Cybersecurity – ETO Research Almanac

ETO Research Almanac

Between 2017 and 2022, researchers published roughly

210,000

English-language articles on cybersecurity

The global cybersecurity literature grew

57%

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 October 15, 2024

Vital signs

211,707
cybersecurity articles were released between 2017 and 2022 (estd.)
57%
growth in research between 2017 and 2022
1%
of articles in general focused on cybersecurity

Citation impact

14
citations for the average cybersecurity article
11
citations for the average article in general

Countries

17%
of cybersecurity articles have American authors
20%
have Chinese authors
15%
have European authors

Country	Articles (2017-2022)	Growth (2017-2022)	Global share	Citations per article
China	41,669	76%	20%	16.5
United States	35,145	32%	17%	26.1
India	30,788	68%	15%	9

Top-cited articles

Towards Deep Learning Models Resistant to Adversarial Attacks
2017: arXiv. 10,668 citations
Federated Machine Learning: Concept and Applications
2019: arXiv. 8,329 citations
An Overview of Blockchain Technology: Architecture, Consensus, and Future Trends
2017: International Congress on Big Data. 3,782 citations
Blockchain challenges and opportunities: a survey
2018: International Journal of Web and Grid Services. 3,430 citations
Efficient Transfer Learning on Modeling Physical Unclonable Functions
2020: PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTYFIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON QUALITY ELECTRONIC DESIGN (ISQED 2020). 3,332 citations
Obfuscated Gradients Give a False Sense of Security: Circumventing Defenses to Adversarial Examples
2018: arXiv. 3,150 citations
Practical Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
2017: IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive. 2,825 citations
Ensemble Adversarial Training: Attacks and Defenses
2017: arXiv. 2,639 citations
A Survey on Internet of Things: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, Security and Privacy, and Applications
2017: IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 2,459 citations
Robust Physical-World Attacks on Deep Learning Models
2017: arXiv. 2,459 citations

Research organizations

Top producers of cybersecurity research (by article count)

#1 Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
#2 Xidian University (China)
#3 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China)

Organization	Articles (2017-2022)	Citations per article	Country
Chinese Academy of Sciences	2,257	21.8	China
Xidian University	1,393	26.4	China
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications	1,277	26.3	China

Patents and industry

6%
of cybersecurity articles are cited in patents
2%
of articles across all fields are cited in patents
5%
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	529	49.9	United States
Google	438	86.2	United States
Intel	296	23.5	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.