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'''Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets''' is an international scientific journal, specialized in publication of papers and conference communications on the [[Theory of intuitionistic fuzzy sets|theory]] and [[Applications of intuitionistic fuzzy sets|applications]] of [[intuitionistic fuzzy sets]].  
'''Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets''' is an international scientific journal, specialized in the theory and application of [[intuitionistic fuzzy sets]] and logics as an interdisciplinary field at the cross point between mathematics and engineering sciences.


Its publication started in 1995 as an edition of "Professor Marin Drinov" Academic publishing house in Bulgaria under ISSN 1310-4926. Since 1997 the journal hosts the proceedings of the [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets]], organized on annual basis in Sofia or Varna, Bulgaria. Since 2005 the journal hosts the proceedings of the [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets]], organized on annual basis in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.
; Scope


The journal is [http://jml2012.indexcopernicus.com/Notes+on+Intuitionistic+Fuzzy+Sets,p2406,3.html indexed in Index Copernicus International] with ICV 2012 = 5.48.
Having started in 1995, Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets is the first and one of the leading scientific journals, exclusively publishing research in this field of science, as defined by the strict journal's scope and Editorial policy. Created in 1983 in Bulgaria by Prof. [[Krassimir Atanassov]], the area of intuitionistic fuzzy sets has gained worldwide popularity and today it is being investigated by many international research groups from universities and research centres in Australia, Belgium, China, Greece, India, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and other countries.  


== Editorial board ==
The journal is one of the four official issues of the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (see http://biomed.bas.bg/bg/journals/). It is printed in the Academic Publishing House "Prof. Marin Drinov" under '''Print ISSN 1310-4926'''. As of 2016, the journal has '''Online ISSN 2367-8283''' and its contents since 2008 is fully accessible online, and the earlier volumes are in process of digitisation and upload.
The current editorial board of "Notes on IFS" is as follows (in alphabetical order).


{| width="100%" class="wikitable"
Since 1997, the Journal has been hosting the proceedings of the [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets]], organized on annual basis in Sofia or Burgas, Bulgaria. Since 2005, it has also included the proceedings of the [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets]], annually conducted in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.
! style="text-align:left;" | Name
 
! style="text-align:left;" | Institution
; Review process
! style="text-align:left;" | E-mail
 
All papers and conference reports in Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets pass through a rigorous process of review before being accepted for publication. The editorial boards of the journal is international with representatives from Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, United Kingdom, USA, who are renowned specialists in the area of fuzzy and intuitionistic fuzzy sets and logics. At least three positive blind peer reviews are required by three independent reviewers.
 
; Indexing
 
The journal is indexed at the follwoing databases: Directory of Research Journals Indexing (since 2016), Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB (Electronic Journals Library) (since 2016), Index Copernicus (in 2012, for 2015 under evaluation), ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (since 2015), WorldCat / OCLC (since 2016) and Zentralblatt MATH (since 1995) and it has applied for indexing in several other databases, including SCOPUS.
 
; Outreach
 
Scientific research published in the Journal has constantly increased its outreach to the international research community working in the area of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. According to data from SCOPUS (Oct 2016), more than 3400 publications, indexed in the SCOPUS database, have cited papers from Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets, as of the beginning of the Journal's publication in 1995.
 
