''Information Processing and Management'' is a bimonthly

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published by

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covering the field of

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and

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s applied to

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. The journal was established in 1963 as ''Information Storage and Retrieval'', obtaining its current name in 1975.

Editors-in-chief

The following persons are or have been

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: *2016–present: Jim Jansen ( Qatar Computing Research Institute) *2008–2015: Fabio Crestani, (

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) *1985–2008: Tefko Saracevic (

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) *1969–1985: Bernard Fry (

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) *1963–1969: Jason Farradane (

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)

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: * EBSCO databases *

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According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2023

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of 7.4.

References

External links

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