Quantum Publication Analytics Explorer

Filters

Select years, venues, regions, and subfields.

Venues

Regions

Subfields (Experimental)

Institution overview

Aggregated publication counts over the selected venues and years.

#	Institution	Region	Total pubs	Researchers	Pubs / researcher

About

I built this project as a simple, transparent way to explore publication activity in quantum computing and quantum information. Inspired by csrankings.org, it aggregates papers from selected journals and conferences using OpenAlex and DBLP data.

I use the explorer to get a rough sense of where quantum-related papers are appearing, based on a selected set of venues and simple aggregation over authors and institutions. It is an exploratory view of public metadata, not a ranking of research quality.

Methodology and sources

I generate the dataset by querying the OpenAlex API for works whose primary source matches each venue over the selected year range. For theoretical computer science conferences and symposia, I first obtain titles or DOIs from DBLP and then query OpenAlex; for the remaining venues, I query OpenAlex directly. Papers from broad, non-quantum venues are retained only when their titles contain terms from the quantum keyword list in this site's GitHub repository.

From this metadata, I calculate publication totals, counts of distinct researchers, and publications per researcher. The tables contain these simple aggregates, sorted by the selected metric, without any additional weighting or scoring. I limit the results to the 500 institutions with the most publications so that the explorer remains responsive. The dataset is generated automatically, without hand-tuning individual authors or affiliations.

Limitations and caveats

There is a great deal of room for improvement here. In particular:

Coverage is incomplete. Not all venues are included, and even for included venues, some years or papers are missing from OpenAlex. TCS-style quantum work is especially easy to miss if the title looks “classical”.
Name disambiguation is imperfect. Different people with similar names can get merged; the same person can appear multiple times if their records are split. You will see duplicate entries for some researchers and institutions.
Affiliations move around. People change institutions, list multiple affiliations, or have incomplete affiliation data. Here, a paper is counted for an institution if at least one author is listed with that affiliation in the metadata.
The venue list and keyword filter are opinionated. They reflect my attempt to capture a useful portion of quantum research, not a complete picture of the field. I recommend deselecting venues that are not associated with the subfield being examined; for theoretical quantum cryptography, for example, this would usually include PRL, PRA, and PRX. Otherwise, false positives increase substantially. False negatives are also common, so the venue filter is considerably more reliable than the subfield filter.
Numbers are noisy. Small changes in venue choices, keyword lists, or affiliation grouping can move institutions up or down quite a bit.

Disclaimer

The dataset is automatically generated from public metadata and does not reflect any qualitative judgment about researchers or institutions. The ordering above is simply the result of sorting by the chosen metric (e.g., total publications) and should not be interpreted as an official ranking.