James Howison
Interim Associate Dean for Research & Associate Professor
Biography
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.Degrees
PhD in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse (2008), Bachelor's of Economics (Social Sciences) at the University of Sydney (1998)Areas Of Specialization
Distributed Work
Technology & Human Collaboration
Software Development By Scientists
Social Network Analysis
Free and Open Source Software Development
Recent Publications
Aron Lindberg, James Howison, Nicholas Berente, Kalle Lyytinen (2024)Discursive Modulation in Open Source Software: How Communities Shape Novelty andComplexity, 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 opensource software (OSS) development: A configurational approach. Information andOrganization, 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 softwarecitation: 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 softwarementions in biomedical and economic research publications. Journal of the Association forInformation 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 OpenScience. Information and Culture. 56 (2), 115-137. https://doi.org/10.7560/IC56201
View more in Google ScholarRecent Awards
- 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