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. 21.5% 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%
- 14k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 21.5% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -50% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (627 and 356 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 627 works
- 2 United States 356 works
- 3 Germany 343 works
- 4 India 268 works
- 5 Italy 132 works
- 6 France 123 works
- 7 Indonesia 104 works
- 8 United Kingdom 87 works
- 9 Spain 86 works
- 10 Brazil 84 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research?
By volume in 2022–2025, RWTH Aachen University publishes the most Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research, followed by National University of Defense Technology and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany 35 works
- 2 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 17 works
- 3 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 13 works
- 4 Technical University of MunichGermany 13 works
- 5 University of StuttgartGermany 13 works
- 6 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 12 works
- 7 Mohammed V UniversityMorocco 12 works
- 8 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 12 works
- 9 Karlsruhe Institute of TechnologyGermany 12 works
- 10 Beijing Jiaotong UniversityChina 11 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 Wei Liu, Rajkumar Buyya and Wil M. P. van der Aalst.
- 1 Wei Liu Australia 9.7k citations
- 2 Rajkumar Buyya Australia 7.8k citations
- 3 Wil M. P. van der Aalst Netherlands 5.5k citations
- 4 Ian Foster United States 4.9k citations
- 5 David Culler United States 4.4k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research done?
The largest centres of Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Aachen (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Aachen.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- AachenDE · 36.1 works12×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services?
Among universities, judged by research, RWTH Aachen University, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and Eindhoven University of Technology 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RWTH Aachen UniversityGermany | 84.6 | 48.6% | 14.4× | 35 | +16.3% |
| 2 | Free University of Bozen-BolzanoItaly | 71.8 | 47.9% | 29.7× | 10 | +42.8% |
| 3 | Eindhoven University of TechnologyNetherlands | 63.0 | 40.6% | 9.3× | 11 | -35.0% |
| 4 | University of StuttgartGermany | 51.8 | 27.2% | 10.8× | 13 | -47.0% |
| 5 | TU WienAustria | 47.6 | 15.2% | 10.7× | 11 | -64.2% |
| 6 | Technical University of MunichGermany | 46.0 | 31.0% | 4.9× | 13 | -33.5% |
| 7 | Hunan University of Science and TechnologyChina | 45.8 | 24.8% | 19.6× | 10 | -34.6% |
| 8 | University of SfaxTunisia | 43.8 | 1.6% | 12.3× | 10 | +46.5% |
| 9 | Technische Universität DresdenGermany | 41.5 | 17.2% | 7.8× | 12 | -40.4% |
| 10 | Mohammed V UniversityMorocco | 40.7 | 2.0% | 9.3× | 12 | +79.7% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 50% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2010.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.