CALL FOR PAPERS

ICSC 2026 Call For Papers

We invite submissions for the in-person conference at Nuffield College, Oxford on September 2nd-4th, 2026. Participation in conference proceedings is optional.

Scope and Publication

The 6th International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC 2026) convenes researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to advance and critically assess the theory, systems engineering, and societal consequences of social computing. Importantly, it has an optional conference proceedings which will be published by Springer Nature (in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series).

A selection of outstanding papers will be fast-tracked to ACM Transactions on Social Computing or the Journal of Social Computing. Papers will be invited as either:

  • An invited keynote talk
  • A parallel track session
  • A poster

If authors have a strong preference for either of these tracks, please feel free to indicate this on your title page. The conference proceedings and the above journals are all indexed by all major scholarly services. Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be presented at the conference dinner.

A media pack announcing the call for papers can be found here.

Topics of Interest

  • Digital and Computational Demography
  • Social applications of Large Language Models.
  • Large-scale social media analytics and intelligence
  • Digital inclusion in the Global South
  • The Science of (Open) Science
  • Applied social computing applications in diverse areas such as health and finance

Submission Guidelines

Submission and review are managed via OpenReview.

Authors are encouraged to submit papers addressing state-of-the-art research and development in all aspects of social computing. Innovative, early-stage ideas, proofs-of-concept, and preliminary results are welcome. We welcome submissions in two formats:

  1. Submissions for consideration in the conference proceedings must be 12–15 pages, including references, in Springer CCIS format.
  2. For authors who are not interested in being considered for the conference proceedings, submissions can come in two formats:
    1. 2.a Extended abstracts of two pages for preliminary work in progress
    2. 2.b Full, open access version of previously published work.

Each submission will receive at least three independent blind peer reviews (single or double, at the author's preference), with reviewers chosen by the program committee.

Important Dates

Paper Submission
23:59 BST on June 1st, 2026
Notification
June 22nd, 2026
In-Person Registration
Closed 7th August 2026
Online Registration
Closes 1st September 2026
Camera Ready
August 17th, 2026
Pre-Conference Workshop
September 2nd, 2026
Conference
September 3rd-4th, 2026

Program Committee

  • Jar-Der Luo, Tsinghua University, China
  • James Evans, University of Chicago, United States
  • Xiaoming Fu, University of Göttingen, Germany
  • Ridhi Kashyap, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Wenzhong Li, Nanjing University, China
  • Yang Chen, Fudan University, China
  • Daniel Romero, University of Michigan, United States
  • Adel Daoud, Linköping University, Sweden
  • Mengying Zhou, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
  • Xiu-Xiu Zhan, Hangzhou Normal University, China
  • Jiani Yan, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Mingyue Liu, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Daniel Valdenegro, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, University of Michigan, United States
  • Bo Zhao, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
  • Miriam Schirmer, University of Konstanz, Germany
  • Wei Ai, University of Maryland, United States
  • Hao Peng, City University of Hong Kong, China
  • Savvas Zannettou, TU Delft, Netherlands
  • Henry Kudzanai Dambanemuya, The University of Chicago, United States
  • Harshith N Srivatsa, Wood Group, United Kingdom
  • Pu Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
  • Bo Liu, Southeast University, China
  • Aleksandar Stanković, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
  • Zixi Chen, NYU Shanghai, China
  • Yong-Feng Ge, Victoria University, Australia
  • Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia
  • Shihan Lin, University of Michigan, United States
  • Fei Hao, Shaanxi Normal University, China
  • Xuejie Ding, University of Hong Kong, China
  • Huilian Sophie Qiu, University of Göttingen, Germany
  • Zike Zhang, Zhejiang University, China

Review and Presentation Policy

  • All submissions should present original work and must not be under review elsewhere.
  • Reviews will be blind (single or double, at the author's preference), and papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, technical quality, clarity, and relevance.
  • Accepted papers must be presented in person at ICSC 2026 unless an exception is approved by chairs.
  • Final publication instructions will be released with the camera-ready package.