James Howison's academic publications

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See also my Google Scholar Profile. I take the metrics there (and those quoted below) with a grain of salt (I think the Leiden Manifesto on Academic metrics is spot-on).

Key publications

  1. Howison, J., and Crowston, K. (2014). Collaboration through open superposition: A theory of the open source way. MIS Quarterly, 38(1), 29–50. Nominated as UT Austin Research Paper of the Year for 2014 (Hamilton Book Awards). http://misq.org/collaboration-through-open-superposition.html IF: 8.5 PDF Earlier versions
  2. Winter, S., Berente, N., Howison, J., & Butler, B. S. (2014). Beyond The Organizational ‘Container’: Conceptualizing 21st Century Socio-technical Work. Information and Organization. 24(4): 250-269. doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2014.10.003 2014 Best Paper in I&O Journal and 2014 “Best Publication in Information Systems” from the AIS. IF: 2.0 PDF
  3. Howison, J., & Bullard, J. (2015). Software in the scientific literature: Problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the biology literature. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), Article first published online: 13 May 2015 (19 pages). doi:10.1002/asi.23538 No. 1 ranked Info. Science journal (per Google Scholar) PDF
  4. Howison, J., Deelman, E., McLennan, M. J., da Silva, R. F., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2015). Understanding the scientific software ecosystem and its impact: Current and future measures. Research Evaluation, 24(4): 454-470. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvv014 IF: 1.3 PDF
  5. Howison, J., and Herbsleb, J. D. (2013). Incentives and integration in scientific software production. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 459–470). San Antonio, TX. doi:10.1145/2441776.2441828 (acceptance rate ~23%, PDF]
  6. Howison, J., and Herbsleb, J. D. (2011). Scientific software production: incentives and collaboration. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 513–522). Hangzhou, China: ACM. doi:10.1145/1958824.1958904 (acceptance rate ~23%. PDF]
  7. Howison, J, Wiggins, A and Crowston, K (2011) Validity issues in the use of social network analysis for the study of online communities. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 12(12): 767-797 http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol12/iss12/2 IF: 2.7 PDF
  8. Crowston, K., Wei, K, Howison, J., and Wiggins, A. (2012). Free/libre open source software development: what we know and what we do not know. ACM Computing Surveys. 44(2): Article 7 (35 pages), doi:10.1145/2089125.2089127 IF: 5.9 PDF

