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Information and Inference
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Information and Inference

2049-8772

Published by: Oxford University Press

https://academic.oup.com/imaiai

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 269 34 40 10
Computer Science 459 43 46 13

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 76
Documents by Best Scientists*: 78
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 33
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.22
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA?

The journal focuses largely on the fields of Algorithm, Applied mathematics, Matrix (mathematics), Combinatorics and Compressed sensing. Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA facilitates discussions on Algorithm that incorporate concepts from other fields like Range (mathematics), Subspace topology and Lasso (statistics). It connects research in Subspace topology with the related topic of Linear subspace.

Applied mathematics research presented in it encompasses a variety of subjects, including Inverse problem, Linear regression, Minimax, Estimator and Phase retrieval. Issues in Matrix (mathematics) were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Random matrix and Rank (linear algebra). In Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA, Function (mathematics) and Upper and lower bounds are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Combinatorics research.

  • Algorithm (32.84%)
  • Applied mathematics (22.89%)
  • Matrix (mathematics) (13.93%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Living on the edge: phase transitions in convex programs with random data (381 citations)
  • 1-Bit matrix completion (234 citations)
  • State evolution for general approximate message passing algorithms, with applications to spatial coupling (174 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA:

The most cited publications investigate studies in Algorithm, Applied mathematics, Matrix (mathematics), Compressed sensing and Convex optimization. The journal papers focus on Applied mathematics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Dimension (vector space), Estimator, Rounding and Least squares. While Matrix (mathematics) is the focus of the journal articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Random matrix and Combinatorics.

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

  • Statistics
  • Algebra
  • Mathematical analysis

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal focuses on Applied mathematics, Algorithm, Combinatorics, Estimator and Matrix (mathematics). The research on Applied mathematics tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Inverse problem, Covariance, Estimation of covariance matrices, Rank (linear algebra) and Gradient descent. The Algorithm works featured in it incorporate elements from Simple (abstract algebra) and Noise (signal processing).

The work on Combinatorics tackled in it brings together disciplines like Function (mathematics) and Laplace operator. Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA focuses on Estimator but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Entropy (information theory), Focus (optics) and Sample size determination. The research on Matrix (mathematics) featured in Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA combines topics in other fields like Random matrix, Linear regression, Phase retrieval, Projector and Key (cryptography).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • On oracle-type local recovery guarantees in compressed sensing (18 citations)
  • Overlap matrix concentration in optimal Bayesian inference (16 citations)
  • Compressed Sensing with 1D Total Variation: Breaking Sample Complexity Barriers via Non-Uniform Recovery (15 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 and Inference: A Journal of the IMA (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Amit Singer (6 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Hau-Tieng Wu (5 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Yaniv Plan (5 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Laurent Jacques (5 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Mahdi Soltanolkotabi (4 papers) published 2 papers 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 and Inference: A Journal of the IMA (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Stanford University (14 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Duke University (13 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Princeton University (10 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (9 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Michigan (8 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, 1.89% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 36.54% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 19.23% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.23% 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

  • Size-independent sample complexity of neural networks

    Noah Golowich;Alexander Rakhlin;Ohad Shamir

    (2020)
    370 Citations
  • State evolution for approximate message passing with non-separable functions

    Raphaël Berthier;Andrea Montanari;Phan-Minh Nguyen

    (2020)
    145 Citations
  • The limits of distribution-free conditional predictive inference

    Rina Foygel Barber;Emmanuel J Candès;Aaditya Ramdas;Ryan J Tibshirani

    (2021)
    109 Citations
  • A Model of Double Descent for High-dimensional Binary Linear Classification

    Zeyu Deng;Abla Kammoun;Christos Thrampoulidis

    (2021)
    96 Citations
  • Phase Transitions of Spectral Initialization for High-Dimensional Nonconvex Estimation

    Yue M Lu;Gen Li

    (2020)
    79 Citations
  • Uncertainty Principle for Communication Compression in Distributed and Federated Learning and the Search for an Optimal Compressor

    Mher Safaryan;Egor Shulgin;Peter Richtárik

    (2021)
    57 Citations
  • The information complexity of learning tasks, their structure and their distance

    Alessandro Achille;Giovanni Paolini;Glen Mbeng;Stefano Soatto

    (2021)
    47 Citations
  • Breaking the Sample Complexity Barrier to Regret-Optimal Model-Free Reinforcement Learning

    (2021)
    46 Citations
  • One-bit compressed sensing with partial Gaussian circulant matrices

    Sjoerd Dirksen;Hans Christian Jung;Holger Rauhut

    (2020)
    41 Citations

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