications.