2026 Andrew Luxton-Reilly: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	45	7240	7030	18	16	172	7798

Andrew Luxton-Reilly publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew Luxton-Reilly sits on this spectrum.

32 publications 991+

This scientist: 172 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Andrew Luxton-Reilly D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Andrew Luxton-Reilly sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Andrew Luxton-Reilly is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science, focusing heavily on educational aspects and software engineering research. Their work spans a total of 48 publications within computer science, with a notable emphasis on computer science applications and information systems.

Their research touches on various subfields, including:

Computer Science Applications
Information Systems
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Information Systems and Management
Safety Research

The main research topics addressed by Luxton-Reilly include:

Teaching and Learning Programming
Online Learning and Analytics
Software Engineering Research
Educational Games and Gamification
Scientific Computing and Data Management
Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

Luxton-Reilly has frequently published in several venues, predominantly in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Computing Education
Communications of the ACM
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Education and Information Technologies

Recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research. These include:

Computing Education in the Era of Generative AI (2024, Communications of the ACM)
"It's Weird That it Knows What I Want": Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers (2023, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction)
Gamification of Student Peer Review in Education: A Systematic Literature Review (2020, Education and Information Technologies)
A Review of Peer Code Review in Higher Education (2020, ACM Transactions on Computing Education)
Evaluating a Large Language Model's Ability to Solve Programming Exercises from an Introductory Bioinformatics Course (2023, PLoS Computational Biology)

Collaboratively, Luxton-Reilly has worked with several recurring co-authors, including:

Paul Denny
James Prather
Juho Leinonen
Brett A. Becker
Brent N. Reeves

Best Publications

A systematic review of Virtual Reality in education

Sam Kavanagh;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Burkhard Wuensche;Beryl Plimmer

565
Citations
Introductory programming: a systematic literature review

Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Simon;Ibrahim Albluwi;Brett A. Becker

470
Citations
The Robots Are Coming: Exploring the Implications of OpenAI Codex on Introductory Programming

Unknown

376
Citations
Bloom's taxonomy for CS assessment

Errol Thompson;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Jacqueline L. Whalley;Minjie Hu

304
Citations
Programming Is Hard - Or at Least It Used to Be

Unknown

290
Citations
PeerWise: students sharing their multiple choice questions

Paul Denny;John Hamer;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Helen Purchase

229
Citations
Evaluating a new exam question: Parsons problems

Paul Denny;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Beth Simon

209
Citations
Intelligent tutoring systems for programming education: a systematic review

Tyne Crow;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Burkhard Wuensche

191
Citations
All syntax errors are not equal

Paul Denny;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Ewan Tempero

174
Citations
The PeerWise system of student contributed assessment questions

Paul C. Denny;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;John Hamer

171
Citations
Understanding the syntax barrier for novices

Paul Denny;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Ewan Tempero;Jacob Hendrickx

168
Citations
My AI Wants to Know if This Will Be on the Exam: Testing OpenAI’s Codex on CS2 Programming Exercises

Unknown

156
Citations
Contributing student pedagogy

John Hamer;Quintin Cutts;Jana Jackova;Andrew Luxton-Reilly

154
Citations
“It’s Weird That it Knows What I Want”: Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers

Unknown

154
Citations
Enhancing syntax error messages appears ineffectual

Paul Denny;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Dave Carpenter

150
Citations
A Systematic Review of Tools that Support Peer Assessment

Andrew Luxton-Reilly

147
Citations
Learning to Program is Easy

Andrew Luxton-Reilly

142
Citations
Prompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era

Unknown

125
Citations
CodeWrite: supporting student-driven practice of java

Paul Denny;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Ewan Tempero;Jacob Hendrickx

113
Citations
Investigating pair-programming in a 2nd-year software development and design computer science course

Emilia Mendes;Lubna Basil Al-Fakhri;Andrew Luxton-Reilly

104
Citations
Research perspectives on the objects-early debate

Raymond Lister;Anders Berglund;Tony Clear;Joe Bergin

97
Citations
Developing Assessments to Determine Mastery of Programming Fundamentals

Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Brett A. Becker;Yingjun Cao;Roger McDermott

84
Citations
A replicated experiment of pair-programming in a 2nd-year software development and design computer science course

Emilia Mendes;Lubna Al-Fakhri;Andrew Luxton-Reilly

84
Citations
Creating 360° educational video: a case study

Sam Kavanagh;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;Burkhard Wüensche;Beryl Plimmer

77
Citations
Student use of the PeerWise system

Paul Denny;Andrew Luxton-Reilly;John Hamer

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ewan Tempero University of Auckland

Helen C. Purchase Monash University

Michail N. Giannakos Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Emilia Mendes Aarhus University

John Hosking University of Auckland

Beth Simon University of California, San Diego

Raymond Lister University of Technology Sydney

Gillian Dobbie University of Auckland

External Links

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