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Call for Papers & Submissions
How to write abstracts that convince a programme committee, and when industry conferences open their calls. With acceptance figures from more than 2,000 submissions.
Call for Papers & SubmissionsWhat a programme committee looks for in an abstract
A programme committee looks in an abstract for the answer to a single question: does this session belong in our programme, and will our audience recognise its own …
Call for Papers & SubmissionsWhat is a conference abstract?
An abstract is the short text you use to propose a talk to a conference, usually between 150 and 400 words long. It announces a session that nobody has given yet: what …
Call for Papers & SubmissionsWhat is a call for papers?
A call for papers, or CfP for short, is the public announcement with which a conference collects talk proposals for its next edition. Organisers also call it a call for …
Call for Papers & SubmissionsCall for papers deadlines: when most conferences collect talk proposals
Most call for papers deadlines fall in two waves, from February to April for spring and from July to September for autumn, with a median of 50 days before the conference …
Call for Papers & SubmissionsHow far ahead do you submit? The lead time between deadline and conference in numbers
A conference's submission deadline closes a median of 50 days before it starts, and 65 days on average. This is shown by our analysis of 2,415 conferences that advertise …
Call for Papers & SubmissionsHow many submissions does it take to get a conference slot? The maths from practice
In our submissions for clients, one acceptance takes submissions to around five conferences on average, which is just under 15 decided abstracts. An abstract is the …