SIGIR 2025 deadline
International Conference on Research on Development in Information Retrieval
July 14-16, 2025 · Padova, Italy
All deadlines for this edition have passed.
Key dates
Abstract / registration
Thu, Jan 16, 2025 · 23:59 AoE
Full paper
Thu, Jan 23, 2025 · 23:59 AoE
Conference
July 14-16, 2025 · Padova, Italy
What SIGIR reviewers will look for
SIGIR 2026 moved to OpenReview. Each paper gets at least three PC reviews and a senior PC meta-review; decisions weigh novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretical impact, and presentation. Reviewers rate relevance, novelty, technical soundness and presentation, list strengths and weaknesses, and justify an overall recommendation. Generic, empty, insulting, late or LLM-generated reviews are "highly irresponsible" and can lead to sanctions.
- Overall score
- Overall Recommendation Score, -3–3 (top: “strong accept”)
- Sub-scores
- Relevance Score, Novelty, Technical Soundness, Quality Of Presentation (-1–2)
- Written fields
- Relevance To Conference · Strengths · Weaknesses · Additional Notes · Overall Recommendation · Nominate For Best Paper
- Author checklist
- SIGIR checklist to strengthen an IR paper, 8 items
Where the bar sits. SIGIR full papers are historically accepted at about 20–21%; 2026 figures are not published. On the −3…3 scale a mean of ≥ 1 (weak accept) is a rough proxy for acceptance, 0.25–1 borderline.
LLM policy for reviewers
SIGIR follows the ACM Peer Review Policy and requires that referees not use AI systems to create their reviews; LLM-generated reviews are treated as highly irresponsible.
Official policy