Call for Abstracts

Abstract submission is now open!

The Program Committee welcomes submissions on all topics in the science of science and innovation, broadly defined. We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners across all disciplines, sectors, and world regions, with a particular encouragement for early-career scholars.

Major conference themes include, but are not limited to:

• AI, agentic science, and new epistemic practices in scientific discovery

• Global knowledge dynamics and the evolution of scientific fields

• Government-industry-academia partnerships and innovation systems

• Societal impacts and public value of science and innovation

• Science funding in an interconnected, multi-sectoral, and global environment

• Social stratification, bias, and ethical issues in scientific production and reward

• Open science, transparency, and reproducibility in research

• The scientific workforce, precarity, and the trajectory of research careers

• Theoretical, historical, and conceptual perspectives on science and innovation

• Causal inference and methodological advances in the science of science and innovation

• Science communication, public trust, and the governance of emerging technologies

• Intellectual property, patents, and the geography of technological change

Key Dates

Submission Deadline:
March 30th, 2026

Notification of Acceptance:
April 20, 2026

Presenter Registration Deadline:
May 4, 2026

Lightning talks

Short, high-energy presentations best suited for cutting-edge or time-sensitive research, early empirical findings, novel data resources, or provocative ideas that can be clearly communicated to a broad audience in a concise format.

Talks

Standard-length presentations for fully developed studies that require fuller exposition of theory, methods, and results, including rigorous empirical analyses, detailed methodological innovations, or comprehensive case studies and comparative work.

Posters

Visual presentations ideal for work in progress, pilot studies, preliminary results, new datasets or tools, and projects that would benefit from extended, interactive feedback and one-on-one discussion with conference participants.

Submission Guidelines

Please follow the abstract template guidelines for formatting instructions. Note that abstracts should be formatted as a PDF file no larger than 20MB. Submissions that exceed the 2-page limit will be automatically rejected. Please use 12 point font and 1" margins.

Submissions must include the following 3 items:

NOTE: ICSSI does not publish conference proceedings, and submissions are non-archival. The presented work may already be published, in preparation for publication elsewhere, or part of ongoing research. You will need your co-authors' contact information (name and email address) for the submission. Accepted submissions will be assigned to a lightning talk (plenary session), an oral presentation (parallel session), or a poster presentation. You can indicate your preferred presentation format in the submission form.

Submission Methods

Conference submissions are managed through EasyChair. An EasyChair login is required to submit your contribution, which you may create as needed here. We recommend using an institutional email address to ensure instant account approval.

Submit Your Abstract Here

NOTE: In order to present, at least one of the authors must register for the conference by the presenter registration deadline of May 4, 2026.