Submission Data for 2020-2021 CORE Conference Ranking Process Graph Drawing

Submission Data for 2020-2021 CORE conference Ranking process Graph Drawing

Stephen Kobourov, Roberto Tamassia

Conference Details

Conference

Title: Graph Drawing Acronym : GD Rank: A

Requested Rank

Rank: A

Recent Years

Proceedings Publishing Style

Proceedings Publishing: series Link to most recent proceedings: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-35802-0 Further details: The International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD) has two tracks: Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects Regular papers in both tracks are 12 pages LNCS format. Both tracks also accept short paper (6 pages). A special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications is dedicated to the best papers from Track 1. The two best papers from Track 2 are invited to the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.

Most Recent Years

Most Recent Year

Year: 2019 URL: https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/gd2019/ Location: Prague, Czech Republic Papers submitted: 100 Papers published: 42 Acceptance rate: 42 Source for numbers: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-030-35802-0%2F1%2F1.pdf General Chairs

No General Chairs

Program Chairs

Name: Csaba Toth Aﬃliation: California State University, Northridge Gender: M H Index: 25 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0E1Y4kgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/t/CsabaDToth.html Name: Daniel Archambault Aﬃliation: Swansea University Gender: M H Index: 25 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DwSNWBoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/185/1576.html

1 Second Most Recent Year Year: 2018 URL: https://dccg.upc.edu/gd2018/ Location: Barcelona, Spain Papers submitted: 85 Papers published: 41 Acceptance rate: 48 Source for numbers: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-030-04414-5%2F1.pdf General Chairs No General Chairs Program Chairs Name: Therese Biedl Aﬃliation: University of Waterloo, Canada Gender: F H Index: 29 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gjNeD8cAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/23/2860.html Name: Andreas Kerren Aﬃliation: Linnaeus University, Sweden Gender: M H Index: 24 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FJ0hneUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/44/6743.html

Third Most Recent Year Year: 2017 URL: https://gd2017.ccis.northeastern.edu/ Location: Boston, MA Papers submitted: 87 Papers published: 43 Acceptance rate: 49 Source for numbers: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-319-73915-1%2F1.pdf General Chairs No General Chairs Program Chairs Name: Fabrizio Frati Aﬃliation: Roma Tre University, Italy Gender: M H Index: 22 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hG1tUmsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/09/2639.html Name: Kwan-Liu Ma Aﬃliation: University of California, Davis Gender: M H Index: 75 GScholar url: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LgL2HpkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao DBLP url: https://dblp.org/pid/93/5838.html

Policies Chair Selection: The GD conference has two chairs: one in charge of Track 1 ”Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects” and one in charge of Track 2 ”Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects”. The GD steering committee nominates candidates for both chairs, aiming to balance experience and youth, representation in the theoretical and applied aspects of GD, and keeping an eye on diversity. Important selection criteria include (a) high visibility and standing in the GD community and beyond; (b) strong publication record commensurate with age, in GD and either other high-quality theory venues or other high-quality visualization venues. On average, every other year we have one male and one female chair. Here’s a list of recent female GD chairs: GD16 Anna Lubiw, GD18 Therese Biedl, GD21 Helen Purchase. Policy name: GD is a member of SafeTOC and follows a code of conduct. Policy url: http://graphdrawing.org/codeOfConduct.html Policy name: SafeTOC Policy url: https://safetoc.org/

2 (Senior) Program Committee

Link to (s)pc: https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/gd2019/committees.html#about File: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_submissions_spc_file/preformatted-gd19-pc-edited_2KXJDzz.txt H-index plot: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_submissions_hindex_plots/hindex_buckets_1456.png Information Contained within this graph is derived using the Elsevier Scopus Database 2021.

