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About the Communications of the ACM format

Communications of the ACM is a peer-reviewed journal published by ACM, covering Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Algorithms and Data Compression, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems.

PublisherACM
Reference styleNumbered (ACM)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] Ada Smith, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. A representative article title. Communications of the ACM 12, 3, Article 45 (2023).

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Publishes research inParallel Computing and Optimization Techniques Algorithms and Data Compression Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems Information Systems Education and Curriculum Development Logic, programming, and type systems
ISSN0001-0782
Citation impact (2-yr)3.83
h-index434
i10-index7,109
Total citations1,213,804
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of California, Berkeley
Journal websitecacm.acm.org
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Papers published in Communications of the ACM per year

313
2014
292
2015
308
2016
295
2017
312
2018
296
2019
293
2020
321
2021
296
2022
282
2023
282
2024
260
2025

Citation impact of Communications of the ACM by publication year

13.8K
2014
6.8K
2015
15K
2016
83.3K
2017
8.6K
2018
8.2K
2019
20.4K
2020
13.8K
2021
3K
2022
1.8K
2023
1.8K
2024
569
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Communications of the ACM

ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton · 24 May 2017

We trained a large, deep convolutional neural network to classify the 1.2 million high-resolution images in the ImageNet LSVRC-2010 contest into the 1000 different classes. On the test data, we achieved top-1 and top-5 error rates of 37.5% and 17.0%, respectively, which is considerably better than the previous state-of-the-art. The neural network, which has 60…

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Random sample consensus

Martin A. Fischler, Robert C. Bolles · 1 Jun 1981

A new paradigm, Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC), for fitting a model to experimental data is introduced. RANSAC is capable of interpreting/smoothing data containing a significant percentage of gross errors, and is thus ideally suited for applications in automated image analysis where interpretation is based on the data provided by error-prone feature detectors. A major portion…

25,541 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
MapReduce

Jay B. Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat · 1 Jan 2008

MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large datasets that is amenable to a broad variety of real-world tasks. Users specify the computation in terms of a map and a reduce function, and the underlying runtime system automatically parallelizes the computation across large-scale clusters of machines, handles machine failures,…

18,565 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
WordNet

George A. Miller · 1 Nov 1995

Because meaningful sentences are composed of meaningful words, any system that hopes to process natural languages as people do must have information about words and their meanings. This information is traditionally provided through dictionaries, and machine-readable dictionaries are now widely available. But dictionary entries evolved for the convenience of human readers, not for machines. WordNet…

14,149 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Generative adversarial networks

Ian Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza et al. · 22 Oct 2020

Generative adversarial networks are a kind of artificial intelligence algorithm designed to solve the generative modeling problem. The goal of a generative model is to study a collection of training examples and learn the probability distribution that generated them. Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are then able to generate more examples from the estimated probability distribution.…

13,804 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

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What reference style does Communications of the ACM use?
Communications of the ACM uses Numbered (ACM) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] Ada Smith, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. A representative article title. Communications of the ACM 12, 3, Article 45 (2023).
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