James Howison

James Howison

Interim Associate Dean for Research

Associate Professor

James Howison studies open collaboration, particularly in software development, including open source software development and the development of software in science. His work has been supported by grants from the NSF, including a 2015 NSF CAREER award and a 2019 PECASE award, as well as the Sloan Foundation. James has published in the fields of Information Systems, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, and Information Sciences (e.g., MIS Quarterly, ACM CSCW Conference, and JASIST), as well as keynotes for industry and funding agency advisory events. Recently James has contributed to the development of [CiteAs](http://citeas.org), a system to improve incentives for high quality software work in science by mapping from software to its requested citation and released [a gold standard dataset of software mentions in publications](http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4444074), to facilitate improved rewards for software work in science. James joined the school of information in 2011. CV and Publications at james.howison.name.

PhD in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse (2008)

Bachelor's of Economics (Social Sciences) at the University of Sydney (1998)

Distributed Work
Technology & Human Collaboration
Software Development By Scientists
Social Network Analysis
Free and Open Source Software Development

Aron Lindberg, James Howison, Nicholas Berente, Kalle Lyytinen (2024) Discursive Modulation in Open Source Software: How Communities Shape Novelty and Complexity, MIS Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.25300/MISQ/2023/16872

Hana Frluckaj, James Howison, Laura Dabbish & Nikki Stevens (2024) Understanding Trans Experiences in Open Source Software Projects ACM CSCW.

Moon, E., & Howison, J. (2024). A dynamic perspective on software modularity in open source software (OSS) development: A configurational approach. Information and Organization, 34(1), 100499. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2023.100499

Lopez, P., Du, Caifan, Cohoon, J., & Howison, James. (2021). Mining Software Entities in Scientific Literature: Document-level NER for an Extremely Imbalanced and Large-scale Task. ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021). https://doi.org/10.1145/3459637.3481936

Du, C., Cohoon, J., Lopez, P., & Howison, J. (2022). Understanding progress in software citation: A study of software citation in the CORD-19 corpus. PeerJ Computer Science, 8, e1022. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1022

Du, C., Cohoon, J., Lopez, P., & Howison, J. (2021). Softcite dataset: A dataset of software mentions in biomedical and economic research publications. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 72 (7), 870-884. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24454

Cohoon, J and Howison, J. (2021) The Role of Values and Cyberinfrastructure in Open Science. Information and Culture. 56 (2), 115-137. https://doi.org/10.7560/IC56201

Invited to give Distinguished Lecture at NSF CISE/SBE

PECASE award (Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers) through nomination from the NSF.

Best Information Systems Publications Award., Association for Information Systems.

CAREER Award (CISE division), NSF

Contact Information
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Website:
james.howison.name
Phone:
(512) 232-9219
Campus location:
UTA 5.404