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  1. Bolici, F., Howison, J., & Crowston, K. (2016). Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms. Cognitive Systems Research, 38: 14–22. doi:10.1016/j.cogsys.2015.12.003 5-year IF: 1.3 PDF
  2. Katz, D. S., Choi, S.-C. T., Wilkins-Diehr, N., Hong, N. C., Venters, C. C., Howison, J., … Littauer, R. (2016). Report on the Second Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2). Journal of Open Research Software, 4(1):e7 (23 pages) doi:10.5334/jors.85 Not in JCR. PDF
  3. Howison, J., Deelman, E., McLennan, M. J., da Silva, R. F., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2015). Understanding the scientific software ecosystem and its impact: Current and future measures. Research Evaluation, 24(4): 454-470. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvv014 IF: 1.3 PDF
  4. Howison, J., & Bullard, J. (2015). Software in the scientific literature: Problems with seeing, finding, and using software mentioned in the biology literature. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Article first published online: 13 May 2015 (19 pages). doi:10.1002/asi.23538 No. 1 ranked Info. Science journal (per Google Scholar) PDF
  5. Bullard, J., & Howison, J. (2015). Learning from Elitist Jerks: Creating high-quality knowledge resources from ongoing conversations. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 66(11): 2267–2276. doi:10.1002/asi.23327 No. 1 ranked Info. Science journal (per Google Scholar) PDF
  6. Winter, S., Berente, N., Howison, J., & Butler, B. S. (2014). Beyond The Organizational ‘Container’: Conceptualizing 21st Century Socio-technical Work. Information and Organization. 24(4): 250-269. doi:10.1016/j.infoandorg.2014.10.003 2014 Best Paper in I&O Journal and 2014 “Best Publication in Information Systems” from the AIS. IF: 2.0 PDF
  7. Howison, J., and Crowston, K. (2014). Collaboration through open superposition: A theory of the open source way. MIS Quarterly, 38(1), 29–50. Nominated as UT Austin Research Paper of the Year for 2014 (Hamilton Book Awards). http://misq.org/collaboration-through-open-superposition.html IF: 8.5 PDF Earlier versions
  8. Katz, D. S., Choi, S.-C. T., Lapp, H., Maheshwari, K., Löffler, F., Turk, M., … Howison, J, ..., Venters, C. (2014). Summary of the First Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE1). Journal of Open Research Software, 2(1):e6 (21 pages). doi:10.5334/jors.an Not in JCR.
  9. Crowston, K., Wei, K, Howison, J., and Wiggins, A. (2012). Free/libre open source software development: what we know and what we do not know. ACM Computing Surveys. 44(2): Article 7 (35 pages), doi:10.1145/2089125.2089127 IF: 5.9 PDF
  10. Howison, J, Wiggins, A and Crowston, K (2011) Validity issues in the use of social network analysis for the study of online communities. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 12(12): 767-797 http://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol12/iss12/2 IF: 2.7 PDF
  11. Crowston, K., Howison, J., Masango, C., and Eseryel, U. Y. (2007). The role of face-to-face meetings in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications, 50(3): 185-203. doi:10.1109/TPC.2007.902654 IF: 0.8 PDF
  12. Crowston, K., Li, Q., Wei, K., Eseryel, U. Y., and Howison, J. (2007). Self-organization of teams for free/libre open source software development. Information and Software Technology, 49(6): 564-575. doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2007.02.004 IF:1.6 PDF
  13. Howison, J., Conklin, M., and Crowston, K. (2006). FLOSSmole: A collaborative repository for FLOSS research data and analysis. International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering. 1(3): 17-26. doi:10.4018/jitwe.2006070102 Not in JCR PDF
  14. Crowston, K., Howison, J., and Annabi, H. (2006). Information systems success in free and open source software development: Theory and measures. Software Process: Improvement and Practice, (11)2: 123-148. doi:10.1002/spip.259 IF: 0.6 PDF
  15. Crowston, K. and Howison, J. (2006). Assessing the health of open source communities. IEEE Computer, 39(5): 89–91. doi:10.1109/MC.2006.152 IF: 2.1 PDF
  16. Crowston, K. and Howison, J. (2006). Hierarchy and centralization in free and open source software team communications. Knowledge, Technology and Policy, 18(4): 65-85. doi:10.1007%2Fs12130-006-1004-8 Not in JCR (now called Philosophy and Technology). PDF
  17. Crowston, K. and Howison, J. (2005). The social structure of open source software development teams. First Monday, 10(26): (16 pages) doi:10.5210%2Ffm.v10i2.1207 Not in JCR. PDF
  18. McKnight, L. W., Howison, J., and Bradner, S. (2004) Wireless grids: Distributed resource sharing by mobile, nomadic and fixed devices. IEEE Internet Computing, 8(4): 24–31. doi:10.1109/MIC.2004.14 IF: 2.5 PDF
  19. Burns, M. and Howison, J. (2001) Napster fabbing: Internet delivery of physical products. Rapid Prototyping Journal, 7(4): 194–196. doi:10.1108/EUM0000000005754 IF: 1.9 PDF

