D-Index & Metrics Best Publications
Social Sciences and Humanities
Ireland
2023
Computer Science
Ireland
2023

D-Index & Metrics D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.

Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Computer Science D-index 55 Citations 14,441 321 World Ranking 2822 National Ranking 7
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 56 Citations 14,682 328 World Ranking 1150 National Ranking 4

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award

2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award

2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award

2017 - Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • The Internet
  • Software

His scientific interests lie mostly in Software development, Knowledge management, Process, Software engineering and Software. His Software development study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Agile software development and Software deployment. His Knowledge management research includes elements of Workforce, Lean software development, Global software development, Crowdsourcing and Set.

As part of one scientific family, Brian Fitzgerald deals mainly with the area of Process, narrowing it down to issues related to the Quality, and often Crowdsourcing software development and Waterfall model. In Software engineering, he works on issues like Software Engineering Process Group, which are connected to Personal software process. The various areas that Brian Fitzgerald examines in his Software study include Salary and Control.

His most cited work include:

  • The transformation of open source software (653 citations)
  • Understanding open source software development (434 citations)
  • Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (410 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His main research concerns Law, Knowledge management, Software engineering, Software and Intellectual property. His work in Knowledge management addresses subjects such as Information system, which are connected to disciplines such as Management science. Brian Fitzgerald has researched Software engineering in several fields, including Software system, Software development, Software Engineering Process Group, Software construction and Open source software.

His work carried out in the field of Software development brings together such families of science as Agile software development and Software deployment. The Software study which covers Business model that intersects with Open society. His biological study deals with issues like Public relations, which deal with fields such as Creative commons, Public sector and Government.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Law (18.81%)
  • Knowledge management (18.33%)
  • Software engineering (15.71%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2013-2021)?

  • Software development (13.81%)
  • Software (15.24%)
  • Software engineering (15.71%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Brian Fitzgerald mainly focuses on Software development, Software, Software engineering, Law and Knowledge management. His studies deal with areas such as Agile software development and Process as well as Software development. His studies in Agile software development integrate themes in fields like Engineering management, DevOps and Process management.

His research in Software focuses on subjects like World Wide Web, which are connected to Open-source software development and Open source. His Software engineering study combines topics in areas such as Empirical research, Software Engineering Process Group and Social software engineering. His work in Knowledge management covers topics such as Crowdsourcing which are related to areas like Outsourcing, Data science, Workforce and Key.

Between 2013 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Continuous software engineering: A roadmap and agenda (270 citations)
  • Grounded theory in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines (195 citations)
  • Two's company, three's a crowd: a case study of crowdsourcing software development (128 citations)

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Best Publications

The transformation of open source software

Brian Fitzgerald.
(2006)

1177 Citations

Understanding open source software development

Joseph Feller;Brian Fitzgerald.
(2002)

851 Citations

Outsourcing to an unknown workforce: exploring opensourcing as a global sourcing strategy

Pär J. Ågerfalk;Brian Fitzgerald.
(2008)

627 Citations

Continuous software engineering: A roadmap and agenda

Brian Fitzgerald;Klaas-Jan Stol.
(2017)

588 Citations

Customising agile methods to software practices at Intel Shannon

Brian Fitzgerald;Gerard Hartnett;Kieran Conboy.
(2006)

542 Citations

A framework analysis of the open source software development paradigm

Joseph Feller;Brian Fitzgerald.
(2000)

454 Citations

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Joseph Feller;Brian Fitzgerald;Scott A. Hissam;Karim R. Lakhani.
(2005)

439 Citations

Toward a conceptual framework of agile methods: a study of agility in different disciplines

Kieran Conboy;Brian Fitzgerald.
(2004)

429 Citations

Global Software Development Challenges: A Case Study on Temporal, Geographical and Socio-Cultural Distance

H. Holmstrom;E.O. Conchuir;P.J. Agerfalk;B. Fitzgerald.
(2006)

404 Citations

An empirical investigation into the adoption of systems development methodologies

Brian Fitzgerald.
(1998)

369 Citations

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