Data and Metrics

Google Scholar Metrics

Sub-category url: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_theoreticalcomputerscience Position in sub-category: 20+ Image of top 20: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/changes_h5/higherrank1456_gscholar_minh5.png

3 No Google Scholar h5 index available for this conference Potential reason for no h5 index: We could not ﬁnd GD in the top20 list of theoretical computer science venues (as indicated above). However, Google does provide information about the H5-index of the GD conference (13) and H5-median (18): https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_venues&vq=graph+drawing&btnG=

ACM Metrics

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Aminer Rank

Not Listed in Aminer

Other Rankings

Not aware of any other Rankings Conferences in area: The GD conference publishes papers about algorithms and systems for graph visualization. GD is the only conference on this topic and is unique in its focus on theoretical and applied aspects of graph visualization. Naturally, graph algorithms and graph visualization are topics that other conferences publish papers about and list in their calls for papers but this is not their focus: SODA (A*), IEEE InfoVIS (A*), ESA (A), ISAAC (A), WG (A), SoCG (A), ICALP (A), COCOON (A), WADS (B), IWOCA (B), IEEE PacificVis (B), EuroVis (B), WALCOM (C). We contacted the Aminer.org team and they will add GD to their system but the analysis is not yet available. Lacking a way to extract the exact top10 most highly cited papers, we provide a list of 10 well-known GD papers along with their citations counts. Ellson, J., Gansner, E., Koutsofios, L., North, S., & Woodhull, G. GraphvizâĂŤopen source graph drawing tools. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 483-484, 2001. 816 citations Purchase, H. Which aesthetic has the greatest effect on human understanding? In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 248-261, 1997. 701 citations Harel, D., & Koren, Y. A fast multi-scale method for drawing large graphs. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 183-196, 2000. 466 citations

4 Garg, A., & Tamassia, R. On the computational complexity of upward and rectilinear planarity testing. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 286-297, 1994. 436 citations Frick, A., Ludwig, A., & Mehldau, H. A fast adaptive layout algorithm for undirected graphs. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 388-403, 1994. 448 citations Gansner, E. R., Koren, Y., & North, S. Graph drawing by stress majorization. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 239-250, 2004. 375 citations Eades, P., & Feng, Q. W. Multilevel visualization of clustered graphs. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 101-112, 1996. 323 citations Hachul, S., & JÃĳnger, M. Drawing large graphs with a potential-ﬁeld-based multilevel algorithm. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 285-295, 2004. 300 citations Gutwenger, C., & Mutzel, P. A linear time implementation of SPQR-trees. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 77-90, 2000. 280 citations Brandes, U., & Pich, C. Eigensolver methods for progressive multidimensional scaling of large data. In International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD), p. 42-53, 2006. 230 citations

Top People Publishing Here name: Michael Goodrich justification: - Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine; - IEEE Fellow; - ACM Fellow; - ACM Distinguished Scientist; - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); - Founding member of the Graph Drawing Symposium (GD) and steering committee member for 20 years; - H-index 68, citations 15209; - Google top20 (13) in data structures; - Google top20 (5) in graph drawing; - Google top20 (18) in computational geometry; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sSS9gSoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://dblp.org/pid/g/MichaelTGoodrich.html 30 GD papers 21 SoCG papers 16 Algorithmica papers 15 SODA papers 13 SPAA papers 9 ESA papers 9 ISAAC papers 6 SIAM J of Computing papers 6 STOC papers 5 FOCS papers Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 0 1 2 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Peter Eades justification: - Professor of Computer Science, University of Sydney; - Distinguished NICTA researcher; - Founding member of the Graph Drawing Symposium (GD) and steering committee member for 20 years; - H-index 57, 17738 citations; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=StEnGcEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 43 GD papers 11 TCS papers 10 PacificVis papers 9 Algorithmica papers 7 ISAAC papers Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 2 2 2 1 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Janos Pach justification: - Professor of Mathematics at EPFL, Switzerland; - Grunwald Medal; - Ford Award (Mathematical Association of America); - Renyi Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; - Academy Award, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; - ACM Fellow; - AMS Fellow; - H-index 55, citations 16036; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uOC_Z8QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://dblp.org/pid/18/2119.html 28 GD papers 40 SoCG papers 10 J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 9 J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B 7 SODA 6 FOCS 6 SIAM J of Computing Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 1 1 2 1 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Ulrik Brandes justification: - Professor for Social Networks at ETH Zurich, Switzerland; - Google top20 (4) in graph drawing; - Google top20 (1) in algorithmics; - Google top20 (19) in information visualization; - H-index 51, citations 17679; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fmmZrwgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://dblp.org/pid/b/UlrikBrandes.html 33 GD papers 9 IEEE TVCG papers 5 PacificVis papers 4 ESA papers Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 0 0 1 1 Attendance: OFTEN name: David Eppstein justification: - Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine; - Fellow of the ACM; - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; - Google top20 (2) in graph drawing; - Google top20 (5) in graph algorithms; - Google top20 (12) in computational geometry; - Google top20 (4) in graph drawing; - Google top20 (3) in discrete geometry; - Google top20 (7) in data structures; - H-index 68, 19439 citations https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QSY7ufMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://dblp.org/pid/e/DEppstein.html 39 GD papers 34 SODA papers 28 SoCG papers 11 Algorithmica papers 9 FOCS papers 9 J of Algorithms papers 7 SIAM J of Computing papers 7 Transactions on Algorithms papers 7 ISAAC papers Paper counts:

