[jimwhite]

The answer is "Yes" and Google is your friend here. Highly relevant queries with high quality top hits are:

[software engineering research] [psychology of programming] [empirical research on computer language productivity] [empirical research on programming methodology effectiveness]

[afarrell]

Advising people on more-relevant queries like this is super useful and I wish I saw it more often.

[kpierce]

I agree. There are a number of times I don't know the correct phrases to dig deep in google. Especially when I started programming.

[drwl]

also using Google Scholar! Just be sure to make sure on [x] Peer Reviewed