About International Journal of Signal Processing Image Processing and Pattern Recognition

International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (IJSIP)

The International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, usually shortened to IJSIP, is an engineering journal devoted to the three fields named in its title: the processing of signals, the processing of images, and the recognition of patterns in data. Its print ISSN is 2005-4254 and its online ISSN, as listed in the Journals World record for post 365185, is 2207-970X. The journal was published by the Science and Engineering Research Support Society, known as SERSC, and its articles are archived on the NADIA platform at nadiapub.com, which the record on this site gives as the journal's official website.

IJSIP belongs to a recognisable generation of engineering journals that expanded rapidly in the 2000s and 2010s alongside the SERSC conference and journal programme. Its volumes follow the pattern visible in its archive: volume 6 appeared in 2013, volume 7 in 2014, volume 8 in 2015 and volume 9 in 2016, with issues numbered through the year and articles paginated continuously inside each issue. Articles carry DOIs with the prefix 10.14257 followed by the journal code ijsip, a form that makes individual papers straightforward to trace long after publication.

This profile sets out what the journal covered, how its papers were written and evaluated, what its indexing history actually shows, and what an engineer should verify before citing it or treating it as a submission target today. That last question matters, because the journal's later history is not the same as its early history, and an honest profile has to describe both rather than presenting a frozen picture from its most active years.

Journal at a Glance

The bibliographic identity is stable across sources. The full title is International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. The print ISSN printed on its articles is 2005-4254, and the Journals World record adds the online ISSN 2207-970X. The publisher named in the record and on the SERSC site is the Science and Engineering Research Support Society, and SERSC's own journal list includes this title among its international journals, alongside titles in control and automation, grid and distributed computing, and hybrid information technology. The record places the publisher in Australia, abbreviated AU, which reflects SERSC's organisational registration rather than the location of most of its authors, who were concentrated heavily in China, India and Korea.

Metrics in the record should be read as a snapshot of the journal's active period. The record gives an h-index of 28 and 5,004 citations against the works tracked for the title. Those figures are consistent with a journal that published a large volume of applied papers over several years, many of them cited modestly within applied engineering literature rather than a small number of heavily cited landmarks. Readers should not convert those figures into a claim about current standing: citation totals accumulate from the archive regardless of whether a journal is still publishing at the same rate.

The article archive on the NADIA platform organises papers by volume and issue, with files named by position in the issue, for example the eighth volume's eighth issue for August 2015. That archive is the most reliable way to inspect the journal as it actually was, because it shows real papers, real page ranges and real author affiliations, rather than the summaries offered by journal-ranking sites, several of which attach metrics from unrelated signal processing titles to this journal's name.

Scope and Subject Areas

Signal and image processing methods

The journal's core was methodological. Papers proposed and tested algorithms for denoising, enhancement, compression, restoration and reconstruction of signals and images. A 2015 paper on super-resolution image reconstruction, for example, organised the field into reconstruction-based and learning-based families and then tested real-time performance on large remote-sensing images, while a companion paper in the same year used wavelet transforms to denoise remote-sensing images while trying to preserve the edge detail that Fourier-based filtering tends to destroy. That combination, a known transform or filter family applied to a concrete image class and evaluated on image quality, is the journal's characteristic contribution type.

Pattern recognition and applied systems

The third element of the title, pattern recognition, broadened the journal from transforms into classification and detection. Papers addressed image retrieval and classification, medical image segmentation, video surveillance and tracking, and data compression for transmission, all topics named in the subject list in the Journals World record. A further strand applied the same methods outside imaging altogether, as in a 2015 performance comparison of return-to-zero and non-return-to-zero formats in an eight-channel wavelength-division multiplexing system, which is signal processing in optical communications rather than in pictures. The journal treated signal, image and pattern work as one community, and its issues mix them freely.

Compressive sensing and radar imaging

A clear thematic cluster in the middle volumes is compressive sensing applied to radar. Papers compared orthogonal matching pursuit, stagewise orthogonal matching pursuit, regularised orthogonal matching pursuit and compressive sampling matching pursuit for imaging under double-target conditions, studying how sparseness, measurement dimension and noise changed reconstruction quality for pulse-system, through-wall and ground-penetrating radar. That cluster is a good indicator of editorial appetite at the time: a fashionable method, a defined application, a simulation or experiment, and a comparison against named alternatives, reported with enough parameter detail for another group to repeat the test.

