Laura Beckwith

43 total papers · 2.0k total citations
29 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Laura Beckwith is a scholar working on Software, Computer Science Applications and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Beckwith has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Software, 17 papers in Computer Science Applications and 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Laura Beckwith's work include Spreadsheets and End-User Computing (22 papers), Educational Games and Gamification (15 papers) and Teaching and Learning Programming (11 papers). Laura Beckwith is often cited by papers focused on Spreadsheets and End-User Computing (22 papers), Educational Games and Gamification (15 papers) and Teaching and Learning Programming (11 papers). Laura Beckwith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Vietnam. Laura Beckwith's co-authors include Margaret Burnett, Susan Wiedenbeck, Curtis R. Cook, Joseph Lawrance, Alan F. Blackwell, Gregg Rothermel, Valentina Grigoreanu, Mary Beth Rosson, Henry Lieberman and Robin Abraham and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, Computer and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Laura Beckwith

28 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

The state of the art in e... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300
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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The state of the art in end-user software engineering
    2011 353 citations Amy J. Ko, Robin Abraham et al. ACM Computing Surveys profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Laura Beckwith 608 587 333 311 247 29 1.3k
Curtis R. Cook 809 1.3× 523 0.9× 593 1.8× 282 0.9× 110 0.4× 72 1.6k
Raymond R. Panko 635 1.0× 169 0.3× 289 0.9× 149 0.5× 72 0.3× 66 1.4k
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones 225 0.4× 636 1.1× 531 1.6× 185 0.6× 246 1.0× 159 1.5k
Hal Abelson 155 0.3× 535 0.9× 391 1.2× 245 0.8× 71 0.3× 50 1.8k
Irwin Kwan 107 0.2× 490 0.8× 624 1.9× 127 0.4× 169 0.7× 29 1.3k
Renée McCauley 261 0.4× 1.2k 2.0× 643 1.9× 474 1.5× 55 0.2× 93 1.7k
Alan Kay 148 0.2× 276 0.5× 391 1.2× 154 0.5× 259 1.0× 42 1.6k
Carsten Schulte 168 0.3× 975 1.7× 504 1.5× 415 1.3× 140 0.6× 99 1.5k
Franklyn Turbak 86 0.1× 418 0.7× 365 1.1× 166 0.5× 145 0.6× 45 1.1k
Sally Fincher 97 0.2× 845 1.4× 405 1.2× 443 1.4× 161 0.7× 109 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Beckwith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Beckwith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Laura Beckwith. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Laura Beckwith. The network helps show where Laura Beckwith may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Beckwith

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

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