Peer-reviewed Conference Proceedings

  1. Gregory, T., Berente, N., & Howison, J. (2015). Digital Technologies and Patterns of Distributed Innovation. In Twenty-first Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Puerto Rico, 13 August. (10 Pages) http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1134&context=amcis2015 PDF
  2. Howison, J. (2015). Sustaining scientific infrastructures: transitioning from grants to peer production (work-in-progress). Proceedings of the iConference, Irvine, CA. 15 March. (15 pages) Retrieved from https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/73439. PDF
  3. Moon, E., & Howison, J. (2014). Modularity and Organizational Dynamics in Open Source Software (OSS) production. Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). 8 August, Savannah, GA. (11 Pages) http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1235&context=amcis2014 PDF
  4. Howison, J., and Herbsleb, J. D. (2013). Incentives and integration in scientific software production. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 459–470). San Antonio, TX. doi:10.1145/2441776.2441828 (acceptance rate ~23%, 2nd ranked conference in Human-Computer Interaction on Google Scholar). PDF]
  5. Howison, J., and Herbsleb, J. D. (2011). Scientific software production: incentives and collaboration. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 513–522). Hangzhou, China: ACM. doi:10.1145/1958824.1958904 (acceptance rate ~23%, 2nd ranked conference in Human-Computer Interaction on Google Scholar). PDF]
  6. Olson, J. F., Howison, J., & Carley, K. M. (2010). Paying Attention to Each Other in Visible Work Communities: Modeling Bursty Systems of Multiple Activity Streams. In 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom) (pp. 276–281). doi:10.1109/SocialCom.2010.46 PDF
  7. Crowston, K., Wiggins, A., and Howison, J. (2010). Analyzing leadership dynamics in distributed group communication. In Proceedings of Hawaii Information Conference on System Science (HICSS), Hawaii. (10 Pages) https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/hicss/2010/3869/00/07-06-02.pdf PDF
  8. Wiggins, A., Howison, J. and Crowston, K. (2009) Heartbeat: Measuring active user base and potential user interest in FLOSS projects. Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Open Source Software. (pp. 94 - 104), Skövde, Sweden. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02032-2_10 PDF
  9. Howison, J., Wiggins, A., and Crowston, K. (2008). eResearch workflows for studying free and open source software development. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Open Source Software (pp. 405–411). Milan, Italy. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_39 PDF
  10. Wiggins, A., Howison, J., and Crowston, K. (2008). Social dynamics of FLOSS team communication across channels. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Open Source Software (pp. 131–142). Milan, Italy. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09684-1_11 PDF
  11. Howison, J., Inoue, K., and Crowston, K. (2006). Social dynamics of free and open source team communications. In Proceedings of the IFIP International Conference on Open Source Software (pp. 319–330). Lake Como, Italy. doi:10.1007/0-387-34226-5_32 PDF
  12. Crowston, K., Howison, J., and Wiggins, A. (2008). eSocial science for free/libre open source software researchers. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on eSocial Science, Manchester, UK. (6 Pages). PDF
  13. Scialdone, M., Li, N., Howison, J., Crowston, K., and Heckman, R. (2008). Group maintenance in technology-supported distributed teams. Academy of Management. Best Paper Proceedings of Academy of Management Annual Meeting. (23 Pages) doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2008.33645115 PDF
  14. Heckman, R., Crowston, K., Li, Q., Allen, E., Eseryel, U. Y., Howison, J., and Wei, K. (2006). Emergent decision-making practices in technology-supported self-organizing distributed teams. In International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). (12 Pages) http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1164&context=icis2006 PDF
  15. Crowston, K., Wei, K., Li, Q., and Howison, J. (2006). Core and periphery in free/libre and open source software team communications. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). (7 Pages) doi:10.1109/HICSS.2006.101 PDF
  16. Crowston, K., Wei, K., Li, Q., Eseryel, U. Y., and Howison, J. (2005). Coordination of free/libre and open source software development. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). (13 Pages) http://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1222&context=icis2005 PDF
  17. Howison, J. and Goodrum, A. (2004). Why can’t I manage academic papers like MP3s? The evolution and intent of metadata standards. In Proceedings of the 2004 Colleges, Code and Intellectual Property Conference, number 57 in ACRL Publications in Librarianship, College Park, MD. (17 Pages). PDF
  18. Crowston, K., Annabi, H., and Howison, J. (2003). Defining open source software project success. In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Paper 28. (14 Pages) http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2003/28. PDF

