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Overview

Kevin Crowston is affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States and has contributed research primarily within the field of Computer Science. Their work spans several subfields including Communication, Oceanography, Information Systems, Computer Science Applications, and Information Systems and Management.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Open Source Software Innovations
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence
  • Wikis in Education and Collaboration
  • Knowledge Management and Sharing

Their recent publications cover a range of interdisciplinary and technical subjects. Selected papers include:

  • "Interdisciplinary collaboration from diverse science teams can produce significant outcomes," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Discovering features in gravitational-wave data through detector characterization, citizen science and machine learning," 2021, Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • "Building an Apparatus: Refractive, Reflective, and Diffractive Readings of Trace Data," 2020, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
  • "Artificial Intelligence in Information Systems: State of the Art and Research Roadmap," 2022, Communications of the Association for Information Systems
  • "GitLab: work where you want, when you want," 2020, Journal of Organization Design

Crowston frequently collaborates with several researchers in their fields of interest. Key co-authors by number of joint publications include:

  • Carsten Østerlund
  • Corey Jackson
  • Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
  • C. P. L. Berry
  • Laura Trouille

The venues where Crowston has often published reflect their interdisciplinary focus and engagement with both information systems and broader science communities. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Best Publications

  • The interdisciplinary study of coordination

    Thomas W. Malone;Kevin Crowston

  • Tools for inventing organizations: toward a handbook of organizational processes

    T.W. Malone;K. Crowston;Jintae Lee;B. Pentland

  • Tools for Inventing Organizations: Toward a Handbook of Organizational Processes

    Thomas W. Malone;Kevin Crowston;Jintae Lee;Brian Pentland

  • What is coordination theory and how can it help design cooperative work systems

    Thomas W. Malone;Kevin. Crowston

  • From Conservation to Crowdsourcing: A Typology of Citizen Science

    Andrea Wiggins;Kevin Crowston

  • The future of citizen science: emerging technologies and shifting paradigms

    Greg Newman;Andrea Wiggins;Alycia Crall;Eric Graham

  • A Coordination Theory Approach to Organizational Process Design

    Kevin Crowston

  • The social structure of free and open source software development

    Kevin Crowston;James L Howison

  • Organizing Business Knowledge: The MIT Process Handbook

    Thomas W. Malone;Kevin Crowston;George A. Herman

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

    Kevin Crowston;Kangning Wei;James Howison;Andrea Wiggins

  • Reproduced and Emergent Genres of Communication on the World Wide Web

    Kevin Crowston;Marie Williams

  • 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

  • Discontinuities and continuities: a new way to understand virtual work

    Mary Beth Watson-Manheim;Katherine M. Chudoba;Kevin Crowston

  • Methods for modeling and supporting innovation processes in SMEs

    Barbara Scozzi;Claudio Garavelli;Kevin Crowston

  • Gravity Spy: Integrating Advanced LIGO Detector Characterization, Machine Learning, and Citizen Science

    M. Zevin;S. B. Coughlin;S. Bahaadini;E. Besler

  • Coordination and collective mind in software requirements development

    K. Crowston;E. E. Kammerer

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

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

  • Mechanisms for Data Quality and Validation in Citizen Science

    Andrea Wiggins;Greg Newman;Robert D. Stevenson;Kevin Crowston

  • Open source software projects as virtual organisations: competency rallying for software development

    Kevin Crowston;Barbara Scozzi

Frequent Co-Authors

James Howison
James Howison The University of Texas at Austin
Steve Sawyer
Steve Sawyer Syracuse University
Rolf T. Wigand
Rolf T. Wigand Arizona State University
Brian T. Pentland
Brian T. Pentland Michigan State University
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Chrysanthos Dellarocas Boston University
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos Northwestern University
Walt Scacchi
Walt Scacchi University of California, Irvine
Gregorio Robles
Gregorio Robles King Juan Carlos University
Bo-Christer Björk
Bo-Christer Björk Hanken School of Economics
Vassiliki Kalogera
Vassiliki Kalogera Northwestern University

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