What Is an AI 'Top Conference': Why CCF, CORE and h5-index Disagree
There's no official certificate for being an 'AI top conference.' It's a community consensus built from four independent signals — CCF-A, CORE-A*, a high Google Scholar h5-index, and a low acceptance rate — and those four signals frequently disagree. ICLR being completely absent from CCF's list is a live example.