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Volume 20,
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24 June 2026

About Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval

High-quality survey and tutorial monographs which focus on finding relevant information from a large collection of resources, such as documents or databases, in response to a user's query

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Accepted manuscript types

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval publishes exclusively long (± 100 pages) review and tutorial papers. For full details read the Editorial Aims of the journal. These criteria are strictly applied by the editorial board and your paper must meet them to be considered.

Original research papers will not be considered for publication and we will not acknowledge receipt.

If you intend to write, or are in the process of writing, a paper that meets the criteria in Editorial Aims, we will be pleased to hear from you. In the first instance, send an abstract for initial review to the publisher.

After this initial submission, a preliminary acceptance may follow. The full draft paper will be subject to a reviewing process to ensure quality standards and balance before being finally accepted..

Peer review type

Single-anonymous peer review.

Reference type

Alphabetical reference style. Please find more information on Alphabetical referencing here.

Keywords

A maximum of 6 appropriate and short keywords can be added to your ScholarOne submission.

Accepted languages

This journal accepts manuscripts in UK/US English.

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2025 Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate)
4.4
2025 CiteScore (Scopus)
24.2
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2088

Editorial information

Co-Editor-in-Chief: Falk Scholer, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Co-Editor-in-Chief: Yi Zhang, UC Santa Cruz, USA 

 

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