Top 10 in Data Mining

We look at top 10 research keywords, authors, publications, organizations, and more. Which keywords have grown the most in the last 5 years?

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Microsoft Academic Research provides rankings for many topics, and I recently checked their rankings for data mining.

The top 10 keywords for "Data Mining" (all-time) were

Keywords	Publications	Citations
Data Mining	7343	116420
Machine Learning	2568	68086
Association Rule	1985	52838
Indexation	2675	46307
Information Retrieval	1635	42853
World Wide Web	657	39364
Support Vector Machine	1319	33604
Cluster Algorithm	1747	32604
Efficient Algorithm	928	23241
Search Engine	1218	22858

while for the top keywords for "Data Mining" (last 5 years) are

Keywords	Publications	Citations
Data Mining	2779	8076
Social Network	898	4535
Large Scale	728	3655
Machine Learning	1047	3548
Information Retrieval	651	2752
Indexation	1101	2701
Search Engine	587	2403
Cluster Algorithm	858	2381
Web Search	329	1968
Web Pages	579	1957

We can clearly see the growing importance of social network and large-scale analysis (the research term for "Big Data"), and declining importance of "Association Rule" and "Support Vector Machine".

Other interesting results include top authors in Data Mining (all-time), ranked by H-Index

1. Jiawei Han, H-Index=69
2. Philip S. Yu, 47
3. Rakesh Agrawal, 46
4. Christos Faloutsos, 39
5. Heikki Mannila, 36
6. Eamonn J. Keogh, 35
7. George Karypis, 35
8. Jian Pei, 34
9. Padhraic Smyth, 34
10. Hans-Peter Kriegel, 33

while the top authors in Data Mining (last 5 years) are

1. Philip S. Yu
2. Jiawei Han
3. Christos Faloutsos
4. Jian Pei
5. Xuemin Lin
6. Jure Leskovec
7. Charu C. Aggarwal
8. Zhi-Hua Zhou
9. Yehuda Koren
10. Tao Li

We note amazing productivity (and students) of veteran researchers Philip S. Yu, Jiawei Han, and Christos Faloutsos. Jian Pei went from #8 to #4 - very impressive. Also watch for great results from younger researchers who made into top 10 in the last 5 years:
Xuemin Lin, Jure Leskovec, Charu C. Aggarwal, Zhi-Hua Zhou, Yehuda Koren, and Tao Li.

Other interesting lists include:

• Top Research Organizations in Data Mining: (Microsoft, Google, IBM, Stanford, Yahoo Labs)
• Top Publications in Data Mining :
• Top Conferences in Data Mining: (KDD, ICDE, CIKM, DMKD, SDM, ICDM)
• Top Journals in Data Mining

Check it for yourself at

academic.research.microsoft.com/