DBPubs: Multidimensional Exploration of Database Publications

Summary: DBPubs merges keyword search with OLAP-like aggregations over static metadata and dynamic dimensions for exploration. It ranks by citations and enables topic discovery in queries with multicube rollup/drilldown across static and dynamic dimensions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9970
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2008
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,775 | 5.50%
DOI: 10.14778/1454159.1454199

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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Authors

1. Akanksha Baid (University of Wisconsin)
2. Andrey Balmin (IBM)
3. Heasoo Hwang (University of California San Diego)
4. Erik Nijkamp (IBM)
5. Jun Rao (IBM)
6. Berthold Reinwald (IBM)
7. Alkis Simitsis (IBM)
8. Yannis Sismanis (IBM)
9. Frank van Ham (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@article{baid_vldb08,
        title = {{DBPubs: Multidimensional Exploration of Database Publications}},
        author = {Baid, Akanksha and Balmin, Andrey and Hwang, Heasoo and Nijkamp, Erik and Rao, Jun and Reinwald, Berthold and Simitsis, Alkis and Sismanis, Yannis and van Ham, Frank},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '08},
        volume = {1},
        number = {2},
        pages = {1456--1459},
        doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454199},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454199},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,467	Multidimensional Content eXploration	2008	VLDB	7.3898968e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
285	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00022365284
3,467	Multidimensional Content eXploration	2008	VLDB	7.3898968e-05

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