Brittany Johnson

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 858 citations indexed

About

Brittany Johnson is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Brittany Johnson has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 858 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Information Systems, 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Brittany Johnson's work include Software Engineering Research (18 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (6 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (6 papers). Brittany Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (18 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (6 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (6 papers). Brittany Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Brittany Johnson's co-authors include Emerson Murphy-Hill, Yoonki Song, Robert W. Bowdidge, Justin Smith, Bill Chu, Heather Richter Lipford, Yuriy Brun, Alexandra Meliou, Titus Barik and John C. Mithoefer and has published in prestigious journals such as ACS Nano, Endocrinology and Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Brittany Johnson

35 papers receiving 826 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Why don't software developers use static analysis tools to find bugs?
    2013 345 citations Brittany Johnson, Yoonki Song et al. 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brittany Johnson United States 13 542 343 204 162 119 49 858
James C. Davis United States 14 266 0.5× 139 0.4× 120 0.6× 192 1.2× 136 1.1× 64 568
Kailong Wang China 10 231 0.4× 87 0.3× 100 0.5× 227 1.4× 100 0.8× 41 553
Nadia Polikarpova United States 12 313 0.6× 265 0.8× 51 0.3× 278 1.7× 50 0.4× 39 602
Eui Chul Richard Shin United States 9 277 0.5× 103 0.3× 186 0.9× 471 2.9× 128 1.1× 14 684
Rodrigo Bonifácio Brazil 15 551 1.0× 192 0.6× 60 0.3× 211 1.3× 211 1.8× 69 658
Rabe Abdalkareem Canada 12 525 1.0× 192 0.6× 120 0.6× 154 1.0× 173 1.5× 31 655
Aysu Betin-Can Türkiye 13 331 0.6× 257 0.7× 51 0.3× 174 1.1× 134 1.1× 33 553
Xing Hu China 14 957 1.8× 397 1.2× 222 1.1× 639 3.9× 222 1.9× 64 1.2k
Márcio Ribeiro Brazil 21 1.2k 2.1× 763 2.2× 154 0.8× 641 4.0× 360 3.0× 117 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Brittany Johnson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brittany Johnson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brittany Johnson

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All Works

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Thompson, G.H.B., et al.. (2025). An Investigation into Black and Brown Communities’ Engagement with Data & Technology. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society. 8(1). 66–75.
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Meneely, Andrew, et al.. (2025). An Investigation into Open Source Fairness Tool Sustainability. 21–28.
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Johnson, Brittany, et al.. (2025). An Investigation into Maintenance Support for Neural Networks. 1489–1493.
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Johnson, Brittany & Tim Menzies. (2025). The Ethical Engineer’s Dilemma: An Interview With Jim Herbsleb. IEEE Software. 42(2). 103–106.
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Penzenstadler, Birgit, Brittany Johnson, Muneera Bano, & Per Lenberg. (2024). Well-Being and Resilience: Developers Thrive!. IEEE Software. 41(4). 38–42. 1 indexed citations
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Menzies, Tim & Brittany Johnson. (2024). Powering Down: An Interview With Federica Sarro on Tackling Energy Consumption in AI-Powered Software Systems. IEEE Software. 41(5). 89–92.
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Smith, Justin, et al.. (2024). Py-holmes: Causal Testing for Deep Neural Networks in Python. 602–606.
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Coney, Leslie R., et al.. (2024). "For Us By Us": Intentionally Designing Technology for Lived Black Experiences. Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 3210–3224. 6 indexed citations
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Johnson, Brittany & Tim Menzies. (2024). AI Over-Hype: A Dangerous Threat (and How to Fix It). IEEE Software. 41(6). 131–138. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Brittany & Tim Menzies. (2024). Fighting for What’s Right: An Interview With Marc Canellas. IEEE Software. 41(2). 104–107.
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Johnson, Brittany, et al.. (2023). Harmful Terms in Computing: Towards Widespread Detection and Correction. 132–137. 5 indexed citations
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Johnson, Brittany & Tim Menzies. (2023). Ethics: Why Software Engineers Can’t Afford to Look Away. IEEE Software. 41(1). 142–144. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, Brittany, Yuriy Brun, & Alexandra Meliou. (2020). Causal testing: understanding defects' root causes. arXiv (Cornell University). 87–99. 7 indexed citations
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Yang, Zhihong, Milton Pryor, Audrey Noguchi, et al.. (2019). Dietary Palmitoleic Acid Attenuates Atherosclerosis Progression and Hyperlipidemia in Low‐Density Lipoprotein Receptor‐Deficient Mice. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research. 63(12). e1900120–e1900120. 49 indexed citations
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Stolee, Kathryn T., et al.. (2017). Evaluating how static analysis tools can reduce code review effort. 101–105. 38 indexed citations
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Barik, Titus, Yoonki Song, Brittany Johnson, & Emerson Murphy-Hill. (2016). From Quick Fixes to Slow Fixes: Reimagining Static Analysis Resolutions to Enable Design Space Exploration. 211–221. 20 indexed citations
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Johnson, Brittany, Rahul Pandita, Emerson Murphy-Hill, & Sarah Heckman. (2015). Bespoke tools: adapted to the concepts developers know. 878–881. 10 indexed citations
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Johnson, Brittany, Yoonki Song, Emerson Murphy-Hill, & Robert W. Bowdidge. (2013). Why don't software developers use static analysis tools to find bugs?. 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 672–681. 345 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, Brittany. (2012). A study on improving static analysis tools: why are we not using them?. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1607–1609. 2 indexed citations

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