All experts consulted agreed that Machine Learning is no longer THE
top journal in the area and has been superseded by JMLR. 

Taking the following top GS experts in ML and running through WPP we obtained:

Journals that published the following experts: Daniele Bonacorsi, Eibe
Frank, Jeff Dean, Daphne Koller, Pietro Perona, David Heckerman,
Robert Tibshirani, Kalyanmoy Deb, Bernhard Schölkopf, Jitendra Malik,
Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Soo-Young Lee, Fedor Ratnikov, Alex Smola, Yoshua
Bengio, Alex Krizhevsky, Thomas S. Huang, Roberto Castello, Richard
S. Sutton, Chih-Jen Lin, Michael I. Jordan, Kaiming He, Luc Van Gool,
Georgios B. Giannakis, Mark Hall, Trevor Hastie, Jingdan Zhang, Sven
Kreiss, Maurizio Pierini, Ilya Sutskever, Wolfgang Waltenberger

Ranking order is first by number of the above people publishing in the
venue, then by number of their publications


21. Machine Learning (ml)
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This journal was published at 3 times by 2 of 31 experts in the last 5
years.

The experts that publish at this journal are: Bernhard Schölkopf(1),
Yoshua Bengio(2)

The top journals were:

2. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. (pami)
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This journal was published at 34 times by 10 of 31 experts in the last
5 years.

The experts that publish at this journal are: Jitendra Malik(9),
Bernhard Schölkopf(1), Daphne Koller(1), Pietro Perona(1), David
Heckerman(1), Michael I. Jordan(3), Thomas S. Huang(1), Yoshua
Bengio(2), Kaiming He(7), Luc Van Gool(8)



3. J. Mach. Learn. Res. (jmlr)
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This journal was published at 29 times by 10 of 31 experts in the last
5 years.

The experts that publish at this journal are: Eibe Frank(1), Yoshua
Bengio(3), Bernhard Schölkopf(7), Trevor Hastie(3), Chih-Jen Lin(5),
Michael I. Jordan(6), Ilya Sutskever(1), Richard S. Sutton(3), Alex
Krizhevsky(1), Georgios B. Giannakis(1)

(Note: Corr shows up as number 1 but it is not actually a journal)