An Analysis of Publication Venues for Automatic Differentiation Research

TL;DR

This paper analyzes publication venues for automatic differentiation research using a curated database, providing insights into publication patterns and venue prominence within the field.

Contribution

It offers a detailed analysis of AD publication venues based on a curated, community-maintained database, addressing data noise and standardizing venue names.

Findings

Identifies key journals and conferences for AD research

Provides a cleaned, standardized dataset of AD publications

Highlights publication trends and venue prominence

Abstract

We present the results of our analysis of publication venues for papers on automatic differentiation (AD), covering academic journals and conference proceedings. Our data are collected from the AD publications database maintained by the autodiff.org community website. The database is purpose-built for the AD field and is expanding via submissions by AD researchers. Therefore, it provides a relatively noise-free list of publications relating to the field. However, it does include noise in the form of variant spellings of journal and conference names. We handle this by manually correcting and merging these variants under the official names of corresponding venues. We also share the raw data we get after these corrections.