Indexing History: What the Record Shows

Indexing is where careless profiles of this journal most often mislead, so the facts are stated separately here. Secondary journal listings that track Scopus coverage describe this title's Scopus coverage as running from 2015 to 2016 and its Scopus status as inactive, with the journal discontinued from Scopus coverage after that window. The Journals World record does not claim current Scopus or Web of Science coverage, and this profile does not claim it either. A citation in IJSIP from its active years remains a real, DOI-bearing publication; what changed is the journal's standing in one major index, which affects how some institutions count the paper, not whether the paper exists.

The distinction matters for two common readers. A researcher building a literature review should include or exclude IJSIP papers on their technical merits and on whether their methods and data are reported well enough to use, not on an index label alone. An author deciding where to submit today, by contrast, should treat indexing as a primary question, check the current title lists of Scopus and Web of Science for ISSN 2005-4254 themselves, and confirm on the publisher's own site whether new issues are in fact appearing. Journal-ranking websites frequently lag years behind such changes, in both directions.

No impact factor from the Journal Citation Reports is claimed in this profile, because none was verified from an official source during its preparation. Where a secondary site shows an impact-like number for this title, it is usually a metric computed by that site itself from citation data, under its own name, and should be cited as such rather than as a Clarivate impact factor. The h-index and citation totals quoted earlier come from the record held on this site, which is the transparent way to present them.

How Its Papers Were Written

A typical IJSIP paper from the archive opens with a problem stated in engineering terms, reviews the main existing families of solution, proposes a modification or a new combination, and then evaluates it on standard images, simulated signals or a defined test system, reporting measures such as peak signal-to-noise ratio, structural similarity, bit error rate or reconstruction error against named comparison methods. The 2016 paper on secure image encryption based on a cube structure, published in volume 9, issue 4, follows that shape exactly: related work on random grids, a proposed scheme, implementation, experiments, limitations and conclusion. Readers who know that shape can navigate any issue quickly.

For a reader reusing a result, three checks are worth making. First, whether the test images or signals are ones the reader can obtain, because results on private test sets cannot be compared. Second, whether the comparison methods were run by the authors or copied from earlier papers, which changes how fair the comparison is. Third, whether the paper reports failure cases or only averages, since image methods in particular can look strong on average while failing on textured or noisy inputs. The journal's papers vary in how completely they answer those questions, as papers in any high-volume applied journal do, and the archive lets a careful reader judge paper by paper.

Authorship was international and heavily Asian, reflecting SERSC's conference network, with many papers from Chinese, Indian and Korean universities and a smaller number from elsewhere. Affiliations are printed on the articles and DOIs resolve through the 10.14257 prefix, so provenance for any individual paper is easy to establish. Where a paper from this journal is cited in a thesis or a promotion file, giving the volume, issue, page range and DOI is the cleanest way to make the citation verifiable.

Should You Submit Here Today?

The honest answer is that a prospective author must verify current activity before anything else. The verifiable archive on the NADIA platform is richest for the years up to the middle of the last decade, the journal's Scopus coverage is recorded as ending in 2016, and SERSC's publishing programme has changed form since the journal's most active period, with its journals presented through the NADIA platform. None of that erases the archive, but all of it means that an author who needs a currently indexed, currently publishing venue should confirm, from the publisher directly, that submissions are open, that new issues are scheduled, and what charges, if any, apply. No article-processing charge is stated in this profile, because none could be verified from an official source.

Authors should also be alert to title confusion. Several other journals contain the words signal processing and image processing in different orders and with different ISSNs, including a distinct International Journal of Signal Processing title and a separate Signal and Image Processing international journal published elsewhere. A submission sent to, or a citation credited to, the wrong one is a real and recurring error. The ISSN pair 2005-4254 and 2207-970X, and the DOI prefix 10.14257/ijsip, are the identifiers that belong to this journal and to no other.

For readers rather than authors, the summary is more straightforward. IJSIP is a substantial applied archive in signal processing, image processing and pattern recognition, published by SERSC, strongest in the applied algorithm-and-evaluation tradition of the 2010s, with a documented indexing history that ended in Scopus after 2016 according to coverage listings. Used with that understanding, and cited by DOI, its papers remain a legitimate part of the technical literature in their areas, particularly in compressive sensing radar imaging, image denoising and enhancement, medical image segmentation and surveillance methods.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISSN of IJSIP?

