To submit a manuscript to i-com, please go to https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/icom/html for submitting research articles or contributions to our special issues – or contact Lara Christoforakos (lara.christoforakos@psy.lmu.de) for contributions to the UX Professionals Forum.
Usually, you will select type = “research article” and classification term = “special topic research article”
for submissions to special issues and “other research article” for free submissions –
if you submit a case study please select type = “case-report”
We accept free submissions (not targeted to any announced special issue) on topics with a strong HCI/CSCW focus any time.
We accept classical research articles – but also case studies, overview/definition articles on current topics and recensions on current books or movies.
Many issues of i-com are dedicated to a topic. Current calls for manuscripts related to special issues are
- 2025/3: Special Issue on “Case Studies in HCI” – Possibility to submit case studies any time – see Call for Case Studies
- 2026/1: Special Issue on “(R)evolution of Educational Technologies” – Submissions until November 2024
- 2026/2: Special Issue on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Systems: Applications in Research, Society, and Industry – Submissions until April 2026
If you are interested to propose a topic for a special issue (and are willing to help as guest editor for this special issue), please have a look at the information for (potential) guest editors and contact the editor in chief via michael.koch@unibw.de.
Links
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/icom/html – Publishers journal homepage – with submission link
https://fb-mci.gi.de/ – Website of Special Interest Group on HCI in the German Computer Society (GI)
Guidlines
There are some guidelines for authors (also regarding ethics) – listed below or on the publishers journal homepage.
Upon submission you have to provide a document with ethical and legal declarations which also includes a declaration on what and how LLM-tools have been used in the process of writing the manuscript. See Template for Ethical and Legal Declarations
- I-COM Author guidelines (PDF)
- I-COM Call for Case Studies (PDF)
- I-COM Editorial Policy (PDF)
- I-COM Publication Ethics Statement
- I-COM Information for (potential) Guest Editors – Special Issues (PDF)
- Template for Ethical and Legal Declarations
Templates
You do not have to use a template for preparing your article submission (since the paper is finally layout via LaTeX by the production department) – but you might want to use the standard Word or LaTeX templates.
- I-COM LaTeX-Template-for-Authors (ZIP)
- I-COM Word template (Word)
- Template for Ethical and Legal Declarations
Article Processing Charges
Regarding Article Processing Charges (APCs) the publisher is calling for published articles (currently 750 Euro per article): We have some sponsoring for this available – so, if your institution does not pay for APCs in Golden Open Access journals, do not hesitate to contact the Editor in Chief – We will find a way to cover the costs.
See https://i-com-journal.org/article-processing-charges/ for more information on APCs and waivers available.