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IEEE Security and Privacy
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IEEE Security and Privacy

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 250 165 254 22

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 175
Documents by Best Scientists*: 258
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 90
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.433
Impact Factor: 3

Overview

Top Research Topics at IEEE Security & Privacy?

The objective of IEEE Security & Privacy is to combine knowledge in the areas of Cryptographic protocol, IPsec, Computational complexity theory, Quantum key distribution and Key exchange.

  • Cryptographic protocol (100.00%)
  • IPsec (100.00%)
  • Computational complexity theory (100.00%)

Papers citation over time

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The top authors publishing in IEEE Security & Privacy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Ray A. Perlner (1 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Sheila E. Frankel (1 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Alan Mink (1 papers) published 1 paper 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 IEEE Security & Privacy (based on the number of publications) are:

  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (1 papers) published 1 paper at the last 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 2009 edition, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 100.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 0.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 0.00% of all publications and 0.00% 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.

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Your career path might vary, depending on your desired field of research. With adequate foresight and planning, we believe each path can contribute to both personal growth and the advancement of knowledge.

Top Publications

  • SgxPectre: Stealing Intel Secrets From SGX Enclaves via Speculative Execution

    Guoxing Chen;Sanchuan Chen;Yuan Xiao;Yinqian Zhang

    (2020)
    226 Citations
  • A Taxonomy of Attacks on Federated Learning

    Malhar S. Jere;Tyler Farnan;Farinaz Koushanfar

    (2021)
    144 Citations
  • Trusted Execution Environments: Properties, Applications, and Challenges

    Patrick Jauernig;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Emmanuel Stapf

    (2020)
    75 Citations
  • Perspectives on the SolarWinds Incident

    Sean Peisert;Bruce Schneier;Hamed Okhravi;Fabio Massacci

    (2021)
    73 Citations
  • Top Five Challenges in Software Supply Chain Security: Observations From 30 Industry and Government Organizations

    (2022)
    65 Citations
  • Seven Ways to Evaluate the Utility of Synthetic Data

    Khaled El Emam

    (2020)
    45 Citations
  • A Critical Overview of Privacy in Machine Learning

    Emiliano De Cristofaro

    (2021)
    43 Citations
  • The Need for New Antiphishing Measures Against Spear-Phishing Attacks

    Luca Allodi;Tzouliano Chotza;Ekaterina Panina;Nicola Zannone

    (2020)
    36 Citations
  • Bringing Cyber to School: Integrating Cybersecurity Into Secondary School Education

    Denny Pencheva;Joseph Hallett;Awais Rashid

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Does Insurance Have a Future in Governing Cybersecurity

    Daniel W. Woods;Tyler Moore

    (2020)
    34 Citations

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