Top computer science conferences: CORE A* and A proceedings, 2024–2026

The top-ranked computer science conferences, as a category of their own beside the journals: the conferences rated A* and A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026), with their papers of 2024–2026, and the countries and institutions publishing the most there. Ranks are those of the CORE Conference Rankings, edition ICORE2026 (portal.core.edu.au), applied to every year shown. Papers are the works OpenAlex lists for the conference's proceedings, or for the issues of a conference-linked journal that publishes its papers (such as PACMPL, PVLDB or ACM TOG), by publication year; workshops, companion volumes, posters and Findings are left out. A paper counts once for each institution and country among its authors' affiliations as OpenAlex assigns them; papers without affiliations in OpenAlex count for none. For conferences published in book series that OpenAlex files as one source (LNCS, LIPIcs, SIAM and IOS Press proceedings), the papers are found by DOI: those of the volumes with the conference's title in Crossref, or LIPIcs DOIs, which name the conference. Conferences without DOIs (PMLR, USENIX, OpenReview) are listed without counts. A dash (–) for a year means OpenAlex has no papers of the conference for it yet: the proceedings are not published or indexed yet, or the conference did not meet that year (some meet every other year). 2026 counts what OpenAlex had indexed by 2026-11-02. Also as Markdown.

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Key findings#

OpenAlex lists 139,024 papers from 2024–2026 for 157 of the 170 conferences that the CORE ICORE2026 ranking rates A* or A: 91,670 at 57 of the 62 A* conferences and 47,354 at 100 of the 108 A conferences.
By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from China (49,301), the United States (41,990), Germany (9,873) and the United Kingdom (9,401).
The institutions with the most papers are Tsinghua University (5,206), Zhejiang University (4,109) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (4,075).
AAAI is the largest conference (11,266 papers).
OpenAlex has affiliations for 92% of these papers; 13 conferences, mostly published in book series such as LNCS, LIPIcs and PMLR, cannot be told apart in OpenAlex and are listed without counts.

