Johan Linåker

Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University

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Sections

Technical reports | Top

  • Linåker, J., & Muto, S. (2024). Software Reuse through Open Source Software in the Public Sector: A qualitative survey on Policy and Practice. RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Lund, Sweden.
  • Linåker, J., & Nummelin Carlberg, A. (2024). Open Source Software in the Automotive Industry - A Vision Paper. Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle Working Group, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Linåker, J., & Nummelin Carlberg, A. (2024). Institutionalising Support for Open Source Software in the European Public Sector. Directorate-General Informatics, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
    • Under internal publication process of the EC
  • Linåker, J., & Runeson, P. (2022). Rekommendationer för samverkan och delning av data, teknik och kunskap inom myndighetsdrivna öppna data-ekosystem. Lund university, Lund, Sweden.
  • Linåker, J., Sulaman, S. M., Maiani de Mello, R., & Höst, M. (2015). Guidelines for conducting surveys in software engineering. Lund university, Lund, Sweden.

Peer-reviewed papers | Top

2025 | Top

  • Linåker, J., Lundell, B., Servant, F., Gamalielsson, J., Muto, S., & Robles, G. (2025). Public sector open source software projects-How is development organized?. Empirical Software Engineering, 30(3), 1-54.

2024 | Top

  • Linåker, J., Bjarnason, E., & Fagerholm, F. (2024). Pre-Release Experimentation in Indie Game Development: An Interview Survey. In 15th International Conference on Software Business. Springer.
  • Chren, S., Fagerholm, F., Bjarnason, E., Linåker, J., Rafi, S., Lehtelä, B., Runeson, R. & Kauppinen, M. (2024). Data-Limited Continuous Experimentation (dlCE): A Literature Review. In 15th International Conference on Software Business. Springer.
  • Linåker, J., Link, G., & Lumbard, K. (2024). Sustaining Maintenance Labor for Healthy Open Source Software Projects through Human Infrastructure: A Maintainer Perspective. In 18th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement.
  • Persson, P., & Linåker, J. (2024). Soft-lockins in Public sector acquisitions of Open Source Software-solutions: A case study on a e-service platform for Swedish municipalites. In 58th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2024 (HICSS-58).
  • Larsson, J., Linåker, J., & Runeson, P. (2024). Enabling Data-sharing in Freight Logistics through Open Data Ecosystems. In International Conference on Electronic Government. Springer, Cham.
  • Malysh, K., Ahmed, T., Linåker, J., & Runeson, P. (2024). Inter-organizational Data Sharing Processes - an exploratory analysis of incentives and challenges. In 50th Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA).
  • Alami, A., Pardo, R., & Linåker, J. (2024). Free open source communities sustainability: Does it make a difference in software quality?. Empirical Software Engineering, 29(5), 114.

2023 | Top

  • Susha, I., van den Broek, T.A., van Veenstra, A.F., & Linåker, J. (2023). An ecosystem perspective on developing data collaboratives for addressing societal issues: The role of conveners. Government Information Quarterly. 101763.

2022 | Top

  • Linåker, J., Papatheocharous, E., & Olsson, T. (2022). How to characterize the health of an Open Source Software project? A snowball literature review of an emerging practice. In 18th International Symposium on Open Collaboration.
  • Linåker, J., & Runeson, P. (2022). Sustaining Open Data as a Digital Common-Design principles for Common Pool Resources applied to Open Data Ecosystems. In International Symposium on Open Collaboration.

2021 | Top

  • Runeson, P., Olsson, T., & Linåker, J. (2021). Open Data Ecosystems—An empirical investigation into an emerging industry collaboration concept. Journal of Systems and Software, 182, 111088.
  • Linåker, J., & Runeson, P. (2021). How to Enable Collaboration in Open Government Data Ecosystems: A Public Platform Provider’s Perspective. eJournal of eDemocracy & Open Government, 13(1).
  • Damian, D., Linåker, J., Johnson, D., Clear, T., & Blincoe, K. (2021). Challenges and Strategies for Managing Requirements Selection in Software Ecosystems. IEEE Software, 38(6), 76-87.

