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ESEM 2026

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Software Engineering

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All deadlines

AbstractMay 11, 2026est.
Paper submissionMay 18, 2026est.

From past proceedings

Papers in ESEM's main DBLP volume each year, not official acceptance counts.

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Papers in 2025

58

main DBLP volume

5-year change

+35%

vs 2020

Papers, all years

1,032

19 years since 2007

Authors per paper

3.6

3.8 in 2015

By an entirely new team

33%

of 2025 papers

Papers per year2007 to 2025
2007: 71 papers2008: 62 papers2009: 70 papers2010: 68 papers2011: 58 papers2012: 45 papers2013: 52 papers2014: 72 papers2015: 36 papers2016: 58 papers2017: 61 papers2018: 58 papers2019: 48 papers2020: 43 papers2021: 38 papers2022: 31 papers2023: 37 papers2024: 66 papers2025: 58 papers
Read the 2025 proceedingsProceedings ↗DBLP ↗

Top keywords, 2025

codesoftwareempiricallanguagesoftware engineeringtestingautomatedreviewsmellschallengesdebtreviews

Venues like ESEM

  1. EASE International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering0.52software engineeringsoftwareengineeringempirical
  2. MSR International Conference on Mining Software Repositories0.39softwareprojectsstack overflowsmells
  3. APSEC Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference0.38software engineeringsoftwarecodepull
  4. ICSME International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution0.34projectssoftwarestack overflowdevelopers

Most published at ESEM

  1. Qing Wang2008 to 202320
  2. Fabio Q. B. da Silva2009 to 202020
  3. Nachiappan Nagappan2007 to 202218
  4. Guilherme Horta Travassos2007 to 202517
  5. Ye Yang2008 to 202017

Who publishes here

2024 to 2025 · papers count once per institution on them

Academia 93%Industry 1%Government and other 6%

Institutions

  1. 1Blekinge Institute of Technology🇸🇪7
  2. 2University of Salerno🇮🇹6
  3. 3University of L'Aquila🇮🇹6
  4. 4Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná🇧🇷4
  5. 5University College London🇬🇧4
  6. 6Colorado State University🇺🇸4
  7. 7University of Sannio🇮🇹3
  8. 8University of Calgary🇨🇦3

Countries

  1. United States19
  2. Canada12
  3. Sweden8
  4. Finland6
  5. Italy6
  6. Brazil5

Affiliations from OpenAlex for the papers DBLP lists. A paper with authors from three institutions counts for each of them; the split above is over the top institutions.