Call for Abstracts

The call for abstracts opens on June 23, 2025.

Guidelines and Presentation Types

LENGTH OF PRESENTATION
Oral presentations will take place during concurrent sessions and will have a duration of 10 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for discussion.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The word limit for abstracts is 350.
Capitalize your abstract title.
Each applicant may submit three abstracts (max).
There is no limitation on the number of co-authorships.
The abstracts must be written in English.
All oral presentations must be given in English, and no translation service will be provided during the conference.
All abstracts must be submitted online no later than October 15, 2025.
An abstract must be submitted by its presenter.
The receipt of your abstract will be confirmed by email. Only completed abstract forms will be considered.
The Program Committee will determine the presentation type of each accepted abstract, with consideration given to the author’s preference. The committee’s decision is final.

ABSTRACT EVALUATION
The submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the 9th WCRI Abstract Review Committee. Applicants will be informed of the outcome by the end of January 2026 (at the latest). All notifications will be sent to the email address provided during the abstract submission process. The decisions made by the Abstract Review Committee are final. If a substantial part of the abstract has been published or submitted elsewhere, this needs to be declared on the abstract form. These abstracts may still be accepted but might get lower priority. If you used a tool such as ChatGPT to help describe the work presented in the abstract, this must be clearly indicated and justified on the abstract submission form.

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
We strongly encourage you to register your study protocol or to submit a Registered Report of your study if your abstract concerns empirical research. Please then specify the link to the preregistration or Registered Report on the abstract submission form. If your abstract is accepted, we’ll add the link to the registered report to the abstract book.

See here for an explanation of preregistration and here for an explanation of Registered Reports.

If you will present empirical research, please structure your abstract using the following headings (not mandatory for non-empirical research and for non-research contributions):

Objective (suggestion: 50 words): Describe as accurately and clearly as possible what you propose to present.
Methods (suggestion: 50 words): Describe the population, research methods, measurements, intervention (when applicable) and analyses you performed.
Results (suggestion: 200 words): When reporting on a research project, present your main findings in the abstract. No riddles or cliff-hangers. If you do not yet have the results, make it convincingly clear that you will have them at the time of the conference.
Conclusion (suggestion: 50 words): State your conclusion as clearly as possible and reflect on your study limitations and the meaning of what you found in a few words.

REGISTRATION
All presenters of provisionally accepted abstracts must register before the deadline of the early bird registration on March 3, 2026. If the presenters have not registered by that date, the abstract will not be included in the conference program and abstract book.

DISSEMINATION OF ABSTRACTS
Accepted abstracts will be bundled in a digital abstract book (in PDF format) and posted on the conference website. After the conference, the abstract book will remain available on the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation website. Presenters for oral presentations are asked for permission to post a PDF of their PowerPoint presentation after the conference on the conference website, which will later be transferred to the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation website.

CANCELLATION
If your abstract has been accepted but circumstances prevent your attendance, please ask a co-author to present who has also registered for the conference and notify the Conference Secretariat (wcri2026-program[at]venuewest.com) about this change as soon as possible. If cancellation is unavoidable, please contact the Conference Secretariat immediately to remove your abstract from the conference program.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

POSTER SIZE
Poster size (height x width): 36″ x 48″ (90 cm x 120 cm)
Poster templates can be found here.

Posters will be displayed throughout the entire three-day conference.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The word limit for abstracts is 350.
Capitalize your abstract title.
Each applicant may submit three abstracts (max).
There is no limitation on the number of co-authorships.
The abstracts must be written in English.
All posters must be in English.
All abstracts must be submitted online no later than October 15, 2025.
An abstract must be submitted by its presenter.
The receipt of your abstract will be confirmed by email. Only completed abstract forms will be considered.
The Program Committee will determine the presentation type of each accepted abstract, with consideration given to the author’s preference. The committee’s decision is final.

See here for an explanation of preregistration and here for an explanation of Registered Reports.

If you will present empirical research, please structure your abstract using the following headings (not mandatory for non-empirical research and for non-research contributions):

Objective (suggestion: 50 words): Describe as accurately and clearly as possible what you propose to present.
Methods (suggestion: 50 words): Describe the population, research methods, measurements, intervention (when applicable) and analyses you performed.
Results (suggestion: 200 words): When reporting on a research project, present your main findings in the abstract. No riddles or cliff-hangers. If you do not yet have the results, make it convincingly clear that you will have them at the time of the conference.
Conclusion (suggestion: 50 words): State your conclusion as clearly as possible and reflect on your study limitations and the meaning of what you found in a few words.

DISSEMINATION OF ABSTRACTS
Accepted abstracts will be bundled in a digital abstract book (in PDF format) and posted on the conference website. After the conference, the abstract book will remain available on the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation website. Poster presenters are asked for permission to add the PDF of their poster to the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation website.