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Web Application Security Vulnerabilities

Web Application Security Vulnerabilities is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 4.7k research works in it since 1975. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the security of web applications, particularly in detecting and preventing vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. It covers topics like static analysis, security testing, penetration testing, and the use of technologies like OAuth and JavaScript to enhance web security.

  • Static Analysis
  • SQL Injection
  • Cross-Site Scripting
  • Web Application
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Security Testing
  • JavaScript
  • Penetration Testing
  • OAuth
  • Malicious Code Detection
Research works
4.7k
fractional, since 1975
In the world top 10%
471
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+60%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Web Application Security Vulnerabilities

Which countries lead Web Application Security Vulnerabilities research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (297 and 285 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 297 works
  2. 2 India 285 works
  3. 3 United States 254 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 124 works
  5. 5 Germany 61 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 40 works
  7. 7 Canada 30 works
  8. 8 Italy 28 works
  9. 9 Australia 27 works
  10. 10 South Korea 26 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: 25.3%India: 24.3%United States: 21.7%Indonesia: 10.6%6 others listed: 18.1%25%largest
China297 · 25.3%India285 · 24.3%United States254 · 21.7%Indonesia124 · 10.6%6 others listed212 · 18.1%

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

Which institutions lead Web Application Security Vulnerabilities research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Web Application Security Vulnerabilities research, followed by National University of Defense Technology and Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 23 works
  2. 2 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 15 works
  3. 3 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 13 works
  4. 4 Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 10 works
  5. 5 Fudan UniversityChina 8 works
  6. 6 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 8 works
  7. 7 SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 8 works
  8. 8 Tsinghua UniversityChina 8 works
  9. 9 Telkom UniversityIndonesia 8 works
  10. 10 Film IndependentUnited States 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Web Application Security Vulnerabilities?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Web Application Security Vulnerabilities include Zheng Zhang.

  1. 1 Zheng Zhang China 85k 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 Web Application Security Vulnerabilities?

The most cited paper in Web Application Security Vulnerabilities is "Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and Signature Generation of Exploits on Commodity Software" (James Newsome, Dawn Xiaodong Song, 2018), with 1,287 citations. Next come "Period04 User Guide" (1,094) and "Analyzing inter-application communication in Android" (847).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dynamic Taint Analysis for Automatic Detection, Analysis, and Signature Generation of Exploits on Commodity Software James Newsome, Dawn Xiaodong Song · Figshare Open access 29 Jun 2018 1,287
2 Period04 User Guide Patrik Lenz · Communications in Asteroseismology Open access 2007 1,094
3 Analyzing inter-application communication in Android Erika Chin, Adrienne Porter Felt, Kate Greenwood et al. Conference paper 28 Jun 2011 847
4 Comparison and Evaluation of Clone Detection Tools Stefan Bellon, Rainer Koschke, Giulio Antoniol et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 22 Aug 2007 787
5 Pixy: a static analysis tool for detecting Web application vulnerabilities Nenad M. Jovanovic, Christopher Kruegel, Engin Kirda Conference paper 2006 727
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Web Application Security Vulnerabilities research done?

The largest centres of Web Application Security Vulnerabilities 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 Coimbatore, Bengaluru and Chennai.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 76 works
  2. 2 ChennaiIndia 31 works
  3. 3 BengaluruIndia 23 works
  4. 4 CoimbatoreIndia 21 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 20 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 19 works
  7. 7 ChangshaChina 18 works
  8. 8 BandungIndonesia 14 works
  9. 9 PuneIndia 14 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CoimbatoreIN · 20.7 works7.1×
  2. BengaluruIN · 23.5 works4.1×
  3. ChennaiIN · 31.0 works3.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Web Application Security Vulnerabilities than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Web Application Security Vulnerabilities?

Among universities, judged by research, National University of Defense Technology, Fudan University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications 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 11.48%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Fudan UniversityBeijing University o…National University …Amrita Vishwa Vidyap…
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1National University of Defense TechnologyChina 68.413.8%12.9×15 +102.2%
2Fudan UniversityChina 62.524.5%3.6×8 +395.6%
3Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 41.814.6%8.6×8 +58.6%
4Amrita Vishwa VidyapeethamIndia 37.83.3%12.3×10 +37.7%
5SRM Institute of Science and TechnologyIndia 20.21.2%5.4×8 +81.8%

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 Web Application Security Vulnerabilities, country by country

Is Web Application Security Vulnerabilities research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 60% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Web Application Security Vulnerabilities.

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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 Web Application Security Vulnerabilities as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0053% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Web Application Security Vulnerabilities0.0093% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Web Application Security Vulnerabilities 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%Web Application Security Vulnerabilities10.2% 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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