2020 | Top

  • Linåker, J., & Regnell, B. (2020). What to share, when, and where: balancing the objectives and complexities of open source software contributions. Empirical Software Engineering, 25(5), 3799-3840.
  • Linåker, J., Regnell, B., & Damian, D. (2020). A method for analyzing stakeholders’ influence on an open source software ecosystem’s requirements engineering process. Requirements Engineering, 25(1), 115-130.
  • Linåker, J., & Runeson, P. (2020). Public sector platforms going open: creating and growing an ecosystem with open collaborative development. In 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (pp. 1-10).
  • Linåker, J., & Runeson, P. (2020). Collaboration in open government data ecosystems: Open cross-sector sharing and co-development of data and software. In International Conference on Electronic Government (pp. 290-303). Springer, Cham.

2019 | Top

  • Linåker, J., Regnell, B., & Damian, D. (2019). A Community Strategy Framework–How to obtain influence on requirements in meritocratic open source software communities?. Information and Software Technology, 112, 102-114.
  • Blincoe, K., Dehghan, A., Salaou, A. D., Neal, A., Linåker, J., & Damian, D. (2019). High-level software requirements and iteration changes: a predictive model. Empirical Software Engineering, 24(3), 1610-1648.

2018 | Top

  • Linåker, J., Munir, H., Wnuk, K., & Mols, C. E. (2018). Motivating the contributions: An open innovation perspective on what to share as open source software. Journal of Systems and Software, 135, 17-36.
  • Munir, H., Linåker, J., Wnuk, K., Runeson, P., & Regnell, B. (2018). Open innovation using open source tools: A case study at Sony Mobile. Empirical Software Engineering, 23(1), 186-223.

2017 | Top

  • Dehghan, A., Neal, A., Blincoe, K., Linåker, J., & Damian, D. (2017). Predicting likelihood of requirement implementation within the planned iteration: an empirical study at IBM. In 2017 IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) (pp. 124-134). IEEE.
  • Linåker, J., & Regnell, B. (2017). A contribution management framework for firms engaged in open source software ecosystems-a research preview. In International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (pp. 50-57). Springer, Cham.
  • Mols, C. E., Wnuk, K., & Linåker, J. (2017, May). The open source officer role–experiences. In IFIP International Conference on Open Source Systems (pp. 55-59). Springer, Cham.

2016 | Top

  • Linåker, J., Rempel, P., Regnell, B., & Mäder, P. (2016). How firms adapt and interact in open source ecosystems: Analyzing stakeholder influence and collaboration patterns. In International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (pp. 63-81). Springer, Cham.
  • Linåker, J., & Wnuk, K. (2016). Requirements analysis and management for benefiting openness. In 2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) (pp. 344-349). IEEE.

2015 | Top

  • Linåker, J., Regnell, B., & Munir, H. (2015). Requirements engineering in open innovation: a research agenda. In Proceedings of the 2015 international conference on software and system process (pp. 208-212).
  • Linåker, J., Munir, H., Runeson, P., Regnell, B., & Schrewelius, C. (2015). A survey on the perception of innovation in a large product-focused software organization. In International Conference of Software Business (pp. 66-80). Springer, Cham.

2014 | Top

  • Linåker, J., Krantz, M., & Höst, M. (2014). On infrastructure for facilitation of inner source in small development teams. In International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (pp. 149-163). Springer, Cham.

Pedagogic papers | Top

  • Linåker, J., Bjarnasson, E., & Regnell, B. (2019). Involving real-world stakeholders in course group projects: Opportunities and challenges [extended abstract].. Lund University’s Teaching and Learning Conference. Lund, Sweden.
  • Bjarnasson, E., & Linåker, J. (2016). Teaching Academic Writing to Large Classes of Engineering Students. Pedagogiska inspirationskonferensen-Genombrottet. Lund University, Lund, Sweden.

Editorials | Top

  • Linåker, J., Robles, G., Bryant, D., & Muto, S. (2023). Open Source Software in the Public Sector: 25 Years and Still in Its Infancy. IEEE Software, 40(4), 39-44.
  • Linåker, J., Runeson, P., Zuiderwijk, A., & Brock, A. (2022). Collaborative Aspects of Open Data in Software Engineering. IEEE Software, 39(1), 31-35.

Book chapters | Top

  • Germonprez, M. & Linåker, J.. (2024). Chapter 5: Measuring and Communicating Impact by your OSPO. The Open Source (Program) Office Book. The TODO Group/Linux Foundation.