by jordicabot | Aug 20, 2025 | Research Rants
What Do You Wish Someone Had Told You About Research? For over 20 years, I’ve worked as a researcher in software engineering – PhD student, postdoc, lecturer, permanent researcher, team leader… across five countries. Along the way, I’ve also created blogs,...
by jordicabot | Jan 3, 2025 | doing research, Research Rants
Sustainability of open source is a known challenge and one that depends on a project’s capability to attract a community of contributors (and not only coders). A common strategy to smooth the onboarding of new contributions is by tagging some project issues as...
by jordicabot | Nov 10, 2024 | evaluating research, Research Rants
Senior researchers have seen and experienced a lot. In terms of how research ideas are chosen, funded, conducted, assessed, promoted,… Typically in several countries and/or teams. Therefore, they have a better perspective to evaluate: PhD thesis Applicants to...
by jordicabot | Feb 4, 2024 | doing research, Research Rants
Artificial Intelligence papers are taking over many software conferences. We have recently seen this extreme case: Software engineering is dead, long live ChatGPT 😉 https://t.co/L5BUnsYFug pic.twitter.com/Aq4Y36dAVK — JB (@JBezivin) February 2, 2024 Even if the...
by jordicabot | Jan 30, 2023 | doing research, publishing, Research Rants
Research is a collaborative effort. This is clear. But I confess I have a soft spot for single-author papers. When I was growing up (as a researcher) I admired the leader of my group for consistently publishing papers on his own in the top conferences in our area...
by jordicabot | Dec 28, 2022 | evaluating research, Research Rants, Uncategorized
More and more, all evaluation agencies and the research community as a whole is evolving to reward quality over quantity. All recent research assessment manifests (e.g DORA) clearly push for a qualitative evaluation where plain numbers (total amount of publications,...
