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D-Index
41
Citations
7641
World Ranking
8801
National Ranking
3763

Emerson Murphy-Hill 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 Emerson Murphy-Hill sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 163 publications — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Emerson Murphy-Hill 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 Emerson Murphy-Hill sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Emerson Murphy-Hill is affiliated with Google in the United States and has produced a body of research primarily situated within the field of Computer Science. Their work spans a variety of subfields including Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, Artificial Intelligence, Software, and Communication.

Their research topics cover multiple areas such as Software Engineering Research, Open Source Software Innovations, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, Spreadsheets and End-User Computing, Knowledge Management and Sharing, Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing, and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Emerson Murphy-Hill include:

  • "The Diversity Crisis in Software Development" (2021), published in IEEE Software
  • "The pushback effects of race, ethnicity, gender, and age in code review" (2022), published in Communications of the ACM
  • "Enabling the Study of Software Development Behavior With Cross-Tool Logs" (2020), published in IEEE Software
  • "Destructive Criticism in Software Code Review Impacts Inclusion" (2022), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "What improves developer productivity at google? code quality" (2022), published in Proceedings of the 30th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Murphy-Hill include:

  • Ciera Jaspan
  • Carolyn Egelman
  • Lan Cheng
  • Collin Green
  • Jill Dicker

Their work is often published in venues respected for software and human-computer interaction research, including:

  • IEEE Software
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Communications of the ACM

Best Publications

  • How We Refactor, and How We Know It

    E. Murphy-Hill;C. Parnin;A. P. Black

  • Why don't software developers use static analysis tools to find bugs?

    Brittany Johnson;Yoonki Song;Emerson Murphy-Hill;Robert Bowdidge

  • Gender differences and bias in open source: pull request acceptance of women versus men

    Josh Terrell;Andrew Kofink;Justin Middleton;Clarissa Rainear

  • Does ACM’s code of ethics change ethical decision making in software development?

    Andrew McNamara;Justin Smith;Emerson Murphy-Hill

  • Cowboys, ankle sprains, and keepers of quality: how is video game development different from software development?

    Emerson Murphy-Hill;Thomas Zimmermann;Nachiappan Nagappan

  • Refactoring Tools: Fitness for Purpose

    E. Murphy-Hill;A.P. Black

  • An interactive ambient visualization for code smells

    Emerson Murphy-Hill;Andrew P. Black

  • Breaking the barriers to successful refactoring: observations and tools for extract method

    Emerson Murphy-Hill;Andrew P. Black

  • A degree-of-knowledge model to capture source code familiarity

    Thomas Fritz;Jingwen Ou;Gail C. Murphy;Emerson Murphy-Hill

  • Improving developer participation rates in surveys

    Edward Smith;Robert Loftin;Emerson Murphy-Hill;Christian Bird

  • Reconciling manual and automatic refactoring

    Xi Ge;Quinton L. DuBose;Emerson Murphy-Hill

  • The Diversity Crisis in Software Development

    Khaled Albusays;Pernille Bjorn;Laura Dabbish;Denae Ford

  • Enron's spreadsheets and related emails: a dataset and analysis

    Felienne Hermans;Emerson Murphy-Hill

  • Social influences on secure development tool adoption: why security tools spread

    Shundan Xiao;Jim Witschey;Emerson Murphy-Hill

  • Do developers read compiler error messages

    Titus Barik;Justin Smith;Kevin Lubick;Elisabeth Holmes

  • Questions developers ask while diagnosing potential security vulnerabilities with static analysis

    Justin Smith;Brittany Johnson;Emerson Murphy-Hill;Bill Chu

  • Quantifying developers' adoption of security tools

    Jim Witschey;Olga Zielinska;Allaire Welk;Emerson Murphy-Hill

  • Improving software developers' fluency by recommending development environment commands

    Emerson Murphy-Hill;Rahul Jiresal;Gail C. Murphy

  • Investigating the effects of gender bias on GitHub

    Nasif Imtiaz;Justin Middleton;Joymallya Chakraborty;Neill Robson

  • Degree-of-knowledge: Modeling a developer's knowledge of code

    Thomas Fritz;Gail C. Murphy;Emerson Murphy-Hill;Jingwen Ou

  • The design of bug fixes

    Emerson Murphy-Hill;Thomas Zimmermann;Christian Bird;Nachiappan Nagappan

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Parnin
Chris Parnin Microsoft (United States)
Gail C. Murphy
Gail C. Murphy University of British Columbia
Heather Richter Lipford
Heather Richter Lipford University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Thomas Zimmermann
Thomas Zimmermann Microsoft (United States)
Christian Bird
Christian Bird Microsoft (United States)
Nachiappan Nagappan
Nachiappan Nagappan Facebook (United States)
Benjamin Livshits
Benjamin Livshits Imperial College London
William G. Griswold
William G. Griswold University of California, San Diego
Eric Bodden
Eric Bodden University of Paderborn
Danny Dig
Danny Dig University of Colorado Boulder

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