Top-tier Conferences & Journals (CCF-A Venues)

The conferences and journals widely seen as most influential in a field, commonly benchmarked in China against the CCF's A-tier list.

CCF is the China Computer Federation, which publishes a “Recommended List of International Academic Conferences and Journals” that sorts computer-science venues in each subfield into tiers A, B, and C; the A tier is what Chinese universities commonly mean by “top-tier,” and the list is revised every few years, with the seventh edition published in March 2026. Embodied-AI-relevant CCF-A venues include conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and journals such as TPAMI and IJCV. Robotics-specific venues such as ICRA, IROS, CoRL, and RSS are considered top venues within robotics circles, but none of them are CCF-A: ICRA is tier B, IROS is tier C, and CoRL and RSS aren't listed at all, so “top venue” and “CCF-A” aren't the same thing. Computer science overall leans on conferences rather than journals, and papers are commonly posted to arXiv around the time they're submitted.

ExampleECCV is tier B in the CCF list, but within the vision community it's considered one of the “big three” alongside CVPR and ICCV.

Also called

Top-tier Venues, CCF-A

Related

arXiv Preprint · CVPR / ICCV / ECCV · NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR · IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · Conference on Robot Learning · Robotics: Science and Systems

Sources

中国计算机学会推荐国际学术会议和期刊目录 (Chinese)
第七版中国计算机学会推荐国际学术会议和期刊目录（CCF 2026）附件页（中国科学院大学人工智能学院） (Chinese)

As of

2026-03