Journal profile · COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
ISSN 1554-0669 · eISSN 1554-0677 · Now Publishers Inc · UNITED STATES
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval: CAS Zone 1 · Computer Science (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 4.33; hybrid open access; 5 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval is published by Now Publishers Inc and is in Zone 1 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Topic Modeling, Information Retrieval and Search Behavior and Web Data Mining and Analysis, together about 34.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Foundations and Trends® in Information Retrieval publishes survey and tutorial articles on the following topics: Applications of IR Architectures for IR Collaborative filtering and recommender systems Cross-lingual and multilingual IR Distributed IR and federated search Evaluation issues and test collections for IR Formal models and language models for IR IR on mobile platforms Indexing and retrieval of structured documents Information categorization and clustering Information extraction Information filtering and routing Metasearch, rank aggregation and data fusion Natural language processing for IR Performance issues for IR systems, including algorithms, data structures, optimization techniques, and scalability Question answering Summarization of single documents, multiple documents, and corpora Text mining Topic detection and tracking Usability, interactivity, and visualization issues in IR User modelling and user studies for IR Web search.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Topic ModelingComputer Science13.2%
- Information Retrieval and Search BehaviorComputer Science10.5%
- Web Data Mining and AnalysisComputer Science10.5%
- Data Management and AlgorithmsComputer Science6.1%
- Recommender Systems and TechniquesComputer Science5.3%
- Semantic Web and OntologiesComputer Science4.4%
- Data Quality and ManagementDecision Sciences4.4%
- Natural Language Processing TechniquesComputer Science3.5%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Computer Science Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: yes
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Computer Science Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Computer Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Computer Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Computer Science, Information Systems | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: yes
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
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
- Impact factor
- 4.33LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 24.2LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.85LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 4.77LetPub ·
- h-index
- 25LetPub ·
- h-index
- 44OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 60OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 9.92OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 7.69%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 4LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 72 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2025 | 5 | 0 | 37 |
| 2024 | 4 | 1 | 74 |
| 2023 | 4 | 1 | 116 |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 194 |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | 98 |
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Now Publishers Inc
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1554-0669
- Electronic ISSN
- 1554-0677
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
What CAS zone is Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval is in Zone 1 of Computer Science, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Computer Science, Information Systems; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Computer Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.33; CiteScore 24.2, h-index 44.
Which databases index Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval open access, and what is the APC?
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-26). Last updated: .