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Designs, Codes, and Cryptography
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Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

0925-1022

Published by: Springer

https://www.springer.com/journal/10623

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 185 28 80 13
Computer Science 385 73 114 15

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 94
Documents by Best Scientists*: 168
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 72
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.949
Impact Factor: 1.2

Overview

Top Research Topics at Designs, Codes and Cryptography?

The journal mainly deals with areas of study such as Combinatorics, Discrete mathematics, Cryptography, Linear code and Finite field. The majority of Combinatorics studies are focused on the issues of Prime (order theory). The Discrete mathematics works featured in it incorporate elements from Reed–Muller code, Block code, Hamming code, Type (model theory) and Code (cryptography).

In addition to Cryptography research, it aims to explore topics under Encryption, Public-key cryptography and Algebra. Designs, Codes and Cryptography focused on Linear code research but expanded to cover Concatenated error correction code.

  • Combinatorics (60.78%)
  • Discrete mathematics (60.71%)
  • Cryptography (25.37%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Authentication and authenticated key exchanges (1070 citations)
  • A Fuzzy Vault Scheme (489 citations)
  • An Efficient Protocol for Authenticated Key Agreement (481 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Designs, Codes and Cryptography:

The main points discussed in the journal publications deal with Discrete mathematics, Combinatorics, Cryptography, Linear code and Block code. The journal publications facilitate discussions on Discrete mathematics that incorporate concepts from other fields like Reed–Muller code, Hamming code and Upper and lower bounds. The most cited articles with studies in Combinatorics featured incorporate elements of Type (model theory), Binary number and Code (set theory).

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

  • Algebra
  • Combinatorics
  • Cryptography

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Designs, Codes and Cryptography mostly deals with topics like Combinatorics, Discrete mathematics, Cryptography, Finite field and Binary number. The research on Combinatorics tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Characterization (mathematics), Type (model theory) and Order (ring theory). The Discrete mathematics study presented in Designs, Codes and Cryptography encompasses related topics like Coding theory and also examines its connection to subjects such as Minimum distance.

Issues in Cryptography were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Scheme (programming language) and Encryption, Public-key cryptography. It is focused mainly on Encryption, particularly Ciphertext. Finite field research presented in Designs, Codes and Cryptography encompasses a variety of subjects, including Class (set theory), Degree (graph theory) and Differential uniformity.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • On the c -differential uniformity of certain maps over finite fields (15 citations)
  • Characterization and classification of optimal LCD codes (9 citations)
  • Evaluation codes and their basic parameters (5 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 Designs, Codes and Cryptography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Leo Storme (41 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Gennian Ge (36 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Vladimir D. Tonchev (27 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Masaaki Harada (27 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Dieter Jungnickel (24 papers) absent at the last 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 Designs, Codes and Cryptography (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ghent University (126 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Waterloo (58 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Bergen (56 papers) published 6 papers at the last edition, 4 more than at the previous edition,
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (56 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition, 3 more than at the previous edition,
  • Michigan Technological University (49 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as 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, 13.19% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.80% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.40% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 16.00% of all publications and 52.80% 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

  • Shared permutation for syndrome decoding: new zero-knowledge protocol and code-based signature

    (2022)
    52 Citations
  • Linear $$ll $$ℓ -intersection pairs of codes and their applications

    Kenza Guenda;T. Aaron Gulliver;Somphong Jitman;Satanan Thipworawimon

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • The minimum locality of linear codes

    Unknown

    (2022)
    44 Citations
  • On the boomerang uniformity of quadratic permutations

    Sihem Mesnager;Sihem Mesnager;Sihem Mesnager;Chunming Tang;Chunming Tang;Maosheng Xiong

    (2020)
    39 Citations
  • Some classes of power functions with low c-differential uniformity over finite fields

    Zhengbang Zha;Lei Hu

    (2021)
    33 Citations
  • Generalized related-key rectangle attacks on block ciphers with linear key schedule: applications to SKINNY and GIFT

    Boxin Zhao;Xiaoyang Dong;Willi Meier;Keting Jia

    (2020)
    27 Citations
  • Cryptographically strong permutations from the butterfly structure

    Kangquan Li;Chunlei Li;Tor Helleseth;Longjiang Qu

    (2021)
    25 Citations
  • Code-based signatures from new proofs of knowledge for the syndrome decoding problem

    (2022)
    23 Citations

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