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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.
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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.
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Outline
Top Computer Science Publishing Venues?
– What Google Scholar Says
– What Microsoft Academic Search Says
– What Researchers Say
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What Google Scholar Says
Google Scholar
• Ranks conferences and journals based on
publications and citations currently indexed by
Google.
http://scholar.google.com/
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What Google Scholar Says
Fields
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What Google Scholar Says
Subcategories of a Field
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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
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What Google Scholar Says?
Top Publications In Databases
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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/
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What Microsoft Academic Says
Fields
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What Microsoft Academic Says
Subcategories of a Field
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What Microsoft Academic Says
Top Conferences In Data Mining
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What Microsoft Academic Says
Top Journals In Data Mining
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What Microsoft Academic Says
Top Conferences In Databases
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What Microsoft Academic Says
Top Journals In Databases
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What Microsoft Academic Says
ArtificialVenue
Intelligence
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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
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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
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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
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17
18
19
20
21
22
23
27
28
29
30
609
525
456
376
346
289
288
245
161
150
137
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What Researchers Say
Journal Publication
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Thank You!
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