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Information and Computation
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Information and Computation

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 412 108 128 14
Mathematics 489 19 25 5

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 122
Documents by Best Scientists*: 148
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 85
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.493
Impact Factor: 1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Information & Computation?

Information & Computation tackles a plethora of topics, such as Discrete mathematics, Algorithm, Control theory, Combinatorics and Artificial intelligence. Topics in Discrete mathematics were tackled in line with various other fields like Bounded function, Set (abstract data type) and Algebra. Algorithm research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Theoretical computer science and Mathematical optimization.

The study on Control theory presented in the journal intersects with the topics under Control (management). Combinatorics research discussed connects with the study of Upper and lower bounds. The Artificial intelligence works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Natural language processing, Machine learning, Computer vision and Pattern recognition.

  • Discrete mathematics (25.86%)
  • Algorithm (16.12%)
  • Control theory (14.61%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Language identification in the limit (2916 citations)
  • A calculus of mobile processes, II (2660 citations)
  • The weighted majority algorithm (1730 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Information & Computation:

The most cited articles are organized to address concerns in the fields of Discrete mathematics, Algorithm, Combinatorics, Algebra and Theoretical computer science. The journal publications focus on Discrete mathematics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Automaton, Bounded function and Set (abstract data type). The studies on Algebra discussed at the journal publications can also contribute to research in the domains of Process calculus and Bisimulation.

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

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Statistics

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Theoretical computer science, Discrete mathematics, Combinatorics, Set (abstract data type) and Decidability are the subjects of interest in the journal. In the journal, Computational complexity theory, Context (language use), Semantics (computer science) and Petri net are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Theoretical computer science research. Time complexity is a primary topic of Discrete mathematics research in the journal.

The concepts on Combinatorics presented in it can also apply to other research fields, including Word (group theory) and String (computer science). Topics in Set (abstract data type) explored in it were investigated in conjunction with research in Power (physics), Word (computer architecture), Function (mathematics), Topology and Data structure. The close relationship between Bounded function and Algorithm and Upper and lower bounds is one of the points of interest dissected in Decidability research.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • A Probabilistic Calculus of Cyber-Physical Systems (11 citations)
  • A theory of monitors (7 citations)
  • A Simplicial Complex Model for Dynamic Epistemic Logic to study Distributed Task Computability (4 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 Information & Computation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Sanjay Jain (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Grzegorz Rozenberg (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Frank Stephan (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alexander Rabinovich (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Wang Zhi-quan (19 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 Information & Computation (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (120 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • IBM (97 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (79 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (72 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (67 papers) published 2 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, 10.08% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 8.41% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.28% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 10.28% of all publications and 71.03% 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

  • What's decidable about weighted automata?

    Shaull Almagor;Udi Boker;Orna Kupferman

    (2020)
    96 Citations
  • Computational fuzzy extractors

    Benjamin Fuller;Xianrui Meng;Leonid Reyzin

    (2020)
    95 Citations
  • Cell-like P systems with evolutional symport/antiport rules and membrane creation

    Bosheng Song;Kenli Li;David Orellana-Martín;Luis Valencia-Cabrera

    (2020)
    53 Citations
  • Solving SAT and MaxSAT with a Quantum Annealer: Foundations, Encodings, and Preliminary Results

    Zhengbing Bian;Fabián A. Chudak;William G. Macready;Aidan Roy

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Parametric Markov chains: PCTL complexity and fraction-free Gaussian elimination

    Christel Baier;Christian Hensel;Lisa Hutschenreiter;Sebastian Junges

    (2020)
    44 Citations
  • A Simplicial Complex Model for Dynamic Epistemic Logic to study Distributed Task Computability

    Éric Goubault;Jérémy Ledent;Sergio Rajsbaum

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Revisiting Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm

    Daowen Qiu;Shenggen Zheng

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Survey on mining signal temporal logic specifications

    (2022)
    24 Citations
  • Neural-like P systems with plasmids

    Francis George C. Cabarle;Francis George C. Cabarle;Xiangxiang Zeng;Xiangxiang Zeng;Niall Murphy;Tao Song

    (2021)
    23 Citations
  • Probabilistic Automata of Bounded Ambiguity

    Nathanaël Fijalkow;Nathanaël Fijalkow;Cristian Riveros;Cristian Riveros;James Worrell

    (2020)
    22 Citations

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