International Journal of Web and Grid Services

International Journal of Web and Grid Services is published by Inderscience Enterprises Ltd and is in Zone 4 of Computer Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems and IoT and Edge/Fog Computing, together about 33.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computer Networks and Communications. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Web services modelling, performance Web Service frameworks, architectures, infrastructures Web semantics Web Services specification, discovery, security, quality Workflow planning/composition for grid services Software/reliability engineering Security for grid services Business semantics, metadata, ontologies in grids Grid service compatibility/integration/interoperability/policy/agents Intelligent services Grid service business models/applications Grid services/infrastructures, performance, testing, benchmarking Web services, semantic web Agent technology, web services/agents in grid infrastructure Grid convergence, confluence of service-oriented architectures More topics...Web Services:Web Services modelling and performanceWeb Service frameworks, architectures, and infrastructuresWeb semanticsWeb Services specification and discoveryBusiness process integration and management using Web ServicesResource management and solution managementWeb Service securityWeb Services in e-CommerceQuality of Web ServicesWeb Services case studies and applicationsGrid Services:Workflow planning and composition for Grid services (including languages, algorithms, resources, etc.)Software engineering (e.g. modelling, description, deployment, packaging, and distribution) for Grid ServicesBusiness semantics, meta data, and ontologies in GridsGrid service compatibility, interoperability, and policyIntelligent services and Grid Service agentsGrid service business models and applications (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom etc.)Security and reliability engineering in service GridsPerformance issues, testing, and benchmarking of Grid Services and infrastructuresIntegration and interoperability of Grid Services and legacy systemsPractical applications of Grid ComputingConvergence:Convergence of Web Services, Semantic Web, agent technology and the GridConfluence of service-oriented architectures based on Web Services with Grid ComputingUsage of Web Services and agents in a Grid infrastructureGrid based Web Services applications More on this journal... ObjectivesThe objectives of IJWGS are to establish an effective channel of communication between decision makers, academic and research institutions and persons concerned with the practical deployment of web services in industry. It also aims to promote and coordinate developments in the field of web services and grid services. By tackling issues of current research, standardisation, and deployment, it brings together peo

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Research area (LetPub): COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS-COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Editor-in-chief Kiki AdhinugrahaPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

0.9LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

1Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

0.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

3.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.49LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

25LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

31OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

134OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.58OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

20%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

3.28%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

20LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly easyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Inderscience Enterprises Ltd

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1741-1106

Electronic ISSN

1741-1114

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub