Aim & Scope

Intelligent Retrieval Journal (IRJ) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Python Publishing Press. It publishes research on how people and machines find, organise and make sense of information, from classic search engines to semantic and AI-assisted retrieval.

We welcome new models and algorithms, evaluation studies, systems papers and applications in areas such as digital libraries, enterprise search and e-commerce.

Scope

We welcome original research articles, reviews, short communications and case-based studies in areas including:

  • Information retrieval models, ranking and relevance
  • Semantic search, embeddings and neural retrieval
  • Retrieval-augmented generation and question answering
  • Recommender systems and personalisation
  • Natural language processing for search and text understanding
  • Knowledge graphs, ontologies and knowledge discovery
  • Evaluation methods, test collections and user studies
  • Digital libraries, enterprise and domain-specific search

Not sure whether your manuscript fits? Write to publisher@pythonpublishingpress.org with a short summary before you submit and the editors will tell you.