World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!
World Wide Web
H-index 32

World Wide Web

1386-145X

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/11280

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 152 209 293 31

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 234
Documents by Best Scientists*: 309
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 62
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.876
Impact Factor: 3.4

Overview

Top Research Topics at World Wide Web?

The journal covers a variety of subjects, including World Wide Web, Information retrieval, Artificial intelligence, Data mining and Machine learning. Web modeling, Web service, Web page, Web development and Web navigation are among the concentrations of World Wide Web that garnered much attention in it. While Web modeling is the focus of the journal, it also provided insights into the studies of Web standards, Web design, Web application security and Data Web.

Web service research is concerned with Web mapping in particular. Some problems in Information retrieval that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Ranking and XML. It facilitated presentations on XML research, particularly Efficient XML Interchange, XML validation, Document Structure Description, Streaming XML and XML schema.

The research on Artificial intelligence tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Natural language processing, Recommender system, Graph (abstract data type) and Pattern recognition. The studies in Data mining featured incorporate elements of Set (abstract data type) and Cluster analysis. The concepts on Web query classification presented in the journal can also apply to other research fields, including Query expansion and Query optimization.

  • World Wide Web (21.90%)
  • Information retrieval (18.10%)
  • Artificial intelligence (17.93%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Extensible Markup Language (XML). (5057 citations)
  • Extensible markup language (1769 citations)
  • Mercator: A scalable, extensible Web crawler (582 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at World Wide Web:

World Wide Web, Information retrieval, Web service, Data mining and Artificial intelligence are the main subjects of interest in the most cited articles. The most cited papers tackle studies in Web page and the interrelated subject of Web server to gain insights into Web service. The studies on Artificial intelligence discussed at the published articles can also contribute to research in the domains of Machine learning and Pattern recognition.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Artificial intelligence
  • The Internet
  • Operating system

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal investigates studies in Artificial intelligence, Theoretical computer science, Information retrieval, Machine learning and Graph (abstract data type). Topics in Artificial intelligence explored in World Wide Web were investigated in conjunction with research in Context (language use) and Natural language processing. Pruning (decision trees), Matching (graph theory), Structure (mathematical logic) and Vertex (geometry), Graph are some topics wherein Theoretical computer science research discussed in it have an impact.

It centers on topics in Information retrieval, with a focus on Recommender system. Machine learning research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Entropy (information theory), Encoder, Component (UML) and Factor (programming language). Issues in Graph (abstract data type) were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Search tree, Task (project management) and Data mining.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Distributed Attribute-Based Access Control System Using a Permissioned Blockchain (8 citations)
  • Constructing dummy query sequences to protect location privacy and query privacy in location-based services (6 citations)
  • High-order nonlocal Hashing for unsupervised cross-modal retrieval (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in World Wide Web (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Xiaofang Zhou (36 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Qing Li (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Zhixu Li (27 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • An Liu (23 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 5 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chengfei Liu (18 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in World Wide Web (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Queensland (59 papers) published 9 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Soochow University (Suzhou) (43 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (39 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Technology, Sydney (37 papers) published 13 papers at the last edition, 8 more than at the previous edition,
  • City University of Hong Kong (34 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 0.90% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 44.55% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.91% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 19.09% of all publications and 25.45% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Web Education and Career Development

An additional valuable area for exploration is how this impactful research can be translated into education and professional development, specifically within the field of web and tech education. For example, educators aspiring to teach students about web development, AI, machine learning, and data mining could use these research findings to enrich their curricula. Similarly, individuals looking to pursue a career in the tech industry ranging from data scientists to web developers could also find this research beneficial. Knowing the nuances of the most cited papers and understand the evolving trends in web-related subjects like AI and data mining can always help in career progression. Moreover, individuals seeking to bring these learnings into the practical world, specifically in the educational sector, could leverage insights from this research. An example could be those wanting to become elementary school teachers in technology-focused states like California. For more insights and guidance on this, you can refer to our detailed guide on how to become an elementary teacher in California. This guide will explore how advancements in the understanding of web technologies can be incorporated into teaching methodologies, enriching the education system right from the grassroots level.

Top Publications

  • A QoS-aware virtual machine scheduling method for energy conservation in cloud-based cyber-physical systems

    Lianyong Qi;Yi Chen;Yuan Yuan;Shucun Fu

    (2020)
    200 Citations
  • Constructing dummy query sequences to protect location privacy and query privacy in location-based services

    Zongda Wu;Guiling Li;Shigen Shen;Xinze Lian

    (2021)
    179 Citations
  • Learning social representations with deep autoencoder for recommender system

    Yiteng Pan;Fazhi He;Haiping Yu

    (2020)
    156 Citations
  • DDoS attacks in IoT networks: a comprehensive systematic literature review

    Yahya Al-Hadhrami;Farookh Khadeer Hussain

    (2021)
    105 Citations
  • Explainable depression detection with multi-aspect features using a hybrid deep learning model on social media

    (2022)
    93 Citations
  • LSH-aware multitype health data prediction with privacy preservation in edge environment

    Lingzhen Kong;Lina Wang;Wenwen Gong;Chao Yan

    (2021)
    91 Citations
  • A knowledge graph empowered online learning framework for access control decision-making

    (2022)
    77 Citations
  • A framework for cardiac arrhythmia detection from IoT-based ECGs

    Jinyuan He;Jia Rong;Le Sun;Hua Wang

    (2020)
    73 Citations
  • A survey on data provenance in IoT

    Rui Hu;Zheng Yan;Zheng Yan;Wenxiu Ding;Laurence T. Yang

    (2020)
    54 Citations
  • Auxiliary signal-guided knowledge encoder-decoder for medical report generation

    (2022)
    54 Citations

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