JHawk has been used in a significant number of academic studies on Java metrics. Links to a number of these references are provided here. Some of these will require you to be a subscriber to the service or a member of an academic institution that has library access to the original documents. Copyright laws forbid us from putting up the original documents but if you have access to an academic library (either physical or online) you should be able to see the originals.You may also find that by searching for the title or the authors that the paper has been posted elsewhere.

• A Fuzzy Approach for Integrated Measure of Object-Oriented Software Testability. Gupta, Aggarwal, Singh. Journal of Computer Science 1(2) pp276-282. 2005
• OOMeter: A Software Quality Assurance Tool - Alghamdi, J.S.; Rufai, R.A.; Khan, S.M. - Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2005. CSMR 2005. Ninth European Conference. Volume , Issue , 21-23 March 2005 Page(s): 190 - 191
• Assessing Software Product Maintainability Based on Class-Level Structural Measures in Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4034/2006 - Springer Berlin / Heidelberg). Hans Christian Benestad, Bente Anda and Erik Arisholm. 2006
• Predicting Fault-prone Components in a Java Legacy System - Erik Arisholm and Lionel C. Briand. 2006
• Data Mining Techniques for Building Fault-proneness Models in Telecom Java Software. Erik Arisholm, Lionel C. Briand, Magnus J. Fuglerud. 2007
• Object-Oriented Design Quality Metrics -Magnus Andersson, Patrik Vestergren. 2007. Masters Thesis, Uppsala University
• Measuring the Effects of Design patterns - David Kemp. Presentation, Melbourne patterns. 2007
• An Approach to Measure Java Code Quality in Reuse Environment - Aline Timóteo. 2008. Presentation
• Predictable Software Quality: Complexity and Security Concerns - Cagatay CATAL - 2008.
• An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS - E. Nasseri, S. Counsell and M. Shepperd. 2008
• Proceedings of the 2008 international symposium on Software testing and analysis, Seattle, WA, USA. SESSION: Metrics and threads, Pages 131-142. 2008. Rüdiger Lincke, Jonas Lundberg, Welf Löwe - School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering, Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden
• Does an 80:20 rule apply to Java coupling? Asma Mubarak, Steve Counsell, and Robert M. Hierons. 2009. Paper at 13th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), Durham University, UK, 20 - 21 April 2009.

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