5 Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 1 1 2 1 2 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Petra Mutzel justification: - Professor for Computational Analytics, Institute of Computer Science, University of Bonn, Germany - Member of the Steering Committee of ESA (European Symposium on Algorithms); - Member of the Steering Committee of ALENEX (SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments); - Member of the Advisory Board of the Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) in Saarbrucken; - Member of the Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Education and Research; - Delegate of the Curatorium of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; - Editor of: the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA), Mathematical Programming Computation, EURO Journal on Computational Optimization, ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics - Google top20 (10) in algorithm engineering; - Google top20 (2) in computational optimisation; - H-index 44, 7723 citations; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XIaaJv8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://dblp.org/pid/m/PetraMutzel.html 42 GD papers 6 ALENEX papers 5 ACM J of Experimental Algorithms 5 Algorithmica papers 5 ESA papers 5 ISAAC papers Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 1 0 1 0 Attendance: OFTEN name: Erik Demaine justification: - Professor of Computer Science at MIT; - MacArthur Fellow (”genius grant”); - ACM Fellow; - NSERC Doctoral Prize for the best PhD thesis and research in Canada; - joined MIT at age 20 as the youngest assistant professor in the history of MIT; - EATCS Presburger Award for young scientists; - Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; - Nerode Prize; - Google top20 (3) in graph algorithms; - Google top20 (10) in computational geometry; - Google top20 (5) in data structures; - Google top20 (2) in computational optimisation; - H-index 72, citations 22643; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6Ff2c8wAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://dblp.org/pid/d/ErikDDemaine.html 6 GD papers 28 SODA papers 22 TCS papers 20 SoCG papers 20 ISAAC papers 16 Algorithmica papers 13 ESA papers 11 ICALP papers 8 ACM Trans on Algorithms papers 7 SIAM J of Computing papers Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 1 0 1 Attendance: SOMETIMES name: Giuseppe di Battista justification: - Professor of Computer Science, University of Rome, Italy; - Founding member of the Graph Drawing Symposium (GD) and steering committee member for 29 years; - Google top20 (7) in graph drawing; - Google top20 (7) in routing; - H-index 46, citations 11887; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G5ZzXogAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao https://dblp.org/pid/b/GiuseppeDiBattista.html 47 GD papers 9 Algorithmica papers 6 SIAM J of Computing papers 6 TCS papers 5 SoCG papers 5 WG papers Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 3 0 1 0 3 Attendance: ALWAYS name: Dorothea Wagner justification: - Professor of Computer Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; - Konrad Zuse medal; - Werner Heisenberg medal of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; - Member of the National Academy of Science and Engineering; - Member of Academia Europaea; - Chair of the German Council for Science and Humanities; - Vice president of the German Research Foundation (DFG); - Google top20 (6) in graph drawing; - Google top20 (4) in algorithm engineering; - Google top20 (18) in combinatorial optimization; - Google top20 (1) in route planning; - H-index 57, citations 14876; https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iqm5N9IAAAAJ https://dblp.org/pid/w/DorotheaWagner.html 19 GD papers 20 ACM J. Exp. Algorithms papers 15 ESA papers 13 ALENEX papers 8 ISAAC papers 6 WG papers 5 Algorithmica papers Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 0 0 0 Attendance: SOMETIMES name: Roberto Tamassia justification: - Professor of Computer Science, Brown University; - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); - Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); - Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); - Founding member of the Graph Drawing Symposium (GD) and steering committee member for 29 years - Google top20 (1) in graph drawing; - Google top20 (10) in information visualization; - Google top20 (6) in applied cryptography; - H-index 70, citations 23404; https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=eEYPTKUAAAAJ https://dblp.org/pid/t/RobertoTamassia.html 17 GD papers 11 Algorithmica papers 11 SIAM J. Comput. papers 10 SoCG papers 7 ESA papers 6 TCS papers 5 SODA papers Paper counts: Most Recent: Second most recent: Third most recent: Fourth most recent: Fifth most recent: 0 0 0 0 0 Attendance: ALWAYS

