All Deadlines

Submission deadlines for ICWSM-2026

All deadlines 23:59 PM Anywhere on Earth

For May 15 2025, link for submission website

Submission deadlines before ICWSM-2025

All deadlines 23:59 PM Anywhere on Earth

Submission guidelines specific to Demos, Poster, Dataset, Tutorial and Workshop will be updated closer to that deadline.

Brief Full Paper Submission Information

Full Paper Submission Site (new submissions)

Full Paper Submission Site (for papers that received revise and resubmit decision in September 2024 round)

The 2025 reviewing process will be similar to that of the 2024 process. The new, required Paper Checklist section introduced in 2024 will be continued this year and all papers accepted to ICWSM-2025 will be required to have this section. Papers to be considered for publication in the ICWSM proceedings, and presentation at the ICWSM-2025 conference, must be submitted by one of the remaining submission deadlines listed above. See also the Paper Checklist as PDF here.

Authors who receive the "Accept" recommendation will have the opportunity to respond to reviewer suggestions by making minor edits when preparing the camera-ready version. Authors who receive the "Revise and Resubmit" recommendation will have the opportunity to address reviewer suggestions and resubmit an improved manuscript in the next submission deadline.

Papers accepted no later than March 2025, will be presented at the ICWSM-2025 conference and will be published in the corresponding conference proceedings. Authors who receive "Revise and Resubmit" in March 2025 will likely be presenting during the 2026 conference if their papers get accepted during the next submission round in May 2025.

See the complete submission guidelines below for more information.

Full Formatting Guidelines for Paper Submission

Content Guidelines

Format : All papers must be submitted as high-resolution PDF files, formatted in AAAI two-column, camera-ready style, for US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper, using Type 1 or TrueType fonts (available templates: AAAI 2025 Author Kit on Overleaf or AAAI 2025 Author Kit.zip [Word | LaTeX]). . Full papers are recommended to be 8 pages long, and must be at most 11 pages long, including only the main text and the references. The mandatory Ethics Checklist (and brief additional Ethics Statement, if desired, see below), optional appendices, etc. do not count toward the page limit and should be placed after the references. Appendices, if they exist, should be placed after the Ethics Checklist. Revision papers and final camera-ready full papers can be up to 12 pages, not including the Ethics Checklist and optional appendices. Note that reviewers are not bound to review appendices, and excessively long appendices can be a ground for rejection. No source files (Word or LaTeX) are required at the time of submission for review; only the PDF file is permitted. Finally, the copyright slug may be omitted in the initial submission phase, and no copyright form is required until a paper is accepted for publication.

Language : All submission must be in English.

Anonymity : ICWSM-2025 review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission: do not put the author names or affiliations at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review. References to authors' own prior relevant work should be included, but should not specify that this is the authors' own work. It is up to the authors' discretion how much to further modify the body of the paper to preserve anonymity. The requirement for anonymity does not extend outside of the review process, e.g. the authors can decide how widely to distribute their papers on the Web. Even in cases where the author's identity is known to a reviewer, the double-blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the importance of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits without regard to authors' reputation. Note that 2-page demo submissions and the dataset paper submissions, and only these, are exempt from the anonymization requirement as they often contain system URLs or URLs to data sharing services.

Revisions : Papers that were previously submitted to ICWSM and received a "Revise and Resubmit " decision should be accompanied by a copy of the previous reviews and an author response statement. The response statement may be in any format, but many reviewers appreciate a response that begins with an overall summary and then includes a table, with each row containing a reviewer comment in the left cell, and author's response in the right cell. The response cell may explain why no changes were made, or may describe changes and direct the reviewer to a particular page, section, or figure, where the revised content appears. At the discretion of the Senior PC member handling the paper, the revised version may be sent back to some or all of the original reviewers for comment and evaluation, and may also be sent to additional reviewers.

