Mary Shaw

14.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
217 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

Mary Shaw is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Mary Shaw has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Information Systems, 102 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 60 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Mary Shaw's work include Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (80 papers), Software Engineering Research (74 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (37 papers). Mary Shaw is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (80 papers), Software Engineering Research (74 papers) and Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (37 papers). Mary Shaw collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Mary Shaw's co-authors include David Garlan, Paul Clements, Brad A. Myers, Chris Scaffidi, Robert DeLine, Ralph L. London, Wm. A. Wulf, David M. Young, W. Wulf and Hausi Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, Communications of the ACM and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

In The Last Decade

Mary Shaw

182 papers receiving 6.1k 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 architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline

1996 1.8k citations Mary Shaw, David Garlan CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
Abstractions for software architecture and tools to support them

1995 524 citations Mary Shaw et al. profile →
The state of the art in end-user software engineering

2011 355 citations Robin Abraham, Margaret Burnett et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Mary Shaw	4.2k	3.9k	2.2k	1.8k	759	217	7.0k
Paul Clements	7.3k 1.7×	6.9k 1.8×	2.8k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	404 0.5×	130	9.7k
Gail E. Kaiser	3.1k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	288 0.4×	279	5.3k
David Lorge Parnas	5.2k 1.2×	4.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.1×	2.7k 1.5×	760 1.0×	186	9.5k
Rick Kazman	6.9k 1.6×	5.2k 1.3×	3.1k 1.4×	1.8k 1.0×	640 0.8×	271	9.4k
Richard N. Taylor	6.4k 1.5×	5.7k 1.5×	5.3k 2.4×	1.7k 0.9×	274 0.4×	150	10.7k
Philippe Kruchten	6.0k 1.4×	3.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	925 1.2×	155	7.8k
Len Bass	5.1k 1.2×	3.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	285 0.4×	142	6.8k
Ivar Jacobson	7.6k 1.8×	6.4k 1.6×	2.4k 1.1×	4.4k 2.5×	500 0.7×	82	13.0k
James Rumbaugh	6.4k 1.5×	6.0k 1.5×	2.8k 1.3×	4.1k 2.3×	427 0.6×	57	12.5k
Matthias Jarke	3.6k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	843 0.5×	382 0.5×	366	7.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mary Shaw

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mary Shaw

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mary Shaw

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mary Shaw. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mary Shaw 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 Mary Shaw. Mary Shaw 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

Lawlor, Debbie A., et al.. (2025). Epidural Analgesia During Labour and Severe Maternal Morbidity: Population-Based Study. Obstetric Anesthesia Digest. 45(1). 3–4. 3 indexed citations

Scaffidi, Christopher, Brad A. Myers, & Mary Shaw. (2018). The Topes Format Editor and Parser. Figshare.

Shaw, Mary. (2016). Progress toward an Engineering Discipline of Software. International Conference on Software Engineering. 3–4. 3 indexed citations

Abraham, Robin, Margaret Burnett, & Mary Shaw. (2008). The fourth workshop on end-user software engineering. 1057–1058. 3 indexed citations

Shaw, Mary, Bruna Galobardes, Debbie A. Lawlor, et al.. (2007). The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position. Policy Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

Shaw, Mary, Bruna Galobardes, Debbie A. Lawlor, et al.. (2007). The handbook of inequality and socioeconomic position. Policy Press eBooks. 6 indexed citations

Poladian, Vahe, João Pedro Sousa, David Garlan, & Mary Shaw. (2004). Dynamic configuration of resource-aware services. International Conference on Software Engineering. 604–613. 82 indexed citations

Shaw, Mary. (2003). Writing good software engineering research papers: minitutorial. International Conference on Software Engineering. 726–736. 90 indexed citations

Bagert, Donald J., Hossein Saiedian, Robert Dupuis, et al.. (2001). Software engineering body of knowledge (SWEBOK) (panel session). International Conference on Software Engineering. 693–696. 2 indexed citations

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Freeman, Peter, Donald J. Bagert, Hossein Saiedian, et al.. (2001). Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK). International Conference on Software Engineering. 693–696. 47 indexed citations

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Raz, Orna & Mary Shaw. (2000). An Approach to Preserving Sufficient Correctness in Open Resource Coalitions. 159–170. 18 indexed citations

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Shaw, Mary, Daniel Dorling, David Gordon, & George Davey Smith. (1999). The Widening Gap. Bristol University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Shaw, Mary. (1996). Truth vs. knowledge: the difference between what a component does and what we know it does. 181–185. 50 indexed citations

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Shaw, Mary & David Garlan. (1996). Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1795 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shaw, Mary. (1996). Some patterns for software architectures. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 255–269. 48 indexed citations

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Shaw, Mary. (1995). Architectural issues in software reuse. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 20(SI). 3–6. 9 indexed citations

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Shaw, Mary, et al.. (1992). Rhétoriques fin de siècle. 1 indexed citations

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Shaw, Mary. (1991). Heterogeneous design idioms for software architecture. 158–165. 31 indexed citations

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Wulf, Wm. A., Ralph L. London, & Mary Shaw. (1976). An introduction to the construction and verification of Alphard programs. International Conference on Software Engineering. 390. 5 indexed citations

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Shaw, Mary, et al.. (1967). Computer analysis of chronological seriation. Rice University's digital scholarship archive (Rice University). 53(3). 43 indexed citations

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