{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2951474986","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","title":"Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow","display_name":"Contextual Documentation Referencing on Stack Overflow","publication_year":2020,"publication_date":"2020-03-19","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2951474986","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","mag":"2951474986"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S8351582","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","issn_l":"0098-5589","issn":["0098-5589","1939-3520","2326-3881"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","ccf-a","cwts-core","dongbi-a","fnege-3","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320439","host_organization_name":"IEEE Computer Society","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320439","https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["IEEE Computer Society","Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["arxiv","crossref","datacite"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04357","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5033132966","display_name":"Sebastian Baltes","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2442-7522","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2442-7522"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I5681781","display_name":"The University of Adelaide","ror":"https://ror.org/00892tw58","country_code":"AU","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4405259444","https://openalex.org/I5681781"]}],"countries":["AU"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Sebastian Baltes","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia","[School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, 1066 Adelaide, South Australia Australia (e-mail: research@sbaltes.com)]"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2442-7522","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I5681781"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"[School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, 1066 Adelaide, South Australia Australia (e-mail: research@sbaltes.com)]","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I5681781"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5077658936","display_name":"Christoph Treude","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-2149","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-2149","https://orcid.org/0009-0005-6649-3084"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I5681781","display_name":"The University of Adelaide","ror":"https://ror.org/00892tw58","country_code":"AU","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4405259444","https://openalex.org/I5681781"]}],"countries":["AU"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Christoph Treude","raw_affiliation_strings":["University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia","[School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, 1066 Adelaide, South Australia Australia (e-mail: christoph.treude@adelaide.edu.au)]"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6919-2149","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I5681781"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"[School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide, 1066 Adelaide, South Australia Australia (e-mail: christoph.treude@adelaide.edu.au)]","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I5681781"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5059244952","display_name":"Martin P. Robillard","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0248-1384","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0248-1384"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I5023651","display_name":"McGill University","ror":"https://ror.org/01pxwe438","country_code":"CA","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I5023651"]}],"countries":["CA"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Martin P. Robillard","raw_affiliation_strings":["McGill University, Montr\u00e9al, QC, Canada","[School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2A7 (e-mail: martin@cs.mcgill.ca)]"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0248-1384","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"McGill University, Montr\u00e9al, QC, Canada","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I5023651"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"[School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2A7 (e-mail: martin@cs.mcgill.ca)]","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I5023651"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":[],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":{"value":2045,"currency":"USD","value_usd":2045},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":2.4668,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":22,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.90254032,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":88,"max":98},"biblio":{"volume":"48","issue":"1","first_page":"135","last_page":"149"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13274","display_name":"Expert finding and Q&A systems","score":0.6875,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13274","display_name":"Expert finding and Q&A systems","score":0.6875,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10260","display_name":"Software Engineering Research","score":0.3041999936103821,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10430","display_name":"Software Engineering Techniques and Practices","score":0.0035000001080334187,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1710","display_name":"Information Systems"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/stack-overflow","display_name":"Stack Overflow","score":0.9319999814033508},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/community-question-answering","display_name":"community question answering","score":0.8349999785423279},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/information-dissemination","display_name":"information