REQUIRED Ethics Guidelines: In order to provide a balanced perspective, authors are required to include a new checklist that describes the potential broader impact of their work and ethical considerations. Drawing on feedback from the 2023 ICWSM Town Hall and approaches used in other conferences, the 2024 ICWSM Program Committee Chairs have developed this checklist-based approach for the Ethics section of ICWSM papers submitted for the cycle 2023-2024 and 2024-2025. All papers should communicate the known or anticipated consequences of research via the paper checklist available as an Overleaf document , and a PDF format . This completed and unaltered (i.e. no questions removed) checklist should come as the first section after the references of the paper. Authors may supplement this Paper Checklist (in the same section of the paper) with a brief discussion that expands on answers to the checklist where it is necessary to do so. Note that this section does not count towards the page limit, and that papers without such a statement will be desk-rejected.

Disclosure of funding and competing interests:  Authors are required to provide an explicit disclosure of funding (financial activities supporting the submitted work) and competing interests (related financial activities outside the submitted work) that could result in conflicts of interest, in a section (e.g., "Acknowledgments") that should be added to the camera-ready version of accepted papers, but not in the version submitted for review (in order to maintain author anonymity). Furthermore, authors are required to read the AAAI code of conduct and ethics guidelines ; submitting to ICWSM implies that the authors agree to abide by these rules.

Resubmission:  Authors will need to declare if a previous version of their submission was rejected at any peer-reviewed venue, and, if so, summarize the changes made in the current version and include the original review. Authors of rejected papers from ICWSM may revise and submit their revised papers after 6 months of the date of the last decision, but not before. For example, papers submitted in the January round can be resubmitted to the September round (6 months after the decision in March) but not the May round. This decision was made to avoid paper rejections due to lack of time for revisions and to discourage authors from submitting papers that are not ready. Note that this limit only applies to rejected full papers, and not to rejected demo, poster, or dataset papers.

Policy on Authorship:   ICWSM'25 will adopt the following subsection of ACM's new policy on authorship, restated here: Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT, may not be listed as authors of an ACM published Work. The use of generative AI tools and technologies to create content is permitted but must be fully disclosed in the Work. For example, the authors could include the following statement in the Acknowledgements section of the Work: ChatGPT was utilized to generate sections of this Work, including text, tables, graphs, code, data, citations, etc. If you are uncertain about the need to disclose the use of a particular tool, err on the side of caution, and include a disclosure in the Acknowledgements section of the Work. Basic word processing systems that recommend and insert replacement text, perform spelling or grammar checks and corrections, or systems that do language translations are to be considered exceptions to this disclosure requirement and are generally permitted and need not be disclosed in the Work.

Duplicate Submissions: ICWSM-2025 will not accept any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or conference. This restriction does not apply to submissions for non-archival workshops. While we will not accept previously published papers, papers submitted as social sciences and sociophysics (not for publication) may be under review concurrently at a journal. If duplicate submissions are identified during the review process then:

Conference Registration: Authors will be contacted about how to register for the conference. General registration for this year's conference will open soon. Stay tuned!

Publication: All accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings, except for those submitted to the 'social sciences and sociophysics (not for publication)'; only abstracts will be published for those. Though initial submissions of full papers must not exceed 11 pages, full papers accepted for publication will be allocated up to twelve (12) pages in the conference proceedings to facilitate authors in addressing comments raised by the reviewers. Authors will be required to transfer copyright to AAAI.

Datasets: ICWSM provides a service for hosting datasets pertaining to research presented at the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be encouraged to share the datasets on which their papers are based, while adhering to the terms and conditions of the data provider. Of these datasets, one will be selected for an award which will be based on the quality, scope, and timeliness of each dataset. More information will be available on our website.

