| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Data clustering | ACM Computing Surveys | 1999 | 10,544 |
| 2 | Anomaly detection | ACM Computing Surveys | 2009 | 7,176 |
| 3 | Machine learning in automated text categorization | ACM Computing Surveys | 2002 | 5,873 |
| 4 | Face recognition | ACM Computing Surveys | 2003 | 4,953 |
| 5 | Object tracking | ACM Computing Surveys | 2006 | 3,845 |
| 6 | A survey of image registration techniques | ACM Computing Surveys | 1992 | 3,447 |
| 7 | Voronoi diagrams—a survey of a fundamental geometric data structure | ACM Computing Surveys | 1991 | 3,299 |
| 8 | Metaheuristics in combinatorial optimization | ACM Computing Surveys | 2003 | 2,445 |
| 9 | Image retrieval | ACM Computing Surveys | 2008 | 2,430 |
| 10 | The interdisciplinary study of coordination | ACM Computing Surveys | 1994 | 2,388 |
| 11 | The many faces of publish/subscribe | ACM Computing Surveys | 2003 | 2,358 |
| 12 | A survey on concept drift adaptation | ACM Computing Surveys | 2014 | 2,221 |
| 13 | A Survey of Methods for Explaining Black Box Models | ACM Computing Surveys | 2019 | 1,952 |
| 14 | A survey of research and practices of Network-on-chip | ACM Computing Surveys | 2006 | 1,857 |
| 15 | A guided tour to approximate string matching | ACM Computing Surveys | 2001 | 1,824 |
| 16 | Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases | ACM Computing Surveys | 1990 | 1,791 |
| 17 | Preface to special issue on software verification | ACM Computing Surveys | 2009 | 1,748 |
| 18 | The Quadtree and Related Hierarchical Data Structures | ACM Computing Surveys | 1984 | 1,697 |
| 19 | Human activity analysis | ACM Computing Surveys | 2011 | 1,651 |
| 20 | Implementing fault-tolerant services using the state machine approach: a tutorial | ACM Computing Surveys | 1990 | 1,630 |
| 21 | Symbolic Boolean manipulation with ordered binary-decision diagrams | ACM Computing Surveys | 1992 | 1,504 |
| 22 | Ubiquitous B-Tree | ACM Computing Surveys | 1979 | 1,398 |
| 23 | Cache Memories | ACM Computing Surveys | 1982 | 1,377 |
| 24 | Feature Selection | ACM Computing Surveys | 2018 | 1,373 |
| 25 | Authorization in trust management | ACM Computing Surveys | 2008 | 1,340 |
| 26 | A survey of rollback-recovery protocols in message-passing systems | ACM Computing Surveys | 2002 | 1,331 |
| 27 | Aspect-oriented programming | ACM Computing Surveys | 1996 | 1,290 |
| 28 | A comparative analysis of methodologies for database schema integration | ACM Computing Surveys | 1986 | 1,251 |
| 29 | When and how to develop domain-specific languages | ACM Computing Surveys | 2005 | 1,244 |
| 30 | Multidimensional access methods | ACM Computing Surveys | 1998 | 1,242 |
| 31 | Representations for Rigid Solids: Theory, Methods, and Systems | ACM Computing Surveys | 1980 | 1,235 |
| 32 | Generalizing from a Few Examples | ACM Computing Surveys | 2021 | 1,228 |
| 33 | What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic | ACM Computing Surveys | 1991 | 1,219 |
| 34 | Privacy-preserving data publishing | ACM Computing Surveys | 2010 | 1,207 |
| 35 | Computer Processing of Line-Drawing Images | ACM Computing Surveys | 1974 | 1,183 |
| 36 | On understanding types, data abstraction, and polymorphism | ACM Computing Surveys | 1985 | 1,174 |
| 37 | A tutorial on human activity recognition using body-worn inertial sensors | ACM Computing Surveys | 2014 | 1,158 |
| 38 | A Survey on Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning | ACM Computing Surveys | 2022 | 1,143 |
| 39 | Word sense disambiguation | ACM Computing Surveys | 2009 | 1,138 |
| 40 | Petri Nets | ACM Computing Surveys | 1977 | 1,107 |
| 41 | Static scheduling algorithms for allocating directed task graphs to multiprocessors | ACM Computing Surveys | 1999 | 1,071 |
| 42 | Reconfigurable computing | ACM Computing Surveys | 2002 | 1,066 |
| 43 | A survey of peer-to-peer content distribution technologies | ACM Computing Surveys | 2004 | 1,036 |
| 44 | A survey on automated dynamic malware-analysis techniques and tools | ACM Computing Surveys | 2012 | 1,013 |
| 45 | The Hearsay-II Speech-Understanding System: Integrating Knowledge to Resolve Uncertainty | ACM Computing Surveys | 1980 | 1,004 |
| 46 | Semantic database modeling: survey, applications, and research issues | ACM Computing Surveys | 1987 | 974 |
| 47 | Software reuse | ACM Computing Surveys | 1992 | 967 |
| 48 | Software unit test coverage and adequacy | ACM Computing Surveys | 1997 | 939 |
| 49 | The computation of optical flow | ACM Computing Surveys | 1995 | 935 |
| 50 | Searching in metric spaces | ACM Computing Surveys | 2001 | 929 |
