CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
Generative AI in Research Methods
October 1–2, 2026 • UGA Terry Executive Education Center, Atlanta, GA
We are pleased to announce the inaugural Conference on Generative AI in Research Methods. The conference follows our 2025 Pre-ICIS Workshop on Generative AI in Research Methods, attended by over 100 participants.
The conference will be held October 1–2, 2026, at the University of Georgia's Terry Executive Education Center in Atlanta, Georgia. We invite scholars to join us for two days of focused presentation, discussion, and community building. The registration fee is $100 for faculty and $50 for doctoral students.
GenAI (including Agents) is rapidly reshaping how research is conducted. It introduces powerful new capabilities alongside emergent risks to validity, transparency, and reproducibility. This conference aims to take stock of these developments, surface exciting opportunities and emerging best practices, identify challenges, share helpful resources, and work toward common standards for the responsible and rigorous use of GenAI in research methods.
What to Expect
The program brings together short research presentations, keynote addresses, panels, and discussions on emerging uses, best practices, and challenges in using GenAI in research methods. Paper presenters will share work in a supportive, workshop-style setting and receive constructive feedback from peers and senior scholars. The conference provides an opportunity to learn about how to responsibly leverage GenAI in your research methods, refine your ideas, build your network, and help shape methodological norms of a fast-moving field.
Scope and Theme
We welcome submissions that examine how Generative AI (including Agents) contributes to-and complicates-research methods. We are especially interested in work addressing the contributions, benefits, risks, and best practices of LLMs across methodological traditions, including but not limited to experimental research, design science research, qualitative inquiry, econometric and archival research, survey research, and computationally intensive theory construction, as well as cross-cutting concerns across methods.
Submissions may report empirical findings, methodological frameworks, tools and protocols, position arguments, or works in progress. Contributions that bridge disciplines or propose shared norms are also welcome.
Please note that submissions focusing on aspects of the research process other than methods (e.g., the use of GenAI in conducting literature reviews) are beyond the scope of the conference.
Submission Requirements
Format: All submissions take the form of an extended abstract (maximum 5 pages, excluding references). Extended abstracts should be submitted as a single PDF file, use a standard scientific format, and include author names and affiliations. Submissions are not anonymized.
A strong extended abstract typically includes:
- Problem statement and motivation - the methodological question or challenge being addressed.
- Background and related work - brief positioning within existing research.
- Approach - the method, framework, tool, or argument, and the role of LLMs within it.
- Findings or expected contribution - preliminary results, insights, or anticipated impact.
- Implications - relevance to rigor, validity, transparency, or best practice.
- Brief LLM/AI-use statement - If LLMs or related AI tools were used, the statement should describe, where relevant, tools or models used, stages of the workflow in which they were involved, prompting or agentic workflows, human oversight and verification, validation steps, limitations, and failure modes encountered.
At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and attend the conference.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline: August 10, 2026
- Notification of acceptance: August 25, 2026
- Registration deadline: August 31, 2026
- Conference: October 1–2, 2026, UGA Terry Executive Education Center in Atlanta, GA
Selection Criteria
Submissions will be evaluated on:
- The quality and clarity of the extended abstract.
- Fit with the conference focus.
- Potential to benefit from, and contribute to, discussion and feedback.
- Diversity of methods, disciplines, career stages, and institutions.
Organizing Committee
Elena Karahanna, Weifeng Li, and Carolina A. de Lima Salge.
Questions may be directed to the organizers at
2026gaim@gmail.com. We look forward to your submission and to welcoming you to Atlanta.
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Best,
Carolina Alves de Lima Salge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Management Information Systems
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
https://carolina-lima-salge.github.io------------------------------