AIJ Awards

Here is the list of All Previous Award Winners.

AI Journal – Classic and Prominent Paper Awards 2026

The Nominations for these awards will be open until April 26, 2026.

The AI Journal is pleased to Announce Two Awards for papers published in the journal:

  • The AIJ Prominent Paper Award
    • Recognizes outstanding papers published not more than 7 years ago in the AI Journal that are exceptional in their significance and impact.
    • Nominations are now solicited for papers published in AIJ between 2019 and 2025 (inclusive) for the 2026 Prominent Paper Award.
  • The AIJ Classic Paper Award
    • Recognizes outstanding papers published at least 15 calendar years ago in the AI Journal that are exceptional in their significance and impact.
    • Nominations are now solicited for papers published in AIJ between 1970 and 2010 (inclusive) for the 2026 Classic Paper Award.

At least one author of each awarded paper is expected to attend the IJCAI opening Ceremony and present their paper at the special Award Session to be held at the IJCAI-ECAI Conference in Bremen, Germany, on 15-21 of August 2026.

Evaluation Criteria

Factors influencing the decision of the award include:

  • Did the paper start a significant new line of research?
  • Has the paper made a major theoretical advance?
  • Has it heavily influenced other researchers (whether in or outside AI?)
  • Has the paper influenced applications?

Nomination Form

Nominations should be made through the following google form:

https://forms.gle/hJaPbFqgSDNWFu4W9

which contains the following fields:

  • Paper Title
  • Authors
  • Category: either Classic Paper Award or Prominent Paper Award
  • Year
  • DOI or PDF link
  • Update on author institutions if known to be different to those on original publication
  • Impact and Significance:
    Give a brief statement (500 words or fewer) describing this paper’s impact on artificial intelligence research or practice, addressing the evaluation criteria listed above. Evidence of the significance/impact should be provided/referenced.
  • Proposed Citation (to appear on the award certificate — citation should begin “For outstanding contributions to …” followed by a phrase of not more than 20 carefully edited words that reflect the reasons for the proposed award)
  • Whether the author(s) are aware that they need to attend the opening ceremony and present the paper at the special Award Session
  • Nominator Name
  • Relationship (if any) to authors
  • Current email address(es) of author(s)
  • Nominator’s Address
  • Nominator’s Country

Nomination Submission

Nominations are welcome until April 26 2026

A nomination may come from anyone. All papers can be found online at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/artificial-intelligence/issues

Artifical Intelligence Journal
03 February 2022