{|
|- valign="top"
|- valign="top"
! colspan="3" | Honorary editor
|
|- valign="top"
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|| [[Lotfi Zadeh]] || University of California, Berkeley, USA || zadeh{{at}}eecs.berkeley.edu
! Year !! NIFS Articles !! SCOPUS indexed articles<br/>citing NIFS articles
|- valign="top"
|-
! colspan="3" | Editors-in-Chief
| February 2018  || 16 || ?
|- valign="top"
|-
|| [[Krassimir Atanassov]] || Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences <br /> P.O.Box 12, Sofia-1113, Bulgaria || krat{{at}}bas.bg <br/>k.t.atanassov{{at}}gmail.com
| 2017  || 63 || 165+
|- valign="top"
|-
|| [[Humberto Bustince Sola]] || Dept. of Automatic and Computation, Public University of Navarra<br/> 31006, Campus Arrosadia, Pamplona, Spain || bustince{{at}}unavarra.es
| 2016  || 55 || 306
|- valign="top"
|-
|| [[Janusz Kacprzyk]] || Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences <br /> ul. Newelska 6, 01-447 Warszawa, Poland || kacprzyk{{at}}ibspan.waw.pl
| 2015  || 60 || 279
|- valign="top"
|-
! colspan="3" | Editorial board
| 2014  || 53 || 296
|- valign="top"
|-
| [[Adrian Ban]] || Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Oradea, Romania || aiban{{at}}math.uoradea.ro
| 2013 || 40 || 243
|- valign="top"
| [[Pedro Burillo Lopez]] || Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain || burillo{{at}}unavarra.es
|- valign="top"
| [[Ranjit Biswas]] || Institute of Technology and Management, Gwalior, India || ranjit{{at}}maths.iitkgp.ernet.in
|- valign="top"
| [[Panagiotis Chountas]] || School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, London, UK || p.i.chountas{{at}}westminster.ac.uk
|- valign="top"
| [[Chris Cornelis]] || Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Belgium || chris.cornelis{{at}}ugent.be
|- valign="top"
| [[Didier Dubois]] || IRIT Laboratory, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France || didier.dubois{{at}}irit.fr
|- valign="top"
| [[Tadeusz Gerstenkorn]] || University of Trade in Łódź, Poland || tadger{{at}}plunlo51.bitnet
|- valign="top"
| [[Stefan Hadjitodorov]] || Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria || sthadj{{at}}argo.bas.bg
|- valign="top"
| [[Etienne Kerre]] || Fuzziness and Uncertainty Modelling Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium || etienne.kerre{{at}}ugent.be
|- valign="top"
| [[Ketty Peeva]] || Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Techincial University of Sofia, Bulgaria || kgp{{at}}tu-sofia.bg
|- valign="top"
| [[Henri Prade]] || IRIT Laboratory, Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France || henri.prade{{at}}irit.fr
|- valign="top"
| [[Beloslav Riečan]] || Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia || riecan{{at}}fpv.umb.sk
|- valign="top"
| [[Anthony Shannon]] || Faculty of Engineering & IT, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia || tshannon38{{at}}gmail.com
|- valign="top"
| [[Eulalia Szmidt]] || Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland || szmidt{{at}}ibspan.waw.pl
|- valign="top"
| [[Ronald Yager]] || Machine Intelligence Insitute, Iona College, USA || yager{{at}}panix.com
|- valign="top"
| [[Hans-Jürgen Zimmermann]] || Aachen Institute of Technology, Germany || zi{{at}}buggi.or.rwth-aachen.de
|}
 