Submission Information

Posters, Demos, and Datasets Site

Posters and Demos

Poster papers must be no longer than 5 pages (excluding the mandatory ethics checklist and optional appendices), with page 5 containing nothing but references. Demo descriptions must be no longer than 3 pages (excluding the mandatory ethics checklist and optional appendices), with page 3 containing nothing but references. Note that reviewers are not bound to review appendices, and excessively long appendices can be a ground for rejection. Both types of submissions must follow the same formatting guidelines as full papers, in particular using a 2-column format. The submission deadline for both posters and demos is January 15, 2025.

The reviewing process for posters and demos will follow the same pattern as in previous years. Submissions will either be accepted or rejected. Authors of accepted submissions will be able to respond to reviewer suggestions by making minor edits when preparing the camera-ready version. Poster and demo papers will not have a revise and resubmit phase. Poster submissions are double-blind, while demo submissions are single-blind, and require the Ethics Checklist described in the guidelines.

Datasets

Dataset paper submissions must be between 2-10 pages long, including references but excluding the mandatory "Ethics Checklist" section, and will be part of the full proceedings. Submissions will either be accepted or rejected without an option to revise and resubmit. Authors of accepted submissions will have the opportunity to respond to reviewer suggestions by making minor edits when preparing the camera-ready version. All papers must follow the AAAI formatting guidelines. Please refer to the guidelines for submission. We also encourage authors to submit a small sample of the dataset (maximum of 10MB, in csv, txt, json, or other readable formats) to aid the reviewers. This should be submitted as supplementary material on the Precision Conference system.

The submissions must comprise (i) a dataset or group of datasets, and (ii) a paper describing the content, quality, structure, potential uses of the dataset(s), as well as the methodology employed for data collection. Furthermore, descriptive statistics may be included in the metadata; however, more sophisticated analyses should be included in regular paper submissions. The review will be single-blind, and all datasets must be identified and uploaded at the time of submission.

Datasets and metadata must be published using a dataset-sharing service (e.g. Zenodo, datorium, dataverse, or any other dataset-sharing service that indexes your dataset and metadata and increase the re-findability of the data) that provides a DOI for the dataset, which must be included in the dataset paper submission.

Authors are encouraged to:

Page Limits

Deadline: Friday January 24th, 2025 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth
Notifications: Mon February 3rd, 2025

The ICWSM-2025 Committee invites proposals for Workshops Day at the 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2025). The Workshops Day will be held on June 23rd, 2025. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus -- providing an informal setting for active exchange among researchers and developers from a wide range of disciplines, including social science and computer science. Workshops are an excellent forum for exploring emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating the results of exploratory research.

Members of the social media research community are encouraged to submit proposals. To foster interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, with up to 40 participants.

The format of workshops will be determined by their organizers. The two main criteria for the selection of the workshops will be the following:

Workshop organizers who want to publish the papers from their workshop (or significant portions of it) will have the opportunity to do so through workshop proceedings by the AAAI Press. For a list of last year's workshops see here.

Workshop Proposal Contents

Proposals for workshops should be no more than five (5) pages in length (10pt, single column, with reasonable margins), written in English, and should contain the following:

Your proposal should be emailed in a single file to the workshop chairs (Luca Rossi, Shruti Phadke, and Akhil Arora) at workshops@icwsm.org before the deadline. For additional information please contact the workshop chairs at the same address.

ICWSM-2025 invites proposals for Tutorials Day at the 19th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). ICWSM-2025 is seeking proposals for tutorials on topics related to the computational analysis and understanding of social phenomena in the following formats:

Lecture-style: Traditional tutorials to teach concepts, methodologies, tools, and software packages. Tutorials on novel and fast growing directions and significant applications are highly encouraged. The conference is paying particular attention to themes around new perspectives in social theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing new forms of social media. Lecture-style tutorials on these themes are highly encouraged.

Hands-on: Interactive, in-depth, hands-on training on cutting edge systems and tools (with a proven track record in the community), targeted at novice as well as moderately skilled users, with a focus on providing an engaging experience. The pace of the tutorial should be set such that beginners can follow along comfortably.

