The Journal of Web Semantics is an interdisciplinary journal based on research and applications of various subject areas that contribute to the development of a knowledge-intensive and intelligent service Web. These areas include: knowledge technologies, ontology, agents, databases and the semantic grid, obviously disciplines like information retrieval, language technology, human-computer interaction and knowledge discovery are of major relevance as well. All aspects of the Semantic Web development are covered. The publication of large-scale experiments and their analysis is also encouraged to clearly illustrate scenarios and methods that introduce semantics into existing Web interfaces, contents and services. The journal emphasizes the publication of papers that combine theories, methods and experiments from different subject areas in order to deliver innovative semantic methods and applications.

《Journal Of Web Semantics》是一本由ELSEVIER出版商出版的专业工程技术期刊，该刊创刊于2003年，刊期Quarterly，该刊已被国际权威数据库SCIE收录。在中科院最新升级版分区表中，该刊分区信息为大类学科：计算机科学 2区，小类学科：计算机：人工智能 2区；计算机：信息系统 2区；计算机：软件工程 2区；在JCR（Journal Citation Reports）分区等级为Q2。该刊发文范围涵盖计算机：人工智能等领域，旨在及时、准确、全面地报道国内外计算机：人工智能工作者在该领域取得的最新研究成果、工作进展及学术动态、技术革新等，促进学术交流，鼓励学术创新。2021年影响因子为2.77，平均审稿速度>12周，或约稿。