ICORE 2026 Rankings Updates

The ICORE 2026 rankings have now been uploaded to the database and can be accessed at ICORE Rankings DB. 

Ranking Decisions & Results

Each conference has a page in the Rankings DB. When a conference is reviewed, this page includes the submission made (click on "Data") and a summary of the decision (click on "Decision").

If a submission for an addition is not in the new rankings, it is because it was not considered suitable for some reason, e.g. was not at the standard expected for rank C, or did not meet the size threshold of 10 full research papers each year. We will not be individually notifying submitters of conferences not accepted.

This round we had 34 venues identified for compulsory review. Most of them submitted and were reviewed. Six did not submit and 4 these were re-ranked from A to B, based on limited data. The other 2 retained their A rank.

Rank Definitions

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As per the official definitions, please note:

• A* is not necessarily stronger in terms of (e.g.) citations but is recognised as a flagship conference, i.e. "A* = A + flagship"

• A is "Excellent"

• B is "good to very good"

• A National/Regional tag is applied for any (non-Australasian) conference that is "held in a single country (or a small group of countries), usually with a Chair from that country, and possibly organised by a national/regional body". National conferences often include international academics on committees and papers from international authors, and should be considered equivalent to B or C ranked venues, in other words, being National/Regional means that the conference is weaker than A, but does not indicate whether it is B or C.

Acknowledgements

ICORE is very grateful to all the academics who have made submissions, as well as participated in committees. Without this community effort the rankings cannot maintain the balance between expert human judgement and objective data.

I would also like to thank Jayden King who has been very responsive throughout in helping me stay on top of details, as well as refining the submission system for this round, Young Lee, the software project manager who has overseen the software needed, and Lin Padgham, who has run previous rounds, and has been an invaluable source of wisdom, experience and advice in running this round, putting in significant time to helping, despite having stepped back from the ranking coordinator role.

2026 Committee Members

A particular acknowledgement and thank you to this year’s chairs and committee members:

Area Chairs

• Noa Agmon: Artificial Intelligence (FoR: 4602)

• Helen Huang: Vision & Multimedia (4603)

• Thorsten Strufe: Cybersecurity & Privacy (4604)

• Zhifeng Bao: Data Science (4605)

• Alan Fekete: Distributed Systems (4606)

• Tim Dwyer: Human Centred Computing (4608)

• Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi: Machine Learning (4611)

• Filippo Lanubile: Software Engineering (4612)

• Bojan Mohar: Theory of Computation (4613)

• Matteo Sonza Reorda: Computer Systems Engineering (CSE: Computer Systems Engineering)

Committee Members

Alan Fekete, Alan Smeaton, Alberto Abelló, Aniket Kate, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Baihua Zheng, Bart Preneel, Bojan Mohar, Bruce Thomas, Calton Pu, Carmen Santoro, Chang Xu, Cristiana Bolchini, Damith C. Ranasinghe, Dan Dongseong KIM, Denis Kalkofen, Devesh Tiwari, Dragan Ahmetovic, Filippo Lanubile, Frank Neumann, Gergely Neu, Gregorio Robles, Helen Huang, Ipek Ozkaya, Jenny Waycott, Jia Jia, Jia Wu, Jiangshan Yu, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Judithe (Judy) Sheard, Jun Zhou, Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Lina Yao, Ling Chen, Luciano Baresi, Ludovico Boratto, Marco Gori, Matteo Sonza Reorda, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Nicu Sebe, Noa Agmon, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Qianru Sun, Ramon Canal, Roberto Giacobazzi, Saket Saurabh, Sara Bernardini, Serena Villata, Serge Gaspers, Sergio Greco, Silvia Abrahao, Sri Parameswaran, Tamara Rezk, Tatsuya Harada, Thorsten Strufe, Tim Dwyer, Toby Walsh, Valeria Bertacco, Vana Kalogeraki, Veronique Cortier, Vianney Perchet, Weifa Liang, Wenjie Zhang, Xiwei Xu, Yannic Maus, Yannis Manolopoulos, Zhifeng Bao, Zongyuan Ge, Salil Kanhere.

Kind regards,
Michael
ICORE Rankings Coordinator