Viraj Kumar

764 total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 397 citations indexed

About

Viraj Kumar is a scholar working on Computer Science Applications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Viraj Kumar has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 397 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Computer Science Applications, 15 papers in Information Systems and 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Viraj Kumar's work include Teaching and Learning Programming (17 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (13 papers) and Software Engineering Research (11 papers). Viraj Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Teaching and Learning Programming (17 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (13 papers) and Software Engineering Research (11 papers). Viraj Kumar collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and New Zealand. Viraj Kumar's co-authors include Paul Denny, Nasser Giacaman, P. Madhusudan, Mahesh Viswanathan, Arun Raman, Andrew Cross, Edward Cutrell, William Thies, Jacki O’Neill and Brett A. Becker and has published in prestigious journals such as Current Science, IEEE Sensors Letters and Resonance.

In The Last Decade

Viraj Kumar

40 papers receiving 387 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.

  1. Conversing with Copilot: Exploring Prompt Engineering for Solving CS1 Problems Using Natural Language
    2023 165 citations Paul Denny, Viraj Kumar et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Viraj Kumar India 8 201 141 116 60 43 45 397
Sami Sarsa Finland 11 407 2.0× 246 1.7× 185 1.6× 82 1.4× 29 0.7× 22 618
Tobias Kohn United States 7 212 1.1× 102 0.7× 73 0.6× 38 0.6× 23 0.5× 21 317
Oscar Karnalim Indonesia 14 201 1.0× 158 1.1× 339 2.9× 115 1.9× 45 1.0× 94 620
Diana Cukierman Canada 8 265 1.3× 82 0.6× 85 0.7× 25 0.4× 86 2.0× 31 401
Austin Z. Henley United States 10 139 0.7× 129 0.9× 178 1.5× 52 0.9× 9 0.2× 28 392
Aidan Mooney Ireland 11 246 1.2× 54 0.4× 53 0.5× 30 0.5× 51 1.2× 40 388
Hieke Keuning Netherlands 14 627 3.1× 212 1.5× 349 3.0× 275 4.6× 59 1.4× 32 841
Mike Brayshaw United Kingdom 11 91 0.5× 145 1.0× 104 0.9× 47 0.8× 31 0.7× 26 338
Samiha Marwan United States 11 280 1.4× 128 0.9× 84 0.7× 30 0.5× 29 0.7× 26 370
Bastiaan Heeren Netherlands 14 473 2.4× 309 2.2× 339 2.9× 298 5.0× 56 1.3× 42 777

Countries citing papers authored by Viraj Kumar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Viraj Kumar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Viraj Kumar. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Viraj Kumar. The network helps show where Viraj Kumar may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Viraj Kumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Viraj Kumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Viraj Kumar 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 Viraj Kumar. Viraj Kumar 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
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2024). Probeable Problems for Beginner-level Programming-with-AI Contests. 166–176. 2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2023). A Bug's New Life: Creating Refute Questions from Filtered CS1 Student Code Snapshots. 7–14. 5 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2023). Creating Thorough Tests for AI-Generated Code is Hard. 108–111. 1 indexed citations
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Denny, Paul, Viraj Kumar, & Nasser Giacaman. (2023). Conversing with Copilot: Exploring Prompt Engineering for Solving CS1 Problems Using Natural Language. 1136–1142. 165 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2022). Bug-eecha. 1258–1258. 1 indexed citations
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MacNeil, Stephen, Joanne Kim, Juho Leinonen, et al.. (2022). The Implications of Large Language Models for CS Teachers and Students. Open Research Online (The Open University). 1255–1255. 26 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj. (2022). Privately Executable Examples. 283–289. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2021). DiGen: Distractor Generator for Multiple Choice Questions in Code Comprehension. 48. 1073–1078. 3 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2021). Where Was Odantapuri Located?. Resonance. 26(9). 1287–1304.
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Settle, Amber, Brett A. Becker, Rodrigo Duran, Viraj Kumar, & Andrew Luxton-Reilly. (2020). Improving Global Participation in the SIGCSE Technical Symposium. Aaltodoc (Aalto University). 483–484. 5 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2019). Nalanda. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 78(4). 392–408. 2 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2018). Plagiarism in Low-Stakes Unproctored Internet Testing for Programming Aptitude. 134–137. 1 indexed citations
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Khanna, Saurabh, et al.. (2016). Designing a Game-Based Learning Environment to Foster Geometric Thinking. 72–79. 2 indexed citations
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Shenoy, Varun, et al.. (2016). Generating DFA Construction Problems Automatically. 32–37. 3 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2015). Enabling Micro-Notes in Moodle for Educational Videos. 43–44. 1 indexed citations
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Kumar, Viraj, et al.. (2015). Mathematics Tutoring Apps for Low-Cost Devices. 729–733. 2 indexed citations
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Cross, Andrew, Edward Cutrell, Rahul Kumar, et al.. (2014). Online learning versus blended learning. 179–180. 5 indexed citations

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