Stats Porn

I just scanned the website of Lars Knudsen (who is visiting Royal Holloway right now) and came across this gem.

Year	Crypto	Eurocrypt	Asiacrypt	FSE	PKC	CHES	TCC
2009	213 39 0.18	148 33 0.22	300 ?? ?.??	76 24 0.31	112 28 0.25		109 33 0.30
2008	184 32 0.17	163 31 0.19	196 33 0.17	72 30 0.42	71 21 0.30	107 27 0.25	81 33 0.41
2007	186 33 0.18	173 33 0.19	223 33 0.15	104 28 0.27	118 29 0.25	99 31 0.31	118 31 0.26

The triples in the table indicate for the particular conference, the number of submissions, the number of accepted papers (or papers printed in the proceedings) and the ratio between the two first numbers. Bold face numbers are the record high number of submissions, The original table goes back further. Also, http://www.iacr.org/cryptodb/ has more stats about crypto publications.