An Analysis of Natural Computing Publication Venues

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O'Neill M. (2012). An Analysis of Natural Computing Publication Venues. Technical Report UCD-CSI-2012-02, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin.

A ranking (based on Google Scholar Metrics h5-index) of publication venues in Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Computation, Natural Computing, Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Machine Intelligence, Cybernetics and Soft Computing conducted on 8 May 2012 is presented below (updated 11 May 2012 @ 19:20 to include Artificial Life):

Rank Top Publications matching NC, EC, GP, CI, AI, ML, SC h5-index h5-median Impact Factor
  Google Scholar Metrics Journal Website
1 IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence  85 140 4.38
2 Information Sciences 56 84 2.833
3 The Journal of Machine Learning Research 51 71 2.79
4 Annual International Conference on Machine Learning 45 65  
5 IEEE Transactions On Systems, Man And Cybernetics Part B, Cybernetics 44 68 2.699
6 National Conference on Artificial intelligence  42 59  
7 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 42 58 2.633
8 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 41 66 4.403
9 Applied Soft Computing 41 54 2.084
10 Artificial Intelligence  38 62 2.511
11 Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research  37 64 1.98
12 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C, Applications and Reviews 37 63 2.105
13 IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans  35 48 2.093
14 Neural Networks 34 45 1.955
15 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 33 57  
16 Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence  31 44 1.344
17 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) 29 40  
18 Machine Learning 28 53 1.967
19 Soft Computing-A Fusion of Foundations, Methodologies and Applications 26 45 1.512
20 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine  24 30 1.568
21 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 23 31  
22 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 22 39 2.905
23 European Conference on Machine learning and knowledge discovery in databases  22 31  
24 Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 20 37  
25 Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press) 20 35 2.63
26 Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM GECCO) 20 25  
27 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 19 30  
28 Natural Computing 17 28  
29= IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) 17 26  
29= International Conference on Logic for programming, artificial intelligence, and reasoning  17 26  
30 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics 17 23  
31 International Conference on Natural Computation 17 18  
32 Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) 16 25  
33= AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence  16 20  
33= Artificial Life 16 20 2.122
34 European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 15 29  
35 Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence  15 25 0.43
36 Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines 15 23 1.167
37 IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence  15 22  
38 Applied Artificial Intelligence  14 21 0.563
39 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 14 19  
40 ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing  14 17  
41 International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 13 20 0.66
42= Annual German Conference on Advances in artificial intelligence  13 19  
42= International Conference on Artificial neural networks 13 19  
43 International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems 13 18  
44 European Conference on Advances in artificial life 13 15  
45 Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing  12 26 0.64
46 Computational Intelligence 12 21  
47 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining 12 20  
48 IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence 12 17  
49 International Conference on Adaptive and Natural Computing Algorithms 12 13  
50 Artificial Intelligence Review  11 29 0.429
51 International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition 11 21  
52= International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) 11 16  
52= International Conference on Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications 11 16  
53 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications 11 16  
54 European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (EvoBIO) 10 17  
55 Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine  10 15  
56 New Mathematics and Natural Computation (NMNC) 10 14  
57= IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing 10 13  
57= International Symposium on Neural Networks: Advances in Neural Networks 10 13  
58= International work Conference on Artificial neural networks 10 12  
58= Artificial Life and Robotics 10 12  
59 IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA) 10 11  
60 IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life 9 12  
61= International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security Workshops 9 11  
61= artificial intelligence Mexican International Conference on Advances in artificial intelligence  9 11  
62 Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence  8 16  
63 International Conference on Neural Networks and Signal Processing 8 13  
64 International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence  8 11  
65 International Workshop on Cellular Neural Networks and Their Applications 8 9  
66 Pacific-Asia Workshop on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application 7 14  
67= International Conference on Soft computing as transdisciplinary science and technology 7 10  
67= International Symposium on Neural Networks 7 10  
68= International Conference on Applications of evolutionary computation (EvoApps) 7 9  
68= IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications, CIMSA 7 9  
68= International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Design 7 9  
68= International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics 7 9  
69 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation 7 7  
70 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering, CiSE  6 10  
71= International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems and Networks 6 7  
71= International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition  6 7  
72= Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 5 9  
72= Optical Memory & Neural Networks 5 9  
72=  International Conference on Neural Information Processing 5 9  
73= IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 5 8  
73= International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence, AICI 5 8  
74 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Natural Computing, CINC  5 7  
75= International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications 4 8  
75= WSEAS International Conference on Computational intelligence, man-machine systems and cybernetics 4 8  
76 International Conference on Advances in neural networks 4 4  

Figure 1. Publication venue ranking on 8th May 2012.



Figure 2. A scatter plot of Impact Factors versus Google Scholar Metrics h5-index values. Using linear regression there is a positive correlation between Impact Factor and h5-index, with a correlation coefficient of 0.80 indicating this correlation is reasonably strong. Some unusual cases worth highlighting are the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the Evolutionary Computation journal, and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine each of which have a higher impact factor than their h5-index values would suggest.

Publication venues Not Captured

A number of publication venues are not captured by Google Scholar Metrics for the period 2007-2011. There are a number of reasons why a publication venue may not be captured, for example, due to its age (i.e., it may not be in existence long enough), changes in name, papers not e-accesible, no citations etc. Please notify us if you spot any additional venues which are missing and we'll add them to this list.

Publication Venues not captured by Google Scholar Metrics (2007-2011):

Useful resources

From the Top 100 Google Scholar Metrics page it is possible to enter your own queries. The following are the queries adopted in the study:

Other useful resources

Acknowledgements

MO'N would like to thank the members of the UCD Natural Computing Research & Applications Group for a number of useful discussions related to this study. This publication has emanated from research conducted with the financial support of Science Foundation Ireland under Grant Numbers 08/IN.1/I1868 and 08/SRC/FM1389.

We are also grateful to Simon Lucas for the pointer to the SCImago journal ranking system and highlighting the "age issue" (e.g., IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games is only in existence since 2009 so does not have a h5-index or Impact Factor at this point). Michael Lones and Jeff Clune pointed out the omission of "Artificial Life", and the rankings were updated 11 May to reflect this. Sean McGarraghy and Juergen Branke highlighted one of the limitations of h-index to analyse journals and conferences. The larger a venue is the more likely it is to have a higher h-index (other issues are mentioned in a wikipedia entry).

Last modified: Fri May 11 19:47:59 IST 2012