Journal FirstICT4S 2025

Call for Journal First Papers

To provide a broader forum for reporting on scientific progress as well as practical experiences on ICT for sustainability, ICT4S 2025 invites submissions of papers recently published in related journals. Authors of recently published journal papers are invited to present their work at ICT4S 2025, therefore providing an opportunity for the authors to engage directly with the community and offering the attendees an additional dimension to the conference program.

Journal First papers should relate to ICT4S and describe original results that have not been presented at a conference. Papers that are extensions of previous conference papers are not eligible. For a journal paper to be eligible to participate, the paper must be:

• in scope of the conference (see the topics of interest below)
• accepted in one of the journals listed below*
• accepted for publication after 01 January 2025 and before 31 December 2025

List of considered journals:

T-SUSC, SUSCOM, Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change, Solutions, JSS, IST, GMD, JSDTL, Telematics and Informatics, STS, FGCS, EIA Review, IEEE Series on Green Communications and Computing Networks, INFOGG, Journal of Cleaner Production, JSME, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Applied Energy, Energy Policy, TSE, TOSEM, Environmental Modelling & Software, IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, CACM, REEN, SoSyM, ASE, JOT, IJSEKE, IJCTT, IJSE, CSRD, JIIS, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal on Responsible Computing, IJHCS, TOCHI

*if you would like us to consider a paper published in another journal of equal reputation to those presented in the list, please contact the Program Chairs: Christian Steger, steger@tugraz.at, Samantha Fahy, samantha.fahy@dcu.ie or Giovanni Ponti, giovanni.ponti@enea.it

Evaluation Process and Selection Criteria

Authors will be invited to present their journal paper at ICT4S 2025 after a check that the paper satisfies the criteria listed above. Since the papers have already been reviewed and accepted by the respective journals, they will not be reviewed again for their technical content.

In case an exceptionally high number of submissions is received, we may not be able to select all papers. In this case, priority will be given to the papers with authors that have no (or fewer) papers accepted at other ICT4S tracks. If we still need to select from papers with the same priority, we will choose papers that best fit the technical program, offering a balance across the conference topics.

Topics of Interest

ICT4S 2025 seeks submissions to the Research Papers track on diverse topics related to ICT for sustainability, including, but not limited to:

• Sustainable software engineering
• ICT-induced behavioral and societal change
• Smart cyber-physical systems (grids, city, home, farming)
• Digitalisation and AI
• Potential of ICT for economic growth and decentralization
• Green E-Commerce
• ICT and circular economy
• Sustainability-driven resilience
• Social sustainability implications, contributions and limitations of ICT
• Sustainability in data centers and high-performance computing
• Design principles and exemplars for sustainable ICT
• Art and education in ICT for sustainability

Submission Process

• Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair.
• Select the “[ICT4S’25] Journal First" and submit your abstract prior to the full paper by the deadline stated, to allow their allocation to reviewers. Papers should be submitted in IEEE conference proceedings format. Each paper is limited to 10 pages including the main text, figures, tables, and appendices. Two more pages containing only references are permitted. Papers that are too long or violate the formatting instructions will be automatically rejected. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.
• At least one author of each accepted Journal First paper is expected to register for the conference, either physically or virtually. Registered authors of the accepted Journal First papers will be allocated a slot during the conference to present their work.