Nathaniel Ayewah

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 779 citations indexed

About

Nathaniel Ayewah is a scholar working on Information Systems, Software and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathaniel Ayewah has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 779 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Information Systems, 7 papers in Software and 3 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Nathaniel Ayewah's work include Software Engineering Research (7 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (7 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (5 papers). Nathaniel Ayewah is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (7 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (7 papers) and Software Reliability and Analysis Research (5 papers). Nathaniel Ayewah collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Nathaniel Ayewah's co-authors include William Pugh, J. David Morgenthaler, John Penix, David Hovemeyer, P.-M. Seidel and Jason Yang and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Software.

In The Last Decade

Nathaniel Ayewah

11 papers receiving 713 citations

Hit Papers

Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs
    2008 344 citations Nathaniel Ayewah, William Pugh et al. IEEE Software profile →

Peers

Nathaniel Ayewah
J. David Morgenthaler United States
Suvda Myagmar United States
Valentin Dallmeier Germany
Edward Aftandilian United States
Magiel Bruntink Netherlands
Coen De Roover Belgium
Rohan Padhye United States
Taweesup Apiwattanapong United States
Caroline Lemieux United States
Kunal Taneja United States
J. David Morgenthaler United States
Nathaniel Ayewah
Citations per year, relative to Nathaniel Ayewah Nathaniel Ayewah (= 1×) peers J. David Morgenthaler

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathaniel Ayewah

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All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Ayewah, Nathaniel, et al.. (2010). Instrumenting Static Analysis Tools on the Desktop. 2(8400). 443–443. 1 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel & William Pugh. (2010). Null dereference analysis in practice. 65–72. 9 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel & William Pugh. (2010). The Google FindBugs fixit. 241–252. 105 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel & William Pugh. (2009). Learning from defect removals. 179–182. 5 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel & William Pugh. (2009). Using checklists to review static analysis warnings. 11–15. 11 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel, William Pugh, David Hovemeyer, J. David Morgenthaler, & John Penix. (2008). Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs. IEEE Software. 25(5). 22–29. 344 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ayewah, Nathaniel & William Pugh. (2008). A report on a survey and study of static analysis users. 1–5. 41 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel, David Hovemeyer, J. David Morgenthaler, John Penix, & William Pugh. (2008). Experiences Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs. 13 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel, et al.. (2007). Using FindBugs on production software. 805–806. 47 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel, et al.. (2007). Evaluating static analysis defect warnings on production software. 1–8. 160 indexed citations
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Pugh, William & Nathaniel Ayewah. (2007). Unit testing concurrent software. 513–516. 38 indexed citations
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Ayewah, Nathaniel, et al.. (2006). Challenges in the formal verification of complete state-of-the-art processors. 603–606. 5 indexed citations

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