Translation: Tutorials that aim to translate concepts between disciplines. For example, such a tutorial could introduce social science concepts to computer scientists, or computational concepts to social scientists. Thus, these tutorials should be geared towards a beginner audience.

Case study: Focused tutorials that emphasize real world applications of ICWSM work. These tutorials should walk the audience through how research insights and tools were applied in practice. We welcome submissions from practitioners in industry, government, and NGOs in addition to academics.

Free-style: We also welcome proposals for creative and unconventional training sessions, such as hackathons, competitions/challenges, etc., as long as participants can learn practical skills and participate in an active way.

We welcome tutorials of various lengths (1, 2, 4, or up to 8 hours). We are looking for contributions from experts in both the social and computational sciences, in industry, academia, and beyond. For a list of tutorials from previous years, we encourage you to visit the tutorials page for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. We especially encourage applications from first-time proposers and scholars with research communities beyond ICWSM.

Acceptance Criteria

The format will be entirely determined by the tutorial organizers—i.e., you! Proposals will be selected for inclusion considering the following criteria:

Proposals of tutorials presented at past events are allowed, although novelty is a plus. The tutorial chairs may also reach out to potential tutorial presenters about a change in format length depending on expected increased interest or capacity constraints.

Tutorial Proposal Content and Format

Proposals for tutorials should be no more than three (3) pages in length. Proposal submissions should include the following information:

Additional info for hands-on tutorials:

Please use the AAAI 2025 Author Kit on Overleaf or AAAI 2025 Author Kit.zip [Word | LaTeX] to format your submission. Your proposal should be emailed in a single file to the tutorial chairs (Tunazzina Islam, Pablo Aragón, and Shadi Rezapour) at tutorials@icwsm.org before the deadline. For additional information please contact the tutorial chairs at the same address.

ICWSM 2025 will offer a new and experimental mentoring scheme for first-time ICWSM authors. Interested authors can submit a complete manuscript by August 1, 2024, 23:59 AoE. Qualifying manuscripts will receive written feedback from a Senior PC member by August 22 on how their manuscript can be improved. We hope that authors can incorporate the feedback and submit an improved manuscript in the regular ICWSM submission cycle by September 15, 2024.

This scheme's goal is to support young scholars, in particular in low-and-middle-income countries, and to increase ICWSM's appeal to scholars in adjacent communities.


Before submitting your manuscript via a web form, you will need to confirm that:


We also ask you to check whether the first author's affiliation country qualifies as a low, lower-middle, or upper-middle income economy according to the World Bank classification. Authors from these countries will be given priority if mentoring demand exceeds mentoring capacity.

Similarly, in the submission form, we ask about prior experience with non-full-paper publications, e.g. dataset, poster or workshop publications, and about prior ICWSM attendance. Authors without any ICWSM experience will be given priority if mentoring demand exceeds mentoring capacity.

While not required, we suggest you follow the formatting guidelines for ICWSM 2024 to save the time needed later for reformatting. However, please include the author and affiliation information in the manuscript for the mentoring scheme.


Disclaimers:

  1. We have limited capacity and cannot guarantee that your manuscript will receive mentoring.
  2. Successful participation in the mentoring scheme does not guarantee your paper will be accepted for publication at ICWSM 2025. In particular, the paper, if submitted by Sep 15, 2024, will be handled by a different SPC member, who will not be informed of the paper's mentoring history.

To participate please submit your document using this web form no later than Aug 1, 2024, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth.

ICWSM Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award

This annual award is presented to an early career researcher who has distinguished themself through innovative scholarship in the area of social computing/computational social science in the early stage of their independent research career. The award is named after Lada Adamic and Natalie Glance, two outstanding researchers who have made significant contributions to the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) in particular and social computing/computational social science in general. The ICWSM research community at large has greatly advanced this field, through identifying the connections between online digital behaviors and critical societal questions and issues. From credibility and trust of online content to how we can use social media and social networks to gain insight into political polarization, mental health, and social movements, the range of topics addressed by the community is continuously expanding. ICWSM is also the home of technological achievements such as GEPHI and VADER. We want to recognize and celebrate the early career researchers who are making these contributions today.

