International Symposium on Graph Drawing

"[1] Nguyen[2] lists Graph Drawing as one of "several good conferences which directly or indirectly concern with information visualization", and Wong et al.[3] report that its proceedings "provide a wealth of information".

In a 2003 study the symposium was among the top 30% of computer science research publication venues, ranked by impact factor.

[4] The first symposium was held in Marino, near Rome, Italy, in 1992, organized by Giuseppe Di Battista, Peter Eades, Pierre Rosenstiehl, and Roberto Tamassia.

[5] From 1994 to 2023, the proceedings of the symposia have been published by Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

[6] Countries in which the conference has been held include Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States.