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title: "ICWS (A): papers and universities"
description: "ICWS (IEEE International Conference on Web Services) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 505 of its papers from 2024–2026 (185 in 2024, 130 in 2025, 190 in 2026). By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from China (352), Australia (90) and the United States (26)."
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share_text: "ICWS (IEEE International Conference on Web Services) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 505 of its papers from 2024–2026 (185 in 2024, 130 in 2025, 190 in 2026). (as of 2026-11-02)"
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# ICWS: IEEE International Conference on Web Services — papers and institutions, 2024–2026

Papers of ICWS, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (CORE rank A; field: Distributed computing and systems software), 2024–2026: per year, the institutions, countries and topics, and the most-cited papers. Ranks are those of the CORE Conference Rankings, edition ICORE2026 (portal.core.edu.au), applied to every year shown. Papers are the works OpenAlex lists for the conference's proceedings, or for the issues of a conference-linked journal that publishes its papers (such as PACMPL, PVLDB or ACM TOG), by publication year; workshops, companion volumes, posters and Findings are left out. A paper counts once for each institution and country among its authors' affiliations as OpenAlex assigns them; papers without affiliations in OpenAlex count for none. For conferences published in book series that OpenAlex files as one source (LNCS, LIPIcs, SIAM and IOS Press proceedings), the papers are found by DOI: those of the volumes with the conference's title in Crossref, or LIPIcs DOIs, which name the conference. Conferences without DOIs (PMLR, USENIX, OpenReview) are listed without counts. A dash (–) for a year means OpenAlex has no papers of the conference for it yet: the proceedings are not published or indexed yet, or the conference did not meet that year (some meet every other year). 2026 counts what OpenAlex had indexed by 2026-11-02.

All conferences: https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings.md

## Key findings

- ICWS (IEEE International Conference on Web Services) is rated A by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 505 of its papers from 2024–2026 (185 in 2024, 130 in 2025, 190 in 2026).
- By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from China (352), Australia (90) and the United States (26).
- The institutions with the most papers are Harbin Institute of Technology (33), Macquarie University (28) and Zhejiang University (24).
- Its most-cited paper of these years is “Edge-LLM: A Collaborative Framework for Large Language Model Serving in Edge Computing” (2024), with 59 citations.

## Papers per year

*ICWS papers per publication year in OpenAlex (–: not in OpenAlex yet)*

| Year | Papers | With affiliations |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2024 | 185 | 163 |
| 2025 | 130 | 120 |
| 2026 | 190 | 174 |

## Sources

*Where OpenAlex lists the papers*

| OpenAlex source | Which papers |
|---|---|
| [S4363608934](https://openalex.org/S4363608934) | The conference's proceedings |

## Who publishes there

*Institutions with the most ICWS papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Harbin Institute of Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/harbin-institute-of-technology.md) | 33 |
| 2 | [Macquarie University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/macquarie-university.md) | 28 |
| 3 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 24 |
| 4 | [The University of Sydney](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-sydney.md) | 19 |
| 5 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 16 |
| 6 | [Tianjin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tianjin-university.md) | 15 |
| 7 | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 14 |
| 8 | [National University of Defense Technology](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/national-university-of-defense-technology.md) | 13 |
| 9 | [Shandong University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/shandong-university.md) | 12 |
| 10 | Inner Mongolia University | 12 |

*Countries with the most ICWS papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | China | 352 |
| 2 | Australia | 90 |
| 3 | United States | 26 |
| 4 | Italy | 21 |
| 5 | France | 19 |
| 6 | Germany | 12 |
| 7 | United Kingdom | 10 |
| 8 | Bangladesh | 8 |
| 9 | Hong Kong | 8 |
| 10 | South Korea | 8 |

*Keywords with the most ICWS papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 70 |
| 2 | edge computing | 40 |
| 3 | microservices | 27 |
| 4 | service composition | 20 |
| 5 | [federated learning](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/federated-learning.md) | 19 |
| 6 | [graph neural networks](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/graph-neural-networks.md) | 19 |
| 7 | Internet of Things | 18 |
| 8 | privacy preservation | 17 |
| 9 | blockchain | 16 |
| 10 | mobile edge computing | 16 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited ICWS papers of 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)*

| # | Citations | Title | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---|---|---|
| 1 | 59 | [Edge-LLM: A Collaborative Framework for Large Language Model Serving in Edge Computing](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws62655.2024.00099) | 2024-07-07 | Fenglong Cai, Dong Yuan, Zhe Yang et al. |
| 2 | 39 | [CE-CoLLM: Efficient and Adaptive Large Language Models Through Cloud-Edge Collaboration](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws67624.2025.00046) | 2025-07-07 | Hongpeng Jin, Yanzhao Wu |
| 3 | 24 | [VELO: A Vector Database-Assisted Cloud-Edge Collaborative LLM QoS Optimization Framework](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws62655.2024.00105) | 2024-07-07 | Zhi Yao, Zhiqing Tang, Jiong Lou et al. |
| 4 | 20 | [LogRAG: Semi-Supervised Log-based Anomaly Detection with Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws62655.2024.00129) | 2024-07-07 | Wanhao Zhang, Qianli Zhang, Enyu Yu et al. |
| 5 | 14 | [Moirai: Optimizing Quantum Serverless Function Orchestration via Device Allocation and Circuit Deployment](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws62655.2024.00090) | 2024-07-07 | Tingting Li, Ziming Zhao |
| 6 | 14 | [Is it Worth Migrating a Monolith to Microservices? An Experience Report on Performance, Availability and Energy Usage](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws62655.2024.00112) | 2024-07-07 | Vincent Berry, Arnaud Castelltort, Benoit Lange et al. |
| 7 | 13 | [Towards Automating Federated Data Governance](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws62655.2024.00019) | 2024-07-07 | Arif Wider, Katharine Jarmul, Atif Akhtar |
| 8 | 13 | [OptLLM: Optimal Assignment of Queries to Large Language Models](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws62655.2024.00098) | 2024-07-07 | Yueyue Liu, Hongyu Zhang, Yuantian Miao et al. |
| 9 | 12 | [IntentContinuum: Using LLMs to Support Intent-Based Computing Across the Compute Continuum](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws67624.2025.00079) | 2025-07-07 | Negin Akbari, John Grundy, Aamir Cheema et al. |
| 10 | 12 | [Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence on Edge Devices: A Homomorphic Encryption Approach](https://doi.org/10.1109/icws62655.2024.00061) | 2024-07-07 | Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan, Bo Fang, Gaetano Cimino et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). ICWS: IEEE International Conference on Web Services — papers and institutions, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/icws

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).