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

  1. Crowston, K., and Howison, J. 2011. “FLOSS Project Effectiveness Measures,” in Successful OSS project design and implementation: requirements, tools, social designs, reward structures and co-ordination methods, H. Benbya and N. Belbaly (eds.), Farnham: Gower. pp 149–168. PDF
  2. McKnight, L., Lehr, W and Howison, J. (2007) Coordinating user and device behavior in wireless grids. in Fitzek, Frank H.P.; Katz, Marcos D. (Eds.) Cognitive Wireless Networks: Concepts, Methodologies and Visions Inspiring the Age of Enlightenment of Wireless Communications. Springer. pp 697–699. doi:10.1007%2F978-1-4020-5979-7_35 PDF
  3. Crowston, K., Rubleske, J., and Howison, J. (2006). Coordination theory: A Ten Year Retrospective. In Zhang, P. and Galletta, D., editors, Human-Computer Interaction in Management Information Systems: Foundations, Advances in Management Information Systems Series, pp 120–138. M. E. Sharpe, Inc. https://books.google.com/books?id=SHesBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120 PDF

Other Publications (not peer reviewed)

  1. Berente, N., Howison, J., King, J. L., Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., & Pennington, R. (2014). Leading Cyberinfrastructure Enterprise: Value Propositions, Stakeholders, and Measurement (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2416247). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. (16 Pages) Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2416247
  2. Berente, N., Howison, J., King, J. L., Lyytinen, K. J., & Wilkins-Diehr, N. (2013). Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems: Exploring How Organization Scientists and Virtual Organization Leaders Can Collaborate (SSRN Scholarly Paper No. ID 2204092). Rochester, NY: Social Science Research Network. (23 Pages) Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2204092
  3. Berente, N, Claggett, J., Howison, J., Knobel, C., and Rubleske, J. (2012). Managing CI Centers: An Agenda for Organizational Scholarship and Cyberinfrastructure Innovation. Report from NSF Sponsored-workshop. (28 Pages) Available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2128872

Peer-reviewed Conference Presentations

  1. Lindberg, A., & Howison, J. (2015). Variations in Information Processing Capacity. Presented at the Academy of Management (OCIS Division), Vancouver, Canada. 10 August. PDF
  2. Bogart, C., Howison, J., & Herbsleb, J. D. (2015). Mapping the Network of Scientific Software. Presented at the Science of Team Science Conference, 4 June 2015, Washington, D.C.
  3. Howison, J. (2014). Sharing the spoils: the trouble with reputation as a motivation and reward for teamwork. Presented at the Science of Team Science Conference, Austin, Texas, USA. Slides-PDF PDF
  4. Berente, N., Howison, J. & King, J. (2013) Five Models for Interaction Between Science Enterprises and Organization Scientists” Presentation at Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy. PDF
  5. Howison, J., Berente, N. & King, J. (2013) "From Loss to Gain: Exploiting Diaspora in Cyberinfrastructure Enterprises" Presentation at Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy. PDF
  6. Howison, J and Herbsleb, J (2011) Sharing the spoils of system improvement: modularity and incentives. Presentation at Industry Studies Conference.
  7. Howison, J. (2010) Layered Collaboration: A sociotechnical theory of organization in open source software development. Academy of Management. OCIS division award for best single authored paper.
  8. Cogburn, D. L., Johnsen, J. F., Bhattacharyya, S., Sharif, R. M., and Howison, J. (2006). Distributed deliberative citizens: Exploring the impact of collaboratories on transnational NGO network participation in WSIS. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Communications Association (ICA) Conference of the Americas, Lima, Peru. August 3-5.
  9. Crowston, K., Howison, J., Masango, C., and Eseryel, Y. U. (2005). Face-to-face interactions in self-organizing distributed teams. Academy of Management, OCIS. Hawaii, USA.
  10. Crowston, K., Annabi, H., Howison, J., and Masango, C. (2005). Effective work practices for FLOSS development: A model and propositions. In Proc. of Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS).

