[raphman]

In 2009, Bartneck et al. did a scientometric analysis of papers presented at CHI - the most prestigious academic HCI conference [1]:

"The papers acknowledged by the best paper award committee were not cited more often than a random sample of papers from the same years."

[1] http://www.bartneck.de/publications/2009/scientometricAnalys...

[seanmcdirmid]

CHI has a huge number of papers though, and consequently a large number of best papers...so it is difficult for anything to stand out a priori.