Where People Publish

6 Top (Senior) Program Committee Members

Generated Report Name: conf submissions top spc/higherrank1456 top spc.csv WPP Report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_report/higherrank1456_spc_report.txt Graphs: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_graphs/higherrank1456_spc_graph.png

Reference item: \\ 1. International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) ______

This conference was published at 15 times by 6 of 10 experts in the last 6 years.

The experts that publish at this conference are: Alexandru Cristian Telea(1), Helen C. Purchase(1), Silvia Miksch(1), David Eppstein(7), Anna Lubiw(4), Prosenjit Bose(2)

In 2015, there were 2 publications by 1 experts: David Eppstein In 2016, there were 3 publications by 4 experts: Silvia Miksch, Prosenjit Bose, David Eppstein, Anna Lubiw In 2017, there were 3 publications by 2 experts: Anna Lubiw, David Eppstein In 2018, there were 6 publications by 5 experts: Prosenjit Bose, Alexandru Cristian Telea, David Eppstein, Anna Lubiw, Helen C. Purchase In 2019, there were 1 publications by 1 experts: David Eppstein

6 out of the 10 experts published at this conference in 1 or more years 3 out of the 10 experts published at this conference in 2 or more years 2 out of the 10 experts published at this conference in 3 or more years 1 out of the 10 experts published at this conference in 5 or more years

Top People Report

Method of selection: We searched google scholar for the research topic ”graph drawing” and report all people with H-index ¿ 44. This resulted in 17 people, so we added the top 3 (without repeats) results from the google scholar list search for topic ”graph algorithms.” Keyword: graph drawing

7 name h-index gscholar url Michael Goodrich 68 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sSS9gSoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Peter Eades 57 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=StEnGcEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Ulrik Brandes 51 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fmmZrwgAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Janos Pach 55 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=uOC_Z8QAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao David Eppstein 68 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QSY7ufMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Charles Leiserson 64 https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=gWBoNCsAAAAJ Erik Demaine 72 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6Ff2c8wAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Giuseppe di Battista 46 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G5ZzXogAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Dorothea Wagner 57 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iqm5N9IAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Roberto Tamassia 70 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eEYPTKUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Stephen Kobourov 52 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=P21gHIkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Kwan-Liu Ma 75 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LgL2HpkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Jack Snoeyink 57 https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=fIoDWp8AAAAJ Dan Smith 86 https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=b97z-zoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Robert E. Tarjan 112 https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=lazJixIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Michael Kaufmann 45 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FTx_BNsAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Ioannis Tollis 45 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KmWfVqoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Marc J. van Kreveld 47 https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=Q_d-0KAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Yehuda Koren 53 https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=wTmI_HYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Bojan Mohar 49 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4qKXb7EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Reference item: \\ 1. International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD) ______

This conference was published at 36 times by 9 of 18 experts in the last 5 years.

