The PDF of the full #irrj issue, Volume 1 Number 2 of December 2025 is now available online at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no2 #informationretrieval

The PDF of the full #irrj issue, Volume 1 Number 2 of December 2025 is now available online at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no2 #informationretrieval

#cfp Call for Papers for Volume 2, 2026: Please submit your papers for the third issue of IRRJ, Volume 2 Number 1, which is planned June 2026. https://irrj.org/announcement/view/305

In the second issue of #irrj, Paul Kantor writes the editorial, arguing for a more critical adoption of generative AI in information retrieval. He puts his concerns under three distinct headings: consistency, confidence, and completeness. #genai, #generativeAI, #informationretrieval […]

Published at #irrj: "Exploring Embedding Interpretability by Correspondences Between Topic Models and Text Embeddings" by Meng Yuan, Lida Rashidi, and Justin Zobel. #informationretrieval, #embeddinginterpretability, #explanability, #topicmodelling https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23703

In the second issue of #irrj, Paul Kantor writes the editorial, arguing for a more critical adoption of generative AI in information retrieval. He puts his concerns under three distinct headings: consistency, confidence, and completeness. #genai, #generativeAI, #informationretrieval […]

Published at #irrj: "Emancipatory Information Retrieval" by Bhaskar Mitra. #informationretrieval, #society, #emancipatorypraxis, #technologyandpower https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.24531

BREAKING: Today, at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, we announced a partnership between #fire2025 and #irrj. There will be an IRRJ special issue on FIRE! 🔥 More information to be shared here soon.

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BREAKING: Today, at the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2025) at the Indian Institute of Technology in Varanasi, India, we announced a partnership between #fire2025 and #irrj. There will be an IRRJ special issue on FIRE! 🔥 More information to be shared here soon.

Published at #irrj: "Emancipatory Information Retrieval" by Bhaskar Mitra. #informationretrieval, #society, #emancipatorypraxis, #technologyandpower https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.24531

Published at #irrj: "Exploring Embedding Interpretability by Correspondences Between Topic Models and Text Embeddings" by Meng Yuan, Lida Rashidi, and Justin Zobel. #informationretrieval, #embeddinginterpretability, #explanability, #topicmodelling https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23703

Published at #irrj: "An Eigensystem for Topic Term Weighting yields Fair and Effective Document Rankings" by Massimo Melucci. #informationretrieval, #groupfairness, #probabilityrankingprinciple, #eigensystem https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23480

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Published at #irrj: "An Eigensystem for Topic Term Weighting yields Fair and Effective Document Rankings" by Massimo Melucci. #informationretrieval, #groupfairness, #probabilityrankingprinciple, #eigensystem https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.23480

#cfp Call for Papers for Volume 2, 2026: Please submit your papers for the third issue of IRRJ, Volume 2 Number 1, which is planned June 2026. https://irrj.org/announcement/view/305

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rmounce/115525281764406742 Diamond is the way forward! 💎

Published at #irrj: "Effectiveness of In-Context Learning for Due Diligence: A Reproducibility Study of Identifying Passages for Due Diligence by Madhukar Dwivedi and Jaap Kamps. #informationretrieval, #legalsearch, #duediligence, #passageretrieval https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.22626

Congratulations to Savvina Daniil for winning the Women in RecSys Journal Paper of the Year award for her #irrj paper "On the challenges of studying bias in Recommender Systems"! The award came with a free #recsys2025 registration and the opportunity to present the IRRJ paper at the main […]

It's #oaweek! Who Owns Our Knowledge? https://www.openaccessweek.org

NWO helps fund switch to diamond model for five journals - Research Professional News https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-netherlands-2025-10-nwo-helps-fund-switch-to-diamond-model-for-five-journals/

It turned out that indexing by @dblp requires the editors to bring a #irrj paper copy to the #dagstuhl library in person, signed. Djoerd and Johanne did just that this week!

