Information Fusion

Scope & Guideline

Innovative Research Driving Technological Evolution.

Introduction

Immerse yourself in the scholarly insights of Information Fusion with our comprehensive guidelines detailing its aims and scope. This page is your resource for understanding the journal's thematic priorities. Stay abreast of trending topics currently drawing significant attention and explore declining topics for a full picture of evolving interests. Our selection of highly cited topics and recent high-impact papers is curated within these guidelines to enhance your research impact.
LanguageEnglish
ISSN1566-2535
PublisherELSEVIER
Support Open AccessNo
CountryNetherlands
TypeJournal
Convergefrom 2000 to 2025
AbbreviationINFORM FUSION / Inf. Fusion
Frequency6 issues/year
Time To First Decision-
Time To Acceptance-
Acceptance Rate-
Home Page-
AddressRADARWEG 29, 1043 NX AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

Aims and Scopes

Information Fusion aims to advance the field of data integration and analysis by exploring innovative methodologies and applications across various domains. The journal focuses on combining information from multiple sources to improve decision-making, enhance predictive analytics, and support intelligent systems.
  1. Multimodal Data Fusion:
    Research in this area emphasizes the integration of data from various modalities, such as visual, auditory, and textual data, to improve the accuracy and robustness of machine learning models.
  2. Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques:
    The journal publishes studies that leverage advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms for effective data fusion, classification, and prediction tasks in diverse applications.
  3. Healthcare and Medical Applications:
    Significant contributions focus on the use of information fusion in healthcare, including medical image analysis, disease diagnosis, and patient monitoring, highlighting the critical role of data integration in improving health outcomes.
  4. Decision-Making and Consensus Models:
    The journal explores methodologies for group decision-making processes, incorporating consensus-reaching models that utilize fuzzy logic and multi-criteria decision analysis.
  5. Robustness and Security in Data Fusion:
    Research addressing security challenges, such as adversarial attacks on fusion systems and the development of robust algorithms to ensure reliability and trustworthiness in data processing.
  6. Smart Cities and IoT Applications:
    The journal features studies on the application of information fusion techniques in smart city frameworks and Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios, focusing on enhancing urban living through data integration.
  7. Environmental Monitoring and Remote Sensing:
    Contributions in this area highlight the application of information fusion in monitoring environmental changes, disaster management, and remote sensing technologies.
Recently, several themes have gained traction within the journal, reflecting emerging trends and research interests in the field of information fusion.
  1. Deep Learning for Fusion Applications:
    There is a significant increase in research exploring deep learning techniques for data fusion, particularly in complex domains such as healthcare, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, highlighting the effectiveness of neural networks in handling multimodal data.
  2. Federated Learning and Privacy-Preserving Techniques:
    Emerging themes include federated learning approaches that enable collaborative data processing while preserving privacy, responding to growing concerns about data security in distributed environments.
  3. Explainable AI in Fusion Systems:
    The integration of explainable AI methodologies into information fusion processes is gaining momentum, focusing on making the decision-making process more transparent and understandable.
  4. Real-Time and Online Data Fusion:
    There is a rising interest in real-time and online data fusion techniques, driven by the need for immediate insights in applications such as IoT, smart cities, and emergency response systems.
  5. Multimodal Emotion Recognition:
    Research on multimodal approaches for emotion recognition is trending, as it combines various data types (e.g., audio, visual, textual) to enhance accuracy in identifying emotional states.
  6. Robustness to Adversarial Attacks:
    The focus on developing robust fusion systems that can withstand adversarial attacks is increasing, reflecting the need for secure and reliable applications in sensitive areas.

Declining or Waning

Over time, certain themes within the journal have shown a decline in focus or frequency of publications. This shift may reflect changing research priorities or the maturation of specific fields.
  1. Traditional Statistical Methods:
    There has been a noticeable decrease in the publication of papers focusing on conventional statistical methods for data analysis, as the field shifts towards more sophisticated machine learning and deep learning approaches.
  2. Single-Source Data Analysis:
    Papers concentrating solely on single-source data analysis have become less prevalent, as the trend moves towards integrating multiple data sources to enhance insights and predictive power.
  3. Basic Information Fusion Techniques:
    Research that merely addresses basic information fusion techniques without incorporating advanced methodologies or applications has seen a decline, indicating a preference for more innovative and complex approaches.
  4. General Surveys without Novel Contributions:
    The journal has shifted away from general survey papers that do not offer new insights or methodologies, favoring contributions that present novel frameworks, technologies, or applications.

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