Software Engineering: Research Area — Prolific Citations Library

Discover 4 peer-reviewed studies in Software Engineering (2022–2025). Explore research findings powered by Prolific's diverse participant panel.

This page lists 4 peer-reviewed papers in the research area of Software Engineering in the Prolific Citations Library, a curated collection of research powered by high-quality human data from Prolific.

Papers (4 of 4)

Investigating the Role of Cultural Values in Adopting Large Language Models for Software Engineering

Authors: S Lambiase, G Catolino, F Palomba, F Ferrucci, D Russo

Year: 2025

Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025•dl.acm.org

Institution: University of Salerno, Aalborg University

Research Area: Technology Adoption, Software Engineering Practices, Socio-Technical Research

Discipline: Computer Science, Software Engineering, Human–Computer Interaction (HCI)

The study uses survey data from software professionals and Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to measure the role of cultural values relative to established predictors like performance expectancy and habitual use in LLM adoption.

Citations: 11
Are You a Real Software Engineer? Best Practices in Online Recruitment for Software Engineering Studies

Authors: A Alami, M Zahedi, N Ernst

Year: 2024

Published in: ArXiv

Institution: Aalborg University, University of Melbourne, University of Victoria

Research Area: Software Engineering, Online Recruitment, Human-AI Interaction

Discipline: Software Engineering

This empirical study investigates the contribution of Pretrained Language Models (PLMs), such as BERT and RoBERTa, to various components of multi-hop Question Answering (QA) tasks, focusing on evidence extraction and information aggregation.

Citations: 14
Software engineering user study recruitment on Prolific: An experience report

Authors: B Reid, M Wagner, M d'Amorim, C Treude

Year: 2022

Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv ..., 2022 - arxiv.org

Institution: University of Sydney, Queen's University, University of Victoria, University of Calgary

Research Area: Software Engineering User Studies, Crowdsourcing Platforms (Prolific)

Discipline: Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Citations: 35
Recruiting software engineers on prolific

Authors: D Russo

Year: 2022

Published in: arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14695, 2022 - arxiv.org

Institution: Università della Svizzera italiana

Research Area: Crowdsourcing, Software Engineering Research, Participant Recruitment

Discipline: Software Engineering

Citations: 30