Co-located with ACM/IEEE-CS JCDL 2026

The 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Science of Science AI4SciSci Workshop 2026

(AI4SciSci Workshop 2026) (Artificial Intelligence for Science of Science)


Workshop Date: October 13th, 2026 On: October 13th, 2026

Key Dates


About the 3rd Workshop on AI4SciSci About AI4SciSci

Over the past decade, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed significant advancements across various domains, such as natural language processing and computer vision, which have further accelerated discoveries, innovations, and breakthroughs in many interdisciplinary fields — including Science of Science, which relies on big data to uncover reproducible patterns governing the evolution of research topics, collaboration networks, knowledge diffusion, and the systemic factors that drive scientific progress. Today, Science of Science is incorporating AI techniques into the analysis of big data, yielding deep and compelling insights into both longstanding and emerging problems in the field. Building on the success of the first and second AI4SciSci workshops, held in conjunction with ICDM’23 and JCDL’25, respectively, we propose the Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for the Science of Science (AI4SciSci) to further engage the AI and Science of Science communities in promoting research and discussion on frontier topics in this area.


Call for Papers

We welcome papers on topics of interest that include, but are not limited to, the following.

  1. Scholarly Graph Analytics
    • Citation networks and their applications
    • Social networks and their applications
    • Knowledge graphs and their applications
  2. Scholarly Data Mining
    • Innovation/novelty detection and prediction
    • Scholarly collaboration and mobility prediction
    • Career trajectory modeling and analysis
    • Numerical modeling of scientific development
    • Causal inference and reasoning for SciSci
    • Streaming data mining and its applications in SciSci
    • Analysis of large bibliographic datasets
    • Knowledge diffusion in scholarly networks
    • Causal inference in scholarly big data
  3. Scientific Document Processing and Understanding
    • Scientific document parsing and its applications
    • Scientific metadata extraction and its applications
    • Scientific claim extraction and verification
    • Scientific tabular data structure recognition and understanding
    • Scientific figure and chart extraction and understanding
    • Scientific document summarization and topic modeling
  4. Computational Social Sciences
    • Scientific reproducibility, replicability, repeatability, and generalizability
    • Automation of scientific innovation using AI
    • Societal benefits of AI in science and associated ethical implications
    • Socioeconomic effects on scientific progress and innovation
    • Scientific misinformation and disinformation
    • Predictive modeling of scientific impact
    • Scientific impact quantification using metrics beyond academia (e.g., patents, technology transfer, and industry revenue)
    • Science policy and its implications for research

Originality

One unique feature of our workshop is that we will accept both original and published submissions. Authors of published works will need to submit an extended abstract (up to 2 pages) that explicitly cites the published work. In addition to summarizing the published work, the extended abstracts may also contain incremental updates or new results of the published work.

Double-Blind Review and Anonymity Guidelines

Ai4SciSci adopts the same double-blind review policy as JCDL. Submissions must not include any information that could identify the authors, such as names, institutional affiliations, acknowledgments, or references to prior work written in the first person. Authors should refer to their own prior work in the third person (e.g., “Prior work by Smith et al. (2020)” rather than “In our previous work…”). If authors share supplementary materials (e.g., code, data, models), these must be anonymized to avoid revealing author identities. Authors are encouraged to use anonymous hosting platforms such as anonymous.4open.science.


Submissions

All submissions must be written in English, following the CEUR workshop proceedings style.

Paper submission link: EasyChair

Submission Length
  • Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages)
  • Short Papers (up to 4 pages)
  • Full Papers (up to 8 pages)

** References and appendices are not counted towards the page limits.

All accepted papers that report original work will be published at the CEUR proceedings.


Important Dates

  • Paper Submission Deadline: Monday, September 7th, 2026
  • Author Notification: Monday, September 21st, 2026
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: Monday, October 5th, 2026
  • Workshop date: Tuesday, October 13th, 2026

Program

— TBD —

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Yifan Qian
Research Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Dr. Yifan Qian is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the CSSI, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, United States. Dr. Qian's research is broadly concerned with the science of science and innovation and combines theories and methods from artificial intelligence, network science, data science, and social sciences. The general goal of his work is to measure and predict innovations in research institutions using large-scale data sets on scientific fundings, publications, and their broad impacts on various facets of human society.

Program Committee

Chair 1
Dr. Jian Wu

(Co-Chair)

Associate Professor

Old Dominion University, USA

jwu@cs.odu.edu +1 (757)-683-7753
Chair 1
Dr. Sarah Rajtmajer

(Co-Chair)

Associate Professor

The Pennsylvania State University, USA

smr48@psu.edu +1 (814)-863-2554
Chair 1
Dr. Yi He

(Co-Chair)

Assistant Professor

The College of William & Mary, USA

yihe@wm.edu +1 (757)-683-7821
Member 2
Dr. Chengzhi Zhang

Professor

Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Member 2
Dr. Yi Zhao

Lecturer

Anhui University, China

Member 2
Rochana R. Obadage

PhD Candidate

Old Dominion University, USA

Member 2
Dr. Yang Yang

Assistant Professor

University of Notre Dame, USA

Member 2
Dr. Daniel Acuna

Associate Professor

University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

Member 2
Dr. Sai Koneru

Data Scientist

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Member 2
Dr. Hamed Alhoori

Associate Professor

Northern Illinois University, USA

Member 2
Dr. Yifang Wang

Assistant Professor

Florida State University, USA

Member 2
Erzhuo Shao

PhD Candidate

Northwestern University, USA

Member 2
Tatiana Chakravorti

PhD Candidate

The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Member 2
Dr. Giorgio Tripodi

Research Assistant Professor

Northwestern University, USA