{"id":493982,"date":"2018-07-06T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T23:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-blog-post&p=493982"},"modified":"2018-07-06T16:50:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T23:50:52","slug":"icml-conference-analytics","status":"publish","type":"msr-blog-post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/articles\/icml-conference-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"ICML Conference Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Microsoft Academic Graph<\/a>\u00a0makes it possible to gain analytic insights about any of the entities within it: publications,\u00a0authors (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0institutions (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0topics (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0journals (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0conferences (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. In this series, we present analytic insights about current conferences, which we hope will help you prepare for attending each event. All the insights within are derived from the Microsoft Academic Graph and visualized in Microsoft Power BI. You can generate your own insights by accessing the Microsoft Academic Graph through the\u00a0Academic Knowledge API (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0or through\u00a0Azure Data Lake Store (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(please\u00a0contact us<\/a>\u00a0for the latter option). If you would like to learn how we generated the insights below, please see the\u00a0repository with source code (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

In this post, we present historical trend analysis about the conference ICML \u2013 International Conference on Machine Learning, taking place in Stockholm International Fairs, Stockholm, Sweden from July 10-15, 2018<\/strong>. We derive insights since 1993 to the latest available year.<\/p>\n

Click on each image for current trends and data hosted by\u00a0Microsoft Academic Graph<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

ICML Paper Output<\/h2>\n

The chart below shows the evolution of number of conference papers for each conference year.<\/p>\n

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In the following chart, the black bars represent average numbers of references per conference paper for each year. The data show the recent publications tend to cite more references. The green bars show the average numbers of citations received by conference papers written in a given year. Note that the citations are raw counts and not normalized by the age of publications. This is because the \u201ccorrect\u201d way to normalize the citation counts turns out to be a nontrivial problem and may well be application dependent. Please treat the raw data presented as an invitation to conduct research on this topic!<\/p>\n

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That being said, a visible trend is older publications tend to receive more citations because they have more time to receive due recognitions. There are, however, notable exceptions, the first in years of 1997 and 1998 due to several highly cited papers:<\/p>\n