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Advanced Authentication Protocols Security

Advanced Authentication Protocols Security is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1963. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the analysis, design, and improvement of security protocols for authentication and key exchange. It covers topics such as smart card security, biometrics-based authentication, cryptographic protocol verification, and secure communication in wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things environments.

  • Authentication
  • Key Exchange
  • Security Protocols
  • Smart Cards
  • Biometrics
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Cryptanalysis
  • Internet of Things
  • Remote User Authentication
  • Formal Analysis
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1963
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Authentication Protocols Security

Which countries lead Advanced Authentication Protocols Security research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (651 and 608 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 651 works
  2. 2 India 608 works
  3. 3 United States 206 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 67 works
  5. 5 South Korea 66 works
  6. 6 Germany 66 works
  7. 7 Saudi Arabia 61 works
  8. 8 France 51 works
  9. 9 Japan 50 works
  10. 10 Taiwan 46 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: 34.8%India: 32.4%United States: 11.0%United Kingdom: 3.6%6 others listed: 18.2%35%largest
China651 · 34.8%India608 · 32.4%United States206 · 11.0%United Kingdom67 · 3.6%6 others listed341 · 18.2%

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

Which institutions lead Advanced Authentication Protocols Security research?

By volume in 2022-now, SRM Institute of Science and Technology publishes the most Advanced Authentication Protocols Security research, followed by Vellore Institute of Technology University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 24 works
  2. 2 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 22 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 21 works
  4. 4 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 20 works
  5. 5 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 17 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 16 works
  7. 7 Xidian UniversityChina 15 works
  8. 8 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 13 works
  9. 9 Xi’an University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 13 works
  10. 10 Beijing University of TechnologyChina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Authentication Protocols Security?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Authentication Protocols Security include John P. A. Ioannidis, H. Vincent Poor and Mehdi Hosseinzadeh.

  1. 1 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Iran 137k citations
  4. 4 Hao Chen China 118k 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 Advanced Authentication Protocols Security?

The most cited paper in Advanced Authentication Protocols Security is "On the security of public key protocols" (Danny Dolev, A. C. Yao, 1983), with 5,851 citations. Next come "Universally composable security: a new paradigm for cryptographic protocols" (3,349) and "Efficient signature generation by smart cards" (2,796).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On the security of public key protocols Danny Dolev, A. C. Yao · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Mar 1983 5,851
2 Universally composable security: a new paradigm for cryptographic protocols Ran Canetti Conference paper 2001 3,349
3 Efficient signature generation by smart cards Claus Peter Schnorr · Journal of Cryptology Open access 1991 2,796
4 A logic of authentication Michael T. Burrows, Martı́n Abadi, Roger M. Needham · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems Open access Feb 1990 2,541
5 Entity Authentication and Key Distribution Mihir Bellare, Phillip Rogaway · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 5 Aug 2007 1,767
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Advanced Authentication Protocols Security research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Authentication Protocols Security research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Xi'an (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vellore.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 143 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 53 works
  3. 3 Xi'anChina 42 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 35 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 35 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 33 works
  7. 7 NanjingChina 30 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  9. 9 HyderabadIndia 29 works
  10. 10 BengaluruIndia 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VelloreIN · 22.3 works7.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Authentication Protocols Security than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Authentication Protocols Security?

Among universities, judged by research, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, Vellore Institute of Technology University and Kyungpook National 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%20%40%mean 20.52%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →International Instit…Kyungpook National U…Vellore Institute of…SRM Institute of Sci…
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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
1International Institute of Information Technology, HyderabadIndia 73.544.1%84.9×10 +16.4%
2Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 60.09.9%10.4×22 +24.3%
3Kyungpook National UniversitySouth Korea 60.037.2%14.3×12 +16.2%
4SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 58.56.9%10.7×24 +248.9%
5University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 53.112.1%8.1×20 -5.7%
6Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 50.110.2%11.9×17 +20.1%
7Hangzhou Normal UniversityChina 47.232.8%15.1×8 +337.0%
8Xidian UniversityChina 44.517.0%9.7×16 -26.3%
9Xi’an University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 44.414.5%28.5×13 +345.1%
10Beihang UniversityChina 41.320.5%4.5×11 +177.1%

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 Advanced Authentication Protocols Security, country by country

Is Advanced Authentication Protocols Security research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Authentication Protocols Security.

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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 Advanced Authentication Protocols Security as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0096% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Advanced Authentication Protocols Security 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.

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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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