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ACM Transactions on Database Systems
H-index 14

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

0362-5915

Published by: ACM

https://dl.acm.org/journal/tods

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 418 55 49 14

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 56
Documents by Best Scientists*: 49
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 92
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.913
Impact Factor: 1.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at ACM Transactions on Database Systems?

The journal generally zeroes in on subjects such as Theoretical computer science, Data mining, Database, Algorithm and Relational database. The work on Theoretical computer science tackled in the journal brings together disciplines like Programming language, Set (abstract data type), Functional dependency, Query optimization and Conjunctive query. Multivalued dependency is a major topic of Functional dependency research presented in ACM Transactions on Database Systems.

Some problems in Query optimization that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Query language, Query expansion, Web query classification and Sargable. The Query language works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Query by Example and RDF query language. ACM Transactions on Database Systems holds forums on Data mining that merges themes from other disciplines such as Tuple and Information retrieval, Search engine indexing.

The journal focuses on different Database studies like Database design and Database schema. ACM Transactions on Database Systems concentrated on Database design research, specifically View, Database model, Database theory, Database testing and Database tuning. Discussions in the journal are anchored in the subject of Relational database and the similar topic of SQL.

  • Theoretical computer science (30.86%)
  • Data mining (22.59%)
  • Database (21.55%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Extending the database relational model to capture more meaning (1461 citations)
  • Database abstractions: aggregation and generalization (1287 citations)
  • On optimistic methods for concurrency control (1283 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at ACM Transactions on Database Systems:

The journal publications explore disciplines such as Theoretical computer science, Database, Data mining, Algorithm and Relational database. The works on Theoretical computer science tackled in the published papers bring together disciplines like Programming language and SQL. Information retrieval and Sargable are some topics wherein Data mining research discussed in the most cited publications has an impact.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Programming language
  • Operating system
  • Database

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Theoretical computer science, Set (abstract data type), Algorithm, Vertex (geometry) and Functional dependency. ACM Transactions on Database Systems explores topics in Theoretical computer science which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Tuple, Boyce–Codd normal form, Constant (computer programming), Tree (graph theory) and Conjunctive query. The research on Tuple tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Cardinality (SQL statements), Preemption, Query optimization, Benchmark (computing) and Data structure.

Set (abstract data type) research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Bounded function and Spanning tree. ACM Transactions on Database Systems addresses concerns in Algorithm which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Dependency (UML), Information extraction, Automaton and Preprocessor. ACM Transactions on Database Systems explores issues in Functional dependency which can be linked to other research areas like Interpretation (logic), Missing data and Database design.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Embedded Functional Dependencies and Data-completeness Tailored Database Design (3 citations)
  • Constant-Delay Enumeration for Nondeterministic Document Spanners (3 citations)
  • On the Enumeration Complexity of Unions of Conjunctive Queries (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in ACM Transactions on Database Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • David K. Hsiao (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Yufei Tao (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wenfei Fan (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hector Garcia-Molina (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Philip A. Bernstein (12 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in ACM Transactions on Database Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • IBM (77 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Maryland, College Park (35 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Stanford University (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Ohio State University (25 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 0.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 16.67% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 33.33% of all publications and 50.00% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Opportunities Related to ACM Transactions on Database Systems

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Top Publications

  • eKTELO: A Framework for Defining Differentially Private Computations

    Dan Zhang;Ryan McKenna;Ios Kotsogiannis;George Bissias

    (2020)
    56 Citations
  • Unified Route Planning for Shared Mobility: An Insertion-based Framework

    (2022)
    41 Citations
  • Learning Models over Relational Data Using Sparse Tensors and Functional Dependencies

    Mahmoud Abo Khamis;Hung Q. Ngo;Xuanlong Nguyen;Dan Olteanu

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • On Directed Densest Subgraph Discovery

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Discovering Graph Functional Dependencies

    Wenfei Fan;Chunming Hu;Xueli Liu;Ping Lu

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Adaptive Asynchronous Parallelization of Graph Algorithms

    Wenfei Fan;Ping Lu;Wenyuan Yu;Jingbo Xu

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Efficient Discovery of Matching Dependencies

    Philipp Schirmer;Thorsten Papenbrock;Ioannis Koumarelas;Felix Naumann

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • Bag Query Containment and Information Theory

    Mahmoud Abo Khamis;Phokion G. Kolaitis;Hung Q. Ngo;Dan Suciu

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Maintaining Triangle Queries under Updates

    Ahmet Kara;Hung Q. Ngo;Milos Nikolic;Dan Olteanu

    (2020)
    21 Citations
  • Incremental and Approximate Computations for Accelerating Deep CNN Inference

    Supun Nakandala;Kabir Nagrecha;Arun Kumar;Yannis Papakonstantinou

    (2020)
    20 Citations

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