About the Journal

Journal of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management

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Journal of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (JIRKM) is the official journal of the Society of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (PECAMP) Malaysia. The journal provides a scholarly platform for researchers, academics, and practitioners to disseminate research findings and practical insights in the areas of information retrieval, knowledge intelligence, and data science. JIRKM is an open-access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research, including original research articles, review papers, and technical contributions that advance theoretical foundations, methodologies, and practical applications in these fields. The journal also promotes interdisciplinary research and encourages collaboration between academia and industry.

e-ISSN

2289-2664

TYPES OF ARTICLES

Full Research Articles; Review Articles; Rapid Communications; Case Reports.

PEER-REVIEW PROCESS

Single-blind Peer-review process

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The journal article only accepts English-language content.

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE/FREQUENCY

Two issues (June; December) in one volume per year.

PUBLICATION/ARTICLE PROCESSING FEE

No article processing charges (APC). Submission and publication are free of charge.

SCOPE

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

  • IR theory, retrieval models, ranking, and evaluation methods
  • Query analysis, web search, and personalised or user-adaptive search
  • Scalable indexing, crawling, and search architectures (cloud, distributed, edge)
  • Machine learning, deep learning, neural IR, and LLM-based retrieval (e.g., RAG)
  • Recommendation systems, conversational search, and question answering
  • Multimodal, cross-modal, cross-lingual, and real-time IR
  • Ethical, privacy-preserving, robust, and domain-specific IR applications
  • Other related fields

KNOWLEDGE INTELLIGENCE

  • Knowledge representation, ontologies, semantic modelling, and knowledge graphs
  • Knowledge extraction from text, multimedia, and structured data
  • Semantic technologies, linked data, and multimodal knowledge understanding
  • Knowledge discovery, integration, fusion, and provenance
  • Automated reasoning, inference systems, and cognitive computing
  • Explainable, trustworthy, and hybrid knowledge-based AI
  • Context-aware knowledge systems and intelligent decision support
  • Other related fields

DATA SCIENCE

  • Data collection, acquisition, management, and preprocessing
  • Exploratory data analysis and data visualisation
  • Data mining, knowledge discovery, and statistical learning
  • Machine learning, deep learning, and predictive analytics
  • Big data analytics and data engineering
  • Time-series analysis, sequential data, and graph analytics
  • Responsible and ethical data science
  • Other related fields

 

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) POLICY

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in research and writing must be transparently disclosed by authors. AI tools may assist in language editing or data analysis but cannot be listed as authors. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, and integrity of the submitted work. Manuscripts submitted to JIRKM should not exceed an AI-generated content similarity threshold of 20%, as assessed by recognised AI detection tools. Submissions exceeding this threshold may be returned to authors for revision or rejected.

 

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING

Journal of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (JIRKM) is an open-access journal. All articles are freely available in full text to readers without any subscription or access charges.

Authors retain the copyright of their work. Articles published in JIRKM are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-SA 3.0), which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.

PECAMP retains the right to publish, archive, and disseminate the articles as part of the journal.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Authors
1. Standards for Reporting
Authors responsible for original research reports should provide a precise and truthful description of the conducted work, accompanied by an impartial discussion of its importance. The paper must accurately represent the underlying data, and it should include comprehensive information and references to enable replication of the study by others. Engaging in fraudulent or knowingly misleading statements is deemed unethical and will not be tolerated.

2. Access and Retention of Data
Authors are requested to submit the raw data along with their paper for editorial evaluation. Additionally, authors should be willing to grant public access to this data, whenever feasible. In any case, authors should be prepared to retain the data for a reasonable duration after publication.

3. Originality and Avoiding Plagiarism
Authors must guarantee that their work is entirely original, and if they have utilised the ideas and/ or words of others, proper citation or quotation should be applied.

4. Publication of Overlapping or Duplicate Work
Generally, authors should refrain from publishing manuscripts that describe essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. It is considered unethical publishing behaviour and is not acceptable to submit the same manuscript to multiple journals simultaneously.

5. Crediting the Sources
Authors must consistently provide appropriate recognition to the work of others. It is essential to cite publications that have significantly influenced the development of the reported work.

6. Attribution of Authorship
The authorship of a paper should be confined to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the study being reported. All those who have made significant contributions should be credited as co-authors. In cases where others have participated in significant aspects of the research project, their contributions should be acknowledged, or they can be listed as contributors. The corresponding author bears the responsibility of ensuring that all appropriate co-authors are included, and no inappropriate co-authors are added to the paper. Additionally, the corresponding author must ensure that all co-authors have reviewed and approved the final version of the paper and have consented to its submission for publication.

7. Transparency and Handling of Conflicts of Interest
In their manuscript, all authors are required to disclose any financial or other significant conflicts of interest that could potentially influence the outcomes or interpretation of their work. Additionally, all sources of financial support for the project should be clearly stated.

8. Errors in Published Works
If an author identifies a substantial error or inaccuracy in their published work, it is their responsibility to promptly inform the journal editor or publisher. The author should collaborate with the editor to issue a retraction or correction for the paper as required.

9. Risks and Involvement of Human or Animal Subjects
In cases where the research involves chemicals, procedures, or equipment that possess any unusual inherent hazards, the author must explicitly identify and describe them in the manuscript.

Editors
1. Equitable Treatment
Editors at any time should evaluate manuscripts based solely on their intellectual content, without considering the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

2. Privacy and Non-Disclosure
The editor, along with any editorial staff, must maintain strict confidentiality and refrain from disclosing any information regarding a submitted manuscript to anyone except the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisors, and the publisher, as deemed appropriate.

3. Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest
Any unpublished materials revealed in a submitted manuscript must not be utilised in an editor’s own research without obtaining the explicit written consent of the author.

4. Decisions on Publishing
The journal’s editorial board holds the responsibility of determining which submitted articles should be published. These decisions should be driven by the validation of the work and its significance to researchers and readers. While making these decisions, the editors may follow the policies set by the journal’s editorial board and adhere to applicable legal requirements concerning issues such as libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may also seek input from other editors or reviewers during this process.

5. Manuscript Evaluation
The editor is responsible for conducting an initial assessment of each manuscript to ascertain its originality. Furthermore, the editor should implement a fair and judicious peer review process. In the selection of peer reviewers for papers under consideration, the editor should choose individuals with the relevant expertise and should avoid those with potential conflicts of interest.

Reviewers
1. Involvement in Editorial Decisions
Peer review plays a vital role in assisting the editor in making editorial decisions. Additionally, the editorial communication with the author during this process can also help the author in enhancing the quality of the paper.

2. Timeliness
Any selected referee who believes they lack the qualifications to review the research presented in a manuscript or foresees difficulties in conducting a prompt review should inform the editor and decline the review request.

3. Objectivity in Reviews
Reviews must be conducted in an objective manner. Personal criticism of the author is not acceptable. Referees should express their opinions clearly, providing supporting arguments.

4. Confidentiality
Manuscripts received for review should be treated as confidential materials. Reviewers must not disclose or discuss the content with others, unless explicitly authorised by the editor.

5. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of privileged information or ideas acquired during the peer review process and refrain from exploiting them for personal gain. Reviewers should decline to review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest arising from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships with any of the authors, companies, or institutions associated with the papers.

6. Citation and Source Identification
Reviewers should identify pertinent published work that has not been cited by the authors. If the authors claim that an observation, derivation, or argument has been previously reported, they must provide the relevant citation. Additionally, reviewers should inform the editor of any significant similarity or overlap between the manuscript under review and any other published paper known to them personally.