2026 Brian Fitzgerald: 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	62	2869	2785	6	6	352	17793

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Ireland Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Ireland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science 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

Brian Fitzgerald is affiliated with the University of Limerick in Ireland and has a research profile focused on computer science, with a significant emphasis on information systems. Their work spans multiple subfields, including sociology and political science, general health professions, communication, and information systems and management.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas prominently featuring software engineering techniques and practices, COVID-19 digital contact tracing, mobile health and mHealth applications, privacy, security, and data protection, software engineering research, open source software innovations, and knowledge management and sharing.

Recent publications by Brian Fitzgerald include:

"A national survey of attitudes to COVID-19 digital contact tracing in the Republic of Ireland" (2020, Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -))
"Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature" (2021, JMIR mhealth and uhealth)
"Sentiment analysis of user feedback on the HSE's Covid-19 contact tracing app" (2021, Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -))
"Managing Episodic Volunteers in Free/Libre/Open Source Software Communities" (2020, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering)
"Taxonomy of centralization in public blockchain systems: A systematic literature review" (2021, Information Processing & Management)

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Brian Fitzgerald include:

Jim Buckley
Tapajit Dey
Kevin Johnson
John G. Laffey
Bairbre McNicholas

Brian Fitzgerald's work has appeared in several publication venues multiple times, such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -)
SSRN Electronic Journal
IEEE Software

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Brian Fitzgerald was awarded the title of Fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) in 2017.

Best Publications

The transformation of open source software

Brian Fitzgerald

1243
Citations
Understanding open source software development

Joseph Feller;Brian Fitzgerald

863
Citations
Continuous software engineering: A roadmap and agenda

Brian Fitzgerald;Klaas-Jan Stol

854
Citations
Outsourcing to an unknown workforce: exploring opensourcing as a global sourcing strategy

Pär J. Ågerfalk;Brian Fitzgerald

668
Citations
Customising agile methods to software practices at Intel Shannon

Brian Fitzgerald;Gerard Hartnett;Kieran Conboy

573
Citations
Grounded theory in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines

Klaas-Jan Stol;Paul Ralph;Brian Fitzgerald

519
Citations
Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

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

468
Citations
A framework analysis of the open source software development paradigm

Joseph Feller;Brian Fitzgerald

466
Citations
Toward a conceptual framework of agile methods: a study of agility in different disciplines

Kieran Conboy;Brian Fitzgerald

461
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

444
Citations
An empirical investigation into the adoption of systems development methodologies

Brian Fitzgerald

373
Citations
Agile practices reduce distance in global software development

Helena Holmström;Brian Fitzgerald;Pär J. Ågerfalk;Eoin Ó. Conchúir

370
Citations
The use of systems development methodologies in practice: a field study

Brian Fitzgerald

357
Citations
Continuous software engineering and beyond: trends and challenges

Brian Fitzgerald;Klaas-Jan Stol

313
Citations
A framework for considering opportunities and threats in distributed software development

Par J. Agerfalk;Brian Fitzgerald;Helena Holmstrom Olsson;Brian Lings

311
Citations
Formalized systems development methodologies: a critical perspective

Brian Fitzgerald

299
Citations
Software development method tailoring at Motorola

Brian Fitzgerald;Nancy L. Russo;Tom O'Kane

280
Citations
The ABC of Software Engineering Research

Klaas-Jan Stol;Brian Fitzgerald

275
Citations
Global software development: where are the benefits?

Eoin Ó Conchúir;Pär J. Ågerfalk;Helena H. Olsson;Brian Fitzgerald

271
Citations
Understanding Free/Open Source Software Development Processes

Walt Scacchi;Joseph Feller;Brian Fitzgerald;Scott A. Hissam

260
Citations
Two's company, three's a crowd: a case study of crowdsourcing software development

Klaas-Jan Stol;Brian Fitzgerald

258
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pär J. Ågerfalk Uppsala University

Walt Scacchi University of California, Irvine

Kieran Conboy University of Galway

Ita Richardson University of Limerick

Jan Bosch Chalmers University of Technology

Giancarlo Succi University of Bologna

Bashar Nuseibeh The Open University

Colin Boyd Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Sandra A. Slaughter Georgia Institute of Technology

Debra Howcroft University of Manchester

External Links

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