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Ahakim: New page: From Drago Radev, ACL Secretary Here are some statistics that I had promised to send out. They show, for papers in the Anthology, the numbers of citations to other papers by publication t...

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New page: From Drago Radev, ACL Secretary Here are some statistics that I had promised to send out. They show, for papers in the Anthology, the numbers of citations to other papers by publication t...

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From Drago Radev, ACL Secretary

Here are some statistics that I had promised to send out. They show,
for papers in the Anthology, the numbers of citations to other papers
by publication type (P=ACL, W=WS, J=CLJ, A=ANLP, N=NAACL, E=EACL,
H=HLT, I=IJCNLP).

Here is how to read this table. For example, all ACL05 papers combined
included a total of 849 citations to other Anthology papers. Of these,
512 were to other conference papers, 191 were to workshop papers, and
143 were to (CL) journal papers.

I haven't (yet) calculated the impact factors of each conference and
the journal using the Anthology data. However, one set of statistics
is worth pointing out, namely that 75% of all citations in the journal
to other Anthology papers go to conference and workshop papers and
that 85% of all citations in ACL proceedings go to conference and
workshop papers. In other words, a typical ACL/CL paper cites 4-5
times as many conference/ws papers than journal papers.

My conclusion, as stated at the exec meeting, is that in terms of
advancing our field, conference and workshop papers are quite
significant and we should treat them as such. In the sense of impact,
our conference papers are indeed comparable to journal papers.

I expect objections, e.g., looking at the average number of citations
per conference vs. journal paper N years down the road, etc. I will be
happy to compute such statistics if needed. Also, the Anthology only
includes the CL journal and not JNLE, etc. but again it doesn't
include AAAI and SIGIR either.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5"
|'''From'''
|'''ACL03'''
|'''ACL04'''
|'''ACL05'''
|'''ACL06'''
|'''ACL07'''
|'''J03'''
|'''J04'''
|'''J05'''
|-
|(total)
|528
|664
|849
|2054
|1318
|262
|230
|272
|-
|P
|162
|220
|281
|663
|456
|77
|76
|89
|-
|W
|117
|144
|191
|465
|313
|48
|39
|53
|-
|J
|104
|135
|143
|287
|163
|59
|70
|55
|-
|C
|71
|54
|69
|222
|93
|32
|22
|26
|-
|A
|33
|26
|45
|70
|31
|18
|9
|14
|-
|N
|13
|50
|90
|147
|134
|4
|5
|14
|-
|E
|12
|16
|16
|55
|49
|7
|3
|7
|-
|H
|9
|15
|11
|119
|61
|15
|6
|9
|-
|I
|0
|0
|0
|21
|9
|0
|0
|0
|-
|CONF
|300
|381
|512
|1297
|833
|153
|121
|159
|-
|WS
|117
|144
|191
|465
|313
|48
|39
|53
|-
|JRNL
|104
|135
|143
|287
|163
|59
|70
|55
|}

Anthology Statistics - Revision history

Ahakim at 22:23, 10 March 2009

Ahakim at 22:22, 10 March 2009

Ahakim: New page: From Drago Radev, ACL Secretary Here are some statistics that I had promised to send out. They show, for papers in the Anthology, the numbers of citations to other papers by publication t...