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Communications of the ACM
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Communications of the ACM

0001-0782

Published by: ACM

http://cacm.acm.org/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 76 567 594 48

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 630
Documents by Best Scientists*: 664
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 19
SCIMAGO H-index: 249
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.146
Impact Factor: 12.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Communications of The ACM?

The foci of Communications of The ACM are Programming language, Algorithm, Artificial intelligence, World Wide Web and Computer security. Discussions in it are anchored in the subject of Artificial intelligence and the similar topic of Natural language processing.

  • Programming language (7.02%)
  • Algorithm (6.47%)
  • Artificial intelligence (6.09%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Random sample consensus: a paradigm for model fitting with applications to image analysis and automated cartography (18528 citations)
  • MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters (16757 citations)
  • A method for obtaining digital signatures and public-key cryptosystems (13455 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Communications of The ACM:

The most cited papers aim to foster the development of research in Artificial intelligence, World Wide Web, Programming language, Algorithm and Computer security. The published papers connects the study in Artificial intelligence with the closely related areas of Natural language processing.

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Operating system
  • World War II

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal investigates studies in Perspective (graphical), Computer security, Artificial intelligence, Software engineering and Internet privacy. The studies tackled, which mainly focus on Artificial intelligence, apply to Machine learning as well. It focuses on Internet privacy research which is adjacent to topics in The Internet.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Understanding deep learning (still) requires rethinking generalization (109 citations)
  • Deep learning for AI (24 citations)
  • A review of the semantic web field (12 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 Communications of The ACM (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Robert Fox (217 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Cacm Staff (185 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Peter J. Denning (158 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Peter G. Neumann (106 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Pamela Samuelson (106 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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 Communications of The ACM (based on the number of publications) are:

  • IBM (432 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (353 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (303 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Stanford University (292 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Microsoft (218 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous 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, 27.35% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 26.47% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 12.35% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.47% of all publications and 44.71% 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.

How to Start Your Career in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

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Top Publications

  • Generative adversarial networks

    Ian Goodfellow;Jean Pouget-Abadie;Mehdi Mirza;Bing Xu

    (2020)
    16446 Citations
  • Understanding deep learning (still) requires rethinking generalization

    Chiyuan Zhang;Samy Bengio;Moritz Hardt;Benjamin Recht

    (2021)
    5453 Citations
  • NeRF

    Unknown

    (2021)
    4895 Citations
  • Datasheets for datasets

    Timnit Gebru;Jamie Morgenstern;Briana Vecchione;Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

    (2021)
    1401 Citations
  • Green AI

    Roy Schwartz;Jesse Dodge;Noah A. Smith;Oren Etzioni

    (2020)
    1046 Citations
  • WinoGrande: an adversarial winograd schema challenge at scale

    Keisuke Sakaguchi;Ronan Le Bras;Chandra Bhagavatula;Yejin Choi

    (2021)
    748 Citations
  • Deep learning for AI

    Yoshua Bengio;Yann Lecun;Geoffrey Hinton

    (2021)
    463 Citations
  • A snapshot of the frontiers of fairness in machine learning

    Alexandra Chouldechova;Aaron Roth

    (2020)
    345 Citations
  • The (Im)possibility of fairness: different value systems require different mechanisms for fair decision making

    Sorelle A. Friedler;Carlos Scheidegger;Suresh Venkatasubramanian

    (2021)
    216 Citations
  • Spectre attacks: exploiting speculative execution

    Paul Kocher;Jann Horn;Anders Fogh;Daniel Genkin

    (2020)
    211 Citations

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