James A. Jones

5.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

James A. Jones is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Jones has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Information Systems, 47 papers in Software and 16 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in James A. Jones's work include Software Engineering Research (53 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (46 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (29 papers). James A. Jones is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (53 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (46 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (29 papers). James A. Jones collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. James A. Jones's co-authors include Mary Jean Harrold, John Stasko, Alessandro Orso, Francisco Servant, James F. Bowring, Raúl Santelices, Yang Feng, Zhenyu Chen, Marinus Pennings and Tongyu Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, American Sociological Review and The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

In The Last Decade

James A. Jones

66 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Empirical evaluation of the tarantula automatic fault-localization technique

2005 887 citations James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold profile →
Visualization of test information to assist fault localization

2002 648 citations James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold et al. profile →
Visualization of test information to assist fault localization

2002 379 citations James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold et al. profile →

Peers

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Thomas J. Ostrand United States

Tibor Gyimóthy Hungary

Atif M. Memon United States

Nikolai Tillmann United States

Fei‐Ching Kuo Australia

Rudolf Ferenć Hungary

Michael Pradel Germany

Anna Rita Fasolino Italy

Leonardo Mariani Italy

Adam Porter United States

Thomas J. Ostrand United States

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Countries citing papers authored by James A. Jones

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Fields of papers citing papers by James A. Jones

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James A. Jones

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James A. Jones. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James A. Jones 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 James A. Jones. James A. Jones 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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Jones, James A., et al.. (2025). A high-performance genetically encoded sensor for cellular imaging of PKC activity in vivo. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6378–6378. 1 indexed citations

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Feng, Yang, et al.. (2024). Enumerating Valid Non-Alpha-Equivalent Programs for Interpreter Testing. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 33(5). 1–31. 1 indexed citations

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Lin, Maohua, et al.. (2023). Feeling the beat: a smart hand exoskeleton for learning to play musical instruments. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 10. 1212768–1212768. 10 indexed citations

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Delaney, Lori, et al.. (2023). Tailoring Fall Prevention Videos for Medical-Surgical Inpatients: A Randomized Controlled Trial. 32(3). 170–170. 1 indexed citations

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Feng, Yan, et al.. (2018). Hierarchical abstraction of execution traces for program comprehension. Research Repository (Delft University of Technology). 86–96. 21 indexed citations

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Xu, Guoqing, et al.. (2017). Dynamic Dependence Summaries. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 25(4). 1–41. 2 indexed citations

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Jones, James A., et al.. (2014). Fault density, fault types, and spectra-based fault localization. Empirical Software Engineering. 20(4). 928–967. 46 indexed citations

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Xu, Guoqing, et al.. (2013). Improving efficiency of dynamic analysis with dynamic dependence summaries. 59–69. 7 indexed citations

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Servant, Francisco & James A. Jones. (2012). WhoseFault: automatic developer-to-fault assignment through fault localization. International Conference on Software Engineering. 36–46. 27 indexed citations

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Servant, Francisco & James A. Jones. (2012). WhoseFault: Automatic developer-to-fault assignment through fault localization. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga (University of Málaga). 36–46. 20 indexed citations

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Cobb, Jake, et al.. (2011). Localizing SQL faults in database applications. 213–222. 24 indexed citations

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Deng, Fang & James A. Jones. (2011). Inferred dependence coverage to support fault contextualization. 512–515. 2 indexed citations

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Jones, James A., et al.. (2008). An empirical study of the effects of test-suite reduction on fault localization. 201–210. 189 indexed citations

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Eagan, James, Mary Jean Harrold, James A. Jones, & John Stasko. (2005). Technical note: visually encoding program test information to find faults in software. 33–36. 7 indexed citations

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Orso, Alessandro, James A. Jones, Mary Jean Harrold, & John Stasko. (2004). GAMMATELLA: visualization of program-execution data for deployed software. International Conference on Software Engineering. 699–700. 13 indexed citations

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Jones, James A.. (2004). Fault localization using visualization of test information. 54–56. 24 indexed citations

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Jones, James A., Mary Jean Harrold, & John Stasko. (2003). Visualization for Fault Localization. 54 indexed citations

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Jones, James A., Mary Jean Harrold, & John Stasko. (2002). Visualization of test information to assist fault localization. 648 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eagan, James, Mary Jean Harrold, James A. Jones, & John Stasko. (2001). Visually Encoding Program Test Information to Find Faults in Software. SMARTech Repository (Georgia Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Cloward, Richard A. & James A. Jones. (1962). SOCIAL CLASS--EDUCATIONAL ATTITUDES AND PARTICIPATION.. The American Journal of Sports Medicine. 9(5). 288–95. 15 indexed citations

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