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title: "ITCS (A): papers and universities"
description: "ITCS (Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 257 of its papers from 2024–2026 (78 in 2024, 121 in 2025, 58 in 2026). By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from the United States (171), Israel (37) and Canada (23)."
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share_text: "ITCS (Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 257 of its papers from 2024–2026 (78 in 2024, 121 in 2025, 58 in 2026). (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# ITCS: Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science — papers and institutions, 2024–2026

Papers of ITCS, Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (CORE rank A; field: Theory of computation), 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

- ITCS (Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 257 of its papers from 2024–2026 (78 in 2024, 121 in 2025, 58 in 2026).
- By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from the United States (171), Israel (37) and Canada (23).
- The institutions with the most papers are Massachusetts Institute of Technology (28), Columbia University (20) and Stanford University (16).
- Its most-cited paper of these years is “Total NP Search Problems with Abundant Solutions” (2024), with 18 citations.

## Papers per year

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

| Year | Papers | With affiliations |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2024 | 78 | 78 |
| 2025 | 121 | 117 |
| 2026 | 58 | 58 |

## Sources

*Where OpenAlex lists the papers*

| OpenAlex source | Which papers |
|---|---|
| [S4377196569](https://openalex.org/S4377196569) | LIPIcs papers with the DOIs 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.<year>.<n> |

## Who publishes there

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

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 28 |
| 2 | Columbia University | 20 |
| 3 | [Stanford University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/stanford-university.md) | 16 |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley | 15 |
| 5 | University of Waterloo | 14 |
| 6 | [Tel Aviv University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tel-aviv-university.md) | 14 |
| 7 | University of Michigan | 14 |
| 8 | Harvard University | 10 |
| 9 | Boston University | 9 |
| 10 | Google (United States) | 9 |

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

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 171 |
| 2 | Israel | 37 |
| 3 | Canada | 23 |
| 4 | Germany | 18 |
| 5 | China | 17 |
| 6 | United Kingdom | 17 |
| 7 | India | 15 |
| 8 | Switzerland | 13 |
| 9 | Denmark | 11 |
| 10 | France | 8 |

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

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | lower bounds | 40 |
| 2 | approximation algorithms | 15 |
| 3 | randomized algorithms | 14 |
| 4 | query complexity | 13 |
| 5 | circuit lower bounds | 11 |
| 6 | differential privacy | 11 |
| 7 | hardness of approximation | 11 |
| 8 | streaming algorithms | 11 |
| 9 | Boolean functions | 10 |
| 10 | communication complexity | 10 |

## Most-cited papers

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

| # | Citations | Title | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | [Total NP Search Problems with Abundant Solutions](https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2024.75) | 2024-01-01 | Jiawei Li |
| 2 | 16 | [Graph Reconstruction via MIS Queries](https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2025.66) | 2025-01-01 | Christian Konrad, O'Sullivan, Conor, Traistaru, Victor |
| 3 | 8 | [Approximate Unitary k-Designs from Shallow, Low-Communication Circuits](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-025-05542-9) | 2026-02-05 | Nicholas D. LaRacuente, Felix Leditzky |
| 4 | 4 | [Maximizing Miner Revenue in Transaction Fee Mechanism Design](https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2024.98) | 2024-01-01 | Ke Wu, Elaine Shi, Hao Chung |
| 5 | 4 | [On the complexity of isomorphism problems for tensors, groups, and polynomials III: actions by classical groups](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00037-026-00294-x) | 2026-09-22 | Zhili Chen, Joshua A. Grochow, Youming Qiao et al. |
| 6 | 4 | [Tensor reconstruction beyond constant rank](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00037-026-00295-w) | 2026-08-20 | Shir Peleg, Amir Shpilka, Ben Lee Volk |
| 7 | 3 | [Weighted Chairman Assignment and Flow-Time Scheduling](https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2026.98) | 2026-01-01 | Liu, Siyue, Victor Reis |
| 8 | 2 | [Quantum Money from Abelian Group Actions](https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2024.101) | 2024-01-01 | Mark Zhandry |
| 9 | 2 | [Backdoor Defense, Learnability and Obfuscation](https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2025.38) | 2024-09-04 | Christiano, Paul, Hilton, Jacob, Victor Lecomte et al. |
| 10 | 2 | [Rank Lower Bounds on Non-Local Quantum Computation](https://doi.org/10.4230/lipics.itcs.2025.11) | 2025-01-01 | Vahid R. Asadi, Culf, Eric, Alex May |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). ITCS: Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science — papers and institutions, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/itcs

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