Conferences#

CORE A* and A conferences in OpenAlex: papers per publication year, 2024–2026 (–: not in OpenAlex yet)
Conference	Name	Rank	Field	2024	2025	2026	With affiliations
AAAI	National Conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence	A*	Artificial intelligence, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Machine learning	2,867	3,486	4,913	99%
NeurIPS	Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (was NIPS)	A*	Machine learning	4,312	5,819	–	58%
EMNLP	Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing	A*	Artificial intelligence	1,391	2,003	2,927	90%
ACL	Association for Computational Linguistics	A*	Artificial intelligence	1,036	1,971	2,655	87%
CVPR	IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition	A*	Computer vision and multimedia computation	2,724	2,876	–	98%
ICRA	IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation	A*	Artificial intelligence, Computer science (general)	1,766	1,610	1,771	97%
ECCV	European Conference on Computer Vision	A*	Computer vision and multimedia computation	1,962	2	2,337	99%
CHI	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems	A*	Human-centred computing	1,057	1,249	1,702	100%
IJCAI	International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence	A*	Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Computer vision and multimedia computation	1,236	1,278	961	100%
KDD	ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining	A*	Data management and data science, Machine learning	642	844	1,475	99%
ACMMM	ACM Multimedia	A*	Computer vision and multimedia computation	1,237	1,575	–	99%
WWW	International World Wide Web Conference	A*	Distributed computing and systems software, Data management and data science	786	979	960	99%
ICCV	IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision	A*	Computer vision and multimedia computation	–	2,709	–	98%
SIGIR	ACM International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval	A*	Data management and data science	389	540	685	97%
ICSE	International Conference on Software Engineering	A*	Software engineering	395	342	570	98%
VLDB	International Conference on Very Large Databases	A*	Data management and data science	447	442	385	98%
ICDE	International Conference on Data Engineering	A*	Data management and data science	509	406	356	97%
HRI	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction	A*	Human-centred computing, Artificial intelligence	414	337	465	99%
DAC	Design Automation Conf	A*	Computer science (general)	370	458	307	99%
ASE	Automated Software Engineering Conference	A*	Software engineering	266	395	441	98%
INFOCOM	IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications	A*	Distributed computing and systems software	262	25	612	97%
SIGMOD	ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data Conference	A*	Data management and data science	212	333	269	100%
CCS	ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security	A*	Cybersecurity and privacy	417	395	–	100%
SP	IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy	A*	Cybersecurity and privacy	270	264	262	96%
VR	IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces	A*	Graphics, augmented reality and games, Human-centred computing	214	244	259	88%
MobiCom	ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking	A*	Distributed computing and systems software	284	157	207	99%
UIST	ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology	A*	Human-centred computing	260	124	250	99%
SODA	ACM/SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms	A*	Theory of computation	193	193	245	98%
STOC	ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing	A*	Theory of computation	190	219	210	100%
NDSS	Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium	A*	Cybersecurity and privacy	140	211	261	98%
SIGGRAPH Asia	SIGGRAPH Asia	A*	Graphics, augmented reality and games, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Human-centred computing	265	300	–	99%
ASPLOS	Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems	A*	Software engineering, Distributed computing and systems software	198	199	135	100%
ICALP	International Colloquium on Automata Languages and Programming	A*	Theory of computation	149	211	153	98%
FSE	ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (was ESEC/FSE, changed 2024; duplicate previously listed as ESEC, removed from DB)	A*	Software engineering	121	135	211	100%
ISMAR	IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality	A*	Graphics, augmented reality and games, Human-centred computing	198	238	–	91%
ISCA	ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture	A*	Computer science (general), Distributed computing and systems software, Software engineering	98	135	189	91%
CRYPTO	Advances in Cryptology	A*	Cybersecurity and privacy	144	87	189	99%
EC	ACM Conference on Economics and Computation	A*	Artificial intelligence, Theory of computation	203	204	–	100%
SIGGRAPH	ACM SIG International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques	A*	Graphics, augmented reality and games, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Human-centred computing	118	132	133	99%
Eurocrypt	International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques	A*	Cybersecurity and privacy	105	123	142	96%
SIGCOMM	ACM Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication	A*	Distributed computing and systems software	62	88	200	99%
HPCA	International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture	A*	Computer science (general), Distributed computing and systems software	93	133	123	92%
ICDM	IEEE International Conference on Data Mining	A*	Data management and data science, Machine learning	123	187	–	95%
KR	International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning	A*	Artificial intelligence, Theory of computation	91	85	111	99%
PLDI	ACM-SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation	A*	Software engineering	89	88	108	100%
FOCS	IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science	A*	Theory of computation	141	142	–	94%
SoCG	International Symposium on Computational Geometry	A*	Theory of computation	86	93	92	99%
POPL	ACM-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages	A*	Software engineering	93	79	91	100%
CAV	Computer Aided Verification	A*	Software engineering, Theory of computation	69	81	82	100%
ICAPS	International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling	A*	Artificial intelligence	82	51	91	99%
PODC	ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing	A*	Distributed computing and systems software	64	69	68	100%
