Call for Papers

Smart cities are the result of the increasingly urgent need to orient our lives towards sustainability. Therefore, these cities use infrastructure, innovation, and technology to improve the quality of life of their citizens. Being a strategic issue that brings new challenges, the organizers invite the academic community to participate in the IX Ibero-American Congress of Smart Cities (ICSC-CITIES 2026). The congress will be a discussion forum to create synergies among different research groups to favor the development of Smart Cities. Authors are invited to register and submit manuscripts and contribute to knowledge development and integration in different scenarios.

ICSC-CITIES 2026 will take place on November 9-11, 2026 in Barranquilla, Colombia, organized by the Universidad De La Costa (CUC).

Submission Guidelines

All manuscripts must be original and not simultaneously submitted to or in consideration for another journal or conference. Manuscripts written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English are considered for presentation at the congress. The maximum length is 15 pages, and the maximum file size is 5 MB. Authors should consult the guidelines for authors by Springer and prepare the manuscripts using the proceedings templates, either for Latex or for Word.

Publication

The accepted articles will be published in the proceedings book of the congress (with ISBN). Also, the Program Committee will select the best-accepted articles (written in English) to be published in Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (citescore 1.1 Scopus; SJR 0.2 - Q4 Computer Science) and Proceedings in Energy series. In addition, authors of selected articles will be invited to extend their contribution to be submitted for publication in special issues of the following journals:

• Advanced Sustainable Systems (Wiley) indexed in JCR with I.F. 6.1-Q1 Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; citescore 10.1 in Scopus and SJR 1.35-Q1 Environmental Science,
• Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier) indexed in JCR with I.F. 6.9-Q1 Thermodynamics; citescore 11 in Scopus and SJR 1.57-Q1 Energy Engineering and Power Technology,
• Cities (Elsevier) indexed in JCR with I.F. 6.6-Q1 Urban Studies; citescore 10.9 in Scopus and SJR 1.83-Q1 Urban Studies, Development and Sociology and Political Science,
• Topic "Sustainable Energy Systems" (MDPI) includes the following journals:
  • Agriculture indexed in JCR with I.F. 3.6–Q1 Agronomy; citescore 6.3 in Scopus and SJR 0.70–Q1 Agronomy and Crop Sciences,
  • Energies indexed in JCR with I.F. 3.2–Q3 Energy & Fuels; citescore 7.3 in Scopus and SJR 0.71–Q1 Engineering (miscellaneous),
  • Vehicles indexed in JCR with I.F. 2.2–Q2 Engineering, Mechanical; citescore 5.3 Scopus and SJR 0.53–Q2 Automotive Engineering,
  • Sensors indexed in JCR with I.F. 3.5-Q2 Chemistry, Analytical; citescore 8.2 in Scopus and SJR 0.76–Q1 Analytical Chemistry, Q1 Instrumentation,
  • Sustainability indexed in JCR with I.F. 3.3–Q3 Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; citescore 7.7 in Scopus and SJR 0.68–Q1 Geography, Planning and Development,
  • Urban Science indexed in JCR with I.F. 2.9-Q1 Urban Studies; citescore 3.7 in Scopus and SJR 0.61–Q1 Urban Studies,
  • Applied Sciences indexed in JCR with I.F. 2.5–Q2 Engineering, Multidisciplinary; citescore 5.5 Scopus and SJR 0.52–Q2 Engineering, Q2 Instrumentation,
• Revista Facultad de Ingeniería (Universidad de Antioquia) indexed in JCR with I.F. 0.5-Q4 Engineering, Multidisciplinary; citescore 2.0 in Scopus and SJR 0.19-Q4 Engineering,
• Programming and Computer Software (Springer) indexed in JCR with I.F. 0.5-Q4 Computer Science, Software Engineering; citescore 1.3 in Scopus and SJR 0.21-Q4 Software,
• SN Computer Science (Springer) indexed in Scopus with 5.8 citescore and SJR 0.56-Q1 Computational Theory and Mathematics,
• Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports (Springer) indexed in Scopus with 6.1 citescore and SJR 0.76-Q1 Engineering,
• Latin American Business Review (Taylor & Francis) indexed in JCR with I.F. 0.7-Q3 Economics; citescore 2.3 in Scopus and SJR 0.31-Q3 Business and International Management

Publications of selected articles will be free of charge. At least 40% of original content is required in the extended version.