--- title: "Higher Education and Research conferences" description: "4 conferences rated A* or A by the CORE ICORE2026 ranking are listed for Higher Education and Research; OpenAlex lists 2,726 papers from 2024–2026 for them. The largest are SIGCSE (1,550), AIED (681) and LAK (302)." url: https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/higher-education-and-research markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/higher-education-and-research.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "4 conferences rated A* or A by the CORE ICORE2026 ranking are listed for Higher Education and Research; OpenAlex lists 2,726 papers from 2024–2026 for them. The largest are SIGCSE (1,550), AIED (681) and LAK (302). (as of 2026-11-02)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-02T12:20:52+09:00 window: 2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # Higher Education and Research conference proceedings: CORE A* and A conferences, 2024–2026 The conferences rated A* or A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026) that relate to higher education and research: SIGCSE, ICER, LAK and AIED. A conference can be listed under several categories. Ranks are those of the CORE Conference Rankings, edition ICORE2026 (portal.core.edu.au), applied to every year shown. Papers are the works OpenAlex lists for the conference's proceedings, or for the issues of a conference-linked journal that publishes its papers (such as PACMPL, PVLDB or ACM TOG), by publication year; workshops, companion volumes, posters and Findings are left out. A paper counts once for each institution and country among its authors' affiliations as OpenAlex assigns them; papers without affiliations in OpenAlex count for none. For conferences published in book series that OpenAlex files as one source (LNCS, LIPIcs, SIAM and IOS Press proceedings), the papers are found by DOI: those of the volumes with the conference's title in Crossref, or LIPIcs DOIs, which name the conference. Conferences without DOIs (PMLR, USENIX, OpenReview) are listed without counts. A dash (–) for a year means OpenAlex has no papers of the conference for it yet: the proceedings are not published or indexed yet, or the conference did not meet that year (some meet every other year). 2026 counts what OpenAlex had indexed by 2026-11-02. All conferences: https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings.md · Higher Education and Research journals dashboard: https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md ## Key findings - 4 conferences rated A* or A by the CORE ICORE2026 ranking are listed for Higher Education and Research; OpenAlex lists 2,726 papers from 2024–2026 for them. - The largest are SIGCSE (1,550), AIED (681) and LAK (302). - The most-cited paper is “The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers” (ICER, 2024), with 196 citations. ## Conferences *CORE A* and A conferences for Higher Education and Research: papers per publication year, 2024–2026 (–: not in OpenAlex yet)* | Conference | Name | Rank | Field | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | 2024–2026 | |---|---|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---:| | [SIGCSE](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/sigcse.md) | ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference | A | Human-centred computing | 524 | 496 | 530 | 1,550 | | [AIED](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/aied.md) | International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education | A | Applied computing, Human-centred computing | 83 | 249 | 349 | 681 | | [LAK](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/lak.md) | International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge | A | Human-centred computing, Applied computing | 95 | 101 | 106 | 302 | | [ICER](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/icer.md) | International Computing Education Research Workshop | A | Human-centred computing | 58 | 71 | 64 | 193 | ## Most-cited papers *Most-cited papers of these conferences, 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)* | # | Citations | Title | Conference | Published | |---:|---:|---|---|---| | 1 | 196 | [The Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers](https://doi.org/10.1145/3632620.3671116) | ICER | 2024-08-06 | | 2 | 188 | [Prompt Problems: A New Programming Exercise for the Generative AI Era](https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630909) | SIGCSE | 2024-03-07 | | 3 | 186 | [Teaching CS50 with AI: Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science Education](https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630938) | SIGCSE | 2024-03-07 | | 4 | 144 | [Trust in Generative AI among Students: An exploratory study](https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630842) | SIGCSE | 2024-03-07 | | 5 | 113 | [Generative Artificial Intelligence in Learning Analytics: Contextualising Opportunities and Challenges through the Learning Analytics Cycle](https://doi.org/10.1145/3636555.3636856) | LAK | 2024-03-05 | | 6 | 100 | [Human-AI Collaborative Essay Scoring: A Dual-Process Framework with LLMs](https://doi.org/10.1145/3706468.3706507) | LAK | 2025-02-21 | | 7 | 96 | [Large Language Models in Computer Science Education: A Systematic Literature Review](https://doi.org/10.1145/3641554.3701863) | SIGCSE | 2025-02-12 | | 8 | 81 | [Teaching AI to K-12 Learners: Lessons, Issues, and Guidance](https://doi.org/10.1145/3626252.3630937) | SIGCSE | 2024-03-07 | | 9 | 75 | [Automated Educational Question Generation at Different Bloom’s Skill Levels Using Large Language Models: Strategies and Evaluation](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64299-9_12) | AIED | 2024-01-01 | | 10 | 75 | [Have Learning Analytics Dashboards Lived Up to the Hype? A Systematic Review of Impact on Students' Achievement, Motivation, Participation and Attitude](https://doi.org/10.1145/3636555.3636884) | LAK | 2024-03-05 | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). Higher Education and Research conference proceedings: CORE A* and A conferences, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/higher-education-and-research ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-proceedings-categories-higher-education-and-research, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {Higher Education and Research conference proceedings: CORE A* and A conferences, 2024–2026}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/higher-education-and-research}}, urldate = {2026-11-02}, note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0} } ``` License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).