  The Mining Software Repositories (MSR) conference is a reputed, long-running
and flagship conference in the area of Software Analytics which has
successfully completed more than one decade as of year 2016. We conduct a
bibliometric and scientific publication mining based study to study how the
conference has evolved over the recent past 13 years (from 2004 to 2007 as a
workshop and then from 2008 to 2016 as a conference). Our objective is to
perform an examination of the state of MSR so that the MSR community can
identify strengths, areas of improvements and future directions for the
conference.
