Literature search engine including citation count, year, and the conference presented at

Question

When I am searching for literature on a particular topic, I'd like to see a list of results together with three main pieces of information: citation count, year, and publication venue (i.e., conference or journal name). In my field (Computer Science), most papers are published in conferences. The conference name is an easy way to assess at a glance: (i) the general area the paper falls into (systems, theory, programming languages, etc.) (ii) the quality of the contribution (higher-tier conferences are associated with higher quality research). Citation count also helps to assess (ii), but is less effective for more recent or more obscure papers.

My question: Is there a literature search tool (software or website) that can be used to provide citation count, year, and conference in a list of results?

Tools I have tried: I currently use Google Scholar (it provides citations favors highly cited articles when returning search results), but it usually does not provide conference information correctly (this may be because it gets cut off). For example, it lists a paper of mine from "LIPIcs-Leibniz International..." and makes it hard to identify the conference, which is "International Conference on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP)". In contrast, DBLP is designed specifically for Computer Science, so it does a good job of telling me the conference; however, it does not list citation count.

If it is possible to fix the result list with Google Scholar so that it provides the conference information more helpfully, that could be an answer to my question as well.

Answer 1

For computer science, the ACM Digital Library seems to be exactly what you are looking for: cleanly indexed computer science conferences and journals with citation counts and year, with extensive coverage of computer science literature. The IEEE Xplore Digital Library also has decent coverage of computer science literature, though nothing comparable to the ACM Digital Library, and I'm not sure if it includes citation counts.

Also, take a look at arXiv for grey literature (that is, not yet published): its computer science section seems to be the number one outlet for computer science working papers (kind of like GitHub for scholarly articles).

Answer 2

As commented by Jon Custer, Web of Science has information about citations, conference and publication year in its database and shows it in the results of a search. You can even filter and sort by citations and publication year. Unfortunately, Web of Science is a commercial service and your institution needs to have an agreement with Clarivate Analytics (the provider of Web of Science) to grant you access to the database.