Patrick Francis

720 total citations
18 papers, 520 citations indexed

About

Patrick Francis is a scholar working on Computer Science Applications, Information Systems and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Francis has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 520 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Computer Science Applications, 7 papers in Information Systems and 6 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Patrick Francis's work include Software Engineering Research (7 papers), Teaching and Learning Programming (6 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (4 papers). Patrick Francis is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Research (7 papers), Teaching and Learning Programming (6 papers) and Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (4 papers). Patrick Francis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Tanzania. Patrick Francis's co-authors include Andy Podgurski, L De, David Shepherd, Wes Masri, Bin Wang, Diana Franklin, Jiayang Sun, David Weintrop, Boyang Li and B. L. Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Medical Teacher, Software Practice and Experience and Tanzania journal of health research.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Francis

18 papers receiving 502 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patrick Francis United States 11 259 255 103 95 63 18 520
Tsung‐Hsiang Chang United States 8 166 0.6× 207 0.8× 95 0.9× 76 0.8× 75 1.2× 10 550
Vytautas Štuikys Lithuania 13 95 0.4× 156 0.6× 134 1.3× 152 1.6× 176 2.8× 69 513
Simone Romano Italy 13 236 0.9× 359 1.4× 88 0.9× 49 0.5× 65 1.0× 67 480
Peli de Halleux United States 13 192 0.7× 181 0.7× 70 0.7× 145 1.5× 99 1.6× 31 478
Shinsuke Matsumoto Japan 10 334 1.3× 463 1.8× 244 2.4× 68 0.7× 134 2.1× 83 672
Simone Scalabrino Italy 17 412 1.6× 677 2.7× 137 1.3× 107 1.1× 198 3.1× 55 915
Kirsten Whitley United States 8 66 0.3× 131 0.5× 55 0.5× 64 0.7× 59 0.9× 21 345
José Creissac Campos Portugal 15 200 0.8× 145 0.6× 46 0.4× 27 0.3× 185 2.9× 93 638
Fabiano Cutigi Ferrari Brazil 17 479 1.8× 686 2.7× 205 2.0× 88 0.9× 438 7.0× 67 1.0k
Jácome Cunha Portugal 16 307 1.2× 218 0.9× 300 2.9× 58 0.6× 89 1.4× 61 753

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Francis

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Francis

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Francis

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Sawant, Anand Ashok, David Weintrop, Reid Holmes, et al.. (2022). Training industrial end‐user programmers with interactive tutorials. Software Practice and Experience. 53(3). 729–747. 3 indexed citations
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Shepherd, David, Nicholas A. Kraft, & Patrick Francis. (2019). Visualizing the "Hidden" Variables in Robot Programs. 13–16. 3 indexed citations
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Weintrop, David, Afsoon Afzal, Patrick Francis, et al.. (2018). Evaluating CoBlox. 1–12. 38 indexed citations
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Shepherd, David, Patrick Francis, David Weintrop, et al.. (2018). [Engineering Paper] An IDE for Easy Programming of Simple Robotics Tasks. 209–214. 4 indexed citations
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Weintrop, David, Afsoon Afzal, Patrick Francis, et al.. (2018). Evaluating CoBlox. 1–1. 43 indexed citations
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Francis, Patrick, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of the wound healing activity of formulated ointments and water preparation from Sida rhombifolia leaf extract. Tanzania journal of health research. 20(4). 11 indexed citations
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Züger, Manuela, André N. Meyer, Boyang Li, et al.. (2017). Reducing Interruptions at Work. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 61–72. 52 indexed citations
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Weintrop, David, David Shepherd, Patrick Francis, & Diana Franklin. (2017). Blockly goes to work: Block-based programming for industrial robots. 29–36. 50 indexed citations
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Francis, Patrick, et al.. (2015). A Field Study on Fostering Structural Navigation with Prodet. 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. 229–238. 7 indexed citations
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Nyindo, Mramba, et al.. (2014). Introduction of team-based learning (TBL) at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College: Experience with the ectoparasites module. Medical Teacher. 36(4). 308–313. 16 indexed citations
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Francis, Patrick & Laurie Williams. (2013). Determining "Grim Reaper" Policies to Prevent Languishing Bugs. 436–439. 4 indexed citations
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Robinson, B. L. & Patrick Francis. (2010). Improving industrial adoption of software engineering research. 1–10. 17 indexed citations
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Robinson, B. L., et al.. (2008). A defect-driven process for software quality improvement. 333–335. 13 indexed citations
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Li, Nuo, Patrick Francis, & B. L. Robinson. (2008). Static Detection of Redundant Test Cases: An Initial Study. 303–304. 3 indexed citations
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Francis, Patrick. (2005). ADVANCED TECHNIQUES FOR SOFTWARE FAILURE CLASSIFICATION AND OBSERVATION-BASED TESTING. 2 indexed citations
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Francis, Patrick, et al.. (2005). Tree-Based Methods for Classifying Software Failures. 451–462. 65 indexed citations
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Podgurski, Andy, L De, Patrick Francis, et al.. (2003). Automated support for classifying software failure reports. 465–475. 173 indexed citations

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