Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in all areas of artificial intelligence.

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Discipline	Artificial intelligence
Language	English
Edited by	J. Christopher Beck, Edith Elkind, Mykel Kochenderfer (2025)
Publication details
History	1993-present
Publisher	AI Access Foundation
Open access	Yes
Impact factor	4 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Artif. Intell. Res.
MathSciNet	J. Artificial Intelligence Res.
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	JAIRFR
ISSN	1076-9757
LCCN	sn94003860
OCLC no.	299637127
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History

It was established in 1993 as one of the first scientific journals distributed online.^[1] Paper volumes were printed by the AAAI Press. The Journal for Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) is one of the premier publication venues in artificial intelligence. JAIR also stands out in that, since its launch in 1993, it has been 100% open-access and non-profit, a diamond open access journal.

Content

The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) is dedicated to the rapid dissemination of important research results to the global artificial intelligence (AI) community. The journal's scope encompasses all areas of AI, including agents and multi-agent systems, automated reasoning, constraint processing and search, knowledge representation, machine learning, natural language, planning and scheduling, robotics and computer vision, uncertainty in AI, generative AI, human-AI interaction and ethical issues in AI.

Special Tracks

JAIR publishes articles in several special tracks, in addition to its main track for regular scientific articles. These include a track for survey papers, a track for award-winning conference papers, a track on AI & Society, and time-limited tracks dedicated to other special topics.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed by Inspec, Science Citation Index, and MathSciNet. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2024 impact factor of 4.^[2]

As of 2025, according to the SciMago Journal and Country Rank (SJR), the journal is ranked 6th among all diamond, open-access artificial intelligence subdomain (within the computer science domain) journals with an H-index of 143, which merits the top quarter tiering (Q1) of journals ranked by the SJR.^[3]

Also as of 2025, according to Google Scholar, it has an h5-index of 62 and h5-median index of 134.^[4]

The journal is also available via the ACM Digital Library^[5].