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International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

IIIT Hyderabad (IIITH), founded 1998, is India's first IIIT under a not-for-profit public-private partnership model, an autonomous research university in Gachibowli, Hyderabad, organized around research centers, with NIRF 2025 ranks: Engineering 38, University 55, Overall 89.

International Jazz Day

International Jazz Day is an annual UNESCO observance on 30 April, proclaimed in 2011 at Herbie Hancock's initiative to highlight jazz's role in uniting people worldwide.

International Joint Commission

The International Joint Commission (Commission mixte internationale) is a binational Canada–United States organization created by the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty to prevent and resolve disputes over shared waters.

International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

The International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP) is the flagship natural language processing conference of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, first held in 2004.

International Journal of Computer Vision

The International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering computer vision, founded in 1987 by Kluwer and published by Springer.

International journal of dermatology

International Journal of Dermatology (Int J Dermatol, ISSN 0011-9059) is Wiley's monthly peer-reviewed dermatology journal, official organ of the International Society of Dermatology, begun as Dermatologia Tropica in 1962, MEDLINE-indexed since 1970, impact factor 4.2.

International journal of epidemiology

The International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE), ISSN 0300-5771, is a bimonthly epidemiology journal founded in 1972 by the International Epidemiological Association and published by Oxford University Press, known for Geoffrey Rose's 1985 paper and a 2025 impact factor of 5.7.

International Journal of Humanoid Robotics

The International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, founded by World Scientific in 2004, covering humanoid robot design, locomotion, cognition, and human-robot interaction.

International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM

The International Journal of Medical Microbiology (IJMM) is a peer-reviewed medical microbiology journal published in Germany since 2000 by Elsevier, continuing the German serial Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie.

International journal of molecular sciences

International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS), ISSN 1422-0067: MDPI's open-access molecular biology and chemistry journal, founded 2000, semimonthly, Impact Factor 5.6, Q1 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; distinct from other journals abbreviated IJMS.

International journal of nanomedicine

International Journal of Nanomedicine (IJN), ISSN 1178-2013, is a peer-reviewed open-access journal founded in 2006 by Dove Medical Press, now a Taylor & Francis imprint, publishing nanomedicine research with a 2025 impact factor of 8.7.

International journal of psychology: journal international de psychologie

International Journal of Psychology (Journal international de psychologie), bimonthly peer-reviewed journal founded 1966 by the IUPsyS, first editor Paul Fraisse; Wiley-published since 2014; ISSNs 0020-7594, 1464-066X; distinct from Tehran and London namesakes.

International Journal of Robotics Research

The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) is a peer-reviewed monthly journal covering robotics, founded in 1982 as the first journal devoted to the field, now published by SAGE Publications.

International Journal of Social Robotics

The International Journal of Social Robotics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering robots that interact with people, published by Springer Netherlands in Dordrecht since 2009.

International Journal of Speleology

International Journal of Speleology (IJS), official journal of the Union Internationale de Spéléologie since 1978, founded 1964; double-blind peer-reviewed open-access journal on karst and cave science, published by Società Speleologica Italiana, hosted by the University of South Florida, ISSNs 0392-6672 and 1827-806X.

International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism

International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism (IJSNEM), Human Kinetics bimonthly journal since 2000, official journal of the International Society of Sport Nutrition, ISSN 1526-484X, MEDLINE and Scopus indexed.

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM), formerly International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, is the Microbiology Society journal of record for novel microbial taxa and the ICSP's official journal for valid publication of prokaryotic names.

International judo federation

The International Judo Federation (IJF) is the world governing body for judo, founded in London in 1951 and based in Budapest with 205 member federations.

International kendo federation

International Kendo Federation (FIK, formerly IKF, 国際剣道連盟), founded 1970 in Tokyo, governs kendo, iaido, and jodo worldwide; 64 affiliates as of July 2024, president Tadahiro Ajiro, runs the triennial World Kendo Championships and AIMS membership.

International Kite Festival in Gujarat – Uttarayan

Uttarayan, Gujarat's International Kite Festival, is held January 14-15 for Makar Sankranti; Ahmedabad has hosted the international event since 1989, famous for fighter kites, manja string, and bird-safety concerns.

International Klein Blue

International Klein Blue (IKB) is the matte ultramarine paint Yves Klein developed with Parisian color merchant Édouard Adam: synthetic ultramarine (PB29) in a Rhodopas M poly(vinyl acetate) binder, registered in France in 1960 under Soleau envelope 63471 as a technique, not a color patent.

International labor standards

International labor standards are rules on rights and conditions at work, set mainly by the ILO, whose 1998 Declaration made four core principles universal for all members.

International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation

The International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC) was an international cooperation of accreditation bodies whose Mutual Recognition Arrangement let accredited test, calibration, and inspection results be accepted worldwide, from 1977 until its 2025 dissolution.

International Labour Organization

The International Labour Organization is a United Nations specialized agency, founded in 1919, that sets international labor standards in the world's only tripartite body, representing governments, employers, and workers.

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union

International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), US-Canadian women's garment union founded 1900, largest in its industry, peak 450,802 members in 1957; merged with ACTWU into UNITE in 1995.

International law

International law: the rules governing relations between states and international organizations, based on treaties, custom, and general principles under ICJ Statute Article 38, administered through institutions descending from the League of Nations and the United Nations.

International Law Association

International Law Association (ILA), founded in Brussels on 13 October 1873 as the Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations; international NGO for study and development of public and private international law, with about 5,000 members, UN consultative status, committees, and biennial conferences.

International Law Commission

The International Law Commission is a UN General Assembly subsidiary organ, established in 1947 under its statute to promote the progressive development of international law and its codification through draft articles, conclusions, and guidelines.

International law journals

International law journals are scholarly periodicals devoted to research in public and private international law, growing from about 100 articles per year in 1900 to nearly 6,000 in 2020.

International law organizations: overview and history

International law organizations are private scientific associations that develop the law of nations, embodied by the International Law Association and the Institut de Droit International, both founded in 1873.