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cikm-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project fits CIKM, the tri-community ACM venue spanning information retrieval, data mining, and knowledge management/databases, when weighing CIKM against SIGIR, KDD, WSDM, TheWebConf, SIGMOD/VLDB, or ISWC, and when choosing among CIKM's five tracks before writing begins.
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# CIKM Topic Selection
CIKM is the room where three communities meet: information retrieval, data mining, and
knowledge management with its database roots. Its sponsorship tells the story — ACM
SIGIR (since 1993) plus SIGWEB (since 2006) — and its 2026 self-description spans
information access, knowledge representation, data integration, and personalization
(source map, checked 2026-07-08). Fit questions here are therefore different from
single-community venues: the issue is rarely "is this in scope" and usually "is the
breadth an advantage for this particular paper."
## The tri-community fit question
Ask which communities the paper genuinely speaks to, then count:
