Leif Singer

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Leif Singer is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Science Applications and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Leif Singer has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Information Systems, 23 papers in Computer Science Applications and 8 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Leif Singer's work include Open Source Software Innovations (23 papers), Software Engineering Research (16 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (10 papers). Leif Singer is often cited by papers focused on Open Source Software Innovations (23 papers), Software Engineering Research (16 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (10 papers). Leif Singer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and Brazil. Leif Singer's co-authors include Daniel M. Germán, Fernando Figueira Filho, Kelly Blincoe, Daniela Damian, Eirini Kalliamvakou, Kurt Schneider, Georgios Gousios, Margaret‐Anne Storey, Alexey Zagalsky and Brendan Cleary and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Software and IEEE Internet Computing.

In The Last Decade

Leif Singer

33 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

The promises and perils of mining GitHub

2014 449 citations Eirini Kalliamvakou, Georgios Gousios et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leif Singer Germany	17	1.3k	765	265	262	245	34	1.6k
Anita Sarma United States	27	1.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	527 2.0×	225 0.9×	261 1.1×	130	2.4k
Kelly Blincoe New Zealand	18	1.2k 1.0×	596 0.8×	254 1.0×	307 1.2×	275 1.1×	81	1.5k
Jason Tsay United States	10	937 0.7×	744 1.0×	189 0.7×	160 0.6×	86 0.4×	15	1.4k
Christoph Treude Australia	27	2.3k 1.9×	1.1k 1.4×	807 3.0×	473 1.8×	532 2.2×	157	2.9k
Jesús M. González-Barahona Spain	28	1.5k 1.2×	995 1.3×	348 1.3×	343 1.3×	378 1.5×	120	2.0k
Igor Wiese Brazil	18	787 0.6×	644 0.8×	162 0.6×	147 0.6×	90 0.4×	86	1.1k
Andrea Capiluppi United Kingdom	18	826 0.7×	566 0.7×	262 1.0×	124 0.5×	158 0.6×	86	1.0k
T. Dyba Norway	10	1.4k 1.1×	343 0.4×	321 1.2×	335 1.3×	313 1.3×	10	1.8k
Marcelo Cataldo United States	23	1.4k 1.1×	827 1.1×	274 1.0×	218 0.8×	184 0.8×	42	1.7k
Nathan Baddoo United Kingdom	17	1.1k 0.8×	299 0.4×	141 0.5×	132 0.5×	287 1.2×	36	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Leif Singer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leif Singer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leif Singer

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Singer, Leif, et al.. (2016). Onboarding inexperienced developers: struggles and perceptions regarding automated testing. Software Quality Journal. 25(4). 1239–1268. 16 indexed citations

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Souza, Cleidson R. B. de, et al.. (2016). The Social Side of Software Platform Ecosystems. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 3204–3214. 25 indexed citations

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Kalliamvakou, Eirini, Georgios Gousios, Kelly Blincoe, et al.. (2015). An in-depth study of the promises and perils of mining GitHub. Empirical Software Engineering. 21(5). 2035–2071. 162 indexed citations

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Treude, Christoph, Ban Al-Ani, David Redmiles, et al.. (2015). Using Gamification as a Collaboration Motivator for Software Development Teams: A Preliminary Framework. 10 indexed citations

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Kalliamvakou, Eirini, Georgios Gousios, Kelly Blincoe, et al.. (2014). The promises and perils of mining GitHub. 92–101. 449 indexed citations breakdown →

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Souza, Cleidson R. B. de, et al.. (2014). An exploratory study of the adoption of mobile development platforms by software engineers. 50–53. 10 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif, et al.. (2014). Enablers, inhibitors, and perceptions of testing in novice software teams. 30–40. 24 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif, et al.. (2013). Building test suites in social coding sites by leveraging drive-by commits. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1209–1212. 19 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif, et al.. (2013). Building test suites in social coding sites by leveraging drive-by commits. 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 1209–1212. 14 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif, Fernando Figueira Filho, Brendan Cleary, et al.. (2013). Mutual assessment in the social programmer ecosystem. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 103–116. 77 indexed citations

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Hervás-Gómez, Carlos, Brendan Cleary, & Leif Singer. (2013). A study of innovation diffusion through link sharing on stack overflow. 37 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif, et al.. (2013). Creating a shared understanding of testing culture on a social coding site. 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE). 112–121. 62 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif & Kurt Schneider. (2012). Influencing the adoption of software engineering methods using social software. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1325–1328. 11 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif & Kurt Schneider. (2012). It was a bit of a race: gamification of version control. 5–8. 49 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif, et al.. (2012). Welcome to the Real World: A Notation for Modeling REST Services. IEEE Internet Computing. 16(4). 36–44. 6 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif, et al.. (2011). Teaching old services new tricks. 3–10. 9 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif & Kurt Schneider. (2011). Supporting the cooperation of end-user programmers through social development environments. 13–18. 5 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif. (2010). Towards communities of practice for mashups. 65. 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Weidlich, Matthias, et al.. (2009). Verzahnung von Requirements Engineering und Geschäftsprozessdesign.. 229–236. 2 indexed citations

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Singer, Leif, Eric Knauss, & Kurt Schneider. (2009). Requirements Engineering in IT-Ökosystemen mit Hilfe von Archetypen.. 3865–3874.

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