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STOC 2027

ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing

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

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Papers in 2025

219

main DBLP volume

5-year change

+94%

vs 2020

Papers, all years

4,576

58 years since 1969

Authors per paper

3.3

2.7 in 2015

By an entirely new team

12%

of 2025 papers

Papers per year1969 to 2025
1969: 31 papers1970: 27 papers1971: 23 papers1972: 29 papers1973: 30 papers1974: 35 papers1975: 31 papers1976: 30 papers1977: 31 papers1978: 38 papers1979: 37 papers1980: 47 papers1981: 43 papers1982: 45 papers1983: 54 papers1984: 66 papers1985: 53 papers1986: 47 papers1987: 50 papers1988: 54 papers1989: 56 papers1990: 59 papers1991: 58 papers1992: 75 papers1993: 86 papers1994: 86 papers1995: 78 papers1996: 74 papers1997: 79 papers1998: 76 papers1999: 86 papers2000: 85 papers2001: 86 papers2002: 92 papers2003: 80 papers2004: 73 papers2005: 85 papers2006: 79 papers2007: 78 papers2008: 85 papers2009: 79 papers2010: 82 papers2011: 84 papers2012: 89 papers2013: 100 papers2014: 91 papers2015: 93 papers2016: 92 papers2017: 110 papers2018: 113 papers2019: 113 papers2020: 113 papers2021: 151 papers2022: 134 papers2023: 155 papers2024: 190 papers2025: 219 papers
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Top keywords, 2025

quantumtimeoptimaltestingboundslowerbarrierhardnesslower boundsstabilizerexpandersquantum advantage

Venues like STOC

  1. FOCS IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science0.55lower boundslowerboundshardness
  2. SODA ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms0.47boundslowerlower boundsexpanders
  3. ICALP EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming0.43boundslower boundscomplexitylower
  4. CCC Computational Complexity Conference0.33lower boundslowerboundsexpanders

Most published at STOC

  1. Avi Wigderson1982 to 202359
  2. Venkatesan Guruswami1999 to 202637
  3. Robert Endre Tarjan1972 to 201233
  4. Ran Raz1990 to 202332
  5. Santosh S. Vempala1995 to 202631

Who publishes here

2025 to 2026 · papers count once per institution on them

Academia 93%Industry 3%Government and other 4%

Institutions

  1. 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology🇺🇸65
  2. 2University of California, Berkeley🇺🇸40
  3. 3Carnegie Mellon University🇺🇸31
  4. 4Columbia University🇺🇸30
  5. 5Stanford University🇺🇸28
  6. 6ETH Zurich🇨🇭23
  7. 7University of Michigan🇺🇸20
  8. 8Princeton University🇺🇸19

Countries

  1. United States303
  2. Israel58
  3. Switzerland44
  4. Germany42
  5. United Kingdom40
  6. Canada38

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.