A peer-reviewed scholarly publication appearing in the published proceedings of a conference, workshop, or symposium, typically representing original research presented at the meeting, with a citation that includes the conference name, date, and proceedings location.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
A NeurIPS 2023 paper indexed by DBLP and cited as part of the conference proceedings

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A talk given at a conference without an accompanying peer-reviewed published paper is not a conference proceeding

Editorial commentary

In computer science and engineering, peer-reviewed conference papers (e.g., NeurIPS, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE conferences) carry weight equivalent to or greater than journal articles. In life sciences, proceedings are typically less prestigious than journal articles. The format spans full papers, short papers, and posters with abstracts.

References

ACM Digital Library proceedings guidelines
Crossref conference-proceedings DOI registration

Also known as

Conference paper · Proceedings paper

Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Conference proceeding"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/conference-proceeding" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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  "sameAs": [
    "Conference paper",
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  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "publisher": {
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  },
  "dateModified": "2026-05-21T02:06:47",
  "inLanguage": "en"
}

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