PCS Keywords

When people submit visualization papers to EuroVis, IEEE VAST, IEEE InfoVis, IEEE SciVis, and IEEE PacificVis - they have to submit primary and secondary keywords to their papers. The following visualizations show part of this submission data.

keyword counts all conferences

primary vs. secondary all conferences

primary vs. secondary VAST

primary vs. secondary InfoVis

primary vs. secondary SciVis

Paper keywords

The following visualizations have been created by looking at index terms for papers in the IEEEXplore digital library and the papers themselves. They are ordered by the type of keywords used to index a particular paper. The visualizations below include papers for the IEEE VAST, IEEE InfoVis, and IEEE SciVis (previously Vis) conferences.

Author Keywords

author-supplied keywords all conferences

expert coded author keywords all conferences

PCS keywords all conferences

IEEE Terms

According to an FAQ on the IEEE webseite [1], the IEEE hires a university expert to read each paper and assign it a keyword from the the controlled IEEE vocabulary [2]

INSPEC Controlled Terms

According to an FAQ on the IEEE webseite [1], the IEEE uses the INSPEC service to read each paper and article for words and phrases that match keywords from the controlled IEEE vocabulary. References:

1. IEEE Thesaurus-FAQ
2. IEEE 2013 list of approved keywords