International Journal of Information and Computer Security

Aims & Scope

IJICS is a double-blind refereed, authoritative reference addressing development of information/computer security in information technology, political science, informatics, sociology, engineering and science.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.6

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20937

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	178

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.204

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	19

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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 Engineering, 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.

• A taxonomy of intrusion response systems

  Citation: 84

  Authors: Natalia, Samik, Johnny

• CSL: FPGA implementation of lightweight block cipher for power-constrained devices

  Citation: 35

  Authors: Hemraj Shobharam, Dhanya

• Honeypot detection in advanced botnet attacks

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Ping, Lei, Ryan, Cliff C.

• Software fault tree and coloured Petri net based specification, design and implementation of agent-based intrusion detection systems

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Guy, Johnny, Mark, Vasant, Les, Yanxin, Xia, Natalia

• Guidelines for designing graphical authentication mechanism interfaces

  Citation: 25

  Authors: K.V.

• A geotemporal role-based authorisation system

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Vijayalakshmi, Soon Ae

• Data breach: analysis, countermeasures and challenges

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Xichen, Mohammad Mehdi, Sajjad, Haruna, Duc Phong, Ali A.

• Privacy-preserving data mining in the malicious model

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Murat, Onur

• Application-layer denial of service attacks: taxonomy and survey

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Georgios, Natalia, Hugo, Hossein Hadian, Ali A.

• CICIDS2017 dataset: performance improvements and validation as a robust intrusion detection system testbed

  Citation: 19

  Authors: Akram, Javier Coronel

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