2026 Lori Pollock: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	49	5958	5789	2684	2588	230	8091

Research.com Recognitions

2010 - ACM Distinguished Member

Overview

Lori Pollock is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Computer Science and Social Sciences, with a focus on the applications of computer science in educational contexts.

Their work covers several key topics, including:

Teaching and Learning Programming
Gender and Technology in Education
Child Development and Digital Technology
Online Learning and Analytics
Educational Games and Gamification
Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Expert Finding and Q&A Systems

Pollock's subfields of study include Computer Science Applications, Education, Gender Studies, Information Systems, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

They have contributed to multiple prominent publication venues, including:

TechTrends
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education
Journal of Educational Computing Research
Computers & Education
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Among their recent papers are:

"A Multiyear Investigation of Student Computational Thinking Concepts, Practices, and Perspectives in an After-School Computing Program" (2020) published in Journal of Educational Computing Research
"Investigating the impact of research-based professional development on teacher learning and classroom practice: Findings from computer science education" (2022) published in Computers & Education
"Automatically Identifying the Quality of Developer Chats for Post Hoc Use" (2021) published in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
"A Virtual Professional Development Program for Computer Science Education During COVID-19" (2022) published in TechTrends
"Broadening Participation in Computing: Promoting Affective and Cognitive Learning in Informal Spaces" (2021) published in TechTrends

Frequent collaborators in their research include Chrystalla Mouza, Diane Codding, Hilary Mead, Bataul Alkhateeb, and Yifan Zhang.

Lori Pollock was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member in 2010.

Best Publications

Towards automatically generating summary comments for Java methods

Giriprasad Sridhara;Emily Hill;Divya Muppaneni;Lori Pollock

577
Citations
Automatic generation of natural language summaries for Java classes

Laura Moreno;Jairo Aponte;Giriprasad Sridhara;Andrian Marcus

386
Citations
Using natural language program analysis to locate and understand action-oriented concerns

David Shepherd;Zachary P. Fry;Emily Hill;Lori Pollock

294
Citations
Automatically capturing source code context of NL-queries for software maintenance and reuse

Emily Hill;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

292
Citations
SEEDS: a software engineer's energy-optimization decision support framework

Irene Manotas;Lori Pollock;James Clause

227
Citations
Automatically detecting and describing high level actions within methods

Giriprasad Sridhara;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

226
Citations
Mining source code to automatically split identifiers for software analysis

Eric Enslen;Emily Hill;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

210
Citations
An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering

Irene Manotas;Christian Bird;Rui Zhang;David Shepherd

209
Citations
Resetting educational technology coursework for pre-service teachers: A computational thinking approach to the development of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK)

Chrystalla Mouza;Hui Yang;Yi-Cheng Pan;Sule Yilmaz Ozden

181
Citations
Applying Concept Analysis to User-Session-Based Testing of Web Applications

S. Sampath;S. Sprenkle;E. Gibson;L. Pollock

175
Citations
Exploring the neighborhood with dora to expedite software maintenance

Emily Hill;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

173
Citations
An incremental version of iterative data flow analysis

L.L. Pollock;M.L. Soffa

155
Citations
Automated replay and failure detection for web applications

Sara Sprenkle;Emily Gibson;Sreedevi Sampath;Lori Pollock

151
Citations
How do code refactorings affect energy usage

Cagri Sahin;Lori Pollock;James Clause

143
Citations
Initial explorations on design pattern energy usage

Cagri Sahin;Furkan Cayci;Irene Lizeth Manotas Gutierrez;James Clause

140
Citations
AMAP: automatically mining abbreviation expansions in programs to enhance software maintenance tools

Emily Hill;Zachary P. Fry;Haley Boyd;Giriprasad Sridhara

139
Citations
All-du-path coverage for parallel programs

Cheer-Sun D. Yang;Amie L. Souter;Lori L. Pollock

138
Citations
Generating Parameter Comments and Integrating with Method Summaries

Giriprasad Sridhara;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

135
Citations
Identifying Word Relations in Software: A Comparative Study of Semantic Similarity Tools

G. Sridhara;E. Hill;L. Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

125
Citations
Automatically mining software-based, semantically-similar words from comment-code mappings

Matthew J. Howard;Samir Gupta;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

119
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Vijay-Shanker University of Delaware

Mary Lou Soffa University of Virginia

Guang R. Gao University of Delaware

Carla Schlatter Ellis Duke University

Jeffrey S. Foster Tufts University

Andrian Marcus The University of Texas at Dallas

Lori A. Clarke University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nancy M. Amato University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David Binkley Loyola University Maryland

Elaine J. Weyuker University of Central Florida

External Links

Wikipedia of Lori Pollock Personal website of Lori Pollock Google Scholar page

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