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Use when planning a CSCW submission timeline end to end — the PACMHCI journal model, the retired fixed cycles versus the rolling 2027+ pathway, Revise-and-Resubmit rounds that span months, and back-planning so an acceptance lands before the conference-year presentation cutoff.
Passed 24 of 25 test cases with the skill, and 8 of 25 without it.
and 20 more in the full report
16 fixed8 passed either way1 still failing0 broke
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
One of 16 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
What was the exact date and time of the last hard submission deadline under the old fixed-cycle CSCW system?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Identifies May 14, 2025 as the final fixed-cycle submission deadline | Missed | Passed |
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CSCW is not a deadline sprint. Since 2017 its papers have been journal articles in PACMHCI, and since early 2026 the venue has been rolling out a fully journal-style pipeline: submit whenever the paper is ready, expect a decision in roughly 3-4 months, revise on the editor's clock, and present at whichever conference your acceptance lands in front of. Planning a CSCW project therefore means planning a revision campaign, not a submission night.
| Aspect | Fixed cycles (through the May 2025 cycle) | Rolling (CSCW 2027 and beyond) |
|---|---|---|
| Deadline | Hard cutoff (last: May 14, 2025, 12:00 EDT) | None — submit when ready |
| Platform | PCS | Manuscript Central (mc.manuscriptcentral.com/pacmhci) |
| Who handles the paper | Program committee (ACs) per cycle | Editorial board: EiC/AE by methodological track |
| First decision | Batched (first-round decisions ~6 months in) | Rolling, ~3-4 months from submission |
| Revision windows | Fixed dates (e.g., R&R due January 13, 2026) | Set per paper by the handling editor |
| Conference tie | Cycle mapped to a specific conference year | Accepted papers invited to the next CSCW, pending space |
The May 2025 cycle — the last of the old kind — is worth studying as a calibration anchor even though it will never recur: submissions May 14, 2025 → internal "Revise for External Review" resubmissions September 16, 2025 → first external decisions November 2025 (66.2% of papers got Revise and Resubmit; only a third got any final decision) → revised papers due January 13, 2026 → final decisions late March 2026 → presentation at CSCW 2026 (Salt Lake City, October 10-14, 2026). That is a 17-month arc from submission to podium, and two-thirds of surviving papers went through the full R&R loop.
Under fixed cycles, authors managed risk by "hopping": if an R&R could not be turned around by the resubmission date, the revision rolled into a later cycle and a later conference. Rolling keeps the underlying skill and removes the calendar: the hop is now a negotiation with time, not with a deadline table. Practical consequences:
test cases passed, vs 8 / 25 without
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