You can get some of this from Google Scholar's metrics pages, which list, for each venue, the most-cited papers since 2008. These indeed seem to be different t

You can get some of this from Google Scholar's metrics pages, which list, for each venue, the most-cited papers since 2008. These indeed seem to be different than the best-paper selections, though I haven't examined this systematically. (I guess you could take the best-paper and look at its citation rank out of papers that year. But this raises other questions; for example, is the point of best paper award to select the paper that will be most influential?) From this page, http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en... , click "Subcategories" under "Engineering & Computer Science": for example, "Artificial Intelligence," "Computational Linguistics," or "Human Computer Interaction." It lists the most-cited-venues for each area, but if you click on a particular venue you get its list of most-cited-papers. Here are a few that are also on Jeff Huang's list: ICML: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_artificialintelligence&view_op=list_hcore&venue=2ylpsImLK4EJ.2013 http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_artificiali... NIPS: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_artificialintelligence&view_op=list_hcore&venue=R2Ngs3P0obYJ.2013 http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_artificiali... AAAI: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_artificialintelligence&view_op=list_hcore&venue=YKyuWPT8huAJ.2013 http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_artificiali... ACL: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_computationallinguistics&view_op=list_hcore&venue=IiBSo71taVQJ.2013 http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_computation... EMNLP: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_computationallinguistics&view_op=list_hcore&venue=pR_JUmMdsmMJ.2013 http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_computation... CHI: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_humancomputerinteraction&view_op=list_hcore&venue=pk9tPI3VY_UJ.2013 http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_humancomput... CVPR: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_computervisionpatternrecognition&view_op=list_hcore&venue=l60tToE7K3UJ.2013 http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&vq=eng_computervis...