Applied Ontology
Last updated ISSN 1570-5838
Applied Ontology is published by IOS Press in computer science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,150.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Applied Ontology concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
- linguistics and terminology studies
- Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Topic Modeling
Key facts
| Publisher | IOS Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1570-5838, 1875-8533 |
| Subject area | Computer Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,150 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus |
| Articles published | 396 |
| Publishing since | 2005 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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