Question 1

Which countries lead Algorithms and Data Compression research?

Accepted Answer

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (658 and 646 works in 2022-now).

Question 2

Which institutions lead Algorithms and Data Compression research?

Accepted Answer

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Algorithms and Data Compression research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University.

Question 3

Who are the leading researchers in Algorithms and Data Compression?

Accepted Answer

The most-cited researchers publishing on Algorithms and Data Compression include Yoshua Bengio, Rob Knight and Geoffrey E. Hinton.

Question 4

Where is Algorithms and Data Compression research done?

Accepted Answer

The largest centres of Algorithms and Data Compression research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Tokyo (Japan) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Haifa and Pisa.

Question 5

Where is the best place to study Algorithms and Data Compression?

Accepted Answer

Among universities, judged by research, Tsinghua University, ETH Zurich and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Question 6

Is Algorithms and Data Compression research growing?

Accepted Answer

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2002.

Question 7

What are the most cited papers in Algorithms and Data Compression?

Accepted Answer

The most cited paper in Algorithms and Data Compression is "Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs" (Stephen F. Altschul, 1997), with 75,032 citations. Next come "The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools" (69,061) and "Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform" (63,989).