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User Authentication and Security Systems

User Authentication and Security Systems is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1955. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various user authentication methods and security measures, including biometrics, passwords, graphical passwords, continuous authentication, CAPTCHA, and their usability and effectiveness in securing mobile devices and online accounts.

  • Authentication
  • Security
  • Biometrics
  • Passwords
  • Usability
  • Keystroke Dynamics
  • Graphical Passwords
  • Continuous Authentication
  • CAPTCHA
  • Mobile Devices
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1955
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
User Authentication and Security Systems

Which countries lead User Authentication and Security Systems research?

By volume, India and China publish the most (1.1k and 706 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.1k works
  2. 2 China 706 works
  3. 3 United States 602 works
  4. 4 Germany 161 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 154 works
  6. 6 Japan 113 works
  7. 7 South Korea 112 works
  8. 8 Saudi Arabia 102 works
  9. 9 Italy 92 works
  10. 10 Canada 82 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: 33.2%China: 22.2%United States: 18.9%Germany: 5.1%6 others listed: 20.6%33%largest
India1,056 · 33.2%China706 · 22.2%United States602 · 18.9%Germany161 · 5.1%6 others listed654 · 20.6%

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

Which institutions lead User Authentication and Security Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Vellore Institute of Technology University publishes the most User Authentication and Security Systems research, followed by SRM Institute of Science and Technology and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 37 works
  2. 2 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 32 works
  3. 3 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 27 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 27 works
  5. 5 Chandigarh UniversityIndia 18 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 18 works
  7. 7 Saveetha UniversityIndia 18 works
  8. 8 Xidian UniversityChina 17 works
  9. 9 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 17 works
  10. 10 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in User Authentication and Security Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on User Authentication and Security Systems include Zhong Lin Wang, H. Vincent Poor and Han Zhang.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  4. 4 Anil Kumar Jain United States 160k citations
  5. 5 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k citations
  6. 6 Philip S. Yu United States 141k citations
  7. 7 T. J. Kim Germany 139k citations
  8. 8 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Iran 137k 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 User Authentication and Security Systems?

The most cited paper in User Authentication and Security Systems is "Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention." (Walter Schneider, Richard M. Shiffrin, 1977), with 5,797 citations. Next come "An Introduction to Biometric Recognition" (4,931) and "Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption" (4,488).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Controlled and automatic human information processing: I. Detection, search, and attention. Walter Schneider, Richard M. Shiffrin · Psychological Review 1977 5,797
2 An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Anil Kumar Jain, Arun A. Ross, S. Prabhakar · IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 2004 4,931
3 Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption Amit Sahai, Brent R. Waters · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 2005 4,488
4 Universally composable security: a new paradigm for cryptographic protocols Ran Canetti Conference paper 2001 3,349
5 A Conceptual Framework and a Toolkit for Supporting the Rapid Prototyping of Context-Aware Applications Anind K. Dey, Gregory D. Abowd, Daniel Salber · Human-Computer Interaction Dec 2001 2,963
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is User Authentication and Security Systems research done?

The largest centres of User Authentication and Security Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Chennai (India), Bengaluru (India) and Coimbatore (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Greater Noida.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 139 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 96 works
  3. 3 BengaluruIndia 67 works
  4. 4 CoimbatoreIndia 55 works
  5. 5 SeoulSouth Korea 52 works
  6. 6 PuneIndia 51 works
  7. 7 New DelhiIndia 50 works
  8. 8 Xi'anChina 47 works
  9. 9 TokyoJapan 44 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Greater NoidaIN · 21.6 works7.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in User Authentication and Security Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study User Authentication and Security Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, Kyungpook National University, Vellore Institute of Technology University and George Mason 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%20%40%mean 18.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Kyungpook National U…King Saud UniversityGeorge Mason Univers…Vellore Institute of…
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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
1Kyungpook National UniversitySouth Korea 67.039.8%7.0×10 +21.3%
2Vellore Institute of Technology UniversityIndia 64.29.5%9.5×37 +24.6%
3George Mason UniversityUnited States 63.225.5%10.6×13 +286.3%
4King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 58.432.4%2.6×10 -18.1%
5Graphic Era UniversityIndia 56.818.2%9.9×13 +125.2%
6SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 55.76.5%8.0×32 +163.0%
7Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 55.48.6%12.8×27 +122.5%
8Clarkson UniversityUnited States 52.914.9%42.2×8 +42.7%
9Xidian UniversityChina 52.520.3%6.0×17 -29.5%
10Saveetha UniversityIndia 48.98.9%4.7×18 +456.6%

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 User Authentication and Security Systems, country by country

Is User Authentication and Security Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 User Authentication and Security Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of User Authentication and Security 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.

still counting5%10%15%User Authentication and Security Systems10.1% 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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