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FOCS 2026

IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science

Theory

Cycle closed, awaiting the next call

All deadlines

Paper submissionApr 1, 2026est.

From past proceedings

Papers in FOCS's main DBLP volume each year, not official acceptance counts.

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Papers in 2025

136

main DBLP volume

5-year change

+7%

vs 2020

Papers, all years

4,192

66 years since 1960

Authors per paper

3.2

2.8 in 2015

By an entirely new team

10%

of 2025 papers

Papers per year1960 to 2025
1960: 9 papers1961: 26 papers1962: 16 papers1963: 13 papers1964: 25 papers1965: 32 papers1966: 29 papers1967: 35 papers1968: 41 papers1969: 26 papers1970: 25 papers1971: 27 papers1972: 27 papers1973: 25 papers1974: 26 papers1975: 28 papers1976: 31 papers1977: 31 papers1978: 33 papers1979: 43 papers1980: 45 papers1981: 51 papers1982: 46 papers1983: 60 papers1984: 59 papers1985: 61 papers1986: 54 papers1987: 55 papers1988: 59 papers1989: 99 papers1990: 91 papers1991: 86 papers1992: 77 papers1993: 74 papers1994: 73 papers1995: 73 papers1996: 65 papers1997: 63 papers1998: 79 papers1999: 67 papers2000: 66 papers2001: 65 papers2002: 80 papers2003: 64 papers2004: 64 papers2005: 72 papers2006: 71 papers2007: 66 papers2008: 82 papers2009: 73 papers2010: 82 papers2011: 88 papers2012: 80 papers2013: 79 papers2014: 68 papers2015: 86 papers2016: 86 papers2017: 90 papers2018: 87 papers2019: 92 papers2020: 127 papers2021: 118 papers2022: 110 papers2023: 142 papers2024: 133 papers2025: 136 papers
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Top keywords, 2025

codesboundsoptimalgraphslowermatchingapproximationdistancelower boundslocallytightalmost

Venues like FOCS

  1. STOC ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing0.55lower boundslowerboundshardness
  2. SODA ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms0.45boundslowertightlower bounds
  3. ICALP EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming0.44boundslower boundslowerapproximation
  4. CCC Computational Complexity Conference0.34lower boundslowerboundshardness

Most published at FOCS

  1. Avi Wigderson1983 to 202444
  2. Noga Alon1984 to 202139
  3. Madhu Sudan1992 to 202534
  4. Christos H. Papadimitriou1979 to 202232
  5. Oded Goldreich1983 to 202128

Who publishes here

2024 to 2025 · papers count once per institution on them

Academia 89%Industry 2%Government and other 9%

Institutions

  1. 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology🇺🇸45
  2. 2Carnegie Mellon University🇺🇸24
  3. 3University of California, Berkeley🇺🇸24
  4. 4ETH Zurich🇨🇭22
  5. 5Princeton University🇺🇸16
  6. 6Stanford University🇺🇸16
  7. 7University of Michigan🇺🇸14
  8. 8Harvard University🇺🇸11

Countries

  1. United States193
  2. Switzerland33
  3. Israel32
  4. Germany20
  5. Canada19
  6. United Kingdom18

Affiliations from OpenAlex for the papers DBLP lists. A paper with authors from three institutions counts for each of them; the split above is over the top institutions.