Program Committee
- Charles Rahal, University of Oxford
- Daniel Romero, University of Michigan
- Adel Daoud, Linköping University
- Mengying Zhou, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
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. 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 banquet.
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.
- Submissions for consideration in the conference proceedings must be at most 12 pages, in Springer CCIS format.
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For authors who are not interested in being considered for the conference proceedings, submissions can come in two formats:
- 2.a Extended abstracts of two pages for preliminary work in progress
- 2.b Full, open access version of previously published work.
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:
Each submission will receive at least three independent blind peer reviews, with reviewers chosen by the program committee.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission
- 23:59 GMT on May 25th, 2026
- Notification
- June 15th, 2026
- Camera Ready
- August 17th, 2026
- Pre-Conference Workshop
- September 2nd, 2026
- Conference
- September 3rd-4th, 2026
Review and Presentation Policy
- All submissions should present original work and must not be under review elsewhere.
- Reviews will be blind and based on 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.