dissemination","score":0.8399999737739563},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/citation-links","display_name":"citation links","score":0.47600001096725464},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/android-application-development","display_name":"Android app development","score":0.8259999752044678},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/regular-expressions","display_name":"regular expressions","score":0.9959999918937683},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/information-needs","display_name":"information needs","score":0.6039999723434448}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C56666940","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q788790","display_name":"Documentation","level":2,"score":0.8178061842918396},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C81587897","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181702","display_name":"Software documentation","level":5,"score":0.7754578590393066},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7613536715507507},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C136764020","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q466","display_name":"World Wide Web","level":1,"score":0.5241632461547852},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777904410","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7397","display_name":"Software","level":2,"score":0.4709264636039734},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779343474","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3109175","display_name":"Context (archaeology)","level":2,"score":0.45835649967193604},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2522767166","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2374463","display_name":"Data science","level":1,"score":0.3528994619846344},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C529173508","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q638608","display_name":"Software development","level":3,"score":0.27002227306365967},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C180152950","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2904257","display_name":"Software development process","level":4,"score":0.13297006487846375},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199360897","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9143","display_name":"Programming language","level":1,"score":0.12138578295707703},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C151730666","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7205","display_name":"Paleontology","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":6,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S8351582","display_name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","issn_l":"0098-5589","issn":["0098-5589","1939-3520","2326-3881"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-scientific","ccf-a","cwts-core","dongbi-a","fnege-3","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-140","russia-white-list-1"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320439","host_organization_name":"IEEE Computer Society","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320439","https://openalex.org/P4310319808"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["IEEE Computer Society","Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:arXiv.org:1906.04357","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04357","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04357","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400194","display_name":"arXiv (Cornell University)","issn_l":"2331-8422","issn":["2331-8422"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I205783295","host_organization_name":"Cornell University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I205783295"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"text"},{"id":"mag:2951474986","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04357","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400194","display_name":"arXiv (Cornell University)","issn_l":"2331-8422","issn":["2331-8422"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I205783295","host_organization_name":"Cornell University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I205783295"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"arXiv (Cornell University)","raw_type":null},{"id":"pmh:oai:ink.library.smu.edu.sg:sis_research-9768","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8765","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401925","display_name":"Singapore Management University Institutional Knowledge (InK) (Singapore Management University)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I79891267","host_organization_name":"Singapore Management University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I79891267"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"other-oa","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/other-oa","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TSE.2020.2981898","raw_type":"Journal Article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:digital.library.adelaide.edu.au:2440/134347","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://hdl.handle.net/2440/134347","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401835","display_name":"Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I5681781","host_organization_name":"The University of Adelaide","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I5681781"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2020.2981898","raw_type":"Journal article"},{"id":"doi:10.48550/arxiv.1906.04357","doi":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1906.04357","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1906.04357","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400194","display_name":"arXiv (Cornell University)","issn_l":"2331-8422","issn":["2331-8422"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I205783295","host_organization_name":"Cornell