IEEE Security and Privacy

Aims & Scope

IEEE Security & Privacy’s primary objective is to stimulate and track advances in security, privacy, and dependability and present these advances in a form that can be useful to a broad cross-section of the professional community—ranging from academic researchers to industry practitioners.

It provides articles with both a practical and research bent by the top thinkers in the field of security and privacy, along with case studies, surveys, tutorials, columns, and in-depth interviews and podcasts for the information security industry.

Through special issues, the magazine explores other timely aspects of privacy in areas such as usable security, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, cryptography, and big data.

Other popular topics include software, hardware, network, and systems security, privacy-enhancing technologies, data analytics for security and privacy, wireless/mobile and embedded security, security foundations, security economics, privacy policies, integrated design methods, sociotechnical aspects, and critical infrastructure.

In addition, the magazine accepts peer-reviewed articles of wide interest under a general call, and also features regular columns on hot topics and interviews with luminaries in the field.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	3
2024	2.90

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13034

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.433

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	501

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	90

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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, Engineering and Social Sciences, 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.

• Stuxnet: Dissecting a Cyberwarfare Weapon

  Citation: 1391

  Authors: Ralph

• Security and Privacy Challenges in the Smart Grid

  Citation: 911

  Authors: Patrick, Stephen

• Security and Privacy Challenges in Cloud Computing Environments

  Citation: 855

  Authors: Hassan, James B.D., Gail-Joon

• Privacy and rationality in individual decision making

  Citation: 710

  Authors: A., J.

• Biometric recognition: security and privacy concerns

  Citation: 705

  Authors: S., S., A.K.

• Hide and seek: an introduction to steganography

  Citation: 700

  Authors: N., P.

• Inside the Slammer worm

  Citation: 612

  Authors: D., V., S., C., S., N.

• The security and privacy of smart vehicles

  Citation: 548

  Authors: J.P., S.

• Toward Automated Dynamic Malware Analysis Using CWSandbox

  Citation: 503

  Authors: Carsten, Thorsten, Felix

• Smart-grid security issues

  Citation: 480

  Authors: H., M., D.A.

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