&gt; maybe not bloated fields like AI&#x2F;HCI&#x2F;graphics<p>Having reviewed papers in the &#x27;bloated&#x27; graphics field at SIGGRAPH, yes, you can usually guess who wrote a particular paper.<p>&gt; This may not be obvious to the normal grad student, but after a decade in a community of 1K-10K people<p>The communities are smaller than that. Within sub-fields in graphics, you usually have perhaps five or six research groups to guess from.