[fishbuff]

depend on many factors, first is the ranking of the conference or journal, then narrow down to the field of interest
http://www.conferenceranks.com/ or
https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php
papers like KDD, ICML, are of very high quality and they are cited by many researchers, both academic and commercial.

some research will not surface until there is awareness. e.g. Prof Hinton's paper on neural network was published in the 70s and it remained in the academic world until the late 80s or 90s when there is an explosion of AI needs. There are many, many papers out there. I'm not sure if you work on time series but there had been a lot of research since the 18th century. each research is built on top of other research. The saying goes; we stand on the shoulders of giants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_o..._of_giants

not going to dick comparison in term of countries when it comes to publication output but... but for a country of 24million, it isn't too shabby.