An empirical study of open-source and closed-source software products

By James W. Paulson, Giancarlo Succi, A. Eberlein. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2004

359 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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In Computer Science Applications

1. Carliss Y. Baldwin
2. Alan MacCormack
3. John Rusnak
4. Paul Ralph
5. Sebastian Baltes
6. Tyson R. Browning
7. Siobhan O’Mahony
8. Fiona E. Murray

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Alan MacCormack
2. Carliss Y. Baldwin
3. John Rusnak

In Strategy and Management

1. Alan MacCormack
2. Carliss Y. Baldwin
3. John Rusnak
4. Kevin J. Boudreau
5. Eric von Hippel

Citations in the corpus

• Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code (2006, background): “Paulson et al (2004) find a correlation between functions added and functions modified in open source projects, but not in proprietary projects.”
• The Use of MQTT in M2M and IoT Systems: A Survey (2020, background): “Under the closed-source model source code is not made available in the public domain [49].”
• Sampling in software engineering research: a critical review and guidelines (2020, background): “Œe private code that companies are willing to share might systematically di‚er from the code they will not share [42].”