Show HN: Core Rankings for DBLP Profiles
A new tool called Core Rankings for DBLP Profiles provides rankings for computer science researchers based on their publication records in DBLP, helping assess academic impact and research output.
Background
- **DBLP** is a free, long-running computer science bibliography database that indexes over 6 million publications. Every registered author gets a public profile page showing their papers and co-authors.
- **Core Rankings** (also known as CORE Conference Rankings) are a widely used Australian-based system that categorizes academic venues (conferences and journals) in computing fields into ranks: A*, A, B, C (A* being the highest). Many universities and hiring committees use these rankings to evaluate research output.
- This site (pubtier.com) merges the two: you enter a DBLP author profile URL, and it automatically retrieves the author's publications, checks which venues have a CORE rank, and displays the distribution — e.g., how many papers in A* venues, how many in A, etc.
- This matters because, until now, getting a per-author breakdown of CORE rankings required manual lookup or proprietary tools. The site offers a free, immediate overview that researchers, students, and evaluators can use to gauge publication quality at a glance.