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An empirical study of the textual similarity between source code and source code summaries

Overview of attention for article published in Empirical Software Engineering, November 2014
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Title
An empirical study of the textual similarity between source code and source code summaries
Published in
Empirical Software Engineering, November 2014
DOI 10.1007/s10664-014-9344-6
Authors

Paul W. McBurney, Collin McMillan

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 62 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 2%
Unknown 61 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 32%
Student > Master 9 15%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Other 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 9 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 46 74%
Engineering 4 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Unknown 11 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

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