We are delighted to announce that the Journal of Web Semantics has received its first impact factor of 3.410! 

In celebration of this we have opened up the top 10 most cited articles published in the Journal of Web Semantics covering articles from Volume 1: Issue 1 (2003) to date.

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Sweitze Roffel
Publisher - Journal of Web Semantics

Top 10 most cited articles to be published in the Journal of Web Semantics as recorded by Scopus

From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The making of a Web Ontology Language
Horrocks, I., Patel-Schneider, P.F., Van Harmelen, F. 2003 Web Semantics 1 (1), pp. 7-26 Citations: 202
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Automated discovery, interaction and composition of Semantic Web services
Sycara, K., Paolucci, M., Ankolekar, A., Srinivasan, N. 2003 Web Semantics 1 (1), pp. 27-46 Citations: 117
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Quality of service for workflows and web service processes
Cardoso, J., Sheth, A., Miller, J., Arnold, J., Kochut, K. 2004 Web Semantics 1 (3), pp. 281-308 Citations: 80
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HTN planning for web service composition using SHOP2
Sirin, E., Parsia, B., Wu, D., Handler, J., Nau, D. 2004 Web Semantics 1 (4), pp. 377-396 Citations: 70
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The National Cancer Institute's thésaurus and ontology
Golbeck, J., Fragoso, G., Hartel, F., Hendler, J., Oberthaler, J., Parsia, B. 2003 Web Semantics 1 (1), pp. 75-80 Citations: 41
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Reducing OWL entailment to description logic satisfiability
Horrocks, I., Patel-Schneider, P. 2004 Web Semantics 1 (4), pp. 345-357 Citations: 35
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Semantic web technologies to reconcile privacy and context awareness
Gandon, F.L., Sadeh, N.M. 2004 Web Semantics 1 (3), pp. 241-260 Citations: 34
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Web services: Problems and future directions
Wang, H., Huang, J.Z., Qu, Y., Xie, J. 2004 Web Semantics 1 (3), pp. 309-320 Citations: 33
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On the decidability and complexity of integrating ontologies and rules
Rosati, R. 2005 Web Semantics 3 (1), pp. 61-73 Citations: 32
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Flink: Semantic Web technology for the extraction and analysis of social networks
Mika, P. 2005 Web Semantics 3 (2-3), pp. 211-223 Citation: 31
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