IRRJ Call for Papers
Call for Papers
IRRJ: Information Retrieval Research Journal
Inaugural issue, to be published end of 2024
The Information Retrieval Research Journal (IRRJ) is a new 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 commits to rigorous yet rapid reviewing. All published papers will be freely available online. Final versions are published electronically immediately upon receipt. Paper volumes are published and sold by Radboud University Press. Papers will be assigned a DOI, and the journal will be assigned an ISSN with the first issue (planned end of 2024). IRRJ does not charge article processing costs and hopes to attract researchers from low-income countries that currently have a hard time engaging with the field.
Editorial board
- Djoerd Hiemstra (editor-in-chief, Radboud University, The Netherlands)
- Vanessa Murdock (Amazon, USA)
- Johanne Trippas (RMIT University, Australia)
- Makoto Kato, (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
- Ismail Sengor Altingovde (Middle East Technical University, Turkiye)
- Monica Paramita (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Negin Rahimi (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
- Ben He (University Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Shangsong Liang (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE)
- Haiming Liu (University of Southampton, UK)
- Debarshi Kumar Sanyal, (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India)
- Daniela Godoy (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research, Argentina)
- Barbara Poblete (DCC University, Chile)
- Solomon Atnafu (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
Advisory board
- Paul Kantor (Emeritus, Rutgers University, USA)
- Stephen Robertson (formerly Microsoft Research, UK)
Scope
IRRJ seeks unpublished papers on information retrieval research grounded in statistics, machine learning, linguistics, the cognitive sciences, and perhaps other related research fields, such as recommender systems. Papers may contain:
- new principled algorithms with sound empirical validation, and with justification of mathematical, theoretical, or psychological nature;
- experimental and/or theoretical studies yielding new insight into the design and behavior of information retrieval systems, including user-centric studies;
- reproducibility studies and applications of existing techniques that highlight the strengths and weaknesses of current methods;
- formalization of new information retrieval tasks (e.g., in the context of new applications) and methods for assessing the performance of those tasks;
- new evaluation approaches, including responsible information retrieval, fairness and non-discrimination in search;
- review and survey papers that contribute to the understanding of the state of the art in information retrieval.
Submission types
IRRJ accepts three types of papers: Normal papers, extended papers and opinion/review papers:
- Normal papers are original contributions of a length similar to papers submitted to conferences like SIGIR and ECIR (about 20 pages IRRJ style) that do not reuse the authors' prior work. There should not be any reuse of written text, figures or results between the submitted normal paper and any paper that has been published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel at another archival, peer-reviewed venue.
- Extended papers (about 40 pages) are original work like normal papers but with more depth than a typical conference paper. Extended papers may also be expanded versions of conference papers if they contain at least 50% new material, and the submission clearly cites the paper that was expanded. Extended papers above 50 pages require a note of justification in the cover letter, and may be desk rejected.
- Opinion/Review papers are typically short papers (about 10 pages, but longer papers are possible) that discuss other papers, books, or that provide a new perspective on Information Retrieval.
Submission system
Submit your papers at https://irrj.org/about/submissions