The experts that publish at this conference are: Bojan Mohar(1), Peter Eades(7), Ulrik Brandes(1), Marc J. van Kreveld(1), Erik D. Demaine(1), Giuseppe Di Battista(4), Stephen G. Kobourov(13), Jnos Pach(5), David Eppstein(5)

In 2016, there were 8 publications by 7 experts: Stephen G. Kobourov, Jnos Pach, Bojan Mohar, Peter Eades, David Eppstein, Ulrik Brandes, Giuseppe Di Battista In 2017, there were 12 publications by 6 experts: Stephen G. Kobourov, Jnos Pach, Peter Eades, David Eppstein, Marc J. van Kreveld, Erik D. Demaine In 2018, there were 8 publications by 5 experts: Stephen G. Kobourov, Jnos Pach, Peter Eades, David Eppstein, Giuseppe Di Battista In 2019, there were 8 publications by 4 experts: Stephen G. Kobourov, Jnos Pach, Peter Eades, David Eppstein

9 out of the 18 experts published at this conference in 1 or more years 5 out of the 18 experts published at this conference in 2 or more years 4 out of the 18 experts published at this conference in 4 or more years WPP Report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_report/higherrank1456_top_people_report.txt Graphs: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conf_rank_graphs/higherrank1456_top_people_graph.png

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Comparator Comparison

Comparator

International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science

Explanation as to why conference is superior to comparator: For this comparison we use the full PC members of GD’19 and WG’19 instead of the very stripped down versions that come out of the ”generate csv” ﬁle process. Both of these conferences are small, with PC of 25-30 members and the ”generate csv” process removes 60-70% of the PC members. GD and WG are comparable strong conferences: - they are both premier venues for small but important research areas - the H5 index for both conferences is the same (13) - they both usually have fewer than 100 submissions and acceptance rates in the 40-50% range, due to high quality of the submissions - the top authors from both conferences also publish in other A-level theory conferences (SODA, ISAAC, ESA) - GD’s H5-median index is 18, ahead of WG’s H5-median index of 15, which is notable as the H5-median index is not biased by the number of published papers Details of submissions/acceptances and acceptance rates for GD and WG: - GD2019: 100 submitted, 42 accepted: acceptance rate 42% - GD2018: 85 submitted, 41 accepted: acceptance rate 48% - GD2017: 87 submitted, 43 accepted: acceptance rate 49% - WG2019: 84 submitted, 29 accepted: acceptance rate 35% - WG2018: 64 submitted, 30 accepted: acceptance rate 47% - WG2017: 71 submitted, 31 accepted: acceptance rate 44% Link to comparator report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conference_submission_2020/Data_Comparator_for_1456_521.pdf

Comparator

Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (previously TPHOLs, changed in 2009)

Explanation as to why conference is superior to comparator: For this comparison we use the full PC members of GD’19 and ITP’19 instead of the very stripped down versions that come out of the ”generate csv” ﬁle process. GD and ITP are also comparable strong conferences: - they are both premier venues for small but important research areas - the H5 index for GD (13) is similar to that for ITP (18) - they both usually have fewer than 100 submissions and acceptance rates in the 40-50% range, due to high quality of the submissions Looking at the top5 other conferences for the PC of GD19, they publish in 3 other code-4613, A*-level (SODA) and A-level (ISAAC, SoCG) theory conferences, while the PC from ITP19 publish in only 1 code-4613 A-level theory conference (LPAR), with 2/5 of their conferences missing altogether from CORE (CICM, CCP); see detailed analysis below. Looking at the top5 other conferences for the PC of GD19, they publish in conferences with high google H5-indices (49, 20, 19, 14, 13), while the PC from ITP19 publish in conferences with lower or missing H5-indices (19, 17, 14, -, -); see details below. Details of submissions/acceptances and acceptance rates for GD and ITP: - GD2019: 100 submitted, 42 accepted: acceptance rate 42% - GD2018: 85 submitted, 41 accepted: acceptance rate 48% - GD2017: 87 submitted, 43 accepted: acceptance rate 49%

