Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Open Access

The Journal of Pattern Recognition Research provides an Open Access publishing option for authors in all fields of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. All articles are free to download and authors retain the right to use their article for non-commercial purposes.

JPRR publishes original papers that contain:

  • new methodologies and algorithms with theoretical or empirical justification
  • experimental and theoretical studies yielding new insight into the design of pattern classifiers
  • applications of existing techniques that uncover the strengths and weaknesses of the methods
  • new analytical frameworks for studies of practical classification methods
  • new models of knowledge for representation, manipulation, and generation by intelligent systems
  • experimental dead end works and workarounds
  • surveys of existing work in science, engineering and commerce applications

 

Section Policies

Pattern Recognition Theory

Papers introducing novel methods of pattern classification, useful modification of existing methods and papers containing comparison studies that reveal the ways for methodological improvements.

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Applications

Papers on applications of various pattern analysis techniques, pattern classification and data mining studies in life sciences, biomedical, bioinformatics, engineering, industrial, security, banking, and business applications.

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Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics

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Short Letters

Research notes describing minor steps towards methodological improvements, responses revealing mistakes and offering workarounds for previously published papers.

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Peer Review Process

Overview Papers must be concise and self-contained. Manuscripts should be carefully proofread and polished. Submissions that do not meet these criteria may not be considered for review. All claims should be supported either by empirical experiments or theoretical analyses. Any experiments reported should be reproducible. Papers describing theoretical results should also discuss their practical utility. Papers should report on what was learned in doing the work. Authors must clearly acknowledge the state-of-the-art contributions to the field. If a paper introduces new terminology or techniques, it should also explain why current terminology or techniques are insufficient.

Originality Submitted papers should not have been published previously or be pending publication in another journal. Research that has been published at workshops or conferences will be considered. Authors must notify JPRR about previous or pending conference publication at the time of submission.

Reviewing JPRR is committed to rigorous yet rapid reviewing. Authors will be notified of the required review period in special circumstances when a longer review period may be necessary. JPRR reviewers make recommendations to accept or reject. If a paper requires substantial revisions, the editor may recommend that the author submit a revised version. A paper may be revised and resubmitted at most once. If a paper is accepted, the editor may require minor revisions which should be completed in up to three months. Upon receiving a revised paper the editor may, ask the reviewers to re-review the revised paper. Electronic publication will occur immediately upon receipt of the final version of an accepted article.

 

Open Access

The Journal of Pattern Recognition Research provides an Open Access publishing option for authors in all fields of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. All articles are free to download and author's retain the right to use their article for non-commercial purposes.

 

Publication Fees

To provide continuing open access, expenses incurred for peer review, journal production, and online hosting are recovered in part by charging a publication fee to the authors for each article they publish. All papers containing 5 pages or less and submitted in LaTeX are free of charge. Each additional page over the 5 page limit is subject to a modest page charge. The detailed information on applicable publication fees is made available to registered authors during the manuscript submission process.

JPRR is committed to the global participation in open access publishing. JPRR fee waiver policy offers to waive or further reduce the payment required of authors who cannot pay the full amount charged for publication. Such authors will be informed of the discount applicable after submission of their manuscript. Editors and reviewers have no access to authors payment options; recommendations to publish are only based on editorial criteria.

 

Abstracting and Indexing

Journal of Pattern Recognition Research has been selected for coverage in Thomson Reuters products and services. Beginning with content published in 2015, this publication will be indexed and abstracted in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI).