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Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

Security in Wireless Sensor Networks is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1965. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on security measures and challenges in wireless sensor networks, including key management, secure routing, detection of attacks like jamming and denial of service, data aggregation, elliptic curve cryptography, group communication, trust management, and intrusion detection.

  • Key Management
  • Secure Routing
  • Wireless Networks
  • Attack Detection
  • Data Aggregation
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography
  • Jamming Attacks
  • Group Communication
  • Trust Management
  • Intrusion Detection
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1965
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

Which countries lead Security in Wireless Sensor Networks research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (983 and 947 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 983 works
  2. 2 India 947 works
  3. 3 United States 225 works
  4. 4 Saudi Arabia 63 works
  5. 5 ?? 59 works
  6. 6 South Korea 58 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 55 works
  8. 8 Japan 49 works
  9. 9 Iraq 49 works
  10. 10 Canada 46 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: 38.8%India: 37.3%United States: 8.9%Saudi Arabia: 2.5%6 others listed: 12.5%39%largest
China983 · 38.8%India947 · 37.3%United States225 · 8.9%Saudi Arabia63 · 2.5%6 others listed317 · 12.5%

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

Which institutions lead Security in Wireless Sensor Networks research?

By volume in 2022-now, SRM Institute of Science and Technology publishes the most Security in Wireless Sensor Networks research, followed by Saveetha University and Vellore Institute of Technology University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 35 works
  2. 2 Saveetha UniversityIndia 33 works
  3. 3 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 33 works
  4. 4 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 28 works
  5. 5 Southeast UniversityChina 22 works
  6. 6 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 22 works
  7. 7 Xidian UniversityChina 21 works
  8. 8 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 20 works
  9. 9 Northeastern UniversityChina 18 works
  10. 10 PLA Army Engineering UniversityChina 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Security in Wireless Sensor Networks?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Security in Wireless Sensor Networks include Xiaogang Wang, Kai You Wang and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  3. 3 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  4. 4 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Iran 137k citations
  6. 6 Hao Chen China 118k citations
  7. 7 Guanrong Chen China 116k citations
  8. 8 Rui Zhang Singapore 115k citations
  9. 9 Scott J. Shenker United States 114k citations
  10. 10 Rajkumar Buyya Australia 112k 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 Security in Wireless Sensor Networks?

The most cited paper in Security in Wireless Sensor Networks is "Wireless sensor network survey" (Jennifer Yick, Biswanath Mukherjee, Dipak Ghosal, 2008), with 6,277 citations. Next come "Routing techniques in wireless sensor networks: a survey" (4,510) and "A key-management scheme for distributed sensor networks" (3,565).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Wireless sensor network survey Jennifer Yick, Biswanath Mukherjee, Dipak Ghosal · Computer Networks 15 Apr 2008 6,277
2 Routing techniques in wireless sensor networks: a survey Jamal Nazzal Al-Karaki, Ahmed E. Kamal · IEEE Wireless Communications Dec 2004 4,510
3 A key-management scheme for distributed sensor networks Laurent Eschenauer, Virgil D. Gligor Conference paper 18 Nov 2002 3,565
4 Efficient Inference in Fully Connected CRFs with Gaussian Edge Potentials Philipp Krähenbühl, Vladlen Koltun · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 20 Oct 2012 2,972
5 Secure routing in wireless sensor networks: attacks and countermeasures Chris Karlof, David A. Wagner · Ad Hoc Networks Sep 2003 2,954
All 93 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Security in Wireless Sensor Networks research done?

The largest centres of Security in Wireless Sensor Networks research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Nanjing (China) and Xi'an (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Coimbatore.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 160 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 146 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 106 works
  4. 4 Xi'anChina 66 works
  5. 5 CoimbatoreIndia 60 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 55 works
  7. 7 ChengduChina 47 works
  8. 8 HyderabadIndia 43 works
  9. 9 BengaluruIndia 41 works
  10. 10 ChangshaChina 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CoimbatoreIN · 60.0 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Security in Wireless Sensor Networks than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Security in Wireless Sensor Networks?

Among universities, judged by research, Saveetha University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Vellore Institute of Technology 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 14.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Electr…Vellore Institute of…Saveetha UniversitySRM Institute of Sci…
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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
1Saveetha UniversityIndia 73.011.6%12.8×33 +496.4%
2University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 70.016.6%9.3×28 +31.4%
3Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 69.016.1%12.3×33 -4.6%
4SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 66.510.0%12.6×35 +100.6%
5Southeast UniversityChina 64.015.2%5.5×22 +73.7%
6Northeastern UniversityChina 62.318.7%7.4×18 +106.6%
7Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 60.026.5%3.8×8 -3.4%
8Beihang UniversityChina 53.712.2%5.6×17 +160.3%
9PLA Army Engineering UniversityChina 53.513.9%54.8×17 +13.1%
10National University of Defense TechnologyChina 52.28.1%10.3×22 +54.4%

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 Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, country by country

Is Security in Wireless Sensor Networks research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Security in Wireless Sensor Networks.

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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 Security in Wireless Sensor Networks as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Security in Wireless Sensor Networks0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Security in Wireless Sensor Networks 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%Security in Wireless Sensor Networks9.9% in 202520102020

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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