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2026 International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation June 29-July 1, 2026 in Boulder, Colorado, USA #ICSSI2026 👉 www.icssi.org 👈

Students are critical to a vibrant ICSSI community. Today, thanks to support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the NSF, we're thrilled to announce: FREE ICSSI 2026 registration for ALL trainees! Registration reopened: https://icssi.org/register/ Already registered? Look for a refund soon!
🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 7: Ryan Hill Our final invited speaker is Prof @ryanreedhill.bsky.social from Northwestern Kellogg whose work spans the "pivot penalty" in careers, the impact of AlphaFold2 on science, the factors shaping occupation choice, and more! Fantastic ICSSI Boulder lineup!
🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 6: Lingfei Wu How do we measure innovation? How do ideas spread, and how is innovation produced? Prof @lingfeiwu.bsky.social addresses these questions and more in his group at Pitt's School of Computing & Information. See you in Boulder this June & July! icssi.org
🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 5: Kevin Gross A statistician at NC State, Prof. Gross's game-theoretic work reveals how funding competitions shape risk-taking, how peer review steers discovery, and why the social structure of science matters. LAST DAY for speakers to register! icssi.org
Co-Director of the Metascience Research Lab at Wisconsin, Prof Ni studies how science is produced, evaluated, and rewarded, with key recent work on AI-assisted writing and miscitation detection.
🔬 #ICSSI2026 Speaker Spotlight 3: Charles Gomez How does geopolitics shape AI research? Who shapes global scientific knowledge? Who gets left out? Sociology Prof @charlesgomez.bsky.social studies this, and more, leading the Global Knowledge Lab and Observatory at Arizona. Register at icssi.org !
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Boulder Colorado, from above.
Boulder, CO — The Location of ICSSI 2026
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
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Submissions Are Now Open! The Program Committee welcomes submissions on any topic related to the field of science of science and innovation, broadly defined. We seek abstracts and papers from researchers across many disciplines from academia, government, as well as the private sector, and we especially welcome submissions from early-career scholars and researchers from underrepresented groups. Major conference topics of interest include, but are not limited to: AI applications to science and innovation Societal impacts of science and innovation Funding risky ideas Failures in science and innovation Ethics in scientific production and reward Diversity, equity, and inclusivity in science and innovation Evolution, predictability, and uncertainties of scientific careers Drivers for scientific achievement Idea generation and unpacking the fitness of ideas Replicability and reproducibility Theoretical discussions and conceptualizations of science Causal inference in the science of science and innovation
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