This table lists the top three most cited papers published in each ACM SIGMOD conference during 2000-2005.  It was generated in July 12, 2014 and latest updated in April 1, 2016. It may contain errors, comments are more than welcome! 

#	Author list	Title	July 12, 2014	July 1, 2016
SIGMOD 2000
1	Jiawei Han, Jian Pei, Yiwen Yin	Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation	Cited by 5404	Cited by 9490
2	Rakesh Agrawal, Ramakrishnan Srikant	Privacy-Preserving Data Mining	Cited by 2515	Cited by 4368
3	Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Raymond T. Ng, Jörg Sander	LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers	Cited by 1894	Cited by 5954
SIGMOD 2001
1	Charu C. Aggarwal, Philip S. Yu	Outlier Detection for High Dimensional Data	Cited by 785	Cited by 1525
2	Chun Zhang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, David J. DeWitt, Qiong Luo, Guy M. Lohman	On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems	Cited by 1007	Cited by 1293
3	AnHai Doan, Pedro Domingos, Alon Y. Halevy	Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach	Cited by 855	Cited by 1103
SIGMOD 2002
1	Hakan Hacigümüs, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Chen Li, Sharad Mehrotra	Executing SQL over encrypted data in the database-service-provider model	Cited by 858	Cited by 1675
2	Nicolas Bruno, Nick Koudas, Divesh Srivastava	Holistic twig joins: optimal XML pattern matching	Cited by 1097	Cited by 1427
3	Igor Tatarinov, Stratis Viglas, Kevin S. Beyer, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Eugene J. Shekita, Chun Zhang	Storing and querying ordered XML using a relational database system	Cited by 950	Cited by 1288
SIGMOD 2003
1	Samuel Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong	The Design of an Acquisitional Query Processor For Sensor Networks	Cited by 1096	Cited by 1351
2	Lin Guo, Feng Shao, Chavdar Botev, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	Cited by 878	Cited by 1198
3	Arvind Arasu, Hector Garcia-Molina	Extracting Structured Data from Web Pages	Cited by 735	Cited by 1093
SIGMOD 2004
1	Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikant, Yirong Xu	Order-Preserving Encryption for Numeric Data	Cited by 594	Cited by 1591
2	Xifeng Yan, Philip S. Yu, Jiawei Han	Graph Indexing: A Frequent Structure-based Approach	Cited by 449	Cited by 847
3	Robin Dhamankar, Yoonkyong Lee, AnHai Doan, Alon Y. Halevy, Pedro Domingos	iMap: Discovering Complex Mappings between Database Schemas	Cited by 426	Cited by 573

SIGMOD 2005
1	Kristen LeFevre, David J. DeWitt, Raghu Ramakrishnan	Incognito: Efficient Full-Domain K-Anonymity	Cited by 828	Cited by 1556
2	Lei Chen, M. Tamer Özsu, Vincent Oria	Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories	Cited by 570	Cited by 1276
3	Yu Xu, Yannis Papakonstantinou	Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases	Cited by 514	Cited by 747