Cybersecurity – ETO Research Almanac

ETO Research Almanac

Between 2017 and 2022, researchers published roughly

200,000

English-language articles on cybersecurity

The global cybersecurity literature grew

58%

between 2017 and 2022

Articles on cybersecurity made up

of articles across all fields

Authors from private companies contributed to

of cybersecurity articles

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Data last updated May 8, 2024

Vital signs

198,908
cybersecurity articles were released between 2017 and 2022 (estd.)
58%
growth in research between 2017 and 2022
1%
of articles in general focused on cybersecurity

Citation impact

12
citations for the average cybersecurity article
10
citations for the average article in general

Countries

17%
of cybersecurity articles have American authors
19%
have Chinese authors
15%
have European authors

Country	Articles (2017-2021)	Growth (2017-2021)	Global share	Citations per article
China	30,972	82%	19%	16.9
United States	26,763	30%	17%	25.9
India	19,805	77%	12%	9.8

Top-cited articles

Federated Machine Learning: Concept and Applications
2019: arXiv. 7,639 citations
An Overview of Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Consensus, and Future Trends
2017: International Congress on Big Data. 3,337 citations
Blockchain challenges and opportunities: a survey
2018: International Journal of Web and Grid Services. 3,032 citations
Obfuscated Gradients Give a False Sense of Security: Circumventing Defenses to Adversarial Examples
2018: arXiv. 2,855 citations
Practical Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
2017: IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive. 2,434 citations
Ensemble Adversarial Training: Attacks and Defenses
2017: arXiv. 2,333 citations
A Survey on Internet of Things: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, Security and Privacy, and Applications
2017: IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 2,256 citations
Robust Physical-World Attacks on Deep Learning Models
2017: arXiv. 2,199 citations
One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks
2017: IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 2,190 citations
Efficient Transfer Learning on Modeling Physical Unclonable Functions
2020: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTYFIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON QUALITY ELECTRONIC DESIGN (ISQED 2020). 2,002 citations

Research organizations

Top producers of cybersecurity research (by article count)

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 Institute of Information Engineering (China)
#3 Xidian University (China)

Organization	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	1,657	21.1	China
Institute of Information Engineering	1,313	16.8	China
Xidian University	1,294	24.1	China

Patents and industry

6%
of cybersecurity articles are cited in patents
2%
of articles across all fields are cited in patents
4%
of cybersecurity articles had authors from private companies (vs 3% of articles in general)

Top industry organizations by publication count

Company	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Microsoft	484	44.7	United States
Google	394	80.4	United States
Intel	281	19	United States

The Research Almanac runs on bibliometric data from Clarivate Web of Science and other sources. For details on our sourcing, methodology, and limitations, see the tool documentation.