Andrew Macvean

788 total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 475 citations indexed

About

Andrew Macvean is a scholar working on Information Systems, Human-Computer Interaction and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Macvean has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 475 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Information Systems, 9 papers in Human-Computer Interaction and 8 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Andrew Macvean's work include Software Engineering Research (13 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (7 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (6 papers). Andrew Macvean is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (13 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (7 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (6 papers). Andrew Macvean collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Andrew Macvean's co-authors include Judy Robertson, Brad A. Myers, Daye Nam, Bogdan Vasilescu, Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Mark Riedl, Amber Horvath, Stuart Gray, Ruth Jepson and Kate Howland and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Software and Games for Health Journal.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Macvean

32 papers receiving 455 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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Macvean United States	12	136	124	109	97	67	32	475
Bimlesh Wadhwa Singapore	9	81 0.6×	60 0.5×	54 0.5×	56 0.6×	43 0.6×	34	323
Jaime Muñoz Arteaga Mexico	11	184 1.4×	126 1.0×	92 0.8×	70 0.7×	106 1.6×	108	498
Robert Hendley United Kingdom	14	181 1.3×	237 1.9×	77 0.7×	137 1.4×	104 1.6×	53	903
Jesús Gallardo Spain	11	122 0.9×	138 1.1×	71 0.7×	57 0.6×	76 1.1×	50	371
Ana I. Molina Spain	14	229 1.7×	190 1.5×	122 1.1×	82 0.8×	207 3.1×	86	653
Marita Franzke United States	10	100 0.7×	177 1.4×	94 0.9×	102 1.1×	29 0.4×	15	504
Željko Obrenović Netherlands	12	102 0.8×	161 1.3×	33 0.3×	100 1.0×	47 0.7×	40	427
María Luisa Rodríguez Spain	10	163 1.2×	43 0.3×	60 0.6×	60 0.6×	37 0.6×	36	485
Juan Manuel González-Calleros Mexico	9	135 1.0×	95 0.8×	25 0.2×	75 0.8×	20 0.3×	75	318
Pei-Yu Chi United States	11	60 0.4×	203 1.6×	53 0.5×	71 0.7×	85 1.3×	19	479

Countries citing papers authored by Andrew Macvean

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Fields of papers citing papers by Andrew Macvean

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Macvean

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Andrew Macvean. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Andrew Macvean 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 Andrew Macvean. Andrew Macvean 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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Nam, Daye, et al.. (2025). How Much Does AI Impact Development Speed? an Enterprise-Based Randomized Controlled Trial. 618–629. 2 indexed citations

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Nam, Daye, Andrew Macvean, Brad A. Myers, & Bogdan Vasilescu. (2024). Understanding Documentation Use Through Log Analysis: A Case Study of Four Cloud Services. 1–17. 2 indexed citations

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D’Angelo, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Understanding and Designing for Trust in AI-Powered Developer Tooling. IEEE Software. 41(6). 23–28. 1 indexed citations

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Horvath, Amber, Andrew Macvean, & Brad A. Myers. (2024). Meta-Manager: A Tool for Collecting and Exploring Meta Information about Code. 1–17. 4 indexed citations

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Horvath, Amber, Andrew Macvean, & Brad A. Myers. (2023). Support for Long-Form Documentation Authoring and Maintenance. 109–114. 4 indexed citations

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Horvath, Amber, et al.. (2022). Understanding How Programmers Can Use Annotations on Documentation. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 1–16. 14 indexed citations

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Horvath, Amber, et al.. (2022). Using Annotations for Sensemaking About Code. 1–16. 9 indexed citations

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Macvean, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Accessibility of Command Line Interfaces. 1–10. 10 indexed citations

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Murphy, Lauren, et al.. (2018). API Designers in the Field: Design Practices and Challenges for Creating Usable APIs. 249–258. 18 indexed citations

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Murphy, Lauren, et al.. (2017). Preliminary Analysis of REST API Style Guidelines. 7 indexed citations

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Macvean, Andrew, et al.. (2016). API Usability at Scale. PPIG. 26. 3 indexed citations

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Robertson, Judy, Ruth Jepson, Andrew Macvean, & Stuart Gray. (2016). Understanding the Importance of Context: A Qualitative Study of a Location-Based Exergame to Enhance School Childrens Physical Activity. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160927–e0160927. 24 indexed citations

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Robertson, Judy, Andrew Macvean, & Kate Howland. (2013). Robust evaluation for a maturing field: The train the teacher method. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. 1(2). 50–60. 7 indexed citations

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Macvean, Andrew & Judy Robertson. (2013). Understanding exergame users' physical activity, motivation and behavior over time. 1251–1260. 69 indexed citations

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Macvean, Andrew. (2012). Understanding the Player: The Need for Adaption in Exergames for Adolescents. Games for Health Journal. 1(5). 369–372. 2 indexed citations

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Macvean, Andrew & Judy Robertson. (2012). iFitQuest. 359–368. 35 indexed citations

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Robertson, Judy, Andrew Macvean, & Kate Howland. (2012). Embedding technology in the classroom. 20–29. 7 indexed citations

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Macvean, Andrew. (2012). Developing adaptive exergames for adolescent children. 339–342. 8 indexed citations

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Macvean, Andrew, et al.. (2011). WeQuest. 1–8. 21 indexed citations

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Macvean, Andrew. (2011). Task-involved versus Ego-Involved: Motivating children to exercise in a pervasive exergame. 405–406. 2 indexed citations

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