2022 Journal Impact Metrics

The 2022 impact factors were just released, and the Semantic Web journal is at 3.105 - up from 2.214 last year. We will compare it with the impact factors from the same journals we compared it with in previous years.

First the list of "Web" journals which we generated six years ago for comparison, together with the new, updated, impact factors.

ACM Transactions on the Web 3.350
Semantic Web 3.105
Journal of Web Semantics 2.770
World Wide Web - Internet and Web Information Systems 3.000
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 1.478
International Journal of Web and Grid Services 0.825
International Journal of Web Services Research 0.771

Like last year, here are some journals (the same as last year in fact) with overlapping scope.

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering: 9.235
VLDB Journal 4.243
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 4.106
ACM Transactions on the Web 3.350
Information Systems 3.180
Semantic Web 3.105
World Wide Web - Internet and Web Information Systems 3.000
Journal of Web Semantics 2.770
Multimedia Tools and Applications 2.577
Knowledge and Information Systems 2.531
Data & Knowledge Engineering 1.500
International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 1.478
Applied Ontology 1.367

Some journals covering generically larger communities of course rather high impact factors.

Communications of the ACM 14.065
Artificial Intelligence 14.050
Knowledge-based Systems 8.139
IEEE Intelligent Systems 6.744

Also, Google Scholar just updated its conference and journal metrics. If we look at the listing of top ranked conferences and journals - in terms of Google Scholar h5-index - with "Web" in the title, via the live link or the snapshot below (from July 2022), we notice that the Semantic Web journal is listed as the top ranked journal, like last year, and with h5-index improved. In fact, since we started watching this h5-index, i.e. since 2018, it has been increasing each year (except once, where it stayed the same).

While this is of course a satisfying ranking for the Semantic Web journal, we want to emphasize that the Google Scholar h5-ranking and the impact factor have to be interpreted with caution, like all such metrics.