Thomas Ball

13.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
122 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Thomas Ball is a scholar working on Software, Information Systems and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Ball has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Software, 42 papers in Information Systems and 34 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Thomas Ball's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (47 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (33 papers) and Software Engineering Research (32 papers). Thomas Ball is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (47 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (33 papers) and Software Engineering Research (32 papers). Thomas Ball collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Thomas Ball's co-authors include Nachiappan Nagappan, Sriram K. Rajamani, James R. Larus, Andreas Zeller, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Carlos Pacheco, Michael D. Ernst, Glenn Ammons, Philip A. Fisher and Todd Millstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Ball

118 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Thomas Ball
Comparison fields: 5 of 127
  • Software 4.2k
  • Information Systems 3.8k
  • Computer Networks and Communications 2.3k
  • Artificial Intelligence 2.0k
  • Hardware and Architecture 1.4k
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Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Ball

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Ball

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Ball

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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MakeCode and CODAL: intuitive and efficient embedded systems programming for education (LCTES version)
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Efficient tracing of cold code via bias-free sampling
10
3 1
4
Proceedings of the 38th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
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5 43
6 65
7
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8 56
9 9
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Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
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11 19
12 2
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The S LAM project breakdown →
534
14 61
15 5
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Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
0
17
Experience with a domain specific language for form-based services
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18
Tracking and viewing changes on the web
29
19 24
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The use of control-flow and control dependence in software tools
9

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