Call for Papers · Volume 1, Number 1 · Submissions close 14 September 2026

Now Accepting Papers for Our Inaugural Edition

We publish original research that applies machine learning or artificial intelligence to Caribbean questions. Three routes are open: peer-reviewed articles, rapid preprints, and a section for student researchers aged 13 and over.

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📢 Inaugural Edition, Vol. 1, No. 1: submissions close 14 September 2026. Preprints are accepted on a rolling basis. Student submissions close on the same date. Author guidelines →

We accept work from anywhere in the world, from any career stage, provided the research is grounded in Caribbean data, Caribbean institutions, Caribbean populations, or the small-state and Small Island Developing State conditions the region shares with much of the Global South. Comparative work that places the Caribbean alongside the Pacific, the Indian Ocean states, or Central America is welcome.

Strong submissions usually do one of five things: release a dataset or benchmark that did not exist before, apply an established method to a problem no one has modelled at this scale, report a deployment and what it cost, test whether a model trained elsewhere transfers to Caribbean conditions, or make a case that a widely adopted system fails here and show the evidence.

Manuscript types accepted

Type	What it is	Length
Research Article	Original empirical or theoretical work with full methods	5,000 to 9,000 words
Policy Paper	Applied analysis carrying direct policy recommendations	4,000 to 7,000 words
Review Article	Systematic or narrative review of a research domain	6,000 to 10,000 words
Data and Methods Note	A new dataset, model, tool or benchmark of Caribbean relevance	2,000 to 4,000 words
Replication Report	An attempt to reproduce a published result on Caribbean data	2,000 to 5,000 words
Perspective or Commentary	Scholarly argument on an emerging issue or debate	1,500 to 3,000 words

What we will not publish

Work with no Caribbean or small-state grounding, however technically strong
Undisclosed machine-generated manuscripts, and text produced by a language model presented as the author's own analysis
Results that cannot be reproduced from the description given, where no data or code access is offered and no reason is stated
Vendor or product marketing written in the shape of a paper
Manuscripts under review elsewhere, with the exception of preprints, which are always permitted

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

The main journal. Double-blind review by two or more subject experts, a decision within four weeks of assignment, and publication in a numbered edition under CC BY 4.0. This is the route for completed work you want on the record.

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AIC Preprints

A regional preprint server in the arXiv tradition. Screened for scope and scholarly form rather than peer reviewed, announced within two working days, versioned and permanently citable. Post first and submit for review later, or do both on the same day.

How Preprints Work

Student Researcher Section

For secondary school, sixth form and undergraduate researchers aged 13 and over. Mentored review by working scientists, written feedback on every submission whatever the outcome, and a citation in your own name.

Student Guidelines

Code	Subject area	Representative work
`cai.CLM`	Climate, Weather and Disaster Risk	Hurricane track and intensity models, flood and landslide mapping, parametric trigger design, coral bleaching detection, early warning systems
`cai.FIN`	Finance, Insurance and Risk	Credit scoring for thin-file borrowers, catastrophe and actuarial modelling, remittance flows, anti-money-laundering, capital market forecasting
`cai.GOV`	Public Policy, Governance and Law	Service delivery triage, revenue and customs analytics, legislative and case-law modelling, procurement integrity, algorithmic accountability in the public sector
`cai.SME`	Small Business, Trade and Informal Economies	Demand forecasting for micro-enterprise, market access and logistics, informal sector measurement, supply chain intelligence, digital payments
`cai.INF`	Infrastructure, Compute and Data Systems	Regional compute and cloud strategy, data governance and interoperability, sovereign and national language models, connectivity, model serving under bandwidth constraints
`cai.MED`	Health, Medicine and Life Sciences	Diagnostic imaging, chronic disease and NCD risk models, outbreak surveillance, health system triage, structural biology, Caribbean biodiversity and pharmacology
`cai.AGR`	Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Security	Yield and pest prediction, precision irrigation, fisheries stock assessment, sargassum forecasting, import substitution and food price modelling
`cai.TUR`	Tourism, Mobility and the Blue Economy	Arrival and demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, cruise and port logistics, visitor sentiment, marine spatial planning, coastal carrying capacity
`cai.CUL`	Language, Culture and Creative Industries	Creole and heritage language technology, speech and dialect modelling, music and film economics, archive digitization, cultural heritage and generative media
`cai.EDU`	Education, Skills and the Workforce	Learning analytics, adaptive tutoring in low-resource classrooms, labour market and skills forecasting, brain drain, AI literacy and curriculum research
`cai.NRG`	Energy, Water and Utilities	Grid stability with high renewable penetration, load and outage forecasting, non-revenue water detection, microgrid optimization, energy poverty analysis
`cai.SEC`	Safety, Security and Border Systems	Crime and violence analytics, road safety, maritime domain awareness, border and immigration systems, disaster response coordination, cyber defence
`cai.MIG`	Migration, Diaspora and Demography	Migration flow modelling, diaspora investment and network analysis, population projection, census and administrative data linkage
`cai.SOC`	Ethics, Society and Human Rights	Bias and representational harm in models trained without the region, surveillance and privacy, labour effects, participation and consent, AI and reparative justice
`cai.MTH`	Methods, Benchmarks and Open Datasets	New Caribbean datasets and benchmarks, evaluation protocols, transfer and domain adaptation studies, reproducibility and replication work, survey methodology

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About the Journal

Funded by the Caribbean AI Association

The journal is published and funded by the Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Association, the regional body for AI practice, policy and research. That funding is why authors pay nothing to submit, nothing to publish and nothing to read, in any of the three tracks. The Association does not sit in on editorial decisions, which rest with the Editor-in-Chief, Adrian Dunkley, and the review panel.

About the Journal Review Policy

14 Sep Inaugural Deadline, 2026

3 Submission Tracks

27 Subject and Method Codes

$0 Fees to Publish or Read

Vol. 1, No. 1 · December 2026

Open Call

Inaugural Edition

General scope across all fifteen subject areas. Articles, preprints and student research. Submissions close 14 September 2026.

Vol. 1, No. 2 · Q3 2027

Theme

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AI in banking and credit, small business productivity, labour market shifts, tourism demand and diaspora investment intelligence.

Vol. 1, No. 3 · Q1 2028

Theme

AI Governance and Sovereignty

Data ownership, national AI strategies, ethics in small states, and the policy frameworks that decide who governs the models.