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Cybersecurity and Information Systems

Cybersecurity and Information Systems is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 6.9k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on network security and communication technologies, including IoT networks, telecommunication networks, machine learning, SDN/NFV, cloud services, UAV path planning, big data centers, and information risks.

  • Network Security
  • Communication Technologies
  • IoT Networks
  • Telecommunication Networks
  • Machine Learning
  • SDN/NFV
  • Cloud Service
  • UAV Path Planning
  • Big Data Centers
  • Information Risks
Research works
6.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
692
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cybersecurity and Information Systems

Which countries lead Cybersecurity and Information Systems research?

By volume, Ukraine and Russia publish the most (804 and 592 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 804 works
  2. 2 Russia 592 works
  3. 3 United States 158 works
  4. 4 China 133 works
  5. 5 India 93 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 52 works
  7. 7 Kazakhstan 48 works
  8. 8 Poland 42 works
  9. 9 Azerbaijan 38 works
  10. 10 ?? 34 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.

Ukraine: 40.3%Russia: 29.7%United States: 7.9%China: 6.7%6 others listed: 15.4%40%largest
Ukraine804 · 40.3%Russia592 · 29.7%United States158 · 7.9%China133 · 6.7%6 others listed307 · 15.4%

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

Which institutions lead Cybersecurity and Information Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” publishes the most Cybersecurity and Information Systems research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Lviv Polytechnic National University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 73 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 56 works
  3. 3 Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 55 works
  4. 4 State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"Ukraine 53 works
  5. 5 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 39 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 38 works
  7. 7 National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Ukraine 37 works
  8. 8 National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation InstituteUkraine 29 works
  9. 9 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 28 works
  10. 10 Moscow Technical University of Communication and InformaticsRussia 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cybersecurity and Information Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cybersecurity and Information Systems include Jinde Cao.

  1. 1 Jinde Cao China 104k 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 Cybersecurity and Information Systems?

The most cited paper in Cybersecurity and Information Systems is "A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes" (David A. Huffman, 1952), with 6,391 citations. Next come "Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control" (693) and "Computer Multiplication and Division Using Binary Logarithms" (606).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes David A. Huffman · Proceedings of the IRE Sep 1952 6,391
2 Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control E. Dijkstra · Communications of the ACM Open access Sep 1965 693
3 Computer Multiplication and Division Using Binary Logarithms John N. Mitchell · IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers Aug 1962 606
4 Julius --- an open source real-time large vocabulary recognition engine Akinobu Lee, Tatsuya Kawahara, Kiyohiro Shikano Conference paperOpen access 3 Sep 2001 535
5 Cyber-physical systems and their security issues Rasim Mahammad Alguliyev, Yadigar İmamverdiyev, Lyudmila V. Sukhostat · Computers in Industry 14 May 2018 471
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cybersecurity and Information Systems research done?

The largest centres of Cybersecurity and Information Systems research in 2022-now are Kyiv (Ukraine), Moscow (Russia), Kharkiv (Ukraine) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cherkasy, Kharkiv and Poltava.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 KyivUkraine 301 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 213 works
  3. 3 KharkivUkraine 180 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 101 works
  5. 5 LvivUkraine 70 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 42 works
  7. 7 WeatherfordUnited States 38 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 32 works
  9. 9 BakuAzerbaijan 31 works
  10. 10 CherkasyUkraine 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CherkasyUA · 31.2 works121×
  2. KharkivUA · 180.2 works78×
  3. PoltavaUA · 22.9 works54×
  4. VinnytsiaUA · 23.5 works48×
  5. KyivUA · 300.9 works47×
  6. LvivUA · 69.6 works45×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cybersecurity and Information Systems than the world average.

See Cybersecurity and Information Systems on the map

Where is the best place to study Cybersecurity and Information Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Moscow Technical University of Communication and Informatics, National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute and Lviv Polytechnic 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.

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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
1Moscow Technical University of Communication and InformaticsRussia 69.026.2%325.9×28 +60.7%
2National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation InstituteUkraine 61.818.9%262.6×29 +26.6%
3Lviv Polytechnic National UniversityUkraine 53.39.1%105.2×55 -0.3%
4National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Ukraine 52.29.7%181.2×38 +47.6%
5Weatherford CollegeUnited States 51.79.3%14.2×38 +198.9%
6Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan UniversityUkraine 50.317.0%84.4×15 +35.4%
7State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"Ukraine 48.14.9%174.8×53 +12.8%
8National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”Ukraine 47.42.8%157.9×73 +1.4%
9Vinnytsia National Technical UniversityUkraine 45.78.4%275.1×20 +82.9%
10Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 44.83.5%49.5×21 +16.8%

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 Cybersecurity and Information Systems, country by country

Is Cybersecurity and Information Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Cybersecurity and Information Systems.

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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 Cybersecurity and Information Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0088% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cybersecurity and Information Systems 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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