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D-Index
49
Citations
8091
World Ranking
5959
National Ranking
2685

Lori Pollock 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 Lori Pollock sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 230 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lori Pollock 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 Lori Pollock sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

  • Automatic generation of natural language summaries for Java classes

    Laura Moreno;Jairo Aponte;Giriprasad Sridhara;Andrian Marcus

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

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

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

    Emily Hill;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

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

    Irene Manotas;Lori Pollock;James Clause

  • Automatically detecting and describing high level actions within methods

    Giriprasad Sridhara;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

  • Mining source code to automatically split identifiers for software analysis

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

  • An empirical study of practitioners' perspectives on green software engineering

    Irene Manotas;Christian Bird;Rui Zhang;David Shepherd

  • 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

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

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

  • Exploring the neighborhood with dora to expedite software maintenance

    Emily Hill;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

  • An incremental version of iterative data flow analysis

    L.L. Pollock;M.L. Soffa

  • Automated replay and failure detection for web applications

    Sara Sprenkle;Emily Gibson;Sreedevi Sampath;Lori Pollock

  • How do code refactorings affect energy usage

    Cagri Sahin;Lori Pollock;James Clause

  • Initial explorations on design pattern energy usage

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

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

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

  • All-du-path coverage for parallel programs

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

  • Generating Parameter Comments and Integrating with Method Summaries

    Giriprasad Sridhara;Lori Pollock;K. Vijay-Shanker

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

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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

K. Vijay-Shanker
K. Vijay-Shanker University of Delaware
Mary Lou Soffa
Mary Lou Soffa University of Virginia
Guang R. Gao
Guang R. Gao University of Delaware
Carla Schlatter Ellis
Carla Schlatter Ellis Duke University
Jeffrey S. Foster
Jeffrey S. Foster Tufts University
Andrian Marcus
Andrian Marcus The University of Texas at Dallas
Lori A. Clarke
Lori A. Clarke University of Massachusetts Amherst
Nancy M. Amato
Nancy M. Amato University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Binkley
David Binkley Loyola University Maryland
Elaine J. Weyuker
Elaine J. Weyuker University of Central Florida

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