Conferences by citations — part 1

WARNING: I think there's something wrong with this data. I'll leave it here as it is a few days until I check.

Citation numbers for some conferences.

Acronym	Name
CC	Compiler Construction (associated with ETAPS)
ERSHOV	Ershov memorial conference (see for example hash-consing)
ESOP	European Symposium on Programming
FM	Formal Methods
FOCS	Foundations of Computer Science
IET	IET Software (formerly IEE Proceedings Software)
SAS	Static Analysis Symposium
TACAS	Tools and Algorithms for the COnstruction and Analysis of Systems

Acronym	Median
TACAS	8
FOCS	6
CC	5
ESOP	5
IET	5
FM	3
SAS	2
ERSHOV	1

Acronym	Average
FOCS	27.1
TACAS	16.7
ESOP	11.4
CC	10.0
IET	9.3
SAS	8.7
FM	7.7
ERSHOV	5.7

"Methodology": Get list of articles from DBLP, scrap Scholar for number of citations, remove the top 10 and the bottom 10 when ordered by citations (this removes the most significant errors of the preceding phases at the cost of skewing the data a bit; but the data is already skewed because the sources of information are not quite reliable), and then compute the average and the median.

When the average is a lot above the median, that means that there are a few papers that people really remember and keep citing, and lots of others that get forgotten. Or it means something else. You pick.