iConference 2025 - a great success
- Apr 8
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 9
iConference 2025 - our 20th anniversary iConference in the annual series was organized by the Indiana University Bloomington, USA. The Virtual Academic Program took place 11-14 March 2025 and the onsite Academic Program in Bloomington, USA took place 18-22 March 2025.
This year's iConference attracted more than 400 participants worldwide, with 41% to participate in the virtual part of the conference only and 59% to participate onsite in Bloomington, USA as well.
Out of over 430 submissions in total, 32% of all submitted Full Research Papers, 51% of all submitted Short Research Papers, 73% of all submitted Research Posters, 51% of all submitted Chinese Research Papers and 80% of all submitted Spanish/Portuguese Research Papers have been accepted, concluding in 54 virtual academic sessions and 64 onsite academic sessions.
The organizers would like to congratulate the iConference 2025 Award winners, who have been announced at the iConference 2025 Keynote, 11 March 2025:
Best Full Research Paper Award (1.000 USD)
ID 359 Does Google dream of electric memes? From human to computational culture by Smith, Alexander O; Joh, Una; Hemsley, Jeff
Best Short Research Paper Award (500 USD)
ID 202 The Promoting Effect of Internet Use on the Physical Health of Chinese Older Adults: An Empirical Study Based on the Difference-in-Differences Model by Sun, Haoyuan; Fu, Zhenkang; Pu, Zhengtong; Zhu, Qinghua
Best Chinese Research Paper Award (1.000 USD)
ID 555 Research on the Framework of Action for Libraries to Contribute to the Realization of the Goals of Sustainable Development in Society ——Using IFLA SDGs Stories as Examples by Tang, Qiong; Ma, Yunzhe; He, JiaYu
Best Poster Award (300 USD)
ID 181 The impact of Economic Sanctions on China-U.S. Scientific collaboration: Evidence from the Civilian Universities on the U.S. Entity List by Lu, Chao; Xiao, Chengrui
iConference 2025 was the first onsite conference in the North American Region since 2019. Authors from 26 countries submitted their work. More than 480 reviewers from 36 countries evaluated these submission. Track Chairs of 16 nationalities in all iSchools regions were involved on the program consisting of paper and poster presentations, workshops, student symposia, doctoral and early career colloquia. The iConference organizers and the iSchools organization would like to thank all track chairs, reviewers, moderators and presenters for their invaluable contribution to the great success of iConference 2025.
According to the regional rotation, next year's iConference will take place in Europe. We are happy to announce that our iSchool at the Edinburgh Napier University will be our iConference 2026 host. The dates will be announced soon. (Follow #iconf26 on Social Media for updates.)