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Cryptography and Communications
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Cryptography and Communications

1936-2447

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/12095

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 288 10 45 10
Computer Science 760 21 43 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 31
Documents by Best Scientists*: 71
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 26
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.897
Impact Factor: 1.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Cryptography and Communications?

The journal tackles a plethora of topics, such as Discrete mathematics, Combinatorics, Finite field, Boolean function and Algorithm. The overlapping concepts between Cryptography and Theoretical computer science are the key highlights of Discrete mathematics study. Cryptography and Communications addresses concerns in Combinatorics which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Class (set theory) and Binary number.

The research on Finite field tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Monomial, Pure mathematics and Order (ring theory). The journal explores research in Boolean function and the adjacent study of Nonlinear system. Algorithm research is concerned with Stream cipher in particular.

Stream cipher, which encompasses Keystream and Stream cipher attack, is the main subject of Cryptography and Communications. Linear code research presented falls under the umbrella topic of Block code. Studies on Permutation discussed in it link to the field of Trinomial.

  • Discrete mathematics (45.09%)
  • Combinatorics (42.64%)
  • Finite field (18.30%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Hadamard matrices and their applications (451 citations)
  • A few more quadratic APN functions (56 citations)
  • Linear codes with few weights from weakly regular bent functions based on a generic construction (56 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Cryptography and Communications:

The published articles primarily focus on research topics in Discrete mathematics, Combinatorics, Cryptography, Theoretical computer science and Finite field. The published papers facilitate discussions on Discrete mathematics that incorporate concepts from other fields like Function (mathematics), Construct (python library) and Quadratic equation. The journal publications explore issues in Combinatorics which can be linked to other research areas like Ring (mathematics), Polynomial and Code (set theory).

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Algebra
  • Cryptography
  • Algorithm

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Cryptography and Communications mainly deals with areas of study such as Combinatorics, Discrete mathematics, Finite field, Function (mathematics) and Binary number. The journal focused on Combinatorics research but expanded to cover Ring (mathematics). The subject of Quantum, which is connected to the field of Construct (python library), serves as the foundation of the Discrete mathematics research featured in it.

Finite field research featured in the journal incorporates concerns from various other topics such as Pure mathematics, Griesmer bound, Linear code and Power function. While Function (mathematics) is the key highlight in it, it also covered some subjects on Stream cipher and Cipher. In addition to Permutation research, the journal aims to explore topics under Hadamard transform and Degree (graph theory).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • The c-differential behavior of the inverse function under the EA-equivalence (8 citations)
  • An inductive construction of minimal codes (6 citations)
  • Linear codes with one-dimensional hull associated with Gaussian sums (3 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Cryptography and Communications (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Sihem Mesnager (19 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Xiwang Cao (15 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • Tor Helleseth (13 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Fang-Wei Fu (10 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Qin Yue (10 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Cryptography and Communications (based on the number of publications) are:

  • University of Bergen (33 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 8 less than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (33 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 5 more than at the previous edition,
  • Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (26 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Southwest Jiaotong University (23 papers) published 4 papers at the last edition, 4 less than at the previous edition,
  • Paris 8 University (19 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 5.81% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 30.86% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 18.52% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 14.81% of all publications and 35.80% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Recent results and problems on constructions of linear codes from cryptographic functions

    Nian Li;Sihem Mesnager;Sihem Mesnager;Sihem Mesnager

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • LCD and ACD codes over a noncommutative non-unital ring with four elements

    Minjia Shi;Shitao Li;Jon-Lark Kim;Patrick Solé

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • On self-dual and LCD double circulant and double negacirculant codes over $\mathbb {F}_{q}+u\mathbb {F}_{q}$

    Minjia Shi;Hongwei Zhu;Liqin Qian;Lin Sok

    (2020)
    26 Citations
  • Survey on recent trends towards generalized differential and boomerang uniformities

    (2021)
    26 Citations
  • Linear codes with one-dimensional hull associated with Gaussian sums

    Liqin Qian;Xiwang Cao;Xiwang Cao;Sihem Mesnager;Sihem Mesnager;Sihem Mesnager

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • NEW CONSTRUCTIONS OF ENTANGLEMENT-ASSISTED QUANTUM CODES

    A. Allahmadi;A. AlKenani;R. Hijazi;N. Muthana

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • On constructions of weightwise perfectly balanced Boolean functions

    Sihem Mesnager;Sihem Mesnager;Sihong Su;Sihong Su

    (2021)
    20 Citations
  • Explicit values of the DDT, the BCT, the FBCT, and the FBDT of the inverse, the gold, and the Bracken-Leander S-boxes

    (2022)
    19 Citations
  • New z-complementary/complementary sequence sets with non-power-of-two length and low PAPR

    (2022)
    14 Citations
  • Combinatorial t-designs from special functions

    Cunsheng Ding;Chunming Tang

    (2020)
    13 Citations

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