University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I205783295"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Preprint"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:arXiv.org:1906.04357","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04357","pdf_url":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04357","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306400194","display_name":"arXiv (Cornell University)","issn_l":"2331-8422","issn":["2331-8422"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I205783295","host_organization_name":"Cornell University","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I205783295"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"text"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G2705849340","display_name":"Automatically summarising and measuring software development activity","funder_award_id":"DE180100153","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320334704","funder_display_name":"Australian Research Council"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320334704","display_name":"Australian Research Council","ror":"https://ror.org/05mmh0f86"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2951474986.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W2951474986.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":39,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W409344806","https://openalex.org/W1506285740","https://openalex.org/W1550812296","https://openalex.org/W1974010404","https://openalex.org/W1981795678","https://openalex.org/W1991613282","https://openalex.org/W2010959782","https://openalex.org/W2026620262","https://openalex.org/W2031906567","https://openalex.org/W2043696632","https://openalex.org/W2045980827","https://openalex.org/W2053154970","https://openalex.org/W2098162425","https://openalex.org/W2099769844","https://openalex.org/W2123246351","https://openalex.org/W2123333323","https://openalex.org/W2128733218","https://openalex.org/W2166559705","https://openalex.org/W2290195878","https://openalex.org/W2335783870","https://openalex.org/W2400323868","https://openalex.org/W2513738415","https://openalex.org/W2604794021","https://openalex.org/W2766375028","https://openalex.org/W2767380523","https://openalex.org/W2786764521","https://openalex.org/W2787261428","https://openalex.org/W2789661710","https://openalex.org/W2795582800","https://openalex.org/W2808113972","https://openalex.org/W2884859571","https://openalex.org/W2963097549","https://openalex.org/W2963501364","https://openalex.org/W2970481120","https://openalex.org/W2972358920","https://openalex.org/W4230998791","https://openalex.org/W4393513697","https://openalex.org/W4393529359","https://openalex.org/W6910374392"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4226265546","https://openalex.org/W3169901294","https://openalex.org/W3139738689","https://openalex.org/W6939853854","https://openalex.org/W2335783870","https://openalex.org/W2785789187","https://openalex.org/W4408359206","https://openalex.org/W2791817847","https://openalex.org/W7024750615","https://openalex.org/W3037862795"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Software":[0],"engineering":[1],"is":[2,46,90],"knowledge-intensive":[3],"and":[4,32,73,87,98,108,113,119,124,162,197,203,215,240,243,276],"requires":[5],"software":[6,43,160],"developers":[7],"to":[8,52,65,81,111,157,178,189,199,264,268],"continually":[9],"search":[10],"for":[11,164],"knowledge,":[12],"often":[13,251],"on":[14,130,225,248],"community":[15],"question":[16,84],"answering":[17],"platforms":[18,26],"such":[19],"as":[20],"Stack":[21,71,93,131,148,206,226,249,274],"Overflow.":[22,227],"Such":[23],"information":[24,68,186,271],"sharing":[25],"do":[27],"not":[28],"exist":[29,39],"in":[30,40,57,92,254],"isolation,":[31],"part":[33],"of":[34,50,63,85,137,159,184,205,212,218,256],"the":[35,47,61,67,83,116,185,201,231,244,270],"evidence":[36],"that":[37,128,176,246],"they":[38],"a":[41,79,134,182,190,195,209,216],"broader":[42],"documentation":[44,54,75,89,179,238,278],"ecosystem":[45],"common":[48],"presence":[49],"hyperlinks":[51],"other":[53,74,277],"resources":[55,163,180,239],"found":[56,127],"forum":[58],"posts.":[59],"With":[60],"goal":[62],"helping":[64],"improve":[66],"diffusion":[69,272],"between":[70,273],"Overflow":[72,94,132,207,250,275],"resources,":[76],"we":[77],"conducted":[78],"study":[80],"answer":[82],"how":[86],"why":[88],"referenced":[91],"threads.":[95],"We":[96,126,193,261],"sampled":[97],"classified":[99],"759":[100],"links":[101,129,143,151,177,247],"from":[102,141],"two":[103],"different":[104],"domains,":[105,242],"regular":[106],"expressions":[107],"Android":[109],"development,":[110],"qualitatively":[112],"quantitatively":[114],"analyze":[115,200],"links\u2019":[117],"context":[118,202,253],"purpose,":[120],"including":[121,173],"attribution,":[122],"awareness,":[123],"recommendations.":[125],"serve":[133],"wide":[135],"range":[136],"distinct":[138],"purposes,":[139],"ranging":[140],"citation":[142],"attributing":[144],"content":[145],"copied":[146],"into":[147],"Overflow,":[149],"over":[150],"clarifying":[152],"concepts":[153],"using":[154],"Wikipedia":[155],"pages,":[156],"recommendations":[158],"components":[161],"background":[165],"reading.":[166],"This":[167],"purpose":[168,204,233],"spectrum":[169],"has":[170],"major":[171,220],"corollaries,":[172],"our":[174],"observation":[175],"are":[181],"reflection":[183],"needs":[187],"typical":[188],"technology":[191],"domain.":[192],"contribute":[194],"framework":[196],"method":[198],"links,":[208,214],"public":[210],"dataset":[211],"annotated":[213],"description":[217],"five":[219],"observations":[221,229],"about":[222],"linking":[223],"practices":[224],"Those":[228],"include":[230],"above-mentioned":[232],"spectrum,":[234],"its":[235],"interplay":[236],"with":[237],"applications":[241],"fact":[245],"lack":[252],"form":[255],"accompanying":[257],"quotes":[258],"or":[259],"summaries.":[260],"further":[262],"point":[263],"potential":[265],"tool":[266],"support":[267],"enhance":[269],"resources.":[279]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":3},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2019-06-27T00:00:00"}