9 - ITP2019: 72 submitted, 33 accepted: acceptance rate 46% - ITP2018: 65 submitted, 37 accepted: acceptance rate 57% - ITP2017: 65 submitted, 30 accepted: acceptance rate 46% Details of top5 conferences for the PC committee in 2019 of GD and ITP: GD19 PC top5 conferences (other than GD): - SODA (ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms): 4613 code, A*-level in CORE, google H5-index of 49 - SoCG (Symposium on Computational Geometry): 4613 code, A-level in CORE, google H5-index of 20 - ISAAC (International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation): 4613 code, A-level in CORE, google H5-index of 19 - WADS (Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures): 4613 code, B-level in CORE, google H5-index of 13 - PacificVis (IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium): 4603 code, B-level in CORE, google H5-index of 14 ITP19 PC top5 conferences (other than ITP): - LPAR (Logic Programming and Automated Reasoning): 4613 code, A-level in CORE, google H5-index of 17 - ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming): 4612 code, A*-level in CORE, no google H5-index - CADE (Conference on Automated Deduction): 4603 code, A-level in CORE, google H5-index of 19 - CICM (International Conference on Intelligent Computer Mathematics): 0 code, not in CORE, google H5-index of 14 - CCP (International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs): 0 code, not in CORE, no google H5-index Link to comparator report: http://portal.core.edu.au/core/media/conference_submission_2020/Data_Comparator_for_1456_523.pdf

Other Relvant Info

Other relevant information: An important indirect measure of the quality of a conference is the quality of the journals that publish expanded papers from that conference. GD has a very strong history of expanded papers appearing in A*-level journals such as Algorithmica, SIAM Journal of Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), and A-level journals such as ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG), Journal of Experimental Algorithms (JEA), Journal of Graph Theory (JGT), SIAM Journal of Discrete Mathematics (JDM), Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) and IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). We analyzed the GD papers that were sent to journals in the 2016-2018 range (many 2019 journal papers are still under review). The top5 Track1 (combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing) papers are invited to the special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA). The top2 Track2 (experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects) papers are invited to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), which is an A-level journal. Nearly all other papers with journal versions are published in A-level and A*-level journals. Here are exact numbers: GD16 - 9 papers published in A-level (TCS, SIAM JDM) or A*-level (Algorithmica, TPDS) journals. There were a total of 37 regular papers and 20 of them had expanded journal versions. Of these 20, 9 went to the special issue of JGAA and 9 were published at the above mentioned A-level and A*-level journals. GD17 - 9 papers published in A-level (ACM TALG, TCS, TVCG) or A*-level (Algorithmica) journals. There were a total of 36 regular papers and 18 of them had expanded journal versions. Of these 18, 5 went to the special issue of JGAA, 2 were invited to TVCG and 9 were published at the above mentioned A-level and A*-level journals. GD18 - 7 papers published in A-level (TCS, TVCG) or A*-level (Algorithmica) journals. There were a total of 34 regular papers and 14 of them had expanded journal versions. Of these 14, 5 went to the special issue of JGAA and 2 were invited to TVCG and 7 were published at the above mentioned A-level and A*-level journals. Stephen Kobourov Chair of the GD Steering Committee Roberto Tamassia Founding GD Steering Committee Chair and current member

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Proposers

First name: Stephen Last name: Kobourov Aﬃliation: University of Arizona Email: [email protected]

First name: Roberto Last name: Tamassia Aﬃliation: Brown University Email: [email protected]

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Name: Kobourov Stephen Email: [email protected]