== Contents ==
{| width="100%" class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:95%; "
! width="16%" | Volume
! width="54%" colspan="6" | Numbers per volume
! width="30%" | Proceedings of
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/01|Volume 01 (1995)]]
| 2012 || 33 || 222
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/01/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/01/2|Number 2]] || || || ||
| —
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/02|Volume 02 (1996)]]
| 2011 || 30 || 226
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/02/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/02/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/02/3|Number 3]] || || ||
| —
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/03|Volume 03 (1997)]]
| 2010 || 25 || 216
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/03/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/03/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/03/3|Number 3]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/03/4|Number 4]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/03/5|Number 5]] ||
| * 1<sup>st</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/04|Volume 04 (1998)]]
| 2009 || 26 || 172
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/04/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/04/2|Number 2]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/04/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/04/4|Number 4]] || ||
| * 2<sup>nd</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/05|Volume 05 (1999)]]
| 2008 || 31 || 171
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/05/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/05/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/05/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/05/4|Number 4]] * || ||
| * 3<sup>rd</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/06|Volume 06 (2000)]]
| 2007 || 33 || 157 
|| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/06/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/06/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/06/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/06/4|Number 4]] * || ||
| * 4<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/07|Volume 07 (2001)]]
| 2006 || 28 || 159
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/07/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/07/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/07/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/07/4|Number 4]] * || ||
| * 5<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/08|Volume 08 (2002)]]
| 2005 || 37 || 167
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/08/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/08/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/08/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/08/4|Number 4]] || ||
| * 6<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Varna, Bulgaria
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/09|Volume 09 (2003)]]
| 2004 || 23 || 160
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/09/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/09/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/09/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/09/4|Number 4]]  * || ||
| * 7<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/10|Volume 10 (2004)]]
| 2003 || 23 || 143
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/10/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/10/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/10/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/10/4|Number 4]] * || ||
| * 8<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Varna, Bulgaria
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/11|Volume 11 (2005)]]
| 2002 || 27 || 127
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/11/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/11/2|Number 2]] * ||  [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/11/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/11/4|Number 4]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/11/5|Number 5]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/11/6|Number 6]] **
| * 9<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria <br /> ** 1<sup>st</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/12|Volume 12 (2006)]]
| 2001 || 24 || 104
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/12/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/12/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/12/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/12/4|Number 4]] ** || ||
| * 10<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria <br/>** 2<sup>nd</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/13|Volume 13 (2007)]]
| 2000 || 17 || 112
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/13/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/13/2|Number 2]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/13/3|Number 3]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/13/4|Number 4]] ** || ||
| * 11<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria<br />** 3<sup>rd</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/14|Volume 14 (2008)]]
| 1999 || 20 || 79
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/14/1|Number 1]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/14/2|Number 2]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/14/3|Number 3]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/14/4|Number 4]] ** || ||
| * 12<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Varna, Bulgaria<br />** 4<sup>th</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/15|Volume 15 (2009)]]
| 1998 || 24 || 63
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/15/1|Number 1]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/15/2|Number 2]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/15/3|Number 3]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/15/4|Number 4]] ** || ||
| * 13<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria<br />** 5<sup>th</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
 
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/16|Volume 16 (2010)]]
| 1998 || 24 || 63
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/16/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/16/2|Number 2]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/16/3|Number 3]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/16/4|Number 4]] ** || ||
| * 14<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria<br />** 6<sup>th</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
 
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/17|Volume 17 (2011)]]
| 1997 || 27 || 70
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/17/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/17/2|Number 2]] *  || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/17/3|Number 3]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/17/4|Number 4]] ** || ||
| * 15<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Burgas, Bulgaria<br />** 7<sup>th</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
 
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/18|Volume 18 (2012)]]
| 1996 || 13 || 76
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/18/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/18/2|Number 2]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/18/3|Number 3]] * || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/18/4|Number 4]] ** || ||
| * 16<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria<br />** 8<sup>th</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
 
|-
|-
! [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/19|Volume 19 (2013)]]
| 1995 || 28 || 23
| [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/19/1|Number 1]] || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/19/2|Number 2]]**  ||  [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/19/3|Number 3]] *  || [[Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets/19/4|Number 4]]  ||  || || * 17<sup>th</sup> [[International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|ICIFS]], Sofia, Bulgaria<br />** 9<sup>th</sup> [[International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets|IWIFS]], Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
 
|}
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== Editorial policy ==
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Manuscripts are addressed to one of the Editors-in-Chief who review them in consultation with a member of the Editorial board in order to decide whether the paper will be further considered for publication in the "Notes". Manuscripts are then either returned to the corresponding author or subjected to peer review by an independent referee. In the event of initial rejection, manuscripts may be sent to two other referees.


