AIJ Awards

Here is the list of All Previous Award Winners.

AI Journal – Classic and Prominent Paper Awards 2025

The Nominations for these awards will be open until April 25, 2025.

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 2018 and 2024 (inclusive) for the 2025 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 2009 (inclusive) for the 2025 Classic Paper Award.

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/kG3R8ojF3uNPuCmD9

which contains the following fields:

• Paper Title
• Authors
• Category: either
  Classic Paper Award (published in or before 2009 in the AI Journal)
  Prominent Paper Award: (published between 2018 and 2024 inclusive in the AI Journal)
• 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)
• Nominator Name
• Relationship (if any) to authors
• Nominator’s Address
• Nominator’s Country

Nomination Submission

Nominations are welcome until April 25 2025
Submit your nominations using this form.

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

Award winners are expected to receive their award in person at the IJCAI 2025 opening ceremony.