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| Information Processing Letters | |
|---|---|
| Title | Information Processing Letters |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Abbreviation | Inf. Process. Lett. |
| Editor | ?? |
| Publisher | Wiley (formerly Elsevier) |
| History | 1971–present |
| Frequency | Biweekly |
| Issn | 0020-0190 |
Information Processing Letters Information Processing Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing short papers in theoretical and applied computer science. Founded in 1971, it provides rapid publication of concise results spanning algorithms, data structures, complexity theory, computational geometry, and related topics. The journal has been associated with contributors from institutions like MIT, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, and École Polytechnique and has influenced conferences such as the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, European Symposium on Algorithms, and International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming.
Established in 1971 by a group including editors with ties to University of Waterloo, Bell Labs, University of California, Berkeley, and SRI International, the journal emerged during a period marked by developments at institutions such as IBM Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, RAND Corporation, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Early editorial influences included scholars connected to projects like the Dyson sphere-era computational initiatives and research groups at Royal Society-affiliated centers. Through the 1970s and 1980s it paralleled growth in venues such as Journal of the ACM and SIAM Journal on Computing, adapting to publishing shifts driven by publishers including Elsevier and later Wiley. Key moments intersected with events such as the rise of the Internet and milestones at conferences like NeurIPS and COLT.
The journal emphasizes short, focused contributions in areas tied to the work of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Oxford, California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and ETH Zurich. Topics routinely covered connect to the research agendas of institutes such as Max Planck Society groups, labs at National Institute of Standards and Technology, and centers at Microsoft Research. It publishes advances relevant to the ACM Computing Classification System categories that intersect with problems investigated at events like PODS, ICML, STOC, and FOCS.
Historically published by Elsevier, the journal later moved to Wiley for distribution and platform hosting, aligning its access model with subscription and hybrid open-access options used by journals affiliated with organizations such as Springer Nature and Oxford University Press. Its publication cadence mirrors timelines seen at periodicals like Theoretical Computer Science and Information and Computation, with editorial workflows comparable to those at Communications of the ACM and IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Authors from institutions including University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Toronto, Peking University, and Tsinghua University have used the journal to disseminate concise findings.
The journal has published influential short results that later connected to longer works at venues like Journal of the ACM and conference proceedings from STOC and FOCS. Notable contributions have informed developments in graph theory research associated with groups at Princeton University and Cambridge University and in cryptography threads linked to researchers from RSA Laboratories and Bell Labs. Papers in the journal have intersected with major advances presented at ICFP, SODA, ESA, and ICALP.
The editorial board has historically included editors affiliated with University of Edinburgh, University of Tokyo, Weizmann Institute of Science, and University of California, Los Angeles. The peer review process follows single- or double-blind models similar to practices at ACM journals and editorial standards observed at Elsevier and Wiley-published titles. Handling editors often have service records tied to committees for conferences such as STOC, FOCS, PODS, and SODA.
The journal is indexed in major services used by researchers at Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, and MathSciNet, and is discoverable alongside journals from Springer and IEEE in library catalogs at institutions like Library of Congress and national bibliographies such as those of National Library of Medicine and British Library. Citations to its articles appear in databases curated by organizations like Clarivate and repositories maintained at arXiv.
Researchers at MIT, Stanford University, ETH Zurich, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, and INRIA cite the journal for concise, rapid dissemination of results; it complements longer-form venues such as Journal of the ACM and SIAM Journal on Computing. Its impact is discussed in contexts alongside the rise of preprint culture at arXiv and the evolving publishing models championed at institutions like COAR and SPARC. The journal’s role in the ecosystem parallels influential outlets such as Algorithmica and Theoretical Computer Science.
Category:Computer science journals