About the Semantic Web journal (by IOS Press)

Scope
Open Calls
Open and Transparent Reviews
Editorial Board

Scope

The journal Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability (published and printed by IOS Press, ISSN: 1570-0844), in short Semantic Web journal, brings together researchers from various fields which share the vision and need for more effective and meaningful ways to share information across agents and services on the future internet and elsewhere. As such, Semantic Web technologies shall support the seamless integration of data, on-the-fly composition and interoperation of Web services, as well as more intuitive search engines. The semantics – or meaning – of information, however, cannot be defined without a context, which makes personalization, trust, and provenance core topics for Semantic Web research. New retrieval paradigms, user interfaces, and visualization techniques have to unleash the power of the Semantic Web and at the same time hide its complexity from the user. Based on this vision, the journal welcomes contributions ranging from theoretical and foundational research over methods and tools to descriptions of concrete ontologies and applications in all areas. We especially welcome papers which add a social, spatial, and temporal dimension to Semantic Web research, as well as application-oriented papers making use of formal semantics.

The journal is peer-reviewed, open access and published bimonthly.

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Suggestions for special issues are welcome.

For any questions please do not hesitate to contact the Editors-in-Chief.

IOS Press is a leading international publisher of scientific books and journals in many fields including computer & communications sciences and especially also the Semantic Web. Visit the Semantic Web Journal at IOS Press.

Open and Transparent Reviews

The Semantic Web journal relies on an open and transparent review process. Submitted manuscripts are posted on the journal's website and are publicly available. In addition to solicited reviews selected by members of the editorial board, public reviews and comments are welcome by any researcher and can be uploaded using the journal website. All reviews and responses from the authors are posted on the journal homepage. All involved reviewers and editors will be acknowledged in the final printed version. While we strongly encourage reviewers to participate in the open and transparent review process it is still possible to submit anonymous reviews. See review process and FAQ for details before submitting a manuscript or a review.

The Semantic Web journal furthermore is a proponent of Open Science Data and requires, whenever possible, that authors provide relevant data and software for evaluation and replication. Please see our corresponding blog post for more details. .

Listings/Indices

• Science Citation Index (Impact Factor): 3 (2023 IF, released in June 2024)
• SCImago - ranked 18th in Computer Science world-wide in 2013
• ACM Digital Library
• Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
• DBLP
• Scopus

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Contact email: contact @ semantic-web-journal . net

• Krzysztof Janowicz, University of Vienna, Austria

Managing Editors

• Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
• Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden

Editorial Board

• Mehwish Alam, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
• Claudia d’Amato, Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy
• Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University, Sweden
• Stefano Borgo, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy
• Boyan Brodaric, Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
• Philipp Cimiano, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
• Michael Cochez, ELLIS Institute Finland & Åbo Akademi, FI
• Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Bernardo Cuenca-Grau, Oxford University, UK
• Elena Demidova, University of Bonn, Germany
• Jerome Euzenat, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, France
• Mark Gahegan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Aldo Gangemi, University of Bologna and ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy
• Rafael Goncalves, Stanford University, CA, USA
• Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria
• Armin Haller, Australian National University, Australia
• Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• Katja Hose, TU Wien, Austria
• Eero Hyvönen, Aalto University & University of Helsinki, Finland
• Sabrina Kirrane, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), Austria
• Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
• Freddy Lecue, CortAIx Thales, Montreal, Canada & INRIA, France
• Maria Maleshkova, Helmut Schmidt University & University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Germany
• Raghava Mutharaju, IIIT-Delhi, India
• Axel Polleres, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien), Austria
• Guilin Qi, Southeast University, China
• Marta Sabou, Technische Universität Wien (TUWien), Austria
• Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Christoph Schlieder, University of Bamberg, Germany
• Stefan Schlobach, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Blerina Spahiu, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
• Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, USA
• Riccardo Tommasini, INSA Lyon, LIRIS, CNRS and University of Tartu
• GQ Zhang, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA
• Rui Zhu, University of Bristol, UK

Editorial Assistant

• Michael McCain, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA

Former/Founding Editors-in-Chief

• Pascal Hitzler, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

System Administrator

Contact email: sysadmin @ semantic-web-journal . net