Ron Jeffries

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 740 citations indexed

About

Ron Jeffries is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Ron Jeffries has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 740 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Software, 5 papers in Information Systems and 1 paper in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Ron Jeffries's work include Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (5 papers), Software Engineering Research (4 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (4 papers). Ron Jeffries is often cited by papers focused on Software Engineering Techniques and Practices (5 papers), Software Engineering Research (4 papers) and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (4 papers). Ron Jeffries collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Spain. Ron Jeffries's co-authors include Robert R. Kessler, Ward Cunningham, Laurie Williams, Grigori Melnik, Ken S. Rosenthal, Brian Marick, Ralph E. Johnson, Joseph W. Yoder and Linda Rising and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Software and Information Systems Management.

In The Last Decade

Ron Jeffries

7 papers receiving 631 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Strengthening the case for pair programming

2000 523 citations Laurie Williams, Robert R. Kessler et al. IEEE Software profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ron Jeffries United States	4	592	298	129	93	86	7	740
Yael Dubinsky Israel	14	602 1.0×	182 0.6×	116 0.9×	236 2.5×	46 0.5×	69	788
Jussi Kasurinen Finland	15	316 0.5×	235 0.8×	193 1.5×	91 1.0×	217 2.5×	51	731
Ville Heikkilä Finland	12	496 0.8×	131 0.4×	40 0.3×	86 0.9×	42 0.5×	22	586
Jari Vanhanen Finland	15	569 1.0×	162 0.5×	225 1.7×	81 0.9×	21 0.2×	26	647
Sheila Reinehr Brazil	11	333 0.6×	95 0.3×	40 0.3×	104 1.1×	40 0.5×	72	510
Iván García Mexico	13	323 0.5×	112 0.4×	37 0.3×	97 1.0×	110 1.3×	49	597
Linda Rising United States	9	446 0.8×	92 0.3×	124 1.0×	161 1.7×	17 0.2×	44	640
A. César C. França Brazil	15	540 0.9×	162 0.5×	62 0.5×	90 1.0×	17 0.2×	20	652
Fabio Calefato Italy	17	570 1.0×	221 0.7×	61 0.5×	263 2.8×	21 0.2×	68	844
Fernando Figueira Filho Brazil	11	515 0.9×	405 1.4×	42 0.3×	84 0.9×	39 0.5×	25	687

Countries citing papers authored by Ron Jeffries

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ron Jeffries

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ron Jeffries

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Jeffries, Ron & Grigori Melnik. (2007). Guest Editors' Introduction: TDD--The Art of Fearless Programming. IEEE Software. 24(3). 24–30. 46 indexed citations

2.

Jeffries, Ron, et al.. (2004). Extreme Programming and Agile Software Development Methodologies. Information Systems Management. 21(3). 41–52. 127 indexed citations

3.

Jeffries, Ron. (2004). Extreme Programming Adventures in C. 2 indexed citations

4.

Yoder, Joseph W., et al.. (2003). Object-oriented success stories. 278–279. 1 indexed citations

5.

Jeffries, Ron. (2002). Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for eXtreme Programming and the Unified Process. 1 indexed citations

6.

Jeffries, Ron, et al.. (2002). Testing Extreme Programming. 40 indexed citations

7.

Williams, Laurie, Robert R. Kessler, Ward Cunningham, & Ron Jeffries. (2000). Strengthening the case for pair programming. IEEE Software. 17(4). 19–25. 523 indexed citations breakdown →

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