Pattern Recognition (journal)  Pattern Recognition is a single blind peer reviewed academic journal published by Elsevier Science. It was first published in 1968 by Pergamon Press. The founding editor-in-chief was Robert Ledley, who was succeeded from 2009 until 2016 by Ching Suen of Concordia University. Since 2016 the current editor-in-chief is Edwin Hancock of the University of York. The journal publishes papers in the general area of pattern recognition, including applications in the areas of image processing, computer vision, handwriting recognition, biometrics and biomedical signal processing. The journal awards the Pattern Recognition Society Medal to the best paper published in the journal each year. In 2020, the journal had an impact factor of 7.196 and it currently has a Scopus CiteScore of 13.1. Google Scholar currently lists the journal as ranked 6th in the top 20 publications in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. The journal is abstracted and indexed by the following services: