Title
Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Mental Representations of Programs
Abstract
•Systematic review of empirical studies on mental representations of programmers.•Analysis of 72 papers indicates a dramatic decline of empirical studies over time.•Results indicate lack of incremental research and standards for programmer expertise.•Exclusion of newly developed/popularized programming paradigms due to recent decline.•Continued research is needed to inform the design of tools and programming languages.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.jss.2020.110565
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Mental representations,Program comprehension,Systematic literature review
Journal
165
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0164-1212
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leah Bidlake100.34
Eric Aubanel2579.75
Daniel Voyer300.34