SIGIR 2020 Statistics – Hamed Zamani

(This post was originally published in my former blog on July 2, 2020)

The following statistics have been automatically generated from the SIGIR 2020 accepted papers list with minimal manual post-processing.

TOP 5 INSTITUTES – All papers (full, short, demo, and industry tracks)

Here is the list of top 5 institutes with the highest number of publications.

#1 Microsoft – 32 papers
#2 Alibaba – 28 papers
#3 Tsinghua University – 23 papers
#4 Chinese Academy of Sciences – 16 papers
#5 University of Amsterdam – 13 papers

Note 1: If multiple researchers from the same institute co-authored a paper, it only counts as one paper for the institute.

Note 2: The results reported for ‘Microsoft’ is aggregation of all Microsoft branches and companies, including Microsoft Research, MSRA, and LinkedIn.

Note 3: The results reported for ‘Chinese Academy of Sciences’ is aggregation of all their institutes, including Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Institute of Automation, Institute of Software, Institute of Computing Technology, and School of Mathematical Sciences.

TOP 5 INSTITUTES – Only full papers

Here is the list of top 5 institutes with the highest number of full papers.

#1 Alibaba – 15 papers
#1 Microsoft – 15 papers
#3 Tsinghua University – 14 papers
#4 Renmin University of China – 10 papers
#5 University of Science and Technology of China – 9 papers

Note 1: If multiple researchers from the same institute co-authored a paper, it only counts as one paper for the institute.

Note 2: The results reported for ‘Microsoft’ is aggregation of all Microsoft branches and companies, including Microsoft Research, MSRA, and LinkedIn.

TOP 10 AUTHORS – All papers (full, short, demo, and industry tracks) – Based on Normalized Publication Count

#1 Maarten de Rijke, Professor, University of Amsterdam (score: 2.92)
#2 Ji-Rong Wen, Professor, Renmin University of China (score: 1.85)
#3 Hamed Zamani, Researcher, Microsoft (score: 1.82)
#4 Xiangnan He, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (score: 1.71)
#5 James Allan, Professor, UMass Amherst (score: 1.67)
#6 Zhicheng Dou, Professor, Renmin University of China (score: 1.4)
#7 Shaoping Ma, Professor, Tsinghua University (score: 1.38)
#7 Min Zhang, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University (score: 1.38)
#7 Yiqun Liu, Professor, Tsinghua University (score: 1.38)
#10 W. Bruce Croft, Professor, UMass Amherst (score: 1.33)
#10 Yuta Saito, Unknown, Tokyo Institute of Technology (score: 1.33)

Note: scores were computed by normalizing publication counts by the number of authors per paper.

TOP 10 AUTHORS – All papers (full, short, demo, and industry tracks) – Based on Publication Count

#1 Maarten de Rijke, Professor, University of Amsterdam (11 papers)
#2 Xiangnan He, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (9 papers)
#3 Xiuqiang He, Researcher, Huawei (8 papers)
#3 Yiqun Liu, Professor, Tsinghua University (8 papers)
#3 Shaoping Ma, Professor, Tsinghua University (8 papers)
#3 Ji-Rong Wen, Professor, Renmin University of China (8 papers)
#3 Min Zhang, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University (8 papers)
#8 Meng Wang, Professor, Hefei University of Technology (6 papers)
#8 Hamed Zamani, Researcher, Microsoft (6 papers)
#10 Xueqi Cheng, Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences (5 papers)
#10 Nick Craswell, Research Manager, Microsoft (5 papers)
#10 W. Bruce Croft, Professor, UMass Amherst (5 papers)
#10 Zhicheng Dou, Professor, Renmin University of China (5 papers)
#10 Yanyan Lan, Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences (5 papers)
#10 Xiaozhong Liu, Associate Professor, Indiana University Bloomington (5 papers)
#10 Weizhi Ma, Unknown, Tsinghua University (5 papers)
#10 Jiaxin Mao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua University (5 papers)
#10 Franco Maria Nardini, Researcher, ISTI-CNR (5 papers)
#10 Raffaele Perego, Professor, ISTI-CNR (5 papers)
#10 Ruiming Tang, Researcher, Huawei (5 papers)
#10 Dawei Yin, Engineering Director, Baidu (5 papers)
#10 Yong Yu, Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (5 papers)
#10 Weinan Zhang, Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (5 papers)

TOP 10 AUTHORS – Only full papers – Based on Normalized Publication Count

#1 Ji-Rong Wen, Professor, Renmin University of China (score: 1.85)
#2 Maarten de Rijke, Professor, University of Amsterdam (score: 1.75)
#3 Xiangnan He, Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (score: 1.51)
#4 Zhicheng Dou, Professor, Renmin University of China (score: 1.4)
#5 James Caverlee, Professor, Texas A&M University (score: 1.03)
#6 Yuta Saito, Unknown, Tokyo Institute of Technology (score: 1.00)
#7 Yiqun Liu, Professor, Tsinghua University (score: 0.98)
#7 Shaoping Ma, Professor, Tsinghua University (score: 0.98)
#7 Meng Wang, Professor, Hefei University of Technology (score: 0.98)
#7 Min Zhang, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University (score: 0.98)