Trends

Long-term publication and citation trends across SIGMOD, VLDB, CIDR, and PODS.

Papers per Year by Venue

Average Outgoing Citations per Paper by Year

CDF of Paper Counts per Author

Top Papers by Citation Velocity

The top 20 papers by "citation velocity," the number of non-self citations to a paper divided by the number of years since the paper was published.

Velocity Rank	Paper	Year	Venue	Citation Velocity	Total Citations	Paper Rank
1	How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2016	VLDB	29	291	18
2	Text-to-SQL Empowered by Large Language Models: A Benchmark Evaluation	2024	VLDB	27	55	279
3	Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning	2019	CIDR	25	175	84
3	Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing	2025	CIDR	25	25	1,245
5	LLM-R^2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency	2025	VLDB	24	24	2,553
6	The Case for Learned Index Structures	2018	SIGMOD	23	190	43
7	DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing	2025	VLDB	22	22	1,343
8	Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer	2019	VLDB	21	150	154
9	Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical	2021	SIGMOD	20	104	378
10	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	19	136	103
10	DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries!	2020	VLDB	19	118	323
10	RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2024	SIGMOD	19	39	1,357
10	Graph-Based Vector Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art	2025	SIGMOD	19	19	3,240
14	NeuroCard: One Cardinality Estimator for All Tables	2021	VLDB	18	90	513
14	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	18	54	420
14	Practical and Asymptotically Optimal Quantization of High-Dimensional Vectors in Euclidean Space for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2025	SIGMOD	18	18	3,108
17	Spark SQL: Relational Data Processing in Spark	2015	SIGMOD	17	190	24
17	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	17	122	93
17	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	17	88	141
20	TiDB: A Raft-based HTAP Database	2020	VLDB	16	101	271