Designs, Codes, and Cryptography

Aims & Scope

Designs, Codes and Cryptography is an archival peer-reviewed technical journal publishing original research papers in the designated areas.

There is a great deal of activity in design theory, coding theory and cryptography, including a substantial amount of research which brings together more than one of the subjects.

While many journals exist for each of the individual areas, few encourage the interaction of the disciplines.

The journal was founded to meet the needs of mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists working in these areas, whose interests extend beyond the bounds of any one of the individual disciplines.

The journal provides a forum for high quality research in its three areas, with papers touching more than one of the areas especially welcome.

The journal also considers high quality submissions in the closely related areas of finite fields and finite geometries, which provide important tools for both the construction and the actual application of designs, codes and cryptographic systems.

In particular, it includes (mostly theoretical) papers on computational aspects of finite fields.

It also considers topics in sequence design, which frequently admit equivalent formulations in the journal’s main areas.

Designs, Codes and Cryptography is mathematically oriented, emphasizing the algebraic and geometric aspects of the areas it covers.

The journal considers high quality papers of both a theoretical and a practical nature, provided they contain a substantial amount of mathematics.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	1.40

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.949

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	72

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	5270

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	844

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Computer Science and Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Authentication and authenticated key exchanges

  Citation: 702

  Authors: Whitfield, Paul C., Michael J.

• A Fuzzy Vault Scheme

  Citation: 512

  Authors: Ari, Madhu

• The State of Elliptic Curve Cryptography

  Citation: 476

  Authors: Neal, Alfred, Scott

• Codes, Bent Functions and Permutations Suitable For DES-like Cryptosystems

  Citation: 467

  Authors: Claude, Pascale, Victor

• Fully homomorphic SIMD operations

  Citation: 426

  Authors: N. P., F.

• Worst-case to average-case reductions for module lattices

  Citation: 416

  Authors: Adeline, Damien

• An Efficient Protocol for Authenticated Key Agreement

  Citation: 291

  Authors: Laurie, Alfred, Minghua, Jerry, Scott

• An explication of secret sharing schemes

  Citation: 280

  Authors: D. R.

• Efficient Arithmetic on Koblitz Curves

  Citation: 247

  Authors: Jerome A.

• Efficient pairing computation on supersingular Abelian varieties

  Citation: 246

  Authors: Paulo S. L. M., Steven D., Colm Ó’, Michael

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