Reviewing
Journal / conference reviewing (IJSEKE Reviewer).
Short Bio
Roland R. Schreiber is a doctoral researcher working on inter-organizational collaboration, cooperation, and competition in open-source software ecosystems. His research focuses on understanding organizational roles, coordination mechanisms, and influence structures using social network analysis and repository mining techniques. A particular emphasis of his work lies on security-related development and vulnerability coordination in open-source projects. His research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals, including the Journal of Systems and Software and the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. He actively supports transparent and reproducible empirical software engineering research through openly available data and replication packages. In addition to his academic work, he is employed in the insurance industry, which informs his interest in large-scale, real-world software ecosystems.
About
I am a doctoral researcher studying inter-organizational collaborations in open-source software ecosystems. My work combines social network analysis, repository mining, and software engineering perspectives, with particular attention to coordination, organizational roles, and security-relevant collaboration.
Research
My research examines collaboration, cooperation, and competition among organizations in open-source software ecosystems, with an emphasis on network structures, coordination mechanisms, and security-relevant development processes.
- Structures of collaboration, cooperation, and competition across OSS ecosystems
- Organizational influence and coordination mechanisms through network metrics
- Security-related collaboration (e.g., vulnerability coordination) in OSS contexts
- Transparent, reproducible empirical methods and replication packages
Publications
Inter-Organizational Collaborations in Open-Source Software Ecosystems Roland Robert Schreiber, Thomas Wieland Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 235, May 2026, 112765 Inter-Organizational Collaborations in Open-Source Software Ecosystems Roland Robert Schreiber, Thomas Wieland Journal of Systems and Software — Author Accepted Manuscript (SSRN, posted Jan 14, 2025; last revised Dec 29, 2025) Organizational Influence on Security Development in Open-Source Software Projects Roland Robert Schreiber International Journal of Systems and Software Security and Protection 15(1), 1–20 (October 2024) Organizational Influencers in Open-Source Software Projects Roland Robert Schreiber International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes 14(1), 1–20 (February 2023) Social Network Analysis in Software Development Projects: A Systematic Literature Review Roland Robert Schreiber, Matthäus Paul Zylka International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 30(03), 321–362 (2020)
Academic Service
Teaching
Teaching assistant / guest lectures (software engineering).
Community
OSS community contributions (Open Research; Open Source).
News
- 2025“Inter-Organizational Collaborations in Open-Source Software Ecosystems” accepted in Journal of Systems and Software (online pre-proof).
- 2025Replication package archived on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18086905).
- 2020Systematic literature review on SNA in OSS published in IJSEKE.