Dear TC6 colleagues,
I've collected some information on Citeseer regarding the impact of our TC6 events.
Please find these results below. It's always useful to know how our events are ranked with respect to others. This could be part of an agenda item on statistics of TC6 events in Athens and also in relation with publishers.
Note that these data have been computed in May 2003, which means that only events organized until 2002 had a chance to have an impact. So, recent events are not well ranked, which is normal.
Note also that with citeseer only papers available electronically are considered. So, a first step in reaction to this would be that all individuals publishing in our conferences put all their papers on their web pages and send their URLs to citeseer for reference. Unfortunately this is not always allowed by the publishers, but note that IEEE and ACM allow this. And I remember that Kluwer had accepted too for events where some authors would have otherwise refused to sign the copyright transfer form.
A last comment in that only conferences referenced in the DBLP database are taken into account. And some TC6 conferences are not there. Some reaction is needed. Perhaps each WG chairperson could do the necessary steps to register them as IFIP events: check http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/series/ifip/index.html
Best regards, Guy
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Estimated impact of publication venues in Computer Science (higher is better) - May 2003 (CiteSeer)
Generated from documents in the CiteSeer </cs> database. This analysis does not include citations where one or more authors of the citing and cited articles match. This list is automatically generated and may contain errors. Only venues with at least 25 articles are shown.
Impact is estimated using the average citation rate, where citations are normalized using the average citation rate for all articles in a given year, and transformed using ln (n+1) where n is the number of citations.
Publication details obtained from DBLP http://dblp.uni-trier.de/ by Michael Ley http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/. Only venues contained in DBLP are included.
In the list below, IFIP TC6 conferences are in bold, some others are included for comparison purposes:
Top 10%:
2. USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems: 3.23 (top 0.16%) 4. SIGCOMM: 2.79 (top 0.32%) 5. MOBICOM: 2.76 (top 0.40%) 47. NOSSDAV: 1.85 (top 3.84%) 49. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security: 1.82 (top 4.01%) 63. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce: 1.75 (top 5.15%) 68. Mobile Agents: 1.73 (top 5.56%) 98. SIGMETRICS/Performance: 1.56 (top 8.02%) 102. WWW (World Wide Web): 1.54 (top 8.35%) (but TC6 is a co-sponsor since 2002 only)
Top 20%:
131. ICNP: 1.40 (top 10.72%) 133. INFOCOM: 1.39 (top 10.89%) 222. Middleware: 1.13 (top 18.18%)
Top 40%:
420. PfHSN (Protocols for High-Speed Networks): 0.76 (top 34.39%) 424. IWQoS (International Workshop on QoS): 0.75 (top 34.72%) 429. IM (Integrated Network Management): 0.74 (top 35.13%) 435. PSTV (Protocol Specification Testing & Verification) : 0.74 (top 35.62%) (now merged with FORTE) 462. IWAN (International Workshop on Active Networks): 0.71 (top 37.83%) 478. HPN (High Performance Networking): 0.68 (top 39.14%) (now part of Networking) 497. FORTE (Formal Techniques for Networked & Distrib. Syst.): 0.66 (top 40.70%)
Note: given that FORTE and PSTV are merged, their combined impact (taking account of logarithmic scales) would be ±230. FORTE/PSTV: 1.11 (top 19%)
Top 60%:
543. QofIS: 0.59 (top 44.47%) 686. DSOM (Distributed Systems Operations & Management): 0.41 (top 56.18%) 697. TESTCOM (Testing Communicating Systems): 0.40 (top 57.08%)
Top 80%:
756. IFIP Congress (1): 0.34 (top 61.91%) 788. IDMS: 0.31 (top 64.53%) 811. BC (Broadband Communications): 0.29 (top 66.42%) 823. EP (Electronic Publishing): 0.27 (top 67.40%) 830. Modelling and Evaluation of ATM Networks: 0.27 (top 67.97%) 916. NETWORKING: 0.20 (top 75.02%) 952. DAIS (Distributed Applications & Interoperable Systems): 0.17 (top 77.96%) 954. ONDM (Optical Network Design & Modelling): 0.17 (top 78.13%) 964. MATA (Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications: 0.17 (top 78.95%)
Last 20%:
1018. INDC (Information Network & Data Communication: 0.13 (top 83.37%) 1054. INTERWORKING: 0.10 (top 86.32%) 1111. SMARTNET (Intelligence in Networks): 0.06 (top 90.99%) 1115. I3E (E-commerce E-business & E-government): 0.06 (top 91.31%) 1164. MMNS (Management of Multimedia Networks & Services): 0.03 (top 95.33%) 1221 (last one). IBERAMIA-SBIA 2000 Open Discussion Track: 0.00 (top 100.00%)
Not ranked (though in the DBLP database):
CMS (Communications & Multimedia Security) FMOODS (Formal Methods for Open Object-based Distributed Systems)
IFIP conferences not in DBLP:
AFRICOM LANC MWCN NETCON NOMS PWC WITASI And some other very recent ones