Scholarly use of social media and altmetrics: A review of the literature

CR Sugimoto, S Work, V Larivière… - Journal of the …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review

JP Tennant, JM Dugan, D Graziotin, DC Jacques… - …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Peer review of research articles is a core part of our scholarly communication system. In
spite of its importance, the status and purpose of peer review is often contested. What is its …

What's in a github star? understanding repository starring practices in a social coding platform

H Borges, MT Valente - Journal of Systems and Software, 2018 - Elsevier
Besides a git-based version control system, GitHub integrates several social coding
features. Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or …

The promises and perils of mining github

E Kalliamvakou, G Gousios, K Blincoe… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
With over 10 million git repositories, GitHub is becoming one of the most important source of
software artifacts on the Internet. Researchers are starting to mine the information stored in …

Quality and productivity outcomes relating to continuous integration in GitHub

B Vasilescu, Y Yu, H Wang, P Devanbu… - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Software processes comprise many steps; coding is followed by building, integration testing,
system testing, deployment, operations, among others. Software process integration and …

A survey of the use of crowdsourcing in software engineering

K Mao, L Capra, M Harman, Y Jia - Journal of Systems and Software, 2017 - Elsevier
The term 'crowdsourcing'was initially introduced in 2006 to describe an emerging distributed
problem-solving model by online workers. Since then it has been widely studied and …

An in-depth study of the promises and perils of mining GitHub

E Kalliamvakou, G Gousios, K Blincoe, L Singer… - Empirical Software …, 2016 - Springer
With over 10 million git repositories, GitHub is becoming one of the most important sources
of software artifacts on the Internet. Researchers mine the information stored in GitHub's …

Reviewer recommendation for pull-requests in GitHub: What can we learn from code review and bug assignment?

Y Yu, H Wang, G Yin, T Wang - Information and software technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Context: The pull-based model, widely used in distributed software development, offers an
extremely low barrier to entry for potential contributors (anyone can submit of contributions to …

Crowdsourcing in software engineering: Models, motivations, and challenges

TD LaToza, A Van Der Hoek - IEEE software, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Almost surreptitiously, crowdsourcing has entered software engineering practice. In-house
development, contracting, and outsourcing still dominate, but many development projects …

A systematic mapping study of software development with GitHub

V Cosentino, JLC Izquierdo, J Cabot - Ieee access, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Context: GitHub, nowadays the most popular social coding platform, has become the
reference for mining Open Source repositories, a growing research trend aiming at learning …