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Digital Rights Management and Security

Digital Rights Management and Security is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 9.9k research works in it since 1952. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the architectures, technologies, and challenges related to Digital Rights Management (DRM). It covers topics such as interoperability, privacy, security architecture, fair use, rights expression languages, mobile DRM, cloud computing, smart cards, and copyright protection.

  • DRM
  • Interoperable
  • Privacy
  • Security Architecture
  • Fair Use
  • Rights Expression Languages
  • Mobile DRM
  • Cloud Computing
  • Smart Cards
  • Copyright Protection
Research works
9.9k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
980
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+43%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Rights Management and Security

Which countries lead Digital Rights Management and Security research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (263 and 190 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 263 works
  2. 2 United States 190 works
  3. 3 India 132 works
  4. 4 Germany 85 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 41 works
  6. 6 Italy 38 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 34 works
  8. 8 Japan 30 works
  9. 9 South Korea 24 works
  10. 10 France 21 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: 30.6%United States: 22.1%India: 15.4%Germany: 9.9%6 others listed: 22.0%31%largest
China263 · 30.6%United States190 · 22.1%India132 · 15.4%Germany85 · 9.9%6 others listed189 · 22.0%

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

Which institutions lead Digital Rights Management and Security research?

By volume in 2022-now, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft publishes the most Digital Rights Management and Security research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Fraunhofer-GesellschaftGermany 8 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 8 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 7 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 6 works
  5. 5 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 6 works
  6. 6 Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina 6 works
  7. 7 Tsinghua UniversityChina 5 works
  8. 8 Alphabet (United States)United States 4 works
  9. 9 Ideko (Spain)Spain 4 works
  10. 10 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Rights Management and Security?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Rights Management and Security include Philip S. Yu.

  1. 1 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 Rights Management and Security?

The most cited paper in Digital Rights Management and Security is "Multimedia data-embedding and watermarking technologies" (M.D. Swanson, Masatomo Kobayashi, Ahmed H. Tewfik, 1998), with 929 citations. Next come "Attacks on Copyright Marking Systems" (838) and "Activation of Akt and eIF4E Survival Pathways by Rapamycin-Mediated Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Inhibition" (812).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Multimedia data-embedding and watermarking technologies M.D. Swanson, Masatomo Kobayashi, Ahmed H. Tewfik · Proceedings of the IEEE Jun 1998 929
2 Attacks on Copyright Marking Systems Fabien A. P. Petitcolas, Ross Anderson, Markus Kühn · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1998 838
3 Activation of Akt and eIF4E Survival Pathways by Rapamycin-Mediated Mammalian Target of Rapamycin Inhibition Shi-Yong Sun, Laura M. Rosenberg, Xuerong Wang et al. · Cancer Research 15 Aug 2005 812
4 Overview of the MPEG-7 standard Shih-Fu Chang, T. Sikora, A. Purl · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Jun 2001 742
5 A definition of peer-to-peer networking for the classification of peer-to-peer architectures and applications Rüdiger Schollmeier Conference paperOpen access 14 Nov 2002 706
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Where is Digital Rights Management and Security research done?

The largest centres of Digital Rights Management and Security research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Nanjing (China) and Seoul (South Korea).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 57 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 22 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 16 works
  4. 4 SeoulSouth Korea 15 works
  5. 5 WuhanChina 14 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 14 works
  7. 7 BerlinGermany 13 works
  8. 8 ChennaiIndia 12 works
  9. 9 PuneIndia 12 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 11 works
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Is Digital Rights Management and Security research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 43% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2009. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Rights Management and Security.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Digital Rights Management and Security as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0069% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Digital Rights Management and 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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