MICRO	International Symposium on Microarchitecture	A*	Computer science (general)	124	65	–	94%
SIGMETRICS	Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems	A*	Software engineering	48	66	51	99%
SOSP	ACM SIGOPS Symposium on Operating Systems Principles	A*	Distributed computing and systems software	43	56	62	100%
LICS	IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science	A*	Theory of computation	72	74	–	94%
PerCom	IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications	A*	Human-centred computing, Distributed computing and systems software	30	44	45	71%
PODS	ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Conference on Principles of Database Systems	A*	Data management and data science	40	31	30	99%
IROS	IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems	A	Artificial intelligence, Computer science (general)	1,587	1,988	–	98%
MICCAI	Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention	A	Applied computing, Computer vision and multimedia computation	862	943	1,165	99%
WACV	IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision	A	Computer vision and multimedia computation	852	940	840	95%
Interspeech	Interspeech (combined EuroSpeech and ICSLP in 2000)	A	Artificial intelligence	1,026	1,151	–	7%
ICME	IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo	A	Computer vision and multimedia computation	664	1,004	–	98%
NAACL	North American Association for Computational Linguistics	A	Artificial intelligence	662	909	–	89%
AAMAS	International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (previously the International Conference on Multiagent Systems, ICMAS, changed in 2000)	A	Artificial intelligence	434	464	652	98%
SIGCSE	ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference	A	Human-centred computing	524	496	530	99%
CIKM	ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management	A	Data management and data science, Artificial intelligence	697	852	–	98%
DATE	Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference	A	Computer science (general), Software engineering	397	444	462	95%
ECAI	European Conference on Artificial Intelligence	A	Artificial intelligence, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Machine learning	606	696	–	99%
DIS	Designing Interactive Systems	A	Human-centred computing	365	332	437	96%
CSCW	ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work	A	Human-centred computing	383	525	–	100%
EACL	European Association for Computational Linguistics	A	Artificial intelligence	250	–	641	82%
SC	International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (was Supercomputing Conference)	A	Computer science (general), Distributed computing and systems software	379	433	–	94%
ECML PKDD	European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Database (PKDD and ECML combined from 2008)	A	Machine learning, Data management and data science	270	200	316	99%
RecSys	ACM International Conference on Recommender Systems	A	Data management and data science	217	239	284	93%
AIED	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education	A	Applied computing, Human-centred computing	83	249	349	98%
ECIR	European Conference on Information Retrieval	A	Data management and data science	210	207	209	97%
WSDM	ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining	A	Data management and data science, Machine learning	175	150	216	96%
OOPSLA	ACM Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications	A	Software engineering	148	216	171	100%
ICWSM	International Conference on Web and Social Media	A	Applied computing, Data management and data science	162	170	186	99%
ICWS	IEEE International Conference on Web Services	A	Distributed computing and systems software	185	130	190	90%
GECCO	Genetic and Evolutionary Computations	A	Artificial intelligence	181	170	153	99%
ASSETS	International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility	A	Human-centred computing	138	182	178	99%
ISSTA	International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis	A	Software engineering	170	107	207	100%
MODELS	International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (Previously UML, changed in 2005)	A	Software engineering	182	34	241	96%
PETS	Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (was International Workshop of Privacy Enhancing Technologies)	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	159	130	164	100%
ICDAR	IEEE International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition	A	Data management and data science	154	149	149	96%
IEEE VIS	IEEE Visualization	A	Human-centred computing	217	215	18	89%
IUI	International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces	A	Human-centred computing	102	141	187	99%
ICDCS	International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems	A	Distributed computing and systems software	160	112	144	92%
UMAP	International Conference on User Modelling, Adaptation, and Personalization (was AH and UM)	A	Human-centred computing	143	148	124	96%
AsiaCCS	Asia Conference on Information, Computer and Communications Security	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	143	125	137	99%
MSR	IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories	A	Software engineering, Data management and data science	98	127	145	95%
MobiSys	ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services	A	Distributed computing and systems software	129	93	140	98%
ESA	European Symposium on Algorithms	A	Theory of computation	78	123	149	99%
CHES	Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	104	88	149	99%
SANER	IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering	A	Software engineering	112	98	125	92%
IPDPS	IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (was IPPS and SPDP)	A	Distributed computing and systems software, Computer science (general)	100	118	115	90%
ESORICS	European Symposium On Research In Computer Security	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	86	88	131	99%
SIGSPATIAL	ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems	A	Applied computing, Machine learning, Data management and data science	112	193	–	99%
LAK	International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge	A	Human-centred computing, Applied computing	95	101	106	99%
EuroSys	Eurosys Conference	A	Distributed computing and systems software	71	85	134	100%
IMC	Internet Measurement Conference	A	Distributed computing and systems software	84	98	99	100%
