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ACM research integrity check

ACM has introduced a new state-of-the-art research integrity system to check accepted papers for any integrity problems before publication in the conference proceedings. All accepted papers will be checked for the following:

  • AI-generated text (to identify the use of generative AI tools in a paper)
  • Over-citation (checks for disproportionate citation of individual authors)
  • Tortured phrases (checks for substitution of technical terms to avoid plagiarism detection: e.g. “fluffy reasoning” for “fuzzy logic”)
  • Similarity score (plagiarism check)
  • Retracted papers in references (checks for this signal of possible papermill activity)

These checks are mandatory for all conferences published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series.

ACM Open Access Publishing Model

ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library, unless one of their co-authors’ institutions is a member or they qualify for a waiver. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here.

For 2025, ACM is subsidizing APC pricing for ICPS as follows:

  • The 2025 subsidized APC rate for ICPS papers will be $350.
  • For papers where any of the authors is a member of ACM, the APC rate will be $250.
  • For ICPS papers whose corresponding author is based in a lower-middle-income country, the APC rate will be $175.
  • For ICPS papers whose corresponding author is based in a lower-middle-income country and where any of the authors is a member of ACM, the APC rate will be $125.
  • For ICPS papers whose corresponding author is based in a low-income country, no APC is required.

Further information may be found on the ACM website:

  • See full details of the new ICPS publishing model here
  • See full details of the ACM Open program here