Comments on: How do you find conference acceptance rates?

By: Soroush

Soroush — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:24:33 +0000

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/?SearchDomain=2

This is useful in another way.

By: Glencora

Glencora — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:05:55 +0000

Wow – I think this has been the most useful use of my blog to date. Thanks all!

By: John

John — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:40:46 +0000

If you can’t find the data, neither can they

By: mee

mee — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:13:56 +0000

You can find some here http://bit.ly/p2HHmR

By: Suresh

Suresh — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:31:35 +0000

if you google around, often other researchers list acceptance rates for conferences they publish in. less common in theory, but very common in DB/data mining.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:41:36 +0000

You’ll find a few, such as SODA and SoCG, at http://confu.org/ . This is just data that I’ve manually collected, usually from business meetings.

By: Glencora

Glencora — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:52:09 +0000

Thanks Daniel!

I haven’t asked about how robust the rate needs to be. I’ve just been using accepted/submitted, which is slightly more “favorable” for me, I suppose. Even though it seems that higher profile conferences seem to have higher acceptance rates than lower profile ones.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:14:05 +0000

Normally proceedings have a foreword chapter that contains this information. This is true e.g. for FOCS and LNCS proceedings. Interestingly, SODA and STOC proceedings have no such chapters (maybe ACM have a strict policy against including useful information in the proceedings?) Fortunately, you can find the acceptance rates of ACM conferences at the ACM Digital Library website.

By the way, do you have a robust definition of acceptance rate that takes withdrawn papers and merges into account?