--- title: "World Wide Web: citation impact and most-cited papers" description: "World Wide Web has a 2-year mean citedness of 9.40 and an h-index of 80 in OpenAlex, #9 of 28 tracked information systems journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 70 papers, and its papers received 3,501 citations." url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web.md license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) share_text: "World Wide Web has a 2-year mean citedness of 9.40 and an h-index of 80 in OpenAlex, #9 of 28 tracked information systems journals by citedness. In 2025 it published 70 papers, and its papers received 3,501 citations. (as of 2026-11-03)" data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json updated: 2026-11-03T18:03:37+09:00 window: 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03 source: OpenAlex (CC0) --- # World Wide Web - 0 papers in the last 7 days - category: Information Systems - publisher: Springer Science+Business Media - ISSN 1386-145X - Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/11280 - ISSN portal: https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1386-145X - OpenAlex: https://openalex.org/S129236917 Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journals.md Rankings of Information Systems: [Information Systems dashboard](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) · [Information Systems journal rankings by citations](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) · [Top information systems institutions, 2023–2025](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/information-systems.md) · [Top funders of information systems research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/funders/information-systems.md) · [Companies in information systems research](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/companies/information-systems.md) · [Open access in information systems journals](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/open-access/information-systems.md) · [Top Information Systems conferences](https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/categories/information-systems.md) ## Key findings - World Wide Web has a 2-year mean citedness of 9.40 and an h-index of 80 in OpenAlex, #9 of 28 tracked information systems journals by citedness. - In 2025 it published 70 papers, and its papers received 3,501 citations. - World Wide Web published 4 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-05 to 2026-11-03), ranking #250 of 480 journals. - Leading institutions: Yangzhou University (1), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1) and Zhejiang Normal University (1). - Countries: China (3) and Australia (1). - From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, World Wide Web published 4 papers (0 a month on average, by publication date in OpenAlex). - Its most frequent keywords over that period were “AI lifecycle” (1), “AI security” (1) and “K-means clustering” (1). ## Citation metrics *Citation metrics (OpenAlex)* | Metric | Value | |---|---:| | 2-year mean citedness | 9.40 | | h-index | 80 | | i10-index | 773 | | Papers in OpenAlex | 1,666 | | Citations in OpenAlex | 36,407 | | Rank among tracked information systems journals | [#9 of 28](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/journal-metrics/information-systems.md) | *Papers per year and the citations the journal's papers received that year (OpenAlex)* | Year | Papers | Citations received | |---|---:|---:| | 2026 (so far) | 42 | 2,076 | | 2025 | 70 | 3,501 | | 2024 | 89 | 3,273 | | 2023 | 92 | 3,112 | | 2022 | 151 | 2,946 | | 2021 | 124 | 2,608 | | 2020 | 105 | 2,276 | | 2019 | 88 | 1,805 | | 2018 | 136 | 1,559 | | 2017 | 89 | 1,113 | | 2016 | 44 | 1,030 | 2-year mean citedness is OpenAlex's count of citations per paper a journal published in the two previous years, an open counterpart to the journal impact factor (which counts only Web of Science citations); the h-index and i10-index cover all its papers. The figures come from OpenAlex (CC0) and are read again monthly. Official metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor (Clarivate) and CiteScore (Scopus) are licensed by their owners and not copied here; the publisher shows them on the journal's website. Journal website: https://www.springer.com/journal/11280 ## The last 36 months *Papers by publication date, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months | |---:|---:|---:|---:| | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | *Most frequent keywords, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026* | # | Keyword | Papers | |---:|---|---:| | 1 | AI lifecycle | 1 | | 2 | AI security | 1 | | 3 | [K-means clustering](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/k-means-clustering.md) | 1 | | 4 | Pareto front | 1 | | 5 | adaptive fusion | 1 | | 6 | clustering stability | 1 | | 7 | conversation | 1 | | 8 | differential privacy | 1 | | 9 | discourse | 1 | | 10 | emotion recognition | 1 | *Papers, newest first.* | Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations | |---|---|---|---|---| | 2026-10-12 | [LISS: Defending against label inference attacks in VFL via secret subsampling](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-026-01438-3) | [World Wide Web](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web.md) | Jiali He, Hao Sui, Bing Chen et al. | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Yangzhou University | | 2026-10-10 | [A dual-layer security framework for AI systems: a lifecycle-aware security testing approach](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-026-01437-4) | [World Wide Web](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web.md) | Hassan Chaitou, Njaka-Harilala Andriamandratomanana, Helmi Rais | | | 2026-10-06 | [Trading off privacy, utility, and stability in privacy-preserving K-means clustering using an adaptive multi-objective memetic algorithm](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-026-01436-5) | [World Wide Web](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web.md) | Wei Hong, Samsad Jahan, Yong-Feng Ge et al. | Victoria University; University of Southern Queensland; Zhejiang Normal University | | 2026-10-05 | [Discourse-guided multi-view adaptive fusion for multimodal emotion recognition in conversation](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-026-01435-6) | [World Wide Web](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web.md) | You Li, Yangtian She, Lihua He et al. | Guilin University of Electronic Technology | ## Cite this page Scholar4AI. (2026). World Wide Web. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web ```bibtex @misc{scholar4ai-journals-world-wide-web, author = {{Scholar4AI}}, title = {World Wide Web}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/journals/world-wide-web}}, urldate = {2026-11-03}, note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0} } ``` License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).