ASIACRYPT	International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	129	144	–	99%
PPSN	Parallel Problem Solving from Nature	A	Machine learning	101	–	165	100%
ICST	International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation	A	Software engineering	58	109	97	90%
ICS	ACM International Conference on Supercomputing	A	Computer science (general), Distributed computing and systems software	45	83	135	100%
ITCS	Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science	A	Theory of computation	78	121	58	98%
EASE	International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering	A	Software engineering	100	150	–	98%
ICCAD	IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design	A	Computer science (general), Distributed computing and systems software	239	–	–	100%
RE	IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference	A	Software engineering	69	80	80	82%
EuroS&P	IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	55	70	95	85%
ICSME	IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (prior to 2014 was ICSM, IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance)	A	Software engineering	101	113	–	87%
DSN	IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks	A	Distributed computing and systems software, Computer science (general)	59	73	80	76%
ISLPED	IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design	A	Computer science (general), Applied computing	62	80	65	96%
ISMB	Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology	A	Applied computing	63	71	69	100%
ISWC	International Semantic Web Conference	A	Data management and data science	44	62	97	99%
ACSAC	Annual Computer Security Applications Conference	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	101	101	–	82%
TACAS	Tools and Algorithms for Construction and Analysis of Systems	A	Software engineering	70	60	72	100%
HPDC	ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing	A	Distributed computing and systems software, Computer science (general)	47	52	95	98%
ICER	International Computing Education Research Workshop	A	Human-centred computing	58	71	64	99%
APPROX/RANDOM	International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems and International Conference on Randomization and Computation	A	Theory of computation	51	76	61	99%
STACS	International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science	A	Theory of computation	44	83	58	98%
SDM	SIAM International Conference on Data Mining	A	Data management and data science	103	71	–	98%
MMSys	ACM Multimedia Systems Conference	A	Distributed computing and systems software, Computer vision and multimedia computation, Graphics, augmented reality and games	69	41	60	98%
ICPC	IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (previously IWPC, changed in 2006)	A	Software engineering	45	69	53	93%
ITC	IEEE International Test Conference	A	Computer science (general)	69	98	–	89%
CGO	International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization	A	Software engineering	44	48	63	90%
CSF	IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (was CSFW)	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	52	47	48	82%
FPGA	ACM Int'l Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays	A	Computer science (general)	43	44	54	96%
ICSOC	International Conference on Service Oriented Computing	A	Distributed computing and systems software	65	10	63	100%
ESEM	International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement	A	Software engineering	66	68	–	93%
RTAS	IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium	A	Distributed computing and systems software	44	44	43	82%
MSWIM	ACM/IEEE International Conference on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems	A	Distributed computing and systems software	–	128	–	93%
CoNEXT	ACM International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies	A	Distributed computing and systems software	36	54	37	99%
ISSRE	International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering	A	Software engineering	66	61	–	78%
BPM	International Conference in Business Process Management	A	Software engineering	38	40	46	100%
RTSS	Real Time Systems Symposium	A	Distributed computing and systems software	54	68	–	81%
CAiSE	International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering	A	Data management and data science	36	35	46	99%
RAID	The International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (was International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection)	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	43	73	–	91%
DISC	International Symposium on Distributed Computing (was WDAG)	A	Distributed computing and systems software	47	56	9	97%
ICFP	International Conference on Functional Programming	A	Software engineering	35	36	39	100%
Middleware	ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference	A	Distributed computing and systems software	55	48	–	99%
ICSA	International Conference on Software Architecture (was previously WICSA)	A	Software engineering	26	31	42	73%
IJCAR	International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning	A	Artificial intelligence, Software engineering, Theory of computation	48	–	49	99%
CCC	IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity	A	Theory of computation	28	30	38	100%
GD	Graph Drawing	A	Theory of computation	29	61	6	98%
CP	International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming	A	Artificial intelligence	18	15	62	100%
FC	Financial Cryptography and Data Security Conference	A	Cybersecurity and privacy	–	42	45	97%
SEAMS	International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems	A	Software engineering	26	28	32	90%
ECOOP	European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming	A	Software engineering	26	27	26	100%
ICDT	International Conference on Database Theory	A	Data management and data science	18	33	28	99%
SAT	International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing	A	Artificial intelligence, Theory of computation	16	18	45	99%
ER	International Conference on Conceptual Modelling	A	Data management and data science	22	19	33	100%
ALENEX	Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments	A	Theory of computation	18	19	19	93%
CADE	International Conference on Automated Deduction	A	Artificial intelligence	–	39	–	95%
HotOS	USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems	A	Distributed computing and systems software	–	29	–	100%
FOGA	Foundations of Genetic Algorithms	A	Artificial intelligence	–	27	–	96%

