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Access Control and Trust

Access Control and Trust is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1964. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores trust and reputation systems, role-based access control, and security mechanisms in online environments such as P2P networks and electronic communities. It covers topics like trust management, reputation models, access control policies, and their application in semantic web and multi-agent systems.

  • Trust
  • Reputation
  • Access Control
  • P2P Networks
  • Semantic Web
  • Role-Based Authorization
  • Security
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Policy Specification
  • Online Communities
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1964
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Access Control and Trust

Which countries lead Access Control and Trust research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (490 and 476 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 490 works
  2. 2 China 476 works
  3. 3 India 303 works
  4. 4 Germany 117 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 94 works
  6. 6 Italy 81 works
  7. 7 France 66 works
  8. 8 Canada 59 works
  9. 9 Japan 52 works
  10. 10 Spain 40 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.

United States: 27.6%China: 26.8%India: 17.0%Germany: 6.6%6 others listed: 22.0%28%largest
United States490 · 27.6%China476 · 26.8%India303 · 17.0%Germany117 · 6.6%6 others listed391 · 22.0%

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

Which institutions lead Access Control and Trust research?

By volume in 2022-now, Film Independent publishes the most Access Control and Trust research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 36 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 19 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 14 works
  4. 4 American Rock Mechanics AssociationUnited States 13 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 11 works
  6. 6 Xidian UniversityChina 11 works
  7. 7 Plastic Omnium (France)France 10 works
  8. 8 University of MilanItaly 10 works
  9. 9 Amazon (United States)United States 10 works
  10. 10 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Access Control and Trust?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Access Control and Trust include John P. A. Ioannidis, H. Vincent Poor and Francisco Herrera.

  1. 1 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k citations
  4. 4 Philip S. Yu United States 141k 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 Access Control and Trust?

The most cited paper in Access Control and Trust is "Not So Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View Of Trust" (Denise M. Rousseau, Sim B. Sitkin, Ronald S. Burt et al., 1998), with 10,293 citations. Next come "Role-based access control models" (5,893) and "A survey of trust and reputation systems for online service provision" (3,338).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Not So Different After All: A Cross-Discipline View Of Trust Denise M. Rousseau, Sim B. Sitkin, Ronald S. Burt et al. · Academy of Management Review Jul 1998 10,293
2 Role-based access control models Ravi S. Sandhu, Edward J. Coyne, H.L. Feinstein et al. · Computer 1996 5,893
3 A survey of trust and reputation systems for online service provision Audun Jøsang, Roslan Ismail, Colin Boyd · Decision Support Systems Open access 6 Jul 2005 3,338
4 Proposed NIST standard for role-based access control David F. Ferraiolo, Ravi S. Sandhu, Serban I. Gavrila et al. · ACM Transactions on Information and System Security Open access Aug 2001 2,548
5 Swift Trust and Temporary Groups DEBRA E. MEYERSON, Karl E. Weick, Roderick M. Kramer Book chapter 1996 1,886
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Where is Access Control and Trust research done?

The largest centres of Access Control and Trust research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Los Angeles (United States), Chennai (India) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Los Angeles.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 119 works
  2. 2 Los AngelesUnited States 41 works
  3. 3 ChennaiIndia 33 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 29 works
  5. 5 NanjingChina 27 works
  6. 6 Xi'anChina 27 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 26 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 24 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Los AngelesUS · 40.7 works5.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Access Control and Trust than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Access Control and Trust?

Among universities, judged by research, Xidian University, University of Milan and Peking University 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%10%20%mean 11.4429%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Xidian UniversityBeijing University o…Peking UniversityUniversity of Milan
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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
1Xidian UniversityChina 91.222.9%7.2×11 +22.6%
2University of MilanItaly 85.17.4%7.6×10 +58.9%
3Peking UniversityChina 58.212.4%2.2×9 +297.2%
4Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 55.314.4%7.2×10 +7.6%
5SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 34.85.1%4.4×9 +142.7%
6Tsinghua UniversityChina 21.710.6%1.7×8 +194.8%
7Southeast UniversityChina 14.77.3%2.7×8 -

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 Access Control and Trust, country by country

Is Access Control and Trust research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010. The fastest-growing topics are Access Control and Trust.

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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 Access Control and Trust as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0081% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Access Control and Trust0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Access Control and Trust 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%Access Control and Trust10.2% 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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