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ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems
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ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems

1936-7406

Published by: ACM

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

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Electronics and Electrical Engineering 297 32 65 12
Computer Science 448 65 93 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 77
Documents by Best Scientists*: 108
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 38
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.621
Impact Factor: 2.8

Overview

Top Research Topics at ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems?

ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems aims to foster the development of research in Field-programmable gate array, Embedded system, Parallel computing, Reconfigurable computing and Speedup. The studies in Field-programmable gate array featured incorporate elements of Software, Computer engineering and Computer architecture. The Computer engineering works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Artificial neural network and Hardware acceleration.

The concepts on Embedded system presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Scalability, Overhead (computing), Side channel attack, Cryptography and Reconfigurability. In addition to Parallel computing research, ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems aims to explore topics under Lookup table, Routing (electronic design automation), Computation and Reduction (complexity). ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems links adjacent topics like Reconfigurable computing with Supercomputer.

Interdisciplinary research on topics like Control reconfiguration and Distributed computing are the foci of the journal.

  • Field-programmable gate array (68.86%)
  • Embedded system (42.81%)
  • Parallel computing (28.44%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • VTR 7.0: Next Generation Architecture and CAD System for FPGAs (255 citations)
  • Techniques for Design and Implementation of Secure Reconfigurable PUFs (175 citations)
  • Performance of partial reconfiguration in FPGA systems: A survey and a cost model (108 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems:

The published papers investigate areas of study like Field-programmable gate array, Embedded system, Parallel computing, Reconfigurable computing and Software. Computation, CAD and Speedup are some topics wherein Field-programmable gate array research discussed in the most cited publications has an impact. The most cited publications with studies in Embedded system featured incorporate elements of Computer architecture, Computer hardware, Side channel attack, Cryptography and Reconfigurability.

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

  • Operating system
  • Central processing unit
  • Programming language

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

ACM Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems primarily tackles Field-programmable gate array, Embedded system, Deep learning, Artificial intelligence and Parallel computing. The Field-programmable gate array research presented falls under the domain of Computer hardware. Embedded system research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Software and STREAMS.

Topics in Software were tackled in line with various other fields like Formal verification and Overhead (engineering). While work presented in it provided substantial information on Deep learning, it also covered topics in Overlay, Computer architecture, Compiler and Domain (software engineering). The journal explores topics in Parallel computing which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Schedule, Scheduling (computing), Dependency graph and Data-flow analysis.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • ACE-GCN: A Fast Data-driven FPGA Accelerator for GCN Embedding (0 citations)
  • CGRA-EAM—Rapid Energy and Area Estimation for Coarse-grained Reconfigurable Architectures (0 citations)
  • Programming and Synthesis for Software-defined FPGA Acceleration: Status and Future Prospects (0 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 Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Vaughn Betz (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alan D. George (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • George A. Constantinides (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Wayne Luk (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Peter Y. K. Cheung (9 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 Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Imperial College London (23 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Toronto (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Florida (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Intel (10 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Xilinx (9 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, 25.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.50% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 37.50% of all publications and 25.00% 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.

Top Publications

  • VTR 8: High-performance CAD and Customizable FPGA Architecture Modelling

    Kevin E. Murray;Oleg Petelin;Sheng Zhong;Jia Min Wang

    (2020)
    262 Citations
  • The Future of FPGA Acceleration in Datacenters and the Cloud

    (2022)
    123 Citations
  • FPGA HLS Today: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities

    (2022)
    79 Citations
  • Accelerating Weather Prediction Using Near-Memory Reconfigurable Fabric

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • A Software/Hardware Co-Design of Crystals-Dilithium Signature Scheme

    Zhen Zhou;Debiao He;Zhe Liu;Min Luo

    (2021)
    29 Citations
  • Buffer Placement and Sizing for High-Performance Dataflow Circuits

    Lana Josipović;Shabnam Sheikhha;Andrea Guerrieri;Paolo Ienne

    (2022)
    27 Citations
  • Elastic-DF: Scaling Performance of DNN Inference in FPGA Clouds through Automatic Partitioning

    (2021)
    27 Citations

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