Countries#

Countries by papers at CORE A* and A conferences, 2024–2026 (a paper counts once for each country of its authors)
#	Country	A*	A	2024	2025	2026	2024–2026
1	China	38,289	11,012	14,032	20,492	14,777	49,301
2	United States	27,739	14,251	13,708	16,943	11,339	41,990
3	Germany	5,535	4,338	3,191	3,699	2,983	9,873
4	United Kingdom	6,173	3,228	2,854	3,898	2,649	9,401
5	Hong Kong	6,327	1,548	2,155	3,357	2,363	7,875
6	Singapore	4,919	1,126	1,687	2,513	1,845	6,045
7	South Korea	4,320	1,723	1,611	2,394	2,038	6,043
8	Australia	3,768	1,762	1,634	2,218	1,678	5,530
9	Canada	3,410	1,952	1,659	2,111	1,592	5,362
10	France	2,228	1,975	1,398	1,589	1,216	4,203
11	Japan	2,498	1,514	1,232	1,492	1,288	4,012
12	Italy	1,694	1,871	1,106	1,411	1,048	3,565
13	Switzerland	2,178	1,187	1,142	1,372	851	3,365
14	Netherlands	1,473	1,394	909	1,053	905	2,867
15	India	1,381	1,198	800	900	879	2,579
16	Israel	1,280	578	601	724	533	1,858
17	Austria	906	824	571	613	546	1,730
18	Denmark	978	580	561	549	448	1,558
19	Spain	705	825	536	547	447	1,530
20	Sweden	777	730	480	540	487	1,507
21	United Arab Emirates	822	335	274	505	378	1,157
22	Taiwan	636	368	304	376	324	1,004
23	Belgium	460	514	334	333	307	974
24	Finland	426	386	242	300	270	812
25	Macao	565	159	156	285	283	724
26	Poland	372	320	190	274	228	692
27	Norway	269	317	187	213	186	586
28	Czechia	265	318	196	203	184	583
29	Brazil	196	370	178	206	182	566
30	Portugal	257	309	179	218	169	566

