Barry Boehm

26.7k total citations · 7 hit papers
404 papers, 15.3k citations indexed

About

Barry Boehm is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Barry Boehm has authored 404 papers receiving a total of 15.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 311 papers in Information Systems, 134 papers in Software and 112 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Barry Boehm's work include Software Engineering Research (249 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (232 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (117 papers). Barry Boehm is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (249 papers), Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (232 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (117 papers). Barry Boehm collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Austria. Barry Boehm's co-authors include Richard Turner, Victor R. Basili, Sunita Chulani, Chris Abts, Raymond Madachy, Ellis Horowitz, Bert M. Steece, Bradford Clark, Kevin Sullivan and Tom DeMarco and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Communications of the ACM and Information Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Barry Boehm

383 papers receiving 12.9k 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.

Software Cost Estimation With Cocomo II

2000 1.2k citations Barry Boehm, Raymond Madachy et al. profile →
Software risk management: principles and practices

1991 1.0k citations Barry Boehm IEEE Software profile →
Get ready for agile methods, with care

2002 541 citations Barry Boehm profile →
Top 10 list [software development]

2001 517 citations Barry Boehm et al. profile →
Understanding and controlling software costs

1988 435 citations Barry Boehm et al. profile →
Management Challenges to Implementing Agile Processes in Traditional Development Organizations

2005 391 citations Barry Boehm, Richard Turner IEEE Software profile →
Theory-W software project management principles and examples

1989 317 citations Barry Boehm et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Barry Boehm	12.2k	5.4k	3.7k	2.1k	2.0k	404	15.3k
Victor R. Basili	14.1k 1.2×	7.6k 1.4×	4.8k 1.3×	2.9k 1.4×	1.5k 0.8×	342	16.8k
Per Runeson	9.5k 0.8×	4.5k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	2.3k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	176	12.7k
Grady Booch	7.5k 0.6×	4.6k 0.8×	6.9k 1.9×	3.1k 1.5×	2.1k 1.1×	124	14.6k
Martin Höst	7.6k 0.6×	2.9k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	1.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	105	10.2k
Ivar Jacobson	7.6k 0.6×	4.4k 0.8×	6.4k 1.7×	2.4k 1.1×	2.1k 1.1×	82	13.0k
James Rumbaugh	6.4k 0.5×	4.1k 0.8×	6.0k 1.6×	2.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.0×	57	12.5k
Lionel Briand	14.7k 1.2×	12.9k 2.4×	5.5k 1.5×	3.9k 1.9×	556 0.3×	415	19.2k
Rick Kazman	6.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.3×	5.2k 1.4×	3.1k 1.5×	953 0.5×	271	9.4k
Philippe Kruchten	6.0k 0.5×	1.6k 0.3×	3.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	155	7.8k
John Mylopoulos	8.9k 0.7×	2.2k 0.4×	9.7k 2.6×	3.6k 1.7×	3.0k 1.5×	412	13.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Boehm, Barry, et al.. (2023). How SonarQube-identified technical debt is prioritized: An exploratory case study. Information and Software Technology. 156. 107147–107147. 3 indexed citations

Boehm, Barry, et al.. (2023). Technical debt (TD) through the lens of Twitter: A survey. Journal of Software Evolution and Process. 36(4). 1 indexed citations

Harman, Christopher, et al.. (2023). What is asked about technical debt (TD) on Stack Exchange question-and-answer (Q&A) websites? An observational study. Empirical Software Engineering. 28(2). 5 indexed citations

Louton, Helen, Shana Bergmann, Michael Erhard, et al.. (2020). Histologically validated scoring system for the assessment of hock burn in broilers. Avian Pathology. 49(3). 230–242. 11 indexed citations

Boehm, Barry. (2017). Software Cost Estimation Meets Software Diversity. 495–496. 22 indexed citations

Boehm, Barry, et al.. (2012). Process implications of social networking-based requirements negotiation tools. 68–72. 12 indexed citations

Boehm, Barry & Richard Turner. (2004). Balancing agility and discipline: evaluating and integrating agile and plan-driven methods. International Conference on Software Engineering. 718–719. 91 indexed citations

Baik, Jongmoon & Barry Boehm. (2000). Empirical analysis of CASE tool effects on software development effort. 1(1). 1–10. 2 indexed citations

Boehm, Barry & Richard E. Fairley. (2000). Software Estimation Perspectives - Guest Editors' Introduction.. IEEE Software. 17. 22–26. 3 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry, et al.. (2000). Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II with Cdrom. Prentice Hall PTR eBooks. 103 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry & Hoh Peter In. (1999). Cost vs. Quality Requirements: Conflict Analysis and Negotiation Aids. 1. 6 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry. (1989). Risk management practices: the six basic steps. IEEE Press eBooks. 115–147. 2 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry & Frank C. Belz. (1988). Applying process programming to the spiral model. IEEE Press eBooks. 38–46. 18 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry. (1987). Industrial software metrics top 10 list. IEEE Software. 4(5). 84–85. 79 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry & Frank C. Belz. (1986). Reasoning about iteration: a cost-benefit approach.. 40–44. 2 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry. (1986). Understanding and Controlling Software Costs (Invited Paper).. IFIP Congress. 703–714. 1 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry, et al.. (1984). Prototyping vs. specifying: A multi-project experiment. International Conference on Software Engineering. 473–484. 37 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry, et al.. (1982). The TRW Software Productivity System. International Conference on Software Engineering. 148–156. 10 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry. (1965). Convergence of best rational Tchebycheff approximations. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 115(0). 388–399. 8 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry. (1965). Convergence of Best Rational Tchebycheff Approximations. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 115. 388–388. 1 indexed citations

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