Allen Cypher

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Allen Cypher is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Science Applications and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Allen Cypher has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Information Systems, 11 papers in Computer Science Applications and 10 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Allen Cypher's work include Software Engineering Research (8 papers), Spreadsheets and End-User Computing (7 papers) and Teaching and Learning Programming (7 papers). Allen Cypher is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (8 papers), Spreadsheets and End-User Computing (7 papers) and Teaching and Learning Programming (7 papers). Allen Cypher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Allen Cypher's co-authors include David Canfield Smith, Brad A. Myers, David Maulsby, Henry Lieberman, David Kurlander, Daniel C. Halbert, Tessa Lau, Jim Spohrer, James Lin and Jeffrey Nichols and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Human-Computer Interaction and interactions.

In The Last Decade

Allen Cypher

38 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Watch what I do: programming by demonstration

1993 649 citations Allen Cypher, Daniel C. Halbert et al. MIT Press eBooks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Allen Cypher United States	17	634	590	530	469	419	42	1.9k
Tessa Lau United States	24	750 1.2×	543 0.9×	309 0.6×	319 0.7×	287 0.7×	56	1.7k
Joel Brandt United States	21	828 1.3×	389 0.7×	723 1.4×	269 0.6×	313 0.7×	44	1.8k
Marc H. Brown United States	19	686 1.1×	564 1.0×	650 1.2×	323 0.7×	279 0.7×	46	2.4k
Htet Htet Aung United States	15	802 1.3×	291 0.5×	335 0.6×	366 0.8×	551 1.3×	28	1.9k
Frank Maurer Canada	29	2.1k 3.4×	641 1.1×	617 1.2×	376 0.8×	734 1.8×	190	3.2k
Maristella Matera Italy	18	731 1.2×	288 0.5×	160 0.3×	259 0.6×	423 1.0×	116	1.4k
David Canfield Smith United States	14	216 0.3×	321 0.5×	298 0.6×	158 0.3×	453 1.1×	33	1.2k
Charles Rich United States	26	654 1.0×	1.7k 2.9×	128 0.2×	379 0.8×	299 0.7×	112	2.9k
Carmen Santoro Italy	19	385 0.6×	337 0.6×	113 0.2×	297 0.6×	703 1.7×	82	1.5k
Simon Gibbs Switzerland	16	1.0k 1.6×	643 1.1×	159 0.3×	226 0.5×	850 2.0×	37	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Allen Cypher

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Fields of papers citing papers by Allen Cypher

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allen Cypher

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Allen Cypher. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Allen Cypher based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Allen Cypher. Allen Cypher is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Scaffidi, Christopher, et al.. (2018). The EUSES Web macro Scenario Corpus, Version 1.0. KiltHub Repository. 1 indexed citations

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Mahmud, Jalal, Allen Cypher, Eben M. Haber, & Tessa Lau. (2012). Design and industrial evaluation of a tool supporting semi-automated website testing. Software Testing Verification and Reliability. 24(1). 61–82. 14 indexed citations

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Cypher, Allen, Tessa Lau, Jeffrey Nichols, & Mira Dontcheva. (2009). Workshop on end user programming for the web. 4779–4782. 1 indexed citations

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Bogart, Christopher, Margaret Burnett, Allen Cypher, & Christopher Scaffidi. (2008). End-user programming in the wild: A field study of CoScripter scripts. 39–46. 36 indexed citations

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Leshed, Gilly, Eben M. Haber, Tessa Lau, & Allen Cypher. (2007). CoScripter: Sharing 'How-to' Knowledge in the Enterprise. 3 indexed citations

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Scaffidi, Christopher, et al.. (2007). Scenario-Based Requirements for Web Macro Tools. Figshare. 197–204. 4 indexed citations

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Haber, Eben M., Eser Kandogan, Allen Cypher, Paul P. Maglio, & Rob Barrett. (2005). A1: spreadsheet-based scripting for developing web tools. USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration Conference. 19–19. 3 indexed citations

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Kandogan, Eser, Eben M. Haber, Rob Barrett, et al.. (2005). A1. 211–220. 26 indexed citations

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DiGiano, Chris, Ken Kahn, Allen Cypher, & David Canfield Smith. (2001). Integrating Learning Supports into the Design of Visual Programming Systems. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing. 12(5). 501–524. 11 indexed citations

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Smith, David Canfield & Allen Cypher. (1998). Making programming easier for children. 201–221. 29 indexed citations

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Cypher, Allen & David Canfield Smith. (1995). KidSim. 27–34. 33 indexed citations

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Cypher, Allen & David Canfield Smith. (1995). KidSim. 35–36. 84 indexed citations

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Instone, Keith, et al.. (1994). EWHCI '93 (East-West international conference on Human-Computer Interaction). ACM SIGCHI Bulletin. 26(1). 31–34. 1 indexed citations

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Cypher, Allen, et al.. (1994). User-centered processes and evaluation in product development. interactions. 1(3). 65–71. 2 indexed citations

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Cypher, Allen. (1993). Eager: programming repetitive tasks by demonstration. MIT Press eBooks. 205–217. 33 indexed citations

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Cypher, Allen, David S. Kosbie, & David Maulsby. (1993). Characterizing PBD systems. MIT Press eBooks. 467–484. 2 indexed citations

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Cypher, Allen, Daniel C. Halbert, David Kurlander, et al.. (1993). Watch what I do: programming by demonstration. MIT Press eBooks. 649 indexed citations breakdown →

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Myers, Brad A., Allen Cypher, David Maulsby, David Canfield Smith, & Ben Shneiderman. (1991). Demonstrational interfaces. 393–396. 14 indexed citations

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Cypher, Allen. (1991). EAGER. 33–39. 168 indexed citations

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Bannon, Liam J., et al.. (1983). Evaluation and analysis of users' activity organization. 54–57. 76 indexed citations

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