The print ISSN is 2005-4254, printed on the journal's articles, and the online ISSN listed in its record is 2207-970X. Its articles carry DOIs with the prefix 10.14257 and the journal code ijsip.

Who published the journal?

The Science and Engineering Research Support Society, known as SERSC, which lists the journal among its international journals. Its articles are archived on the NADIA platform at nadiapub.com, the website given in the journal's record.

What subjects did it cover?

Signal processing, image processing and pattern recognition, including denoising, enhancement, compression, super-resolution reconstruction, medical image segmentation, image retrieval and classification, video surveillance and tracking, and compressive sensing for radar imaging.

Is it still covered by Scopus?

Coverage listings describe its Scopus coverage as 2015 to 2016 with an inactive status, that is, discontinued after that window. Check the current Scopus title list for ISSN 2005-4254 if you need a definitive present-day answer for an institutional purpose.

Does the journal have an impact factor?

No Journal Citation Reports impact factor was verified from an official source, so none is claimed here. Numbers shown on ranking sites for this title are those sites' own computed metrics.

How can I verify a paper from this journal?

Use the DOI. A genuine article carries a DOI beginning 10.14257/ijsip, a volume, issue and page range, and appears in the archive on the NADIA platform. Match all four before treating a citation as confirmed.

Placing the Journal Among Its Neighbours

Signal and image processing is served by a hierarchy of venues, from the flagship transactions of the large engineering societies to specialist letters journals, conference proceedings and a wide tier of applied international journals. IJSIP sat in that applied tier. Its papers rarely claimed the kind of theoretical finality associated with a flagship transactions article; instead they moved a method from one application to another, tuned it, combined it with a second method, or tested it on a new class of images or signals. That is a legitimate and necessary function in an engineering literature, because practitioners need to know how a denoising or segmentation method behaves on remote-sensing scenes, medical scans or surveillance footage, and not only that it is optimal under stated assumptions.

The journal is also a useful case study in why an author's due diligence cannot stop at a journal's name or at a ranking site's summary page. Its active archive, its DOI record and its citation footprint are all genuine, and at the same time its Scopus coverage is recorded as ending in 2016 and its publishing programme has since changed form. Both halves of that sentence are true, and a profile that printed only the first half would mislead a submitting author, while a profile that printed only the second half would mislead a reader deciding whether a 2015 paper exists and can be used. The discipline this journal teaches is to separate those questions: existence, quality and current status are three different checks, and each has its own source.

For a reader assembling a reading list in the journal's areas today, the practical approach is to mine the archive by topic rather than by date. The compressive sensing radar papers form a coherent mini-literature with shared comparison methods; the super-resolution and denoising papers show the field moving from transform-based to learning-based thinking inside a few volumes; and the medical segmentation and surveillance papers connect directly to current applied work. Read in that way, as a topic archive with full texts and DOIs on a single platform, the journal remains serviceable long after its period of fastest growth, which is the most that can honestly be asked of an applied journal of its generation.

One further practical note concerns preservation. Because the archive sits on the publisher's own platform and its articles carry registered DOIs, a reader who finds a paper through a secondary file-sharing or slide site should always return to the platform copy for the version of record, checking pagination and any correction against it. Copies circulating elsewhere in this journal's field frequently omit pages, merge issues, or attach the wrong journal header to a paper from a neighbouring SERSC title. The DOI, the volume and issue, and the platform archive together resolve almost every such confusion in under a minute, which is a small effort set against citing a paper that later proves to be misattributed.

That verification habit, applied consistently, protects both the reader who cites the work and the authors whose work is being cited, fairly and accurately.

Sources and Verification Note

The facts in this profile were drawn from the Journals World record for post 365185 (ISSN pair, publisher, subject areas, h-index and citation figures, and the nadiapub.com website), from SERSC's own site listing this title among its journals, from articles in the journal's archive on the NADIA platform (ISSN printed on articles, volume and issue pattern for 2013 to 2016, DOI prefix 10.14257/ijsip, and the topics of individual papers), and from Scopus coverage listings describing coverage of 2015 to 2016 and an inactive, discontinued status. No current indexing, impact factor or article charge is claimed, because none was verified from an official current source.