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A Topological Analysis of the Open Souce Software Development Community, Xu, Jin, Gao Yongqin, Christley S., and Madey G. , Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Big Island, HI, USA, p.1-10, (2006)

An Exploratory Study of Factors Influencing the Level of Vitality and Popularity of Open Source Projects, Stewart, Katherine J., and Ammeter Tony , ICIS 2002. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems 2002, 2002, p.1-5, (2002)

A Preliminary Analysis of the Influences of Licensing and Organizational Sponsorship on Success in Open Source Projects, Stewart, Katherine J., Ammeter Anthony P., and Maruping Likoebe M. , Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Volume 07, 2005, Washington, DC, USA, p.1-10, (2005)

Dynamics of innovation in an "open source" collaboration environment: lurking, laboring, and launching FLOSS projects on SourceForge, David, P. A., and Rullani F. , Industrial and Corporate Change, 07/2008, Volume 17, Issue 4, p.647 - 710, (2008)

Geographic origin of libre software developers, Gonzalez-Barahona, Jesus M., Robles Gregorio, Andradas-Izquierdo Roberto, and Ghosh Rishab Aiyer , Information Economics and Policy, Volume 20, Number 4, p.356 - 363, (2008)

Identifying exogenous drivers and evolutionary stages in FLOSS projects, Beecher, Karl, Capiluppi Andrea, and Boldyreff Cornelia , Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 82, Number 5, p.739 - 750, (2009)

Trust and vulnerability in open source software, Hissam, S. A., Plakosh D., and Weinstock C. , Software, {IEE} Proceedings -, 02/2002, Volume 149, Issue 1, Number 1, p.47–51, (2002)