Semantic Web

Interoperability, Usability, Applicability

Impact Factor
2023
3
CiteScore
2023
6.8

Volume

15, 6 issues

Latest issue

15:1 online 12 January 2024

Next issue

15:2 scheduled for March 2024

Back volumes

From volume 1, 2010

ISSN print

1570-0844

ISSN online

2210-4968
Open Access

Aims & Scope

The journal Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability is an international and interdisciplinary journal bringing 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. Papers which add a social, spatial and temporal dimension to Semantic Web research, as well as application-oriented papers making use of formal semantics, are especially welcome.

The journal is co-published by the Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA.

 

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Janowicz
Professor Geographic Information Science and Geoinformatics
Department of Geography
University of California

Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Email: contact@semantic-web-journal.net

Managing Editors

Eva Blomqvist
Linköping University
Sweden

Cogan Shimizu
Kansas State University
USA

Editorial Assistant

Sanaz Saki Norouzi
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS, USA

Editorial Board

Mehwish Alam
FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
& Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Germany

Claudia d’Amato
University of Bari
Italy

Stefano Borgo
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
Italy

Boyan Brodaric
Geological Survey of Canada
Italy

Philipp Cimiano
Bielefeld University
Germany

Oscar Corcho
Politechnic University of Madrid
Spain

Bernardo Cuenca-Grau
Oxford University
United Kingdom

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

Anna Lisa Gentile
IBM Research Almaden
USA

Rafael Goncalves
Stanford University
USA

Dagmar Gromann
University of Vienna
Austria

Armin Haller
Australian National University
Australia

Aidan Hogan
Universidad de Chile
Chile

Katja Hose
Aalborg University
Denmark

Eero Hyvönen
Aalto University and 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
France

Maria Maleshkova
University of Siegen
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
Austria

Oshani Seneviratne
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
USA

Ruben Verborgh
Ghent University - imec
Belgium

GQ Zhang
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
USA

Editorial Assistant

Cogan Shimizu
Wright State University
USA

Author Guidelines

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See detailed instructions to authors here: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors.

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Papers submitted to Semantic Web that are accepted for publication will be subject to an open access publication charge. The open access charge is US$550 / €500 (excl. VAT if applicable) for papers submitted on or before 31 March 2023 and US$1250 / €1250 (excl. VAT if applicable) for papers submitted after 1 April 2023, to publish under the CC-BY 4.0 license.

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Open Access

Gold open access pricing
From 1 January 2020 onwards the Semantic Web journal has moved from its previous hybrid publication model to a true gold open access journal. Authors of accepted papers pay an open access fee of €500 / US$550 (ex. VAT if applicable) to publish under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license on acceptance for publication. For papers submitted on or after 1 April 2023 the open access fee is €1250 / US$1250 (ex. VAT if applicable). There are no submission fees and there are no charges to papers that are rejected from publication. Items of an editorial nature (e.g. special issue introductions, errata, book reviews, letters to the editor, call for papers etc.) are not subject to a charge.

After an article is accepted for publication, the corresponding author will be informed regarding the open access fee payment. It could be that the open access fee of an article is waived completely due an institutional agreement IOS Press has with the corresponding authors' institution. Please check the institutional agreements page for details.

Waivers are available for corresponding authors from eligible countries as identified by Research4Life project. Other authors who envisage difficulties paying the article processing charge may write authorfees@iospress.nl to discuss waiving the charge prior to submitting their article. Appeals submitted after review has been completed are rejected.

Articles published before the journal became open access are available only to institutions and individuals with access rights. However, the journal offers all authors the option to purchase open access publication for their article as part of the IOS Press Open Library, even after final publication. This means that the current version will be made freely available to anyone worldwide, indefinitely, under a Creative Commons license. This is also referred to as “gold” open access.

Green open access
Authors who did not make use of the gold open access option pre-2020 may still make their article freely available using self-archiving, also referred to as green open access. Authors may make their final author accepted manuscript available for free download from their personal or institutional website or institutional archive. This model is free for the author.

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Latest Newsletter: You can view the latest newsletter here

Semantic Web journal 10-year award 2022: In October 2022, we proudly announced the winners of the 10-year award. Congratulations to Claus Stadler, Jens Lehmann, Konrad Höffner and Sören Auer. View the announcement here

Going for Gold: In December 2019, it was announced that Semantic Web journal will be switching to become a fully open access (OA) journal. Full details are available here and you can read the announcement by the Editors-in-Chief on the journal website here

Latest Articles

Discover the contents of the latest journal issue:

Morph-KGC: Scalable knowledge graph materialization with mapping partitions
David Chaves-Fraga, Julián Arenas-Guerrero, Jhon Toledo, María S. Pérez, Oscar Corcho

A survey on knowledge-aware news recommender systems
Mehwish Alam, Andreea Iana, Heiko Paulheim

MADLINK: Attentive multihop and entity descriptions for link prediction in knowledge graphs
Harald Sack, Russa Biswas, Mehwish Alam

A systematic overview of data federation systems
Francesco Corcoglioniti, Zhenzhen Gu, Davide Lanti, Alessandro Mosca, Guohui Xiao, Jing Xiong, Diego Calvanese

LSQ 2.0: A linked dataset of SPARQL query logs
Muhammad Saleem, Claus Stadler, Qaiser Mehmood, Carlos Buil-Aranda, Michel Dumontier, Aidan Hogan, Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

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Semantic Web 10-Year Award 2022