Paul Ralph

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
77 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Paul Ralph is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Science Applications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Ralph has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Information Systems, 20 papers in Computer Science Applications and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Paul Ralph's work include Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (52 papers), Software Engineering Research (38 papers) and Open Source Software Innovations (19 papers). Paul Ralph is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (52 papers), Software Engineering Research (38 papers) and Open Source Software Innovations (19 papers). Paul Ralph collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Canada and United Kingdom. Paul Ralph's co-authors include Sebastian Baltes, Klaas-Jan Stol, Brian Fitzgerald, Todd Sedano, Cécile Péraire, Ewan Tempero, Burak Turhan, Jeffrey Parsons, Pontus Johnson and Iflaah Salman and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and Experimental Biology and Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Paul Ralph

72 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Grounded theory in software engineering research

2016 285 citations Klaas-Jan Stol, Paul Ralph et al. University of Limerick Institutional Repository (University of Limerick) profile →
Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines

2022 169 citations Sebastian Baltes, Paul Ralph Empirical Software Engineering profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul Ralph New Zealand	22	1.2k	400	273	191	180	77	1.7k
Kurt Schneider Germany	24	1.4k 1.2×	483 1.2×	497 1.8×	283 1.5×	237 1.3×	198	2.2k
Rory V. O’Connor Ireland	25	1.3k 1.1×	367 0.9×	225 0.8×	128 0.7×	194 1.1×	138	2.0k
Letizia Jaccheri Norway	24	869 0.7×	776 1.9×	259 0.9×	154 0.8×	115 0.6×	139	2.3k
Norsaremah Salleh Malaysia	16	869 0.7×	318 0.8×	199 0.7×	143 0.7×	197 1.1×	62	1.4k
Tayana Conte Brazil	21	1.3k 1.1×	677 1.7×	304 1.1×	141 0.7×	135 0.8×	274	2.2k
Sabrina Marczak Brazil	17	931 0.8×	319 0.8×	216 0.8×	84 0.4×	175 1.0×	119	1.3k
Ana M. Moreno Spain	20	1.4k 1.2×	296 0.7×	507 1.9×	498 2.6×	200 1.1×	69	2.2k
Klaas-Jan Stol Ireland	24	1.6k 1.4×	759 1.9×	372 1.4×	244 1.3×	394 2.2×	74	2.4k
T. Dyba Norway	10	1.4k 1.2×	343 0.9×	321 1.2×	313 1.6×	335 1.9×	10	1.8k
Lan Cao United States	19	1.1k 1.0×	236 0.6×	253 0.9×	120 0.6×	216 1.2×	51	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Ralph

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Ralph

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Ralph

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Ralph. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Ralph 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 Paul Ralph. Paul Ralph 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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Vasilescu, Bogdan, Daniel Russo, Paul Ralph, et al.. (2024). The Impact of Generative AI on Creativity in Software Development: A Research Agenda. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34(5). 1–28. 5 indexed citations

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Kuutila, Miikka, et al.. (2024). The Promise and Challenges of Using LLMs to Accelerate the Screening Process of Systematic Reviews. 262–271. 8 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul, et al.. (2023). Distributed Scrum: A Case Meta-analysis. ACM Computing Surveys. 56(4). 1–37. 3 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul, Sebastian Baltes, Richard Torkar, et al.. (2020). Pandemic programming. Empirical Software Engineering. 25(6). 4927–4961. 142 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul, et al.. (2018). Poster: There is no Random Sampling in Software Engineering Research. International Conference on Software Engineering. 344–345. 1 indexed citations

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Tempero, Ewan & Paul Ralph. (2018). A framework for defining coupling metrics. Science of Computer Programming. 166. 214–230. 6 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul. (2018). The two paradigms of software development research. Science of Computer Programming. 156. 68–89. 23 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul. (2016). Practical Suggestions for Improving Scholarly Peer Review Quality and Reducing Cycle Times. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 38. 274–283. 16 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul, Mike Chiasson, & Helen Kelley. (2016). Social theory for software engineering research. 1–11. 18 indexed citations

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Stol, Klaas-Jan, Paul Ralph, & Brian Fitzgerald. (2016). Grounded theory in software engineering research. University of Limerick Institutional Repository (University of Limerick). 120–131. 285 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ralph, Paul. (2015). Developing and evaluating software engineering process theories. International Conference on Software Engineering. 1. 20–31. 10 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul, Gregor Engels, Ivar Jacobson, & Michael Goedicke. (2015). 4th SEMAT Workshop on General Theory of Software Engineering (GTSE 2015). 2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering. 983–984. 2 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul. (2014). The Sensemaking-Coevolution-Implementation Theory of software design. Science of Computer Programming. 101. 21–41. 37 indexed citations

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Parsons, Jeffrey & Paul Ralph. (2014). Generating Effective Recommendations Using Viewing-Time Weighted Preferences for Attributes. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 15(8). 484–513. 7 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul, et al.. (2014). How to Develop a General Theory of Software Engineering. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 39(6). 23–25. 9 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul, et al.. (2013). Complexity, Process and Agility in Small Development Teams: An Exploratory Case Study. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. 154. 1 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul, et al.. (2013). Scrum Abandonment in Distributed Teams: A Revelatory Case. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. 42. 7 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul. (2013). The Two Paradigms of Software Design. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul. (2012). IMPROVING COVERAGE OF DESIGN IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS EDUCATION. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 14 indexed citations

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Ralph, Paul & Yair Wand. (2008). A teleological process theory of software development. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 8(23). e1069–e1076. 4 indexed citations

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