Peer reviewed Poster Presentations

  1. Li, Q., Crowston, K., Heckman, R., and Howison, J. (2006). Language and power in self-organizing distributed teams. In Academy of Management (Poster presentation).
  2. Moon, E., and Howison, J. (2013). Network effects and valuing social network services. Poster at ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. San Antonio, TX, USA.
  3. Li, Q., Heckman, R., Allen, E., Crowston, K., Eseryel, U. Y., Howison, J., and Wiggins, A. (2008). Asynchronous decision-making in distributed teams. Poster at ACM Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work.

Peer-reviewed Workshops

  1. Allen, A, Aragon, C …. Howison, J, …, Vinju, J. (2016) “I solemnly pledge”: The Engineering Academic Software Dagstuhl Manifesto. Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4).
  2. Moon, E., & Howison, J. (2016). Do Open Projects “Break the Mirror”?: Re-conceptualization of Organizational Configurations in Open Source Software (OSS) Production. In Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (pp. 19–25). New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2897586.2897593 PDF
  3. Howison, James. (2014). Governance in software ecosystems: achieving desirable architectures-in-use through strategies for insight into and influence over end-user development. Presented at the IFIP 8.2 OASIS Workshop, Auckland, NZ. PDF
  4. Howison, J. (2014). Retract bit-rotten publications: Aligning incentives for sustaining scientific software. In Working towards Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (SuperComputing 2014 Workshop). New Orleans. 16 November. PDF
  5. Gil, Y., Moon, E., & Howison, J. (2014). No Science Software is an Island: Collaborative Software Development Needs in Geosciences. Presented at the Working towards Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (SuperComputing 2014 Workshop), New Orleans. 16 November. PDF
  6. Howison, J. (2012). The problem of invisibility as an infrastructural goal, or Failing to arrive by trying to be there. In Position paper for Knowledge Infrastructures Workshop (Edwards, Bowker et al.). Michigan. http://knowledgeinfrastructures.org/ PDF
  7. McConahy, A., Eisenbraun, B., Howison, J., Herbsleb, J. D., Sliz, P. (2012). Techniques for Monitoring Runtime Architectures of Socio-technical Ecosystems. In Workshop on Data-Intensive Collaboration in Science and Engineering at ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. PDF
  8. Crowston, K., Østerlund C., Howison J., & Bolici F. (2011). Work as coordination and coordination as work: A process perspective on FLOSS development projects. Third International Symposium on Process Organization Studies. PDF
  9. Howison, J and Herbsleb, J D (2010) Socio-technical logics of correctness in the scientific software development ecosystem. Workshop on Dynamics of Scientific Collaboration at ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. PDF
  10. Howison, J. (2008). Cross-repository data linking with RDF and OWL. Towards common ontologies for representing FLOSS data. In Proceedings of WoPDaSD (Workshop on Public Data at International Conference on Open Source Software). PDF
  11. Conklin, M. S., Howison, J., and Crowston, K. (2005). Collaboration using OSSmole: a repository of FLOSS data and analyses. In Proc. of Mining Software Repositories (MSR) Workshop at International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), St Louis, Missouri. PDF
  12. Howison, J. and Crowston, K. (2004). The perils and pitfalls of mining Sourceforge. In Proc. of Workshop on Mining Software Repositories at the International Conference on Software Engineering ICSE. pp 17–22. http://2004.msrconf.org/MSR2004ProceedingsFINAL_IEE_Acrobat4.pdf PDF
  13. Crowston, K., Annabi, H., Howison, J., and Masango, C. (2004). Effective work practices for FLOSS development: A model and propositions. In AIS Sponsored Theory Development Workshop at ICIS 2004.
  14. Crowston, K., Annabi, H., Howison, J., and Masango, C. (2004). Towards a portfolio of FLOSS project success measures. In Open Source Workshop of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004).
  15. Howison, J. and Crowston, K. (2004). Studying free software with free software and free methods. In Australian Open Source Development Conference. PDF
  16. Crowston, K. and Howison, J. (2003). The social structure of open source software development teams. In OASIS 2003 Workshop (IFIP 8.2 WG).
  17. Howison, J. (2003). The role of reputation in virtual markets for wireless grids. In position papers of The NSF Interdisciplinary Symposium on Reputation Mechanisms in Online Communities, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. PDF