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	Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing	2025	CIDR	36	36	748
2	DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing	2025	VLDB	34	34	683
3	Text-to-SQL Empowered by Large Language Models: A Benchmark Evaluation	2024	VLDB	32	64	174
4	How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really?	2016	VLDB	30	306	15
5	LLM-R^2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency	2025	VLDB	29	29	2,039
6	RaBitQ: Quantizing High-Dimensional Vectors with a Theoretical Error Bound for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2024	SIGMOD	27	54	804
7	Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning	2019	CIDR	25	178	85
8	The Case for Learned Index Structures	2018	SIGMOD	24	196	40
9	Graph-Based Vector Search: An Experimental Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art	2025	SIGMOD	23	23	2,871
10	DuckDB: an Embeddable Analytical Database	2019	SIGMOD	22	158	71
10	Neo: A Learned Query Optimizer	2019	VLDB	22	155	145
10	Practical and Asymptotically Optimal Quantization of High-Dimensional Vectors in Euclidean Space for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2025	SIGMOD	22	22	2,821
13	Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical	2021	SIGMOD	21	109	362
14	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	20	62	329
14	ACORN: Performant and Predicate-Agnostic Search Over Vector Embeddings and Structured Data	2024	SIGMOD	20	40	1,225
14	SymphonyQG: Towards Symphonious Integration of Quantization and Graph for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search	2025	SIGMOD	20	20	3,385
17	Fast Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search With The Navigating Spreading-out Graph	2019	VLDB	19	136	74
17	DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries!	2020	VLDB	19	119	318
17	Milvus: A Purpose-Built Vector Data Management System	2021	SIGMOD	19	99	194
17	Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes	2024	VLDB	19	38	501