Institutions#

Institutions by papers at CORE A* and A conferences, 2024–2026
#	Institution	Country	A*	A	2024	2025	2026	2024–2026
1	Tsinghua University	China	4,331	875	1,516	2,179	1,511	5,206
2	Zhejiang University	China	3,463	646	1,166	1,703	1,240	4,109
3	Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	3,092	983	1,142	1,689	1,244	4,075
4	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	2,698	775	897	1,535	1,041	3,473
5	Peking University	China	2,803	586	924	1,413	1,052	3,389
6	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	1,925	762	904	1,095	688	2,687
7	National University of Singapore	Singapore	2,120	428	674	1,103	771	2,548
8	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore	2,105	425	686	1,064	780	2,530
9	University of Chinese Academy of Sciences	China	1,904	501	687	872	846	2,405
10	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	1,973	429	657	1,008	737	2,402
11	University of Science and Technology of China	China	1,988	394	671	1,054	657	2,382
12	Fudan University	China	1,658	416	556	903	615	2,074
13	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique	France	1,059	981	708	760	572	2,040
14	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	1,609	404	583	903	527	2,013
15	Harbin Institute of Technology	China	1,459	319	473	805	500	1,778
16	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	United States	1,227	530	547	731	479	1,757
17	Beihang University	China	1,434	323	479	707	571	1,757
18	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	1,320	358	572	722	384	1,678
19	Nanjing University	China	1,392	283	397	724	554	1,675
20	Stanford University	United States	1,233	396	492	751	386	1,629
21	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)	China	1,359	263	360	660	602	1,622
22	Alibaba Group (China)	China	1,414	202	397	703	516	1,616
23	Sun Yat-sen University	China	1,197	391	442	715	431	1,588
24	ETH Zurich	Switzerland	1,101	458	531	660	368	1,559
25	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	South Korea	1,193	340	446	623	464	1,533
26	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	978	529	517	617	373	1,507
27	Technical University of Munich	Germany	874	591	482	557	426	1,465
28	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	1,188	268	399	570	487	1,456
29	Tencent (China)	China	1,260	181	475	623	343	1,441
30	Huazhong University of Science and Technology	China	1,114	288	419	562	421	1,402

Fields#

Papers by field of research (a conference with several fields counts in each), 2024–2026
Field of research	Conferences	Papers
Artificial intelligence	22	47,461
Computer vision and multimedia computation	13	39,853
Machine learning	10	31,343
Data management and data science	22	17,604
Computer science (general)	16	14,688
Human-centred computing	18	14,639
Distributed computing and systems software	30	11,373
Software engineering	30	10,596
Cybersecurity and privacy	15	5,559
Applied computing	7	5,186
Theory of computation	18	4,793
Graphics, augmented reality and games	5	2,271

Not counted#

CORE A* and A conferences that OpenAlex does not tell apart
Conference	Name	Rank	Why not counted
COLT	Conference on Learning Theory	A*	Published in PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research), which OpenAlex indexes as one source
ICLR	International Conference on Learning Representations	A*	Published on OpenReview; OpenAlex's source for the conference has no papers since 2024
ICML	International Conference on Machine Learning	A*	Published in PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research), which OpenAlex indexes as one source
OSDI	Usenix Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation	A*	USENIX papers have no DOIs, and OpenAlex has no source with this conference's recent papers
USENIX Security	Usenix Security Symposium	A*	USENIX papers have no DOIs, and OpenAlex has no source with this conference's recent papers
AISTATS	International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics	A	Published in PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research), which OpenAlex indexes as one source
BMVC	British Machine Vision Conference	A	Published on the conference's own website; OpenAlex has no source for it
CIDR	Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research	A	Published on the conference's own website; OpenAlex has no source for it
ESOP	European Symposium on Programming	A	Published in Springer's Lecture Notes series (LNCS/LNAI), which OpenAlex indexes as one source for all its conferences
FAST	Conference on File and Storage Technologies	A	USENIX papers have no DOIs, and OpenAlex has no source with this conference's recent papers
SOUPS	Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security	A	USENIX papers have no DOIs, and OpenAlex has no source with this conference's recent papers
UAI	Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence	A	Published in PMLR (Proceedings of Machine Learning Research), which OpenAlex indexes as one source
USENIX ATC	Usenix Annual Technical Conference	A	USENIX papers have no DOIs, and OpenAlex has no source with this conference's recent papers

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Scholar4AI. (2026). Top computer science conferences: CORE A* and A proceedings, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Top computer science conferences: CORE A* and A proceedings, 2024–2026},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings}},
  urldate = {2026-11-02},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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