2026 James Howison: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Overview

James Howison is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems and Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

Howison's research topics encompass various areas including Software Engineering Research, Open Source Software Innovations, Scientific Computing and Data Management, Topic Modeling, Web Data Mining and Analysis, Research Data Management Practices, and scientometrics and bibliometrics research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Howison include:

Caifan Du
Johanna Cohoon
Patrice Lopez
Eunyoung Moon
Hana Frluckaj

Howison has published in a range of venues, with notable frequency in:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
International Journal of Information Systems and Management
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Recent publications by Howison include:

Softcite dataset: A dataset of software mentions in biomedical and economic research publications, 2021, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Norms and Open Systems in Open Science, 2021, Information & Culture
A dynamic perspective on software modularity in open source software (OSS) development: A configurational approach, 2024, Information and Organization
Understanding progress in software citation: a study of software citation in the CORD-19 corpus, 2022, PeerJ Computer Science
The challenges of theory-software translation, 2020, F1000Research

Best Publications

The social structure of free and open source software development

Kevin Crowston;James L Howison

744
Citations
Free/Libre open-source software development: What we know and what we do not know

Kevin Crowston;Kangning Wei;James Howison;Andrea Wiggins

662
Citations
DEFINING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECT SUCCESS

Kevin Crowston;Hala Annabi;James Howison

476
Citations
Validity issues in the use of social network analysis with digital trace data

James L Howison;Andrea Wiggins;Kevin Crowston

471
Citations
Information systems success in free and open source software development: theory and measures

Kevin Crowston;James Howison;Hala Annabi

409
Citations
Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development

Kevin Crowston;Qing Li;Kangning Wei;U. Yeliz Eseryel

303
Citations
FLOSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses

James L Howison;Megan Conklin;Kevin Crowston

276
Citations
The Perils and Pitfalls of Mining SourceForge

James Howison;Kevin Crowston

265
Citations
Core and Periphery in Free/Libre and Open Source Software Team Communications

K. Crowston;Kangning Wei;Qing Li;J. Howison

264
Citations
Hierarchy and Centralization in Free and Open Source Software Team Communications

Kevin Crowston;James Howison

245
Citations
Guest Editors' Introduction: Wireless Grids--Distributed Resource Sharing by Mobile, Nomadic, and Fixed Devices

L.W. McKnight;J. Howison;S. Bradner

241
Citations
Collaboration through open superposition: a theory of the open source way

James Howison;Kevin Crowston

194
Citations
Beyond the organizational 'container'

Susan Winter;Nicholas Berente;James Howison;Brian Butler

186
Citations
Software in the scientific literature: Problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the biology literature

James Howison;Julia Bullard

176
Citations
Coordination Theory: A Ten-Year Retrospective

Kevin Crowston;Joseph Rubleske;James Howison

152
Citations
Effective work practices for software engineering: free/libre open source software development

Kevin Crowston;Hala Annabi;James Howison;Chengetai Masango

148
Citations
Scientific software production: incentives and collaboration

James Howison;James D. Herbsleb

146
Citations
Social dynamics of free and open source team communications

James L Howison;Keisuke Inoue;Kevin Crowston

141
Citations
Assessing the health of open source communities

K. Crowston;J. Howison

115
Citations
Collaboration through open superposition

James Howison;Kevin Crowston

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Crowston Syracuse University

Daniel S. Katz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James D. Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University

John Leslie King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Jeffrey C. Carver University of Alabama

Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern

Carole Goble University of Manchester

Ralf Lämmel Facebook (United States)

Kathleen M. Carley Carnegie Mellon University

Brian S. Butler University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

Personal website of James Howison Google Scholar page

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