Laura Beckwith

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
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, Alan F. Blackwell, Joseph Lawrance, Gregg Rothermel, Valentina Grigoreanu, Mary Beth Rosson, Henry Lieberman and Brad A. Myers and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, Computer and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Laura Beckwith

28 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

The state of the art in end-user software engineering 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 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. The state of the art in end-user software engineering
    2011 355 citations Amy J. Ko, Robin Abraham et al. ACM Computing Surveys profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laura Beckwith United States 15 606 591 330 312 247 29 1.3k
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones United States 19 225 0.4× 636 1.1× 532 1.6× 185 0.6× 246 1.0× 159 1.5k
Alexander Repenning United States 27 379 0.6× 1.7k 2.9× 488 1.5× 1.1k 3.5× 164 0.7× 125 2.5k
Wanda Dann United States 21 382 0.6× 2.0k 3.3× 547 1.7× 985 3.2× 85 0.3× 49 2.4k
David Weintrop United States 26 278 0.5× 2.4k 4.1× 516 1.6× 1.2k 3.8× 126 0.5× 108 2.9k
Renée McCauley United States 21 261 0.4× 1.2k 2.0× 643 1.9× 475 1.5× 55 0.2× 93 1.7k
Michael Kölling United Kingdom 26 721 1.2× 2.2k 3.8× 915 2.8× 866 2.8× 64 0.3× 113 2.7k
Irwin Kwan United States 15 106 0.2× 489 0.8× 623 1.9× 127 0.4× 170 0.7× 29 1.3k
J. Ángel Velázquez‐Iturbide Spain 20 272 0.4× 1.3k 2.3× 399 1.2× 709 2.3× 113 0.5× 175 1.9k
Sally Fincher United Kingdom 23 98 0.2× 845 1.4× 406 1.2× 442 1.4× 161 0.7× 109 1.5k
Tony Clear New Zealand 23 154 0.3× 1.1k 1.9× 766 2.3× 489 1.6× 49 0.2× 161 1.8k

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

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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.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Beckwith, Laura, et al.. (2023). Young Palestinians’ struggles for accountability and participation: beyond formal systems and public resistance. Journal of the British Academy. 11. 201–224.
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Beckwith, Laura, et al.. (2023). Listening to Experiences of Environmental Change in Rural Vietnam: An Intergenerational Approach. Progress in Development Studies. 23(4). 461–480. 2 indexed citations
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Burnett, Margaret, Simone Stumpf, Jamie Macbeth, et al.. (2016). GenderMag: A Method for Evaluating Software's Gender Inclusiveness. Interacting with Computers. 28(6). 760–787. 163 indexed citations
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Burnett, Margaret, Laura Beckwith, Susan Wiedenbeck, et al.. (2011). Gender pluralism in problem-solving software. Interacting with Computers. 23(5). 450–460. 69 indexed citations
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Ko, Amy J., Robin Abraham, Laura Beckwith, et al.. (2011). The state of the art in end-user software engineering. ACM Computing Surveys. 43(3). 1–44. 355 indexed citations breakdown →
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Burnett, Margaret, et al.. (2008). Gender in end-user software engineering. 21–24. 14 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura, et al.. (2007). Gender Differences in End-User Debugging Strategies. 1 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura, Margaret Burnett, & Susan Wiedenbeck. (2007). Gender HCI Issues in End-User Software Engineering Environments. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 0. 3 indexed citations
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Burnett, Margaret, et al.. (2006). Supporting End-User Debugging: What Do Users Want to Know?. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 27 indexed citations
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Grigoreanu, Valentina, et al.. (2006). Gender Differences in End-User Debugging, Revisited: What the Miners Found. 19–26. 13 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura, Margaret Burnett, Susan Wiedenbeck, et al.. (2006). Tinkering and gender in end-user programmers' debugging. 231–240. 145 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura, et al.. (2005). Mining Qualitative Behavioral Data from Quantitative Data: A Case Study from the Gender HCI Project.. PPIG. 20. 1 indexed citations
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Ruthruff, Joseph R., et al.. (2005). Rewarding "Good" Behavior: End-User Debugging and Rewards. 115–122. 18 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura, et al.. (2005). Effectiveness of end-user debugging software features. 869–878. 87 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura, et al.. (2005). Designing Features for Both Genders in End-User Programming Environments. 153–160. 19 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura & Margaret Burnett. (2005). Gender: An Important Factor in End-User Programming Environments?. 107–114. 68 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura. (2005). Gender HCI issues in problem-solving software. 1104–1105. 2 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura. (2004). Gender HCI issues in end-user software engineering. 273–274. 4 indexed citations
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Wilson, Aaron, et al.. (2003). Harnessing curiosity to increase correctness in end-user programming. 27 indexed citations
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Beckwith, Laura, Margaret Burnett, & C. Cook. (2003). Reasoning about many-to-many requirement relationships in spreadsheets. 149–157. 12 indexed citations

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