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Top Software Engineering conferences and journals have long been an important platform for disseminating theoretical and fundamental results. Several signals suggest that this is less and less the case.

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            cover image ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
            ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes  Volume 49, Issue 2
            April 2024
            28 pages
            ISSN:0163-5948
            DOI:10.1145/3650142
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