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The International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (IJFS) is an influential journal in the field of fuzzy systems. In this paper, a bibliometric overview of the IJFS publications downloaded from the Web of Science is provided. The purpose of this paper is to identify the conceptual evolution and the development situation of the journal. To do this, first the annual trends of publications and citations, sources that citing IJFS papers and the most highly cited papers in IJFS are presented. Then, the influential countries, institutes and authors are discussed in details. Next, keywords of IJFS including author keywords and global keywords are analyzed. Furthermore, the co-authorship status of IJFS publications is investigated. Finally, the co-citation analyses including the document co-citation, the author co-citation and the institute co-citation are offered.