Papers are considered for publication only in case that they contain substantially new material, which has never been published, nor concurrently submitted elsewhere. In case of publication, the authors receive a free copy of the journal.
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Authors are encouraged to send their papers in LaTeX or MS Word, with respect to the following layout design requirements:
 
* '''Font:''' Times New Roman
* '''Title:''' 21 pt, bold, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_case#Usage Sentence case], centered
* '''Authors list:''' 14 pt, bold, centered
* '''Authors' addresses, e-mail, URL (optional):''' 12 pt, normal, centered
* '''Abstract:''' 12 pt, bold, justified
* '''Abstract body:''' 12 pt, normal, justified
* '''Keywords:''' 12 pt, bold, justified
* '''Keywords body:''' 12 pt, normal, justified
* '''AMS Classification:''' 12 pt, bold, justified
* '''AMS Classification codes:''' 12 pt, normal, justified
* '''Body:''' 12 pt, no page numeration
* '''Section titles:''' Sentence case, 16 pt, bold, left
* '''References:''' 12 pt, normal, enumerated
* '''Margins:''' top 2.25 cm, bottom 2.5 cm, left 2.4 cm, right 2.4 cm


== See also ==
; Acknowledgement
* Journal [[Issues in Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets and Generalized Nets]]
International Journal "Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets" is supported by the National Science Fund of Bulgarian under grants No. DNP-05-37/2016 and DNP-06-08/2017.
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Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets is an international scientific journal, specialized in the theory and application of intuitionistic fuzzy sets and logics as an interdisciplinary field at the cross point between mathematics and engineering sciences.

Scope

Having started in 1995, Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets is the first and one of the leading scientific journals, exclusively publishing research in this field of science, as defined by the strict journal's scope and Editorial policy. Created in 1983 in Bulgaria by Prof. Krassimir Atanassov, the area of intuitionistic fuzzy sets has gained worldwide popularity and today it is being investigated by many international research groups from universities and research centres in Australia, Belgium, China, Greece, India, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and other countries.

The journal is one of the four official issues of the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (see http://biomed.bas.bg/bg/journals/). It is printed in the Academic Publishing House "Prof. Marin Drinov" under Print ISSN 1310-4926. As of 2016, the journal has Online ISSN 2367-8283 and its contents since 2008 is fully accessible online, and the earlier volumes are in process of digitisation and upload.

Since 1997, the Journal has been hosting the proceedings of the International Conference on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets, organized on annual basis in Sofia or Burgas, Bulgaria. Since 2005, it has also included the proceedings of the International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets, annually conducted in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

Review process

All papers and conference reports in Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets pass through a rigorous process of review before being accepted for publication. The editorial boards of the journal is international with representatives from Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, United Kingdom, USA, who are renowned specialists in the area of fuzzy and intuitionistic fuzzy sets and logics. At least three positive blind peer reviews are required by three independent reviewers.

Indexing

The journal is indexed at the follwoing databases: Directory of Research Journals Indexing (since 2016), Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek EZB (Electronic Journals Library) (since 2016), Index Copernicus (in 2012, for 2015 under evaluation), ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (since 2015), WorldCat / OCLC (since 2016) and Zentralblatt MATH (since 1995) and it has applied for indexing in several other databases, including SCOPUS.

Outreach

Scientific research published in the Journal has constantly increased its outreach to the international research community working in the area of intuitionistic fuzzy sets. According to data from SCOPUS (Oct 2016), more than 3400 publications, indexed in the SCOPUS database, have cited papers from Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets, as of the beginning of the Journal's publication in 1995.

Year NIFS Articles SCOPUS indexed articles
citing NIFS articles
February 2018 16 ?
2017 63 165+
2016 55 306
2015 60 279
2014 53 296
2013 40 243
2012 33 222
2011 30 226
2010 25 216
2009 26 172
2008 31 171
2007 33 157
2006 28 159
2005 37 167
2004 23 160
2003 23 143
2002 27 127
2001 24 104
2000 17 112
1999 20 79
1998 24 63
1998 24 63
1997 27 70
1996 13 76
1995 28 23

Acknowledgement

International Journal "Notes on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets" is supported by the National Science Fund of Bulgarian under grants No. DNP-05-37/2016 and DNP-06-08/2017.