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Our analysis of recent AI4H publications reveals that, despite a trend toward utilizing open datasets and sharing modeling code, 74% of AI4H papers still rely on private datasets or do not share their code. This is especially concerning in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-03-05 John Wu , Zhenbang Wu , Jimeng Sun

Following the recent release of AI assistants, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, the software industry quickly utilized these tools for software development tasks, e.g., generating code or consulting AI for advice. While recent…

Using libraries in applications has helped developers reduce the costs of reinventing already existing code. However, an increase in diverse technology stacks and third-party library usage has led developers to inevitably switch…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Kanchanok Kannee , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Supatsara Wattanakriengkrai , Kenichi Matsumoto

Relational databases have limited support for data collaboration, where teams collaboratively curate and analyze large datasets. Inspired by software version control systems like git, we propose (a) a dataset version control system, giving…

Increasingly, software developers are using a wide array of social collaborative platforms for software development and learning. In this work, we examined the similarities in developer's interests within and across GitHub and Stack…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Roy Ka-Wei Lee , David Lo

In 2018, the software industry giants Microsoft made a move into the Open Source world by completing the acquisition of mega Open Source platform, GitHub. This acquisition was not without controversy, as it is well-known that the free…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Raula Gaikovina Kula , Hideki Hata , Kenichi Matsumoto

Open Source Software (OSS) plays an important role in the digital economy. Yet although software production is amenable to remote collaboration and its outputs are easily shared across distances, software development seems to cluster…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Johannes Wachs , Mariusz Nitecki , William Schueller , Axel Polleres

Software developers are social creatures: they communicate, collaborate, and promote their work in a variety of channels. Twitter, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and other platforms offer developers opportunities to network and exchange ideas.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Maria Papoutsoglou , Johannes Wachs , Georgia M. Kapitsaki

Bug reports provide critical insights into software quality, yet existing datasets often suffer from limited scope, outdated content, or insufficient metadata for machine learning. To address these limitations, we present GitBugs-a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Avinash Patil , Siru Tao , Aryan Jadon

The last 30 years have seen the creation of a variety of electronic collaboration tools for science and business. Some of the best-known collaboration tools support text editing (e.g., wikis). Wikipedia's success shows that large-scale…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-06-05 Sylvie Noel , Daniel Lemire

GitHub is a popular data repository for code examples. It is being continuously used to train several AI-based tools to automatically generate code. However, the effectiveness of such tools in correctly demonstrating the usage of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Catherine Tony , Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra , Riccardo Scandariato

In software development there is a constant pressure to produce code faster and faster without compromising on quality. New tools supporting developers are created in response to this demand. Currently a new generation of such solutions is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Mateusz Jaworski , Dariusz Piotrkowski

Archival institutions and programs worldwide work to ensure that the records of governments, organizations, communities, and individuals are preserved for future generations as cultural heritage, as sources of rights, and as vehicles for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Emanuele Frontoni , Marina Paolanti , Tracey P. Lauriault , Michael Stiber , Luciana Duranti , Abdul-Mageed Muhammad

The open-source community uses the GitHub platform to exchange and share software applications and services of interest. This paper aims to identify the open-source community's interest in gender-related projects on GitHub. Our findings…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Rita Garcia , Christoph Treude , Wendy La

Generative coding tools promise big productivity gains, but uneven uptake could widen skill and income gaps. We train a neural classifier to spot AI-generated Python functions in over 30 million GitHub commits by 170,000 developers,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Simone Daniotti , Johannes Wachs , Xiangnan Feng , Frank Neffke

Data will soon become one of the most precious treasures we have ever had, 43 trillion gigabytes of data will be created by 2020 according to a study made by Mckinsey Global Institute, it is estimated that 2.3 trillion gigabytes of data is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-11-04 Kaoutar Ben Ahmed , Mohammed Bouhorma , Mohamed Ben Ahmed

GitHub, the de facto platform for open-source software development, provides a set of social-media-like features to signal high-quality repositories. Among them, the star count is the most widely used popularity signal, but it is also at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hao He , Haoqin Yang , Philipp Burckhardt , Alexandros Kapravelos , Bogdan Vasilescu , Christian Kästner

Laboratory research is a complex, collaborative process that involves several stages, including hypothesis formulation, experimental design, data generation and analysis, and manuscript writing. Although reproducibility and data sharing are…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-12 Katharine Y. Chen , Maria Toro-Moreno , Arvind Rasi Subramaniam

Every research project necessitates data, often requiring sharing and collaborative review within a team. However, there is a dearth of good open-source data sharing and reviewing services. Existing file-sharing services generally mandate…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Lexington Whalen , Homayoun Valafar

Enticing users into exploring Open Data remains an important challenge for the whole Open Data paradigm. Standard stock interfaces often used by Open Data portals are anything but inspiring even for tech-savvy users, let alone those without…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Sebastian Neumaier , Vadim Savenkov , Svitlana Vakulenko