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Digital and Cyber Forensics

Digital and Cyber Forensics is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to digital forensics, including challenges and approaches in Internet of Things (IoT) forensics, cloud computing, memory analysis, file carving, cybercrime investigations, and security issues in digital data and mobile devices.

  • Digital Forensics
  • Internet of Things
  • Cloud Computing
  • Forensic Investigation
  • Memory Analysis
  • File Carving
  • Cybercrime
  • Data Forensics
  • Mobile Devices
  • Security
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
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
+49%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital and Cyber Forensics

Which countries lead Digital and Cyber Forensics research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (818 and 614 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 818 works
  2. 2 United States 614 works
  3. 3 China 459 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 342 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 164 works
  6. 6 Germany 115 works
  7. 7 Russia 110 works
  8. 8 South Korea 83 works
  9. 9 Saudi Arabia 77 works
  10. 10 Italy 75 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.

India: 28.6%United States: 21.5%China: 16.1%Indonesia: 12.0%6 others listed: 21.9%29%largest
India818 · 28.6%United States614 · 21.5%China459 · 16.1%Indonesia342 · 12.0%6 others listed625 · 21.9%

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

Which institutions lead Digital and Cyber Forensics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan publishes the most Digital and Cyber Forensics research, followed by National Forensic Sciences University and SRM Institute of Science and Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universitas Ahmad DahlanIndonesia 24 works
  2. 2 National Forensic Sciences UniversityIndia 24 works
  3. 3 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 22 works
  4. 4 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 21 works
  5. 5 Islamic University of IndonesiaIndonesia 20 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 19 works
  7. 7 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 17 works
  8. 8 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 15 works
  9. 9 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 15 works
  10. 10 Saveetha UniversityIndia 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital and Cyber Forensics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital and Cyber Forensics include Xiangyu Zhang, Anthony E. Lang and Philip S. Yu.

  1. 1 Xiangyu Zhang 327k citations
  2. 2 Anthony E. Lang Canada 146k citations
  3. 3 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 Digital and Cyber Forensics?

The most cited paper in Digital and Cyber Forensics is "FlowDroid" (Steven Arzt, Siegfried Rasthofer, Christian Fritz et al., 2014), with 1,402 citations. Next come "Lest we remember" (982) and "FlowDroid" (940).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 FlowDroid Steven Arzt, Siegfried Rasthofer, Christian Fritz et al. Conference paper 13 May 2014 1,402
2 Lest we remember J. Alex Halderman, Seth David Schoen, Nadia Heninger et al. · Communications of the ACM 28 Apr 2009 982
3 FlowDroid Steven Arzt, Siegfried Rasthofer, Christian Fritz et al. · ACM SIGPLAN Notices 5 Jun 2014 940
4 End-to-end encrypted traffic classification with one-dimensional convolution neural networks Wei Wang, Ming Qiao Zhu, Jinlin Wang et al. Conference paper Jul 2017 909
5 A Survey on the Internet of Things (IoT) Forensics: Challenges, Approaches, and Open Issues Maria Stoyanova, Yannis Nikoloudakis, Spyros Panagiotakis et al. · IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Open access 2020 859
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital and Cyber Forensics research done?

The largest centres of Digital and Cyber Forensics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Pune (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Gandhinagar.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 109 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 80 works
  3. 3 YogyakartaIndonesia 55 works
  4. 4 PuneIndia 52 works
  5. 5 JakartaIndonesia 50 works
  6. 6 SeoulSouth Korea 49 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 47 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 46 works
  9. 9 CoimbatoreIndia 37 works
  10. 10 New DelhiIndia 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GandhinagarIN · 28.3 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital and Cyber Forensics than the world average.

See Digital and Cyber Forensics on the map

Where is the best place to study Digital and Cyber Forensics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Lausanne, National Forensic Sciences University and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 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 11.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LausannePurdue University We…Amrita Vishwa Vidyap…National Forensic Sc…
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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
1University of LausanneSwitzerland 61.734.6%6.0×10 -12.6%
2National Forensic Sciences UniversityIndia 60.05.9%230.4×24 +371.5%
3Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 60.09.2%10.6×20 +303.0%
4Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 52.219.6%4.0×14 -0.3%
5SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 51.25.2%5.8×22 +203.4%
6Amity UniversityIndia 50.17.0%9.5×15 +100.7%
7Zayed UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 48.012.3%29.8×9 +82.1%
8Universitas Ahmad DahlanIndonesia 47.44.0%16.4×24 -58.3%
9Saveetha UniversityIndia 46.114.1%4.2×15 -
10Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 45.37.2%7.8×14 +179.5%

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 Digital and Cyber Forensics, country by country

Is Digital and Cyber Forensics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 49% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Digital and Cyber Forensics.

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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 Digital and Cyber Forensics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Digital and Cyber Forensics 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%Digital and Cyber Forensics9.9% 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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