Journal profile · Computer Science-Artificial Intelligence
Applied AI Letters
ISSN 2689-5595 · Wiley · United Kingdom
Applied AI Letters: fully open access; APC about USD 2,660; median 139 days to acceptance (54 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 29% (journal website); 40 articles in 2025; indexed in Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Applied AI Letters is published by Wiley. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Topic Modeling and Advanced Neural Network Applications, together about 35.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Applied AI Letters is launched by Wiley as a world-leading journal in the application of Artificial Intelligence methodologies to a highly interdisciplinary range of applications. It is aimed to provide a high-quality venue for rapid communications which bridge the gap between initial theoretical breakthroughs and their application to impactful, real-world, problems. Artificial Intelligence is one of a handful of truly cross-cutting technologies, and as such Applied AI Letters will address not only the existing Artificial Intelligence community, but also practitioners in a wide range of disciplines. Applied AI Letters will publish rapid communications covering the following three themes: 1. Emerging applications of Artificial Intelligence - first in kind applications, or examples of early adopter technology, which demonstrate the power of applying advanced AI techniques to impactful problems. Examples of this kind of article could be the development of deep learning models for pharmaceutical applications, development and use of knowledge representation techniques for advanced querying of unstructured databases, or the application of reinforcement learning techniques for advanced control problems. 2. Development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence Systems - description of algorithmic and system engineering required to deploy Artificial Intelligence technologies in a ‘real-world’ setting. Examples of this kind of article could be security considerations for AI deployed within a healthcare setting, scalability analysis of AI technologies (for either training or deployment) of deep learning models in a high-velocity data environment such as required by Industry 4.0 strategies, or ethical considerations (such as explainability and transparency) required when deploying AI solutions into application areas such as the law and insurance, or into technologies such as autonomous vehicles. 3. Comments and Challenges for Artificial Intelligence Technology- These short perspective articles either summarise the current state of the art for a particular AI technology (such as deep learning), highlighting both strengths and challenge areas for future development, or summarise an emerging challenge area (such as genomics) in which application of AI technologies has the potential to initiate a step-change in capability.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Computer Science-Artificial Intelligence
Editor-in-chief As Editor-in-ChiefPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 2 in mainland China (about 5%); most named United Kingdom 10, India 10, United States 5, Canada 3, Mainland China 2 (41 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)Computer Science14.3%
- Topic ModelingComputer Science11.9%
- Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsComputer Science9.5%
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AISocial Sciences6.7%
- Adversarial Robustness in Machine LearningComputer Science6.2%
- Artificial Intelligence ApplicationsComputer Science5.2%
- Natural Language Processing TechniquesComputer Science3.8%
- Neural Networks and ApplicationsComputer Science3.3%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
CiteScore quartiles (Scopus, June 2026 release)
| Subject | Quartile | Rank | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence | Q3 | 331/570 | 42nd |
Scopus ranks journals by CiteScore within each subject: the 75th percentile and above is Q1, then a quartile every 25 points. A different system from the CAS zones.LetPub
Database indexing
ScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.1LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.41LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.12LetPub ·
- h-index
- 18OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 35OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.27OpenAlex ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 0%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 32Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 57,891Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 182 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 35 | 35 | 290 |
| 2025 | 40 | 40 | 285 |
| 2024 | 20 | 20 | 244 |
| 2023 | 16 | 16 | 184 |
| 2022 | 16 | 16 | 118 |
| 2021 | 43 | 43 | 77 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
139 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 116 days – 201 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 22 days (54 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 178 days
- Sample
- 54 articles with submission and acceptance dates (66 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 24 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 29%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 27 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 130 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 24 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 24 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 2,660 / GBP 1,850 / EUR 2,290 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 2,420 / EUR 2,080 / GBP 1,850 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 2,100 / GBP 1,600 / EUR 1,800 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare5 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- 7
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Graphical abstract
- Required
Article types accepted7, with length limits
- editorialApplied AI Letters will primarily publish content in the following forms (but other formats may be accepted): Letters — short, technical contributions of no mor…main text ≤ 4,000 words
- editorialsEditorials — short, authoritative opinion piece of no more than 4000 words, written by editors, editorial board members, or invited experts. Editorials are by i…Length not stated
- letterApplied AI Letters will primarily publish content in the following forms (but other formats may be accepted): Letters — short, technical contributions of no mor…main text ≤ 8,000 words
- lettersLetters — short, technical contributions of no more than 8000 words.Length not stated
- opinionApplied AI Letters will primarily publish content in the following forms (but other formats may be accepted): Letters — short, technical contributions of no mor…Length not stated
- perspectiveApplied AI Letters will primarily publish content in the following forms (but other formats may be accepted): Letters — short, technical contributions of no mor…main text ≤ 15,000 words
- perspectivesPerspectives — more in-depth papers of no more than 15000 words. Perspectives are usually commissioned but unsolicited material may be considered – please appro…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Conflicts of interest, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Preprints
- AI use Disclosing the use of Artificial Intelligence
If you have used Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools such as ChatGPT and others based on large language models (LLMs) to develop any portion of a manuscript, their use must be described transparently and in detail in the Methods section. You can view Wiley's AI policy in full in the Authorship section of the Best Practices Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Authorship
The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria: Have made substantial contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; and Been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellec…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest
The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potent…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 5. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Peer Review and Acceptance The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.Manuscripts are single-anonymized peer reviewed. In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editor…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access
Open access with APC and Creative Commons license. Model summary
Applied AI Letters is an Open Access journal: authors of accepted papers pay an Article Publication Charge and their papers are published under a Creative Commons license.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review and Acceptance
Single-anonymized peer review. Model summary
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.Manuscripts are single-anonymized peer reviewed. In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board member…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints
Preprints accepted. Model summary
This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers. Applied AI Letters will consider for review articles previously available as preprints.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2689-5595
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 7, Issue 3 (October 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Applied AI Letters
How long does peer review take at Applied AI Letters?
Based on the dates recorded on 54 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 139 days (interquartile range 116–201 days); authors report an average review time of about 24 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 29% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Applied AI Letters?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: 7; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Graphical abstract: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Applied AI Letters based?
Of the 41 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 2 (about 5%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (10), India (10) and United States (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Applied AI Letters?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Applied AI Letters is indexed in Scopus and DOAJ.
Is Applied AI Letters open access, and what is the APC?
Applied AI Letters is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,660.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-24). Last updated: .