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IEEE Transactions on Big Data
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IEEE Transactions on Big Data

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 111 318 318 39

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 356
Documents by Best Scientists*: 334
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 11
SCIMAGO H-index: 34
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.571
Impact Factor: 5.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Transactions on Big Data?

IEEE Transactions on Big Data explores disciplines such as Big data, Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Data science and Cloud computing. The work on Big data tackled in it brings together disciplines like Data modeling, Scalability, Database, Distributed computing and Computer security. The study on Data mining presented in the journal intersects with subjects under the field of Cluster analysis.

IEEE Transactions on Big Data explores issues in Artificial intelligence which can be linked to other research areas like Machine learning and Pattern recognition. The majority of Data science studies in IEEE Transactions on Big Data are focused on the subject of Analytics. The study on Cloud computing presented in it intersects with the topics under Encryption.

  • Big data (49.14%)
  • Data mining (17.81%)
  • Artificial intelligence (17.81%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Billion-Scale Similarity Search with GPUs (289 citations)
  • Petuum: A New Platform for Distributed Machine Learning on Big Data (272 citations)
  • Network Representation Learning: A Survey (272 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at IEEE Transactions on Big Data:

The journal publications cover a variety of subjects, including Big data, Data mining, Artificial intelligence, Data science and Computer security. The most cited publications address concerns in Big data which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Metadata, Distributed computing, Information privacy, Information retrieval and Cloud computing. The studies on Artificial intelligence discussed at the most cited articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Field (computer science), Machine learning and Pattern recognition.

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Operating system
  • Machine learning

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

IEEE Transactions on Big Data primarily focuses on research topics in Big data, Artificial intelligence, Data mining, Data modeling and Machine learning. IEEE Transactions on Big Data addresses concerns in Big data which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Scalability, Computer security, Differential privacy, Cloud computing and Data science. It holds forums on Artificial intelligence that merges themes from other disciplines such as Graph (abstract data type) and Pattern recognition.

The study of Data mining encompasses disciplines such as Artificial neural network, as well as fields such as Feature learning, all of which overlap with one another. While the journal focused on Data modeling, it was also able to explore topics like Algorithm, Data visualization and Data analysis. The Machine learning works featured in it incorporate elements from Probabilistic logic, Representation (mathematics) and Similarity (psychology).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Billion-Scale Similarity Search with GPUs (289 citations)
  • Deep Feature Learning for Medical Image Analysis with Convolutional Autoencoder Neural Network (178 citations)
  • Privacy-Preserving Data Encryption Strategy for Big Data in Mobile Cloud Computing (64 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 IEEE Transactions on Big Data (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hai Jin (10 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Laurence T. Yang (10 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Yanhua Li (9 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Yu Zheng (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo (7 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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 IEEE Transactions on Big Data (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (20 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tsinghua University (19 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University (17 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology (17 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Microsoft (16 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as 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, 6.48% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 29.70% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.92% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 17.82% of all publications and 44.55% 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.

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Top Publications

  • Billion-Scale Similarity Search with GPUs

    Jeff Johnson;Matthijs Douze;Herve Jegou

    (2021)
    2651 Citations
  • Network Representation Learning: A Survey

    Daokun Zhang;Jie Yin;Xingquan Zhu;Chengqi Zhang

    (2020)
    762 Citations
  • Deep Feature Learning for Medical Image Analysis with Convolutional Autoencoder Neural Network

    Min Chen;Xiaobo Shi;Yin Zhang;Di Wu

    (2021)
    491 Citations
  • Deep Model Based Transfer and Multi-Task Learning for Biological Image Analysis

    Wenlu Zhang;Rongjian Li;Tao Zeng;Qian Sun

    (2020)
    287 Citations
  • Privacy-Preserving Data Encryption Strategy for Big Data in Mobile Cloud Computing

    Keke Gai;Meikang Qiu;Hui Zhao

    (2021)
    129 Citations
  • Exploiting Deep Features for Remote Sensing Image Retrieval: A Systematic Investigation

    Xin-Yi Tong;Gui-Song Xia;Fan Hu;Yanfei Zhong

    (2020)
    128 Citations
  • Beyond the Patchwise Classification: Spectral-Spatial Fully Convolutional Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification

    Yonghao Xu;Bo Du;Liangpei Zhang

    (2020)
    120 Citations
  • Algorithms of Unconstrained Non-Negative Latent Factor Analysis for Recommender Systems

    Xin Luo;MengChu Zhou;Shuai Li;Di Wu

    (2021)
    115 Citations
  • Differential Privacy Preserving of Training Model in Wireless Big Data with Edge Computing

    Miao Du;Kun Wang;Zhuoqun Xia;Yan Zhang

    (2020)
    113 Citations
  • Hyperbolic Graph Attention Network

    Yiding Zhang;Xiao Wang;Chuan Shi;Xunqiang Jiang

    (2021)
    113 Citations

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