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Top Publishing Venues In Computer Science Conferences or Journals?! Rawia Awadallah Faculty of Information Technology IUG 28.10.2013 Disclaimer • The answer that I will give to this talk’s question is accurate to the best of my knowledge, and it agrees with what Google Scholar says, what Microsoft Academic Search says, and what researchers say. • However, it is not intended to impugn any particular conference or journal — there are always exceptions to a rule. 2 Academic Databases and Search Engines • A list of major academic databases and search engines can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_databases_and_search_engines • For finding and accessing articles in academic journals, repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and other articles • Examples of databases and search engines for computer science: CiteSeerX, arXiv, DBLP, IEEE Xplore, ACM digital Library, Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuter), Microsoft Academic Search, and Google Scholar. 3 Outline Top Computer Science Publishing Venues? – What Google Scholar Says – What Microsoft Academic Search Says – What Researchers Say 4 What Google Scholar Says Google Scholar • Ranks conferences and journals based on publications and citations currently indexed by Google. http://scholar.google.com/ 5 What Google Scholar Says Fields 6 What Google Scholar Says Subcategories of a Field 7 What Google Scholar Says Top Publications In Analytical Chemistry 8 What Google Scholar Says Top Publications In Finance 9 What Google Scholar Says Top Publications In Cardiology 10 What Google Scholar Says Top Publications In Middle Eastern 11 What Google Scholar Says? Top Publications In Cell Biology 12 What Google Scholar Says? Top Publications In Algebra 13 What Google Scholar Says? Top Publications In Education 14 What Google Scholar Says Top Publications In Artificial Intelligence 15 What Google Scholar Says? Top Publications In Computer Graphics 16 What Google Scholar Says? Top Publications In Data Mining 17 What Google Scholar Says? Top Publications In Databases 18 What Microsoft Academic Says Microsoft Academic Search • Ranks conferences and journals based on publications and citations currently indexed by Microsoft Academic Search. http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ 19 What Microsoft Academic Says Fields 20 What Microsoft Academic Says Subcategories of a Field 21 What Microsoft Academic Says Top Conferences In Data Mining 22 What Microsoft Academic Says Top Journals In Data Mining 23 What Microsoft Academic Says Top Conferences In Databases 24 What Microsoft Academic Says Top Journals In Databases 25 What Microsoft Academic Says ArtificialVenue Intelligence 1 Citations ESWA - Expert Systems With Applications 16725 7866 3 ICRA - International Conference on Robotics and Automation IROS - International Conference on Intelligent RObots and Systems - IROS 4 IJON - Neurocomputing 4680 5 ASC - Applied Soft Computing 3463 6 FSS - Fuzzy Sets and Systems 3250 7 ICML - International Conference on Machine Learning 3154 8 TRob - IEEE Transactions on Robotics 3078 9 TFS - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 2872 2527 12 CEC - IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation ATAL - Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems/Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages GECCO - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 13 DSS - Decision Support Systems 2181 14 IJRR - International Journal of Robotic Research 2142 15 Neural Networks 2067 2 10 11 4802 2470 2457 26 What Microsoft Academic Says Artificial Intelligence Venue Citations 16 IJAR - International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 1983 17 AAAI - National Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1792 18 RaS - Robotics and Autonomous Systems 1614 1505 20 AI - Artificial Intelligence SMC - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 21 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 1197 22 IEEE Transactions Automation Science and Engineering 1061 965 25 EXPERT - IEEE Expert / IEEE Intelligent Systems ICFCA - International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis IJCAI - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 26 ETFA - Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation 903 27 HRI - Human-Robot Interaction 896 28 JAIR - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 868 AROBOTS - Autonomous Robots 852 842 19 23 24 29 30 JFR - Journal of Field Robotics 1221 963 945 27 What Microsoft Academic Says Databases Venue Citations 4062 2 ICDE - International Conference on Data Engineering SIGMOD - International Conference on Management of Data 3 CS&DA - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 3176 3025 7 PVLDB - Proceedings of The Vldb Endowment TKDE - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering CIKM - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management HICSS - Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 8 KBS - Knowledge Based Systems 1748 9 DKE - Data & Knowledge Engineering 1437 10 ISWC - International Semantic Web Conference 1436 11 EDBT - Extending Database Technology 1274 1249 13 VLDB - The Vldb Journal ESWS - European Semantic Web Symposium / Conference 14 KAIS - Knowledge and Information Systems 1226 15 Digital Signal Processing 1023 1 4 5 6 12 3554 2641 2520 2411 1242 28 What Microsoft Academic Says 16 Databases Venue Citations IS - Information Systems 833 ICSOC - International Conference on Service Oriented Computing 17 18 IMDS - Industrial Management and Data Systems 778 763 19 PODS - Symposium on Principles of Database Systems 641 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 CAiSE - Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering BPM - Business Process Management