Dr. Saeed Parsa has been mentioned as one of the top 10 most influential authors in software fault localization (SFL) research by a recent study. SFL is recognized to be one of the most tedious, costly, and critical activities in program debugging. Due to the increase in software complexity, there is a huge interest in advanced SFL techniques that aid software engineers in locating program bugs.
| Author first/last name | Author’s institution | Number of papers |
| David Lo | Singapore Management University | 22 |
| W. Eric Wong | University of Texas at Dallas | 15 |
| W. K. Chan | City University of Hong Kong | 15 |
| Arjan J. C. Van Gemund | Delft University of Technology | 12 |
| Rui Abreu | University of Porto | 12 |
| Saeed Parsa | Iran University of Science and Technology | 11 |
| Xiaoguang Mao | National University of Defence Technology | 10 |
| Franz Wotawa Graz | University of Technology, Austria | 9 |
| T. H. Tse | The University of Hong Kong | 9 |
| Zhenyu Zhang | Chinese Academy of Science | 9 |
