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title: "ISMAR (A*): papers and universities"
description: "ISMAR (IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality) is rated A* by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 436 of its papers from 2024–2026 (198 in 2024, 238 in 2025; 2026 not in OpenAlex yet). By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from the United States (114), China (85) and Germany (74)."
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# ISMAR: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality — papers and institutions, 2024–2026

Papers of ISMAR, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (CORE rank A*; field: Graphics, augmented reality and games, Human-centred computing), 2024–2026: per year, the institutions, countries and topics, and the most-cited papers. 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.

All conferences: https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings.md

## Key findings

- ISMAR (IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality) is rated A* by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 436 of its papers from 2024–2026 (198 in 2024, 238 in 2025; 2026 not in OpenAlex yet).
- By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from the United States (114), China (85) and Germany (74).
- The institutions with the most papers are Beihang University (17), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (16) and State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems (15).
- Its most-cited paper of these years is “Expressive 3D Facial Animation Generation Based on Local-to-Global Latent Diffusion” (2024), with 102 citations.

## Papers per year

*ISMAR papers per publication year in OpenAlex (–: not in OpenAlex yet)*

| Year | Papers | With affiliations |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2024 | 198 | 177 |
| 2025 | 238 | 218 |
| 2026 | – | – |

## Sources

*Where OpenAlex lists the papers*

| OpenAlex source | Which papers |
|---|---|
| [S4393917577](https://openalex.org/S4393917577) | The conference's proceedings |
| [S84775595](https://openalex.org/S84775595) | Conference-linked journal (issue 11) |

## Who publishes there

*Institutions with the most ISMAR papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Beihang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/beihang-university.md) | 17 |
| 2 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | 16 |
| 3 | State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems | 15 |
| 4 | University of South Australia | 14 |
| 5 | University of Calgary | 12 |
| 6 | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) | 12 |
| 7 | Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | 12 |
| 8 | University of Stuttgart | 11 |
| 9 | Graz University of Technology | 11 |
| 10 | The University of Tokyo | 11 |

*Countries with the most ISMAR papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 114 |
| 2 | China | 85 |
| 3 | Germany | 74 |
| 4 | South Korea | 46 |
| 5 | United Kingdom | 41 |
| 6 | Canada | 32 |
| 7 | Australia | 31 |
| 8 | Japan | 29 |
| 9 | Austria | 17 |
| 10 | Hong Kong | 17 |

*Keywords with the most ISMAR papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | virtual reality | 125 |
| 2 | augmented reality | 62 |
| 3 | mixed reality | 35 |
| 4 | extended reality | 30 |
| 5 | presence | 28 |
| 6 | eye tracking | 25 |
| 7 | head-mounted displays | 24 |
| 8 | user experience | 21 |
| 9 | usability | 18 |
| 10 | haptic feedback | 17 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited ISMAR papers of 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)*

| # | Citations | Title | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---|---|---|
| 1 | 102 | [Expressive 3D Facial Animation Generation Based on Local-to-Global Latent Diffusion](https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2024.3456213) | 2024-09-10 | Wenfeng Song, Xuan Wang, Yiming Jiang et al. |
| 2 | 43 | [The Effects of Depth of Knowledge of a Virtual Agent](https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2024.3456148) | 2024-09-10 | Fu‐Chia Yang, Kevin Duque, Christos Mousas |
| 3 | 32 | [NIS-SLAM: Neural Implicit Semantic RGB-D SLAM for 3D Consistent Scene Understanding](https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2024.3456201) | 2024-09-10 | Hongjia Zhai, Gan Huang, Qirui Hu et al. |
| 4 | 31 | [XaiR: An XR Platform that Integrates Large Language Models with the Physical World](https://doi.org/10.1109/ismar62088.2024.00091) | 2024-10-21 | Sruti Srinidhi, Edward Lu, Anthony Rowe |
| 5 | 25 | [Mazed and Confused: A Dataset of Cybersickness, Working Memory, Mental Load, Physical Load, and Attention During a Real Walking Task in VR](https://doi.org/10.1109/ismar62088.2024.00121) | 2024-10-21 | Jyotirmay Nag Setu, Joshua M Le, Ripan Kumar Kundu et al. |
| 6 | 24 | [TouchMark : Partial Tactile Feedback Design for Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Virtual Reality](https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2024.3456173) | 2024-09-10 | Jingjing Zhang, Mengjie Huang, Yonglin Chen et al. |
| 7 | 19 | [Cultural Reflections in Virtual Reality: The Effects of User Ethnicity in Avatar Matching Experiences on Sense of Embodiment](https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2024.3456196) | 2024-09-09 | Tiffany D. Do, Juanita Benjamin, Camille Isabella Protko et al. |
| 8 | 18 | [2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality](https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2024.3453109) | 2024-10-10 |  |
| 9 | 18 | [Robust Collaborative Visual-Inertial SLAM for Mobile Augmented Reality](https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2024.3456152) | 2024-09-09 | Xiaokun Pan, Gan Huang, Ziyang Zhang et al. |
| 10 | 17 | [ThermicVib: Enabling Dynamic Thermal Sensation with Multimodal Haptic Glove for Thermal-Responsive Interaction](https://doi.org/10.1109/ismar62088.2024.00076) | 2024-10-21 | Huang Yi, Hojeong Lee, Sang Ho Yoon |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). ISMAR: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality — papers and institutions, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ismar

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).