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Journal of Web Semantics

Elsevier journal devoted to semantic web technologies

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ15708569 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Journal of Web Semantics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It covers knowledge technologies, ontology, software agents, databases and the semantic grid, information retrieval, human language technology, data mining, and semantic web development. The journal is abstracted and indexed by Scopus and the Science Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.897.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Journal of Web Semantics” is elsevier journal devoted to semantic web technologies. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Journal, Semantics and Elsevier, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003-01-01. For this dossier, Journal, Semantics and Elsevier is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “elsevier journal devoted to semantic web technologies” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q15708569. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Journal of Web Semantics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.