Hi from Adam -- Best avenue for publishing ambitious papers?

[adam.kulidjian]

Hi folks,

My name is Adam, and this is my first post in the Ontolog Forum. 👋

I was wondering if anyone has any leads / ideas / insights about good journals or places online to publish ontology papers.

The challenge I'm facing ... I am working outside the academic walls, but want to make a contribution into a journal or something, in a place where people who speak the same language will be able to view it / interact with it.

It's also difficult to articulate the exact domains that my research questions fall into, as I don't have the academic language muscle memory yet.

To be illustrative, here's an example of a curiosity that could turn into research question:

- If Person A saw 79% on their test, they might say "not bad"

- If Person A saw 80% on their test, they might say "I did well"

A Curiosity: What are the interval endpoints between scores such that a reported expression would tip or change (in this case, 79/80 is the endpoint)?

Any insights at all would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

Sincerely,

Adam

[Pascal Hitzler]

In terms of journals from the core research community, have a look at the following.

https://semantic-web-journal.net/authors
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/journal/TGDK
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-web-semantics
https://journals.sagepub.com/overview-metric/APO?

Alternatively, you can often publish such papers in journals that belong to the application domain - but for that you need to ask people from that application domain for possible outlets. My rule of thumb is then to check if a possible outlet indeed did have ontology papers in the recent years, and if in doubt, I'd contact the editors-in-chief to inquire about their expectations on such types of papers.

And you may want to consider finding an academic collaborator, as it's usually important to find the appropriate framing for a paper - and an academic collaborator would have that down usually.

Hope that helps!

Pascal.

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[Alex Shkotin]

Hi Adam,

May I share my experiences beyond the monastic walls of academies?

If I have a report and want to publish it, I post it to Researchgate and Academia.edu. If it's just a presentation of an idea, I post it to LinkedIn. If the text is mathematically complex, I post it to arxiv.org (I haven't posted it in a while).

From that moment on, the text is publicly available.

Here's an example of my joys [1].

But how to promote the text, i.e., gain attention and appreciation, is the next step. And you can easily cite the text on ontology here.

And there are plenty of research groups and initiatives you can contact.

Of course, if you want to secure priority, you need to meet all the requirements for publication in a reputable journal, as Pascal listed.

And publishing it is now very easy – the main thing is to have the text.

Judging by the diagram, you have a penchant for hypergraphs. Then perhaps you should contact the communities of S. Wolfram, who has his own favorite hypergraph, see Ruliad.

Best regards,

Alex Shkotin

Independent Computer Scientist 

Linkedin ∘ RGate ∘ Academia.edu

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пн, 29 сент. 2025 г. в 21:48, adam.kulidjian <adam.ku...@mail.mcgill.ca>:

[adam.kulidjian]

Pascal,

Thank you so much for the helpful and prompt response. I will check out these resources and see what they have.

       > My rule of thumb is then to check if a possible outlet indeed did have ontology papers in the recent years, and if in doubt, I'd contact the editors-in-chief to inquire about their expectations on such types of papers.

This makes sense as well.

       > And you may want to consider finding an academic collaborator, as it's usually important to find the appropriate framing for a paper - and an academic collaborator would have that down usually.

Yes, I am also looking for one! Do you have any suggestions on good avenues for finding them?

My current strategy is to read papers that I find interesting, emailing one of the researchers, expressing interest in the work, then asking for a chance of collaboration. I haven't done it very much, and it has not materialized into a collaboration yet. 😅

Let me know,

Adam

[adam.kulidjian]

Alex, thank you for your feedback. I will review your notes again and apply.

Hypergraphs ... interesting! I have heard about them but have not learned about. I can check this out as well.

[Leo Obrst]

Hi, Adam,

A journal that possibly meets your interests: https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/applied-ontology/journal203935.

Thanks,

Leo

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[adam.kulidjian]

Leo,

Thank you for the suggestion. I think Pascal also linked the same Applied Ontology journal in his message. I have read that journal's description and it looks apt to some of the far reaching stuff I am thinking about and have been writing about for 4-5 years.

It has risen to the top of the stack.

- Adam

[Leo Obrst]

Ah, great, apologies. 

Leo Obrst, lob...@gmail.com

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