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James Howison 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 James Howison sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

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James Howison 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 James Howison sits on this spectrum.

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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

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

    Kevin Crowston;Kangning Wei;James Howison;Andrea Wiggins

  • DEFINING OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECT SUCCESS

    Kevin Crowston;Hala Annabi;James Howison

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

    James L Howison;Andrea Wiggins;Kevin Crowston

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

    Kevin Crowston;James Howison;Hala Annabi

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

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

  • FLOSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analyses

    James L Howison;Megan Conklin;Kevin Crowston

  • The Perils and Pitfalls of Mining SourceForge

    James Howison;Kevin Crowston

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

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

  • Hierarchy and Centralization in Free and Open Source Software Team Communications

    Kevin Crowston;James Howison

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

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

  • Collaboration through open superposition: a theory of the open source way

    James Howison;Kevin Crowston

  • Beyond the organizational 'container'

    Susan Winter;Nicholas Berente;James Howison;Brian Butler

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

    James Howison;Julia Bullard

  • Coordination Theory: A Ten-Year Retrospective

    Kevin Crowston;Joseph Rubleske;James Howison

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

    Kevin Crowston;Hala Annabi;James Howison;Chengetai Masango

  • Scientific software production: incentives and collaboration

    James Howison;James D. Herbsleb

  • Social dynamics of free and open source team communications

    James L Howison;Keisuke Inoue;Kevin Crowston

  • Assessing the health of open source communities

    K. Crowston;J. Howison

  • Collaboration through open superposition

    James Howison;Kevin Crowston

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Crowston
Kevin Crowston Syracuse University
Daniel S. Katz
Daniel S. Katz University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James D. Herbsleb
James D. Herbsleb Carnegie Mellon University
John Leslie King
John Leslie King University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey C. Carver
Jeffrey C. Carver University of Alabama
Oscar Nierstrasz
Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern
Carole Goble
Carole Goble University of Manchester
Ralf Lämmel
Ralf Lämmel Facebook (United States)
Kathleen M. Carley
Kathleen M. Carley Carnegie Mellon University
Brian S. Butler
Brian S. Butler University of Maryland, College Park

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