Cryptography and Data Security
Cryptography and Data Security is a research topic within Artificial Intelligence. Science Explorer counts 40k research works in it since 1952. 28.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers covers advanced cryptographic schemes and protocols, including homomorphic encryption, identity-based encryption, attribute-based encryption, lattice-based cryptography, secure multi-party computation, searchable encryption, pairing-based cryptography, privacy-preserving computation, zero-knowledge proofs, and trapdoor functions.
- Homomorphic Encryption
- Identity-Based Encryption
- Attribute-Based Encryption
- Lattice-based Cryptography
- Secure Multi-party Computation
- Searchable Encryption
- Pairing-based Cryptography
- Privacy-Preserving Computation
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs
- Trapdoor Functions
- Research works
- 40k fractional, since 1952
- In the world top 10%
- 11k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 28.1% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +23% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Cryptography and Data Security research?
By volume, China and India publish the most (3.1k and 1.3k works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 3.1k works
- 2 India 1.3k works
- 3 United States 1.2k works
- 4 Japan 322 works
- 5 Germany 288 works
- 6 France 243 works
- 7 United Kingdom 233 works
- 8 South Korea 216 works
- 9 Australia 208 works
- 10 Canada 186 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Cryptography and Data Security research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Xidian University publishes the most Cryptography and Data Security research, followed by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Xidian UniversityChina 105 works
- 2 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 70 works
- 3 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 65 works
- 4 State Key Laboratory of CryptologyChina 58 works
- 5 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 52 works
- 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 46 works
- 7 Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina 46 works
- 8 Beihang UniversityChina 45 works
- 9 Institute of Information EngineeringChina 44 works
- 10 Tsinghua UniversityChina 42 works
Who are the leading researchers in Cryptography and Data Security?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Cryptography and Data Security include Li Fei-Fei, H. Vincent Poor and Rajkumar Buyya.
- 1 Li Fei-Fei United States 17k citations
- 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 9.5k citations
- 3 Rajkumar Buyya Australia 7.8k citations
- 4 Dan Boneh United States 7.5k citations
- 5 Ronald L. Rivest United States 7.3k citations
- 6 Leonard M. Adleman United States 6.7k citations
- 7 Philip S. Yu United States 6.6k citations
- 8 Adi Shamir Israel 6.3k citations
- 9 Dacheng Tao Australia 6.1k citations
- 10 Xuemin Shen Canada 5.1k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Cryptography and Data Security research done?
The largest centres of Cryptography and Data Security research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Shanghai (China) and Guangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wollongong and Saarbrücken.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- WollongongAU · 28.9 works11×
- SaarbrückenDE · 28.9 works9.2×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cryptography and Data Security than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Cryptography and Data Security?
Among universities, judged by research, Xidian University, University of New Brunswick and Guilin University of Electronic Technology 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 | Xidian UniversityChina | 65.0 | 29.2% | 15.4× | 104 | +33.5% |
| 2 | University of New BrunswickCanada | 64.8 | 31.4% | 14.7× | 16 | +631.6% |
| 3 | Guilin University of Electronic TechnologyChina | 63.6 | 28.9% | 10.6× | 28 | +227.5% |
| 4 | The University of Texas at San AntonioUnited States | 62.7 | 65.1% | 6.5× | 10 | +145.0% |
| 5 | Singapore Management UniversitySingapore | 62.0 | 40.9% | 17.4× | 17 | +37.1% |
| 6 | Guangzhou UniversityChina | 59.2 | 28.6% | 9.6× | 33 | +90.9% |
| 7 | Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyHong Kong | 58.5 | 40.5% | 7.7× | 28 | -10.8% |
| 8 | Fujian Normal UniversityChina | 58.0 | 32.0% | 15.6× | 32 | +39.8% |
| 9 | Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina | 56.4 | 25.0% | 11.4× | 65 | -7.7% |
| 10 | University of WollongongAustralia | 56.3 | 26.6% | 11.7× | 29 | -0.5% |
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 Cryptography and Data Security research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 23% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cryptography and Data Security.
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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.