Who pays? Peter Johnson and Colin Rhinesmith discuss the challenges of the 'diamond' open access model (the 'labour of love' model!) of publishing with the Journal of Community Informatics: https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v20i2.6164

Published at #irrj: "Evaluating Dense Model-based Approaches for Multimodal Medical Case Retrieval" by Catarina Pires, Sérgio Nunes, and Luís Teixeira. #medicalsearch, #multimodalretrieval, #denseretrieval https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19769

The PDF of the full first issue: Volume 1, Number 1, June 2025 is now on-line at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no1

Oh dear, the #irrj website is down... (no, we did not push to production on Friday afternoon). We are working on it. Please, be patient

We are proud to announce that we are now indexed by @dblp! Click below for Volume 1, Number 1, 2025 https://dblp.org/db/journals/irrj/irrj1.html

Our apologies to @dblp, for resending our request to be included in DBLP. "For some months now, the dblp team has been receiving an exceptionally high number of support and error correction requests from the community. While we are grateful and happy to process all incoming emails, please […]

Published at #irrj: " A survey of Inclusive Information Access " byYue Zheng, Haiming Liu, Mike Wald #inclusiveinformationaccess, #informationretrieval, #digitaldivide https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.21092

We have here a very special new issue of "Insights: the UKSG journal" (https://insights.uksg.org/articles) with two articles I would like to highlight. 1. University journals: a semi-systematic literature review of trends, challenges and future research […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Lucky to witness #IRRJ editor-in-chief @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy signing a copy of the first edition of @irrj.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy for Ian Soboroff, author of the paper “Don’t Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments” in the volume. #SIGIR2025 irrj.org/article/view...

We are at #sigir2025 in Padua, Italy this week. Talk to our editors at the coffee breaks. #sigir

@egonw @crossref @opencitations That being said, I checked with our webmaster, Kay, and you can check the Crossref API as follows: https://api.crossref.org/works/10.54195/irrj.21092

Never seen our editor in chief, Djoerd Hiemstra, more happy than today, holding a copy of the first issue of #irrj

Published at #irrj: " A survey of Inclusive Information Access " byYue Zheng, Haiming Liu, Mike Wald #inclusiveinformationaccess, #informationretrieval, #digitaldivide https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.21092

I used to love these icons. Can we do them more. Im going to add them to my site today #atom #rss #feeds #icons

An editorial in _Microbial Biotechnology_ argues that journals aiming to maximize the number of papers published, in part to maximize #APCs, are "promoting an insidious degradation of rigour and quality standards of reviewing–editing practices. Such predatory practices result in the systematic […]

The PDF of the full first issue: Volume 1, Number 1, June 2025 is now on-line at: https://irrj.org/issue/view/vol1no1

Published at #irrj: "Graph Embeddings to Empower Entity Retrieval" by Emma J. Gerritse, Faegheh Hasibi, and Arjen P. de Vries: https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19877

Published at #irrj: " Annotative Indexing" by Charles Clarke. #search, #indexing, #invertedindexes, #minimaliintervalsemantics https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19910

Published at #irrj: "Supporting Evidence-Based Medicine by Finding Both Relevant and Significant Works" by Sameh Frihat and Norbert Fuhr. #medicaldocumentfacade, #loe, #levelofevidence, #EvidenceBasedMedicine https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19784

Call For Papers: 3rd ACM SIGIR Conference on Information Retrieval in the Asia Pacific (SIGIR-AP 2025) SIGIR-AP 2025 (December 7–10, 2025 | Xi’an, China) The 3rd ACM SIGIR Asia-Pacific Conference on Information Retrieval (SIGIR-AP 2025) invites submissions of high-quality research papers in all […]

#cfp Call for papers for the 2nd issue of IRRJ Second Call for Papers IRRJ: Information Retrieval Research Journal Volume 1, Issue 2, to be published end of 2025. The Information Retrieval Research Journal (IRRJ) is an open access journal that... https://irrj.org/second-call-for-papers

Published at #irrj: "Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical Futures" by Bhaskar Mitra https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19654

Submit your #irrj paper for the second issue: https://irrj.org//second-call-for-papers

Today the editorial board of _Mathematical Logic Quarterly_ (pub'd by @Wiley) resigned and launched a new #diamondoa journal on the same topics. https://open-access.network/services/news/artikel/ruecktritt-des-mlq-editorial-teams See their open letter announcing their resignations and plans for […]

We are at #ecir2025 this week! Get the flyer and talk to our editors during the coffee breaks.

Paper accepted at #sigir2025, but you had a hard time keeping the page limit? Congratulations, you can now submit an extended version with 50% "new" material to #irrj! https://irrj.org/second-call-for-papers

Published at #irrj: "Don't Use LLMs to Make Relevance Judgments" by Ian Soboroff. #evaluation #relevance #llm https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19625

The publication is now available on the @IRRJ.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy journal website: irrj.org/article/view...