The award was established in 2021, at the 15th anniversary mark of the AAAI ICWSM conference. Prior winners of the award are Dr. Tanu Mitra (2021), Dr. Robert West (2022), Dr. Diyi Yang (2023), and Dr. Kiran Garimella (2024).

Nomination Process and Eligibility

Self-nominations, nominations, and letters of support are elicited. ICWSM strongly encourages individuals from underrepresented groups in research (based on gender identity, race, ethnicity, geographical location, etc.) to self-nominate, and urges the wide community to nominate early career researchers who have distinguished themselves for their creativity and rigor in identifying and addressing important research topics of societal impact. Nominations are open all year long, but those received by March 15th, 2025 will be considered for this year's award. Use this Google Form for submission.

ICWSM does not preclude people from nominations year on year, in fact we welcome it as long as the applicant still qualifies. We do not take prior nominations into account and believe that it is entirely plausible that early career individuals can provide more competitive applications in subsequent years.

New in 2025: Starting in 2025, the committee will contact all nominated individuals and suggest that they submit a two-page narrative of their research contributions. This is extremely valuable to the committee, so that it can better compare self-nominated researchers with the ones nominated by colleagues or mentors. The committee will also limit the total number of letters of support that it will consider to three.

Eligibility Criteria

The award is open to individuals who:

As long as a candidate is eligible based on the three criteria above, they will be considered even if they were nominated or self-nominated in prior years.

Selection Process

The selection committee consists of three to five members and is appointed by the AAAI ICWSM Steering Committee Chair. The committee solicits self-nominations, nominations, and letters of support from the social computing/computational social science community. The selection is based on the impact of the candidate's work in the field: in identifying significant new problems, creating promising new ideas, paradigms, and tools related to data-driven understanding of human behavior, which may be quantitative or qualitative in nature. Depth and impact are valued over breadth of contribution for this award. A strong regard for considering the ethical aspects of the data/methods used in social computing/computational social science is expected of the research record of the nominees.

The nomination form asks the following questions:

  1. Nominator's information (name, affiliation, email, a link to their webpage).
  2. Nominee's information (name, affiliation, email, year of PhD, a link to their webpage that contains additional information, for example their CV/resume).
  3. A statement (no longer than two pages) explaining why the nominee deserves the award in question, especially highlighting the novelty and strength of their contributions in the area of computational social science / social computing, and providing evidence of their academic and societal impact. A second page can be included to contain information about career interruption or any special considerations.
  4. Citations for up to three representative publications and/or links to other artefacts documenting the contribution or impact.

Note for letters of support: The form makes it easy to submit letters of support from people other than the nominators or self-nominators. Such individuals will not need to complete the details of the nomination, they will simply upload their letter.

Form accessibility: The nomination form requires Google authentication. If for any reason this is a problem for the nominator, please send the nomination materials via email to: adamic-glance-award@icwsm.org.

Conflict of interest: The awards committee takes conflict of interest seriously. If an nominated individual is a former or current collaborator of one or more of the committee members, such member(s) recuse themselves from evaluating and voting on these nominations.

2025 Awards Committee

Award recipients will be joining the award selection committee within two years of their award win, to replace members who rotate off the committee.

Contact the committee: adamic-glance-award@icwsm.org

Award Ceremony

The award will be presented annually during the AAAI ICWSM conference. The awardee will be given the opportunity to give a plenary talk at the next year conference and announce the new recipient. Each recipient will be listed with a citation for their award on the ICWSM Adamic-Glance Distinguished Early Career Award web page. Financial support for attending the conference will be provided.

(ICWSM-2025 PC Chairs | pc.chairs@icwsm.org)

datasets@icwsm.org

workshops@icwsm.org

tutorials@icwsm.org

2025@icwsm.org