Aims & Scope
Applied Ontology focuses on information content in its broadest sense.
As the subtitle makes clear, two broad kinds of content-based research activities are envisioned: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling.
The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models, such as information systems schemes or knowledge structures.
Applied Ontology is the first journal with explicit and exclusive focus on ontological analysis and conceptual modeling under an interdisciplinary view.
It aims to establish a unique niche in the realm of scientific journals by carefully avoiding unnecessary duplication with discipline-oriented journals.
For this reason, authors will be encouraged to use language that will be intelligible also to those outside their specific sector of expertise, and the review process will be tailored to this end.
For example, authors of theoretical contributions will be encouraged to show the relevance of their theory for applications, while authors of more technological papers will be encouraged to show the relevance of a well-founded theoretical perspective.
Moreover, the journal will publish papers focusing on representation languages or algorithms only where these address relevant content issues, whether at the level of practical application or of theoretical understanding.
Similarly, it will publish descriptions of tools or implemented systems only where a contribution to the practice of ontological analysis and conceptual modeling is clearly established.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
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| 2025 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 2.50 |
Journal Rank
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| 2024 | 6518 |
Journal Citation Indicator
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| 2024 | 243 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
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| 2024 | 0.822 |
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| 2024 | Q1 |
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Subjects & Keywords
Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.
Most Cited Articles
The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.
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Web Service Modeling Ontology
Citation: 356
Authors: Dumitru, Uwe, Holger, Jos, Rubén, Michael, Axel, Cristina, Cristoph, Dieter
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Towards ontological foundations for conceptual modeling: The unified foundational ontology (UFO) story
Citation: 158
Authors: Giancarlo, Gerd, João Paulo Andrade, Renata S.S.
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The NeOn Methodology framework: A scenario-based methodology for ontology development
Citation: 147
Authors: Mari Carmen, Asunción, Mariano
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Ontological realism: A methodology for coordinated evolution of scientific ontologies
Citation: 137
Authors: Barry, Werner
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UFO: Unified Foundational Ontology
Citation: 91
Authors: Giancarlo, Alessander, Claudenir M., Daniele, João Paulo A., Tiago
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The water falls but the waterfall does not fall: New perspectives on objects, processes and events
Citation: 86
Authors: Antony, Riichiro
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DOLCE: A descriptive ontology for linguistic and cognitive engineering1
Citation: 82
Authors: Stefano, Roberta, Aldo, Nicola, Claudio, Daniele, Emilio M., Laure
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MIREOT: The minimum information to reference an external ontology term
Citation: 74
Authors: Mélanie, Frank, Allyson L., James, Daniel, Ryan R., Alan
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Representing and reasoning over a taxonomy of part–whole relations
Citation: 65
Authors: C. Maria, Alessandro
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BioTop: An upper domain ontology for the life sciences
Citation: 60
Authors: Elena, Stefan, Holger, Udo