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20132023
most citedPandemic Programming: How COVID-19 affects software developers and how their organizations can help

238 citations · 762 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

Post-pandemic Resilience of Hybrid Software Teams

Ronnie de Souza Santos, Gianisa Adisaputri, Paul Ralph

Background. The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a widespread transition to hybrid work models (combinations of co-located and remote work) as software professionals' demanded more flex…

cs.SE2023★ 37 cited

Sustainability is Stratified: Toward a Better Theory of Sustainable Software Engineering

Sean McGuire, Erin Shultz, Bimpe Ayoola +1

Background: Sustainable software engineering (SSE) means creating software in a way that meets present needs without undermining our collective capacity to meet our future needs. I…

cs.SE2023★ 3 cited

Benefits and Limitations of Remote Work to LGBTQIA+ Software Professionals

Ronnie de Souza Santos, Cleyton Magalhaes, Paul Ralph

Background. The mass transition to remote work amid the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected software professionals, who abruptly shifted into ostensibly temporary home offices. T…

cs.SE2022★ 41 cited

Paving the Way for Mature Secondary Research: The Seven Types of Literature Review

Paul Ralph, Sebastian Baltes

Confusion over different kinds of secondary research, and their divergent purposes, is undermining the effectiveness and usefulness of secondary studies in software engineering. Th…

cs.SE2022

Personality Traits in Game Development

Miriam Sturdee, Matthew Ivory, David Ellis +2

Existing work on personality traits in software development excludes game developers as a discrete group. Whilst games are software, game development has unique considerations, so…

cs.DL2022★ 5 cited

Empirical Standards for Repository Mining

Preetha Chatterjee, Tushar Sharma, Paul Ralph

The purpose of scholarly peer review is to evaluate the quality of scientific manuscripts. However, study after study demonstrates that peer review neither effectively nor reliably…