Chris Abts

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Chris Abts is a scholar working on Information Systems, General Health Professions and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Abts has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Information Systems, 3 papers in General Health Professions and 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Chris Abts's work include Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (3 papers), Software Engineering Research (3 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (3 papers). Chris Abts is often cited by papers focused on Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (3 papers), Software Engineering Research (3 papers) and Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (3 papers). Chris Abts collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Chris Abts's co-authors include Barry Boehm, Sunita Chulani, Allen W. Brown, Ellis Horowitz, Raymond Madachy, Bert M. Steece, Donald J. Reifer, Bradford Clark, Jongmoon Baik and Hakan Erdogmus and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes and Medical Entomology and Zoology.

In The Last Decade

Chris Abts

8 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Software Cost Estimation With Cocomo II

2000 1.2k citations Barry Boehm, Chris Abts et al. Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Abts United States	5	1.4k	904	323	243	172	8	1.7k
Donald J. Reifer United States	15	1.6k 1.1×	886 1.0×	370 1.1×	289 1.2×	183 1.1×	46	1.9k
Bradford Clark United States	6	1.4k 1.0×	960 1.1×	305 0.9×	240 1.0×	152 0.9×	9	1.7k
Bert M. Steece United States	9	1.3k 0.9×	902 1.0×	254 0.8×	245 1.0×	140 0.8×	15	1.6k
Sunita Chulani United States	11	1.7k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	302 0.9×	301 1.2×	189 1.1×	32	2.0k
Capers Jones United States	15	1.6k 1.1×	835 0.9×	379 1.2×	316 1.3×	314 1.8×	38	2.0k
Tsun S. Chow United States	5	753 0.5×	842 0.9×	243 0.8×	227 0.9×	203 1.2×	10	1.5k
Gianluigi Caldiera United States	11	1.2k 0.9×	514 0.6×	561 1.7×	298 1.2×	209 1.2×	18	1.6k
John E. Gaffney United States	11	1.4k 1.0×	932 1.0×	385 1.2×	320 1.3×	81 0.5×	40	1.6k
Marvin V. Zelkowitz United States	24	1.7k 1.2×	856 0.9×	616 1.9×	494 2.0×	221 1.3×	118	2.3k
Hakan Erdogmus United States	19	1.2k 0.9×	589 0.7×	241 0.7×	253 1.0×	148 0.9×	78	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Abts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Abts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Abts

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris Abts. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris Abts 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 Chris Abts. Chris Abts is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Baik, Jongmoon, et al.. (2002). Empirical software simulation for COTS glue code development and integration. 297–302. 6 indexed citations

2.

Dean, John, Patricia Oberndorf, Chris Abts, et al.. (2001). COTS workshop. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 26(1). 61–73. 2 indexed citations

3.

Abts, Chris. (2000). A Perspective on the Economic Life Span of COTS-based Software Systems: the COTS-LIMO Model. 2 indexed citations

4.

Abts, Chris, et al.. (2000). Empirical Observations on COTS Software Integration Effort Based on the Initial COCOTS Calibration Database. 4 indexed citations

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Abts, Chris, et al.. (2000). COCOTS: A COTS Software Integration Lifecycle Cost Model - Model Overview and Preliminary Data Collection Findings. 29 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry, Chris Abts, & Sunita Chulani. (2000). Software development cost estimation approaches — A survey. 10(1-4). 177–205. 395 indexed citations

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Boehm, Barry, Chris Abts, Allen W. Brown, et al.. (2000). Software Cost Estimation With Cocomo II. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Boehm, Barry & Chris Abts. (1999). COTS integration: plug and pray?. Computer. 32(1). 135–138. 113 indexed citations

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