Coding theory and cryptography
Coding theory and cryptography is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 36k research works in it since 1950. 16.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the intersection of cryptography and error-correcting codes, exploring topics such as algebraic attacks, Reed-Solomon codes, Boolean functions, the McEliece cryptosystem, frequency hopping sequences, and decoding algorithms. The papers delve into the design and analysis of cryptographic functions, code-based cryptography, fast correlation attacks, and constructions of secure communication systems.
- Cryptography
- Error-Correcting Codes
- Algebraic Attacks
- Reed-Solomon Codes
- Boolean Functions
- Linear Feedback
- McEliece Cryptosystem
- Frequency Hopping Sequences
- Decoding Algorithms
- Bent Functions
- Research works
- 36k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 5.8k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 16.3% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -2% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Coding theory and cryptography research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (1.1k and 483 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.1k works
- 2 India 483 works
- 3 United States 445 works
- 4 France 205 works
- 5 Russia 177 works
- 6 Japan 149 works
- 7 Italy 139 works
- 8 Germany 137 works
- 9 South Korea 97 works
- 10 United Kingdom 96 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.
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Which institutions lead Coding theory and cryptography research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Hefei University of Technology publishes the most Coding theory and cryptography research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and State Key Laboratory of Cryptology.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Hefei University of TechnologyChina 36 works
- 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 30 works
- 3 State Key Laboratory of CryptologyChina 26 works
- 4 PLA Information Engineering UniversityChina 26 works
- 5 Southwest Jiaotong UniversityChina 23 works
- 6 Nanjing University of Aeronautics and AstronauticsChina 20 works
- 7 Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina 20 works
- 8 Shandong UniversityChina 20 works
- 9 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 19 works
- 10 Xidian UniversityChina 19 works
Who are the leading researchers in Coding theory and cryptography?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Coding theory and cryptography include H. Vincent Poor, Dan Boneh and Ronald L. Rivest.
- 1 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
- 2 Dan Boneh United States 7.5k citations
- 3 Ronald L. Rivest United States 7.3k citations
- 4 Leonard M. Adleman United States 6.7k citations
- 5 Adi Shamir Israel 6.3k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Coding theory and cryptography research done?
The largest centres of Coding theory and cryptography research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Hefei (China) and Nanjing (China).
Where is the best place to study Coding theory and cryptography?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Luxembourg, Radboud University Nijmegen and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah 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.
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 | University of LuxembourgLuxembourg | 63.1 | 30.3% | 10.3× | 10 | +24.3% |
| 2 | Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands | 60.4 | 19.5% | 7.5× | 14 | +184.8% |
| 3 | Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah UniversityMorocco | 59.2 | 14.2% | 10.5× | 13 | +223.8% |
| 4 | Hefei University of TechnologyChina | 55.4 | 10.8% | 14.5× | 36 | -37.6% |
| 5 | University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"Italy | 54.2 | 26.1% | 9.4× | 8 | +64.5% |
| 6 | Quaid-i-Azam UniversityPakistan | 54.2 | 22.3% | 11.8× | 8 | +38.3% |
| 7 | Hubei UniversityChina | 52.3 | 9.5% | 20.4× | 17 | +68.5% |
| 8 | Ruhr University BochumGermany | 51.6 | 30.5% | 7.1× | 12 | -12.5% |
| 9 | Anhui UniversityChina | 51.0 | 15.8% | 6.7× | 14 | +250.2% |
| 10 | Graz University of TechnologyAustria | 48.6 | 22.4% | 9.2× | 8 | +6.6% |
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 Coding theory and cryptography research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 2% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Coding theory and cryptography.
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.