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Journals
ACM TOIS, the Big Sister of ACM TORS: Min Zhang’s Term as Editor-in-Chief Ends as the Impact Factor Rises to 11.2 When it comes to journals, Recommender-Systems.com usually focuses on ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, or TORS. The reason is obvious: TORS is the ACM journal devoted to our field. Yet there is another journal...
Pre-Print Repositories
arXiv arXiv is probably the de-facto standard for publishing pre-prints in computer science. The major advantage of arXiv is that its content is included in many other services like academic recommender-systems, search engines, and open access meta-repositories like CORE. Hence, publishing at arXiv ensures a certain level of distribution of your manuscript. arXiv manuscripts are...
Doctoral Consortia
What is a Doctoral Consortium? A Doctoral Consortium (DC), also sometimes referred to as a Doctoral Symposium or PhD Workshop, is a forum designed for PhD students in the field of recommender systems to present their research, receive feedback from experienced researchers, and engage in networking opportunities with their peers. It typically takes place as...
Workshops
The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems always hosts a number of interesting workshops. An overview of past workshops can be found at https://recsys.acm.org/workshops/, for the most recent ones check the latest ACM RecSys Conference webpage. https://recsys.acm.org/workshops/ Many other conferences also host workshops relating to recommender systems. Most notably probably SIGIR and UMAP but also many...
Conferences & Calendar
Our Google calendar below shows all the conferences we consider relevant for the RecSys community, including workshops. To see a list of all events, switch to the "Agenda" tab and select "Look for more. Click the "Add to Google Calendar" at the bottom of the calendar to add the calendar to your own Google account....
Venue Rankings
News ACM UMAP conference now A-ranked: What does it mean for the RecSys community? ACM UMAP just got an upgrade that many academics quietly care about. The UMAP 2026 website states that the conference is ranked A (“Excellent”) in the ICORE 2026 rankings. For anyone who has ever had to translate “this venue is great”...