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D-Index
54
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12829
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4531
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Christian Bird 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 Christian Bird sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 158 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian Bird 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 Christian Bird sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Christian Bird is affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Computer Science, with notable contributions in several subfields including Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Management, Biomedical Engineering, and Software.

The main topics of Christian Bird's work revolve around Software Engineering Research and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices. Additional areas include Software System Performance and Reliability, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Biomedical and Engineering Education, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, and Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development.

Christian Bird has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Queue, and Communications of the ACM. These venues reflect their engagement with both preprint platforms and established peer-reviewed journals.

Their recent significant publications include:

  • "A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021) in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • "Taking Flight with Copilot" (2022) in Queue
  • "Corporate hackathons, how and why? A multiple case study of motivation, projects proposal and selection, goal setting, coordination, and outcomes" (2020) in Human-Computer Interaction
  • "DeepMerge: Learning to Merge Programs" (2022) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • "Taking Flight with Copilot" (2023) in Communications of the ACM

Christian Bird has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Thomas Zimmermann, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, and Jenna Butler. These collaborations highlight a network of researchers with overlapping interests in software engineering and related disciplines.

Christian Bird was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Software engineering for machine learning: a case study

    Saleema Amershi;Andrew Begel;Christian Bird;Robert DeLine

  • Mining email social networks

    Christian Bird;Alex Gourley;Prem Devanbu;Michael Gertz

  • Expectations, outcomes, and challenges of modern code review

    Alberto Bacchelli;Christian Bird

  • Fair and balanced?: bias in bug-fix datasets

    Christian Bird;Adrian Bachmann;Eirik Aune;John Duffy

  • Don't touch my code!: examining the effects of ownership on software quality

    Christian Bird;Nachiappan Nagappan;Brendan Murphy;Harald Gall

  • Suggesting accurate method and class names

    Miltiadis Allamanis;Earl T. Barr;Christian Bird;Charles Sutton

  • Learning natural coding conventions

    Miltiadis Allamanis;Earl T. Barr;Christian Bird;Charles Sutton

  • Latent social structure in open source projects

    Christian Bird;David Pattison;Raissa D'Souza;Vladimir Filkov

  • Convergent contemporary software peer review practices

    Peter C. Rigby;Christian Bird

  • The promises and perils of mining git

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  • Clones: what is that smell?

    Foyzur Rahman;Christian Bird;Premkumar Devanbu

  • Does distributed development affect software quality?: an empirical case study of Windows Vista

    Christian Bird;Nachiappan Nagappan;Premkumar Devanbu;Harald Gall

  • The missing links: bugs and bug-fix commits

    Adrian Bachmann;Christian Bird;Foyzur Rahman;Premkumar Devanbu

  • Putting It All Together: Using Socio-technical Networks to Predict Failures

    Christian Bird;Nachiappan Nagappan;Harald Gall;Brendan Murphy

  • What developers want and need from program analysis: an empirical study

    Maria Christakis;Christian Bird

  • Diversity in software engineering research

    Meiyappan Nagappan;Thomas Zimmermann;Christian Bird

  • An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering

    Irene Manotas;Christian Bird;Rui Zhang;David Shepherd

  • Deep learning type inference

    Vincent J. Hellendoorn;Christian Bird;Earl T. Barr;Miltiadis Allamanis

  • Open Borders? Immigration in Open Source Projects

    Christian Bird;Alex Gourley;Prem Devanbu;Anand Swaminathan

  • A Tale of Two Cities: Software Developers Working from Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Denae Ford;Margaret-Anne D. Storey;Thomas Zimmermann;Christian Bird

  • Belief & evidence in empirical software engineering

    Premkumar Devanbu;Thomas Zimmermann;Christian Bird

  • Appendix to Expectations, Outcomes, and Challenges of Modern Code Review

    Christian Bird;Alberto Bacchelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Zimmermann
Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft (United States)
Nachiappan Nagappan
Nachiappan Nagappan Facebook (United States)
Premkumar Devanbu
Premkumar Devanbu University of California, Davis
Earl T. Barr
Earl T. Barr University College London
Brendan Murphy
Brendan Murphy Microsoft (United States)
Emerson Murphy-Hill
Emerson Murphy-Hill Google (United States)
Tim Menzies
Tim Menzies North Carolina State University
Harald C. Gall
Harald C. Gall University of Zurich
Shuvendu K. Lahiri
Shuvendu K. Lahiri Microsoft (United States)
Foutse Khomh
Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal

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