| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner | Web Semantics | 2007 | 1,852 |
| 2 | DBpedia - A crystallization point for the Web of Data | Web Semantics | 2009 | 1,560 |
| 3 | The SSN ontology of the W3C semantic sensor network incubator group | Web Semantics | 2012 | 1,070 |
| 4 | From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: the making of a Web Ontology Language | Web Semantics | 2003 | 1,034 |
| 5 | LUBM: A benchmark for OWL knowledge base systems | Web Semantics | 2005 | 940 |
| 6 | Quality of service for workflows and web service processes | Web Semantics | 2004 | 723 |
| 7 | YAGO: A Large Ontology from Wikipedia and WordNet | Web Semantics | 2008 | 615 |
| 8 | HTN planning for Web Service composition using SHOP2 | Web Semantics | 2004 | 600 |
| 9 | OWL 2: The next step for OWL | Web Semantics | 2008 | 592 |
| 10 | A survey of trust in computer science and the Semantic Web | Web Semantics | 2007 | 529 |
| 11 | Automated discovery, interaction and composition of Semantic Web services | Web Semantics | 2003 | 501 |
| 12 | Collective knowledge systems: Where the Social Web meets the Semantic Web | Web Semantics | 2008 | 463 |
| 13 | Semantic annotation, indexing, and retrieval | Web Semantics | 2004 | 399 |
| 14 | Ontologies are us: A unified model of social networks and semantics | Web Semantics | 2007 | 394 |
| 15 | Semantic annotation for knowledge management: Requirements and a survey of the state of the art | Web Semantics | 2006 | 371 |
| 16 | Managing uncertainty and vagueness in description logics for the Semantic Web | Web Semantics | 2008 | 329 |
| 17 | Query Answering for OWL-DL with rules | Web Semantics | 2005 | 285 |
| 18 | Ontology matching with semantic verification | Web Semantics | 2009 | 276 |
| 19 | Flink: Semantic Web technology for the extraction and analysis of social networks | Web Semantics | 2005 | 270 |
| 20 | SOSA: A lightweight ontology for sensors, observations, samples, and actuators | Web Semantics | 2019 | 264 |
| 21 | OWL rules: A proposal and prototype implementation | Web Semantics | 2005 | 251 |
| 22 | Semantic Wikipedia | Web Semantics | 2007 | 249 |
| 23 | OWLS-MX: A hybrid Semantic Web service matchmaker for OWL-S services | Web Semantics | 2009 | 245 |
| 24 | Completeness, decidability and complexity of entailment for RDF Schema and a semantic extension involving the OWL vocabulary | Web Semantics | 2005 | 238 |
| 25 | Semantic Web in data mining and knowledge discovery: A comprehensive survey | Web Semantics | 2016 | 223 |
| 26 | A general Datalog-based framework for tractable query answering over ontologies | Web Semantics | 2012 | 222 |
| 27 | Binary RDF representation for publication and exchange (HDT) | Web Semantics | 2013 | 202 |
| 28 | Reducing OWL entailment to description logic satisfiability | Web Semantics | 2004 | 198 |
| 29 | Semantically enhanced Information Retrieval: An ontology-based approach | Web Semantics | 2011 | 195 |
| 30 | Design and use of the Simple Event Model (SEM) | Web Semantics | 2011 | 193 |
| 31 | Semantic Web Mining | Web Semantics | 2006 | 187 |
| 32 | Swoop: A Web Ontology Editing Browser | Web Semantics | 2006 | 183 |
| 33 | Triple Pattern Fragments: A low-cost knowledge graph interface for the Web | Web Semantics | 2016 | 176 |
| 34 | The National Cancer Institute’s Thésaurus and Ontology | Web Semantics | 2003 | 164 |
| 35 | AquaLog: An ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets | Web Semantics | 2007 | 164 |
| 36 | Searching and browsing Linked Data with SWSE: The Semantic Web Search Engine | Web Semantics | 2011 | 162 |
| 37 | Quality-driven information filtering using the WIQA policy framework | Web Semantics | 2009 | 160 |
| 38 | SAMBO—A system for aligning and merging biomedical ontologies | Web Semantics | 2006 | 159 |
| 39 | Using Bayesian decision for ontology mapping | Web Semantics | 2006 | 148 |
| 40 | Debugging unsatisfiable classes in OWL ontologies | Web Semantics | 2005 | 140 |
| 41 | Named graphs | Web Semantics | 2005 | 139 |
| 42 | Contextualizing ontologies | Web Semantics | 2004 | 138 |
| 43 | FaBiO and CiTO: Ontologies for describing bibliographic resources and citations | Web Semantics | 2012 | 136 |
| 44 | OWL-QL—a language for deductive query answering on the Semantic Web | Web Semantics | 2004 | 135 |
| 45 | Metcalfe's law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web | Web Semantics | 2008 | 134 |
| 46 | An empirical survey of Linked Data conformance | Web Semantics | 2012 | 134 |
| 47 | Web services: problems and future directions | Web Semantics | 2004 | 133 |
| 48 | Falcon-AO: A practical ontology matching system | Web Semantics | 2008 | 131 |
| 49 | Semantic web technologies to reconcile privacy and context awareness | Web Semantics | 2004 | 128 |
| 50 | Evaluating question answering over linked data | Web Semantics | 2013 | 128 |
