該雜志為廣泛的信息檢索領(lǐng)域的理論、算法、分析和實(shí)驗(yàn)的出版提供了一個(gè)國際論壇。感興趣的主題包括搜索、索引、分析和評估應(yīng)用程序，如Web、社交和流媒體、推薦系統(tǒng)和文本檔案。這包括搜索中的人為因素研究、橋接人工智能和信息檢索以及特定領(lǐng)域的搜索應(yīng)用。《信息檢索期刊》以理論、實(shí)驗(yàn)、分析和應(yīng)用文章為特色。理論文章報(bào)告了在一些信息檢索任務(wù)的算法或其他過程的設(shè)計(jì)方面的重大概念進(jìn)展。實(shí)驗(yàn)物品在實(shí)驗(yàn)室或自然環(huán)境中詳細(xì)測試一個(gè)或多個(gè)理論觀點(diǎn)。分析文章報(bào)告對搜索者行為和各種設(shè)置和方法的詳細(xì)分析結(jié)果，包括用戶研究、調(diào)查和日志分析。應(yīng)用文章涵蓋了一些已經(jīng)建立的技術(shù)在涉及信息檢索的重大現(xiàn)實(shí)問題上的成功應(yīng)用。信息檢索與各種技術(shù)和行為領(lǐng)域重疊。因此，該期刊的文章將跨幾個(gè)傳統(tǒng)學(xué)科界限的概念統(tǒng)一起來，并具體應(yīng)用于信息檢索問題。

The journal provides an international forum for the publication of theory, algorithms, analysis and experiments across the broad area of information retrieval. Topics of interest include search, indexing, analysis, and evaluation for applications such as the web, social and streaming media, recommender systems, and text archives. This includes research on human factors in search, bridging artificial intelligence and information retrieval, and domain-specific search applications.Information Retrieval Journal features theoretical, experimental, analytical and applied articles. Theoretical articles report a significant conceptual advance in the design of algorithms or other processes for some information retrieval task. Experimental articles detail a test of one or more theoretical ideas in a laboratory or natural setting. Analytical articles report on the results of detailed analysis of searcher behavior and opinions across a range of settings and methodologies, including user studies, surveys and log analysis. Application articles cover successful application of some already established technique to a significant real-world problem involving information retrieval.Information retrieval overlaps with a variety of technical and behavioral fields. As a result, the journal includes articles which unify concepts across several traditional disciplinary boundaries, with specific application to problems of information retrieval.