About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The journal publishes work that advances the theory, methodology, validation, or substantive application of image analysis and stereological methods.

Suitable contributions include new theoretical or methodological developments; statistically or mathematically rigorous approaches to quantitative image analysis; advances in stereological sampling and estimation; development and validation of image-analysis algorithms; quantitative microscopy and microstructure characterization; mathematical morphology; stochastic geometry; spatial statistics; and scientifically significant applications of established methods.

Application-oriented manuscripts should provide substantial methodological, quantitative, or scientific insight beyond the routine application of established software, algorithms, or machine-learning architectures. Manuscripts whose principal contribution is the straightforward application of a known method to a new dataset, without sufficient methodological or scientific advance, may be declined without external review.

The journal welcomes interdisciplinary work when the image-analysis or stereological component represents a substantive part of the contribution.

Publication frequency

Image Analysis and Stereology publishes three regular issues per year. Accepted articles may be published online in the Ahead of Print section before assignment to a regular issue.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Article Processing Charges (Publication Fee)

A publication fee of 200 EUR is applied to each article accepted for publication in this journal. However, if any of the authors is a member of the ISSIA, the fee is reduced to 150 EUR. Please indicate in the cover letter which author holds ISSIA membership. There are no charges for article submission. All manuscripts are evaluated solely on the basis of scientific merit, and acceptance or rejection is not influenced by the authors’ ability to pay the publication fee.

Version of Record

The online version published on the journal website constitutes the version of record. Printed versions reproduce the scholarly content of the online version, apart from supplementary material published exclusively online.

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Journal History

Image Analysis and Stereology is a continuation of Acta Stereologica. Acta Stereologica (ISSN 0351-580X) has been published from 1982 until 1999 and is archived in the PoPuPS platform at the University of Liege Library. Acta Stereologica mirror archive is available here.