OTM Workshops TODS - ACM Transactions on Database Systems GIS - Workshop on Advances in Geographic Information Systems ISR - Information Systems Research ICEIS - International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems DEXA - Database and Expert Systems Applications 29 BMEI - International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics ER(OOER) - Object-Oriented and Entity-Relationship Modelling/International Conference on Conceptual Modeling / the Entity Relationship Approach 30 IJCIS - International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 28 631 612 586 555 542 541 514 499 464 408 403 29 What Microsoft Academic Says Data Mining Venue 1 2 3 4 5 6 ICDE - International Conference on Data Engineering CS&DA - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis KDD - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining TKDE - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering CIKM - International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Citations 4062 3176 3142 2641 2520 1482 7 WSDM - Web Search and Data Mining ICDM - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 8 IPL - Information Processing Letters 1298 VLDB - The Vldb Journal KAIS - Knowledge and Information Systems SDM - SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 1249 816 13 INFFUS - Information Fusion PKDD - Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 14 Sigkdd Explorations 650 15 Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery 641 9 10 11 12 1401 1227 855 665 30 What Microsoft Academic Says Data Mining Venue Citations 617 24 Journal of Knowledge Management ICWSM - International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media PAKDD - Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining DATAMINE - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery ICETET - International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology TKDD - ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery From Data WKDD - Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining DASFAA - Database Systems for Advanced Applications GRC - IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing 25 WWW - World Wide Web 199 26 Statistical Analysis and Data Mining 178 IDA - Intelligent Data Analysis DaWaK - Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery ASONAM - Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining IDEAL - Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning 163 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 27 28 29 30 609 525 456 376 346 289 288 245 161 150 137 31 What Researchers Say Conferences • Dominant presence of conference publication since early 1980s. • 1980s -1990s, pressure from promotion and tenure committees about conference vs. journal publication. • 1999, Computing Research Association published a Best Practices Memo, titled "Evaluating Computer Scientists and Engineers for Promotion and Tenure," – Legitimized conference publication as primary means of publication in computer research. – Since then, dominance of conference publication over journals increased. 32 What Researchers Say Conferences • Best researchers send their papers to conferences. • Conferences provide higher visibility and greater impact. • Non-attendees read conference proceedings than read journals. 33 What Researchers Say Conferences • Acceptance rates to good conferences ~ 15%. – the best journals are less selective • Higher standards of novelty – Journals often only require 20-30% of material to be new, compared to earlier conference version • Turnaround time for conference reviews = few months – Takes years for journal publication to appear • Low-quality conferences and journals in C.V. – bad indicator • Best conferences sponsored by ACM, Google, and Microsoft Research. 34 What Researchers Say Journal Publication • • • • Have longer page limits. Could give overview of entire research area. Reviews tend to be more detailed. Have higher acceptance rates. – giving opportunity to get your research published. 35 What Researchers Say Journal Publication • Have higher standards than conferences in most scientific fields. – computer science is a rare exception • Some lower-ranked universities evaluate CS faculty on basis of journal publications. • Rush for people at lower-ranked universities to submit even marginal results tends to lower overall quality of journals. 36 Take Home Message In Computing Research Publishing culture (publication model) is unique In general, publishing in double-blind peer-review conferences sponsored by ACM, Google, or Microsoft Research is both rigorous and prestigious and NOT less important than publishing in journals with high impact factors. 38 References [1] “Choosing a venue: conference or journal?” Michael Ernst. 2006 (http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/advice/conferences-vs-journals.html). [2] “Viewpoint: Research evaluation for computer science.” Bertrand Meyer, Christine Choppy, Jørgen Staunstrup, and Jan van Leeuwen. 2009. Commun. ACM 52. [3] “Relative status of journal and conference publications in computer science.” Commun. Jill Freyne, Lorcan Coyle, Barry Smyth, and Padraig Cunningham. 2010. ACM 53. [4] “Relationship between high-quality journals and conferences.” Michael Eckmann , Anderson Rocha, and Jacques Wainer. 2012. Scientometrics. [5] “Research Endogamy as an indicator of conference quality.” Montolio, Sergio Lopez, David Dominguez-Sal, and Josep Lluis Larriba-Pey. 2013. SIGMOD Record. [6] “Conferences vs. Journals in CS, what to do?.” Hermenegildo, Manuel V.. 2012. Position paper for Dagstuhl meeting 12452: Publication Culture in Computing Research. [7] “Evaluating Computer Scientists and Engineers For Promotion and Tenure.” David Patterson, Lawrence Snyder and Jeffrey Ullman . 1999. CRA Best Practices Memo 39 Thank You! 40