Dataset for the Article "Does the Venue of Scientific Conferences Leverage their Impact? A Large Scale study on Computer Science

Is there any correlation between the impact of a scientific conference and the venue where it takes place? It seems that no one has tackled this issue before, so we decided to explore the possible implications. From the one hand, we considered the number of citations as indicator of the impact of a conference; from the other hand, we considered specific touristic indexes that characterize the venue. In this work we report on the results of the large scale analysis we conducted on the bibliographic data we extracted from nearly 4000 conference series in the Computer Science area and over 2.5 million papers spanning more than 30 years of research. Interestingly, we found out that the two aspects are indeed related and this is shown by the detailed analysis of the data.