About the Journal

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.

Aim & Scope

  • 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

Journal Information

  • Title: Intelligent Retrieval Journal (IRJ)
  • Publisher: Python Publishing Press (PPP), Hlavné námestie 12, 811 01 Bratislava, Slovakia
  • First published: 2023
  • Frequency: Half-yearly (two issues a year)
  • Peer review: Double-blind, by at least two independent reviewers
  • Licence: CC BY 4.0; authors keep their copyright
  • DOI: registered with Crossref (prefix 10.70705)
  • Article Processing Charges: see APC rates and waivers
  • Indexing: Google Scholar, Crossref
  • Language: English
  • Contact: publisher@pythonpublishingpress.org