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Some data on the field of Visualization
BASED ON DATA ABOUT IEEE VIS PUBLICATIONS
Collected with the help of many people: Petra Isenberg, Florian Heimerl, Steffen Koch, Tobias Isenberg, Panpan Xu,Charles D. Stolper, Michael Sedlmair, Jian Chen, Torsten Möller, John Stasko, Natkamon Tovanich
Isenberg et al.: vispubdata.org: A Metadata Collection about IEEE Visualization (VIS) Publications
vispubdata.org
• Metadata on all IEEEVis papers from 1990 – 2018
• Google spreadsheet – can be commented, edited, & easily converted
• Cleaned titles, authors, DOIs
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CAVEAT: IEEE VIS is just a proxy
THERE IS A LOT WE DON’T HAVE
• Other academic conferences EuroVis, PacificVis, ChinaVis, …
• Journals
• Non-academic conferences (Info+, OpenVisConf, …)
• …
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WHAT ARE TRENDING TOPICS IN RESEARCH?
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Isenberg et al.: Visualization as Seen Through its Research Paper Keywords 5
SHOULD WE LOOK AT TRENDS?
2000–2007
volume rendering, modeling & vis
meshes, grids & lattices
flow vis, data, & techniques
biomedical science & medicine
numerical methods / mathematics
2008–2015
interaction techniques – general
evaluation – general
volume rendering, modeling & vis
graph/network data & techniques
multidim./-var./.-field data & techn
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Keywords
SIGNIFICANT TEMPORAL TRENDS
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WHAT DOES VIS IN FRANCE LOOK LIKE?
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France within the world
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Paper count @IEEE VIS 1990-2018
France within Europe
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Paper count @IEEE VIS 1990-2018
Number of unique authors per European country
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Unique author count @IEEE VIS 1990-2018
Number of unique affiliations per country
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Unique author count @IEEE VIS 1990-2018
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We’re pretty dominated by 2-3 institutionsAnd I don’t think this is a good thing!
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But there are many institutionsI’m probably not seeing the whole picture
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