1. Scope, Use Cases, and What the List Is Not For

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The list is designed to accommodate the fact that important conferences in the i-Field often emerge across disciplinary boundaries, rather than within a single established academic tradition.

The conferences in the list satisfy the core expectations for scholarly conferences in the field, including peer-reviewed full-paper publication, international scope, and sustained academic presence.

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The list focuses on international conferences with indexed scholarly publications and is not intended to comprehensively represent all important domestic or country-specific conferences, or those whose significance lies primarily in professional practice, community-building, or other forms of impact beyond archival publications. Such conferences may be considered through complementary efforts in the future.

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Use cases. Typical uses include: (i) helping researchers identify widely recognized international conferences in the i-Field; (ii) supporting researchers in explaining the significance of their conference publications across disciplinary boundaries; and (iii) encouraging broader cross-disciplinary participation by making important international conferences in the i-Field more visible and easier to navigate.

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What the List Is Not For: (i) The ViP list is not designed to rank conferences. (ii) The ViP list is not intended to assess the quality of individual papers published in those conferences. (iii) The absence of a conference from the list should not be interpreted as a negative judgment on its value or quality. (iv) The list is not intended to replace local, disciplinary, or case-specific judgment in research evaluation.

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