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.

《Foundations And Trends In Information Retrieval》是一本由NOW PUBLISHERS INC出版商出版的专业工程技术期刊，该刊创刊于2006年，刊期5 issues/year，该刊已被国际权威数据库SCIE收录。在中科院最新升级版分区表中，该刊分区信息为大类学科：工程技术 2区，小类学科：计算机：信息系统 2区；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分区等级为Q1。该刊发文范围涵盖计算机：信息系统等领域，旨在及时、准确、全面地报道国内外计算机：信息系统工作者在该领域取得的最新研究成果、工作进展及学术动态、技术革新等，促进学术交流，鼓励学术创新。2021年影响因子为13.286，