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The Information Retrieval Research Journal (IRRJ) is an open access journal that provides an international forum for the electronic and paper publication of high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of Information Retrieval. IRRJ has a commitment to rigorous yet rapid reviewing. All published papers are freely available online. Final versions are assigned a DOI and are published electronically immediately upon receipt (ISSN 3050-9114). Paper volumes are published and sold by Radboud University Press (ISSN 3050-9106). IRRJ does not charge article processing costs and aims to support researchers from low-income countries that currently have a hard time engaging with the field. 

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Call for contributions for DESIRES 2027

2026-08-26

IRRJ will support the call for abstracts for the 5th International Conference on the Design of Experimental Search & Information REtrieval Systems (DESIRES) 

DESIRES invites submissions presenting novel ideas, approaches, and systems in the broad area of search and information retrieval. The conference is built around discussion and exploration: it is a venue for work that is thought-provoking or unconventional—ideas that benefit from open debate rather than polished evaluation.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2026)
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The third issue of IRRJ contains excellent research papers: CRAWLDoc, a system for contextual ranking and bibliographic metadata extraction from web resources by Fabian Karl and Ansgar Scherp; Simple techniques for efficient top-k batch query processing by Zhixuan Li and Joel Mackenzie; An exploration of online content accessibility from an autism-informed perspective by Hrishita Chakrabarti and Maria Soledad Pera; Detecting subtle and overt forms of online conflict with multi-objective learning by Oliver Warke et al.; and CASTlog, a comprehensive log of children's interactions with the child adaptive search tool by Christine Pinney et al. In the editorial, Stephen Robertson reviews "The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a TechBillionaire" based on his personal encounter with Lynch.

Published: 2026-06-29

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