STOC/FOCS/SODA: citation counts of papers at computer science conferences

This is something that Suresh Venkatasubramanian did. I’m not quite sure what it’s all about, but since I gave him some help on it, I thought I’d link to it. The thing that impresses me is that apparently the papers in these conferences have median citation counts of about 20. I think the median citation count of all my published papers is zero.