Results · KPIs

BESSER by the numbers.

A research project measured by its reach — the citations, classrooms, contributors, and users behind the platform. Tap any number to see what it counts and where it comes from.

21
Contributors

Academic impact

BESSER is a research project first — its impact shows up in citations, papers, classrooms, and the researchers it funds.

Open-source development

A healthy, active codebase built in the open on the BESSER GitHub repository.

272
Merged PRs
87
Releases
2,474
Commits
~401k
Lines of code
21
Contributors
164
Issues resolved

Platform adoption

Real people using the WebModelingEditor (WME) and shipping projects on top of BESSER.

Community & outreach

Where the BESSER community gathers and grows — follow the BESSER LinkedIn page and watch tutorials on the BESSER YouTube channel.

26,784
LinkedIn impressions
491
LinkedIn followers
287
Citations

Peer-reviewed and preprint publications from the BESSER team. Counts all mentions across the team's bibliography, sourced from Semantic Scholar.

Most cited
  • From Image to UML: First results of image-based UML diagram generation using LLMs
    2024 · STAF 2024 Workshops: AgileMDE, LLM4MDE, MeSS, pp. 55–6533 citations
  • Building BESSER: An Open-Source Low-Code Platform
    2024 · International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support32 citations
  • On the suitability of Hugging Face Hub for empirical studies
    2025 · Empirical Software Engineering, 30(2)23 citations
Source · Semantic Scholar
See publications
59
Publications

Journal articles, conference papers, and preprints authored by the BESSER team — the full bibliography behind the platform.

Source · Computed
See all publications
27
Universities using BESSER

Higher-education institutions where BESSER is used in coursework, labs, or student projects — reported to us by instructors and collaborators around the world.

University of Luxembourg
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bournemouth University
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
University of Murcia
Murcia, Spain
Gran Sasso Science Institute
L'Aquila, Italy
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)
Bergen, Norway
Sapienza University of Rome
Rome, Italy
University of Osnabrück
Osnabrück, Germany
Goldsmiths, University of London
London, United Kingdom
City St George's, University of London
London, United Kingdom
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Ilmenau, Germany
University of Porto
Porto, Portugal
DHBW Heidenheim
Heidenheim, Germany
University of Bayreuth
Bayreuth, Germany
Ege University
İzmir, Turkey
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
Centre d'Excellence en Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication
Brussels, Belgium

Teaching a course with BESSER, or running a lab that uses it? Tell us

Source · Reported
11
Authors

Researchers and engineers funded by the BESSER project — the people building the platform and publishing the work behind it.

Source · Computed
Meet the team
186
GitHub stars (BESSER)

Stars on the BESSER-PEARL/BESSER repository, the project's main repo.

BESSER-PEARL/BESSER
Open-source low-code platform — built in the open.
Source · GitHub
Star on GitHub
458
GitHub stars (org)

Sum of stars across every public repository in the BESSER-PEARL GitHub organization, not just the main repo.

github.com/BESSER-PEARL
Every BESSER repo, in the open.
Source · GitHub
Explore the org
2,260
WME visitors

Unique visitors to the WebModelingEditor since Jan 2026.

Unique visitors / month last 8 months
Peak 1,152 · Mar 2026Latest 101 · Aug 2026

Aggregate, anonymised reach — auto-refreshed weekly from WebModelingEditor telemetry (August 2026).

Source · WME telemetry
Open the editor
83
Countries reached

Countries from which the WebModelingEditor has been opened. Auto-refreshed weekly from PostHog telemetry.

ArmeniaArgentinaAustriaAustraliaArubaBosnia and HerzegovinaBangladeshBelgiumBulgariaBoliviaBrazilCanadaSwitzerlandChileChinaColombiaCape VerdeCzechiaGermanyDenmarkEcuadorEstoniaSpainEthiopiaFinlandFranceUnited KingdomGhanaGreeceHong KongHondurasHungaryIndonesiaIrelandIsraelIndiaIranItalyJamaicaJapanSouth KoreaLebanonSri LankaLuxembourgMoroccoMyanmarMexicoMalaysiaMozambiqueNigeriaNetherlandsNorwayNepalNew ZealandPanamaPeruPhilippinesPakistanPolandPortugalQatarRomaniaSerbiaRussiaRwandaSaudi ArabiaSeychellesSwedenSingaporeSloveniaSlovakiaSyriaThailandTunisiaTürkiyeTaiwanUkraineUnited StatesUruguayUzbekistanVenezuelaVietnamSouth AfricaLuxembourg — home base
All 83 countries alphabetical
  • ARArgentina
  • AMArmenia
  • AWAruba
  • AUAustralia
  • ATAustria
  • BDBangladesh
  • BEBelgium
  • BOBolivia
  • BABosnia and Herzegovina
  • BRBrazil
  • BGBulgaria
  • CACanada
  • CVCape Verde
  • CLChile
  • CNChina
  • COColombia
  • CZCzechia
  • DKDenmark
  • ECEcuador
  • EEEstonia
  • ETEthiopia
  • FIFinland
  • FRFrance
  • DEGermany
  • GHGhana
  • GRGreece
  • HNHonduras
  • HKHong Kong
  • HUHungary
  • INIndia
  • IDIndonesia
  • IRIran
  • IEIreland
  • ILIsrael
  • ITItaly
  • JMJamaica
  • JPJapan
  • LBLebanon
  • LULuxembourg
  • MYMalaysia
  • MXMexico
  • MAMorocco
  • MZMozambique
  • MMMyanmar
  • NPNepal
  • NLNetherlands
  • NZNew Zealand
  • NGNigeria
  • NONorway
  • PKPakistan
  • PAPanama
  • PEPeru
  • PHPhilippines
  • PLPoland
  • PTPortugal
  • QAQatar
  • RORomania
  • RURussia
  • RWRwanda
  • SASaudi Arabia
  • RSSerbia
  • SCSeychelles
  • SGSingapore
  • SKSlovakia
  • SISlovenia
  • ZASouth Africa
  • KRSouth Korea
  • ESSpain
  • LKSri Lanka
  • SESweden
  • CHSwitzerland
  • SYSyria
  • TWTaiwan
  • THThailand
  • TNTunisia
  • TRTürkiye
  • UAUkraine
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • USUnited States
  • UYUruguay
  • UZUzbekistan
  • VEVenezuela
  • VNVietnam

Aggregate, anonymised reach — auto-refreshed weekly from WebModelingEditor telemetry.

Source · WME telemetry
Web App
Most-used generator
1,849 generations

The BESSER code generator invoked most often by WME users. Full-stack web-app generation from a UML class diagram is, by a wide margin, the most popular output.

Source · WME telemetry
56
Avg. model size
elements, incl. attributes

Average number of modelling elements (classes, attributes, associations, enums…) in a WME model — a rough sense of how large the models people build actually are.

Source · WME telemetry
13
YouTube videos

Every BESSER video on YouTube — the tutorial and demos we publish to the BESSER-PEARL channel, plus the interviews and features other people have made about the project.

@BESSER-PEARL
Our own tutorials, demos, and release walkthroughs.
9 videos
Videos featuring BESSER
Interviews and features others have published about the project.
4 videos
Source · YouTube
44,500+
YouTube views

Total views across every BESSER video on YouTube — both the ones on our own channel and the ones featuring BESSER on other channels.

@BESSER-PEARL
Our own tutorials, demos, and release walkthroughs.
Videos featuring BESSER
Interviews and features others have published about the project.
Source · YouTube