Open source barriers to entry, revisited: a sociotechnical perspective. - Christopher J. Mendez; Hema Susmita Padala; Zoe Steine-Hanson; Claudia Hilderbrand; Amber Horvath; Charles Hill 001; Logan Simpson; Nupoor Patil; Anita Sarma; Margaret M. Burnett (ICSE, 2018)

The Signals that Potential Contributors Look for When Choosing Open-source Projects. - Huilian Sophie Qiu; Yucen Lily Li; Hema Susmita Padala; Anita Sarma; Bogdan Vasilescu (Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 2019)

Recommending Tasks to Newcomers in OSS Projects: How Do Mentors Handle It? - Sogol Balali; Umayal Annamalai; Hema Susmita Padala; Bianca Trinkenreich; Marco Aurélio Gerosa; Igor Steinmacher; Anita Sarma (OpenSym, 2020)

How Gender-Biased Tools Shape Newcomer Experiences in OSS Projects. - Hema Susmita Padala; Christopher J. Mendez; Felipe Fronchetti; Igor Steinmacher; Zoe Steine-Hanson; Claudia Hilderbrand; Amber Horvath; Charles Hill 001; Logan Simpson; Margaret Burnett; Marco Aurélio Gerosa; Anita Sarma (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2022)