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Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services

Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 66k research works in it since 1953. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on Quality of Service (QoS)-aware middleware for Web services composition, semantic matching of Web services, and service-oriented computing. It covers topics such as automated web service discovery, dynamic service composition, and service selection algorithms, with an emphasis on QoS and semantic web services.

  • QoS-Aware Middleware
  • Semantic Web Services
  • Service-Oriented Computing
  • Web Service Composition
  • Quality of Service (QoS)
  • Semantic Matching
  • Service Selection Algorithms
  • Dynamic Service Composition
  • Automated Web Service Discovery
  • Service-Oriented Architecture
Research works
66k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
6.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-27%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services

Which countries lead Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (663 and 389 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 663 works
  2. 2 United States 389 works
  3. 3 Germany 356 works
  4. 4 India 288 works
  5. 5 Italy 137 works
  6. 6 France 128 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 107 works
  8. 8 Spain 93 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 93 works
  10. 10 Brazil 86 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 28.3%United States: 16.6%Germany: 15.2%India: 12.3%6 others listed: 27.5%28%largest
China663 · 28.3%United States389 · 16.6%Germany356 · 15.2%India288 · 12.3%6 others listed643 · 27.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research?

By volume in 2022-now, RWTH Aachen University publishes the most Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 36 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 29 works
  3. 3 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 28 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 20 works
  5. 5 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 17 works
  6. 6 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 17 works
  7. 7 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 15 works
  8. 8 Film IndependentUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 Technical University of MunichGermany 14 works
  10. 10 IBM (United States)United States 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services include Xiaogang Wang, Rafael Lozano and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Rafael Lozano United States 224k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services?

The most cited paper in Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services is "Cognitive radio: making software radios more personal" (Joseph Mitola, Gerald Q. Maguire, 1999), with 9,191 citations. Next come "The vision of autonomic computing" (6,542) and "Aspect-oriented programming" (5,164).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cognitive radio: making software radios more personal Joseph Mitola, Gerald Q. Maguire · IEEE Personal Communications 1999 9,191
2 The vision of autonomic computing Jeffrey O. Kephart, David M. Chess · Computer 2003 6,542
3 Aspect-oriented programming Gregor Kiczales · ACM Computing Surveys Dec 1996 5,164
4 Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology Natalya Fridman Noy, Deborah L. McGuinness 2002 4,635
5 Knowledge engineering: Principles and methods Rudi Studer, V. Richard Benjamins, Dieter Fensel · Data & Knowledge Engineering Mar 1998 3,663
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research done?

The largest centres of Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Aachen (Germany) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aachen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 168 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 46 works
  3. 3 AachenGermany 37 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 37 works
  5. 5 ChangshaChina 34 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 32 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 31 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 29 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 29 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AachenDE · 37.4 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services?

Among universities, judged by research, RWTH Aachen University, Eindhoven University of Technology and Free University of Bozen-Bolzano score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Free University of B…Eindhoven University…RWTH Aachen UniversityTechnical University…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 73.024.4%14.6×36 -5.0%
2Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands 66.426.6%10.9×12 -62.1%
3Free University of Bozen-BolzanoItaly 57.732.2%33.9×10 -42.7%
4Technical University of MunichGermany 47.319.8%4.9×14 -8.2%
5University of StuttgartGermany 44.516.7%11.8×13 -20.9%
6TU WienAustria 43.914.6%12.0×12 -24.0%
7Universität UlmGermany 42.216.7%13.1×8 -23.9%
8Technische Universität DresdenGermany 40.613.9%7.6×13 -35.9%
9Universidad de SevillaSpain 39.324.0%5.0×9 -39.3%
10Hunan University of Science and TechnologyChina 38.814.3%22.5×11 -9.6%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services, country by country

Is Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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