Which CCF Conference Papers Count: Short Papers, Findings, Workshops

What CCF says

目录仍分为A、B、C三类，其中，会议论文指“Full paper”或“Regular paper”（正式发表的长文），对于会议上其他形式发表的论文如Short paper、Demo paper、Technical Brief、Summary、Findings以及作为伴随会议的Workshop等不计入目录考虑的范围。

China Computer Federation: the 7th edition of the CCF list is published (March 31, 2026; in Chinese) ↗

In our translation: “The list still has three ranks, A, B and C. A conference paper means a ‘Full paper’ or ‘Regular paper’ (a formally published long paper); papers published at a conference in other forms, such as short papers, demo papers, technical briefs, summaries, Findings and the workshops held alongside a conference, are outside the scope of the list.”

So whether a paper counts as a CCF A conference paper depends on two things: the conference's rank in the list, and the form in which the paper appeared there. A short paper or a workshop paper at an A conference does not count as an A conference paper.

What counts and what doesn't

Counts: papers accepted as full papers in the main conference and published in its main proceedings, what CCF calls full or regular papers. Conferences name them differently (the ACL conferences say long papers); the call for papers decides.

Doesn't count: the short papers, demo papers, technical briefs, summaries and Findings CCF names, and the workshops held alongside a conference. CCF does not list posters, doctoral consortium papers or extended abstracts one by one; they are usually not full papers either, and your institution's rules decide.

Findings: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL and other conferences publish some papers that did not make the main conference, but that reviewers judged worth publishing, in a separate Findings volume. CCF names Findings explicitly as outside the list.

Workshops: a workshop held with a conference has its own call and its own proceedings, and does not count even under the conference's name. On the other hand, the list itself includes some standalone venues called workshops, such as HotNets, HotOS and IWQoS; they count at their rank in the list.

How to check before you submit or report a paper

Look at the paper type (track) in the acceptance letter or the programme, then at the volume the paper appears in: the main proceedings, the Findings volume or a workshop volume. The publisher's page for the paper and dblp both name the volume.

CCF also says what the list is for: it recommends venues worth publishing in, and its purpose “is not to serve as a basis for academic evaluation” (our translation). Your university or employer decides which papers count for a degree, an award or a review.

How this site marks them

The CCF rank on a conference page is the rank of the conference itself. In the deadline calendars, deadlines labelled short, demo, poster, workshop, Findings, doctoral and the like are also marked “not a full paper”, as a reminder that the list does not count them.

Ranks come from the 7th edition of the CCF list (published March 31, 2026, corrected April 9); conference pages give the 2022 (6th edition) rank beside it.