Computer Security Rankings
Motivation
ComSec Rankings is a website inspired by CSrankings.org to aggregate publications in top tier conferences across the world. Unfortunately, CSrankings only accounts for labs and professors within the CS department of a university and calculates rankings based off that.
This means that labs like SETH Lab at Texas A&M that regularly publish to CSS, Usenix, and S&P, but are under the ECE department, are not included in this ranking. ComSec Rankings ranks all universities from number of publications, regardless of department, straight from the proceedings distributed during that conference.
ComSec Rankings goes off of the digitally-accessible proceedings from each major conference such as this paper for the 2024 USENIX conference:
https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/sec24_contents.pdf
Each publication can only be counted once for a university regardless of how many authors are attributed to that university. If an author belongs to multiple universities then each university will recieve credit for that publication.
Please note that each conference has their own timeline of how dated the proceedings appear which may affect the metrics displayed on the charts. The earliest that I have found for each conference is listed below:
CCS: 1993
IEEE S&P: 2016
USENIX: 2015
Another note for CCS is that posters listed on the proceedings are not counted, only papers.
To find the full details of the web scraping, data processing, and backend API check out the source code on GitHub.
ComSec Rankings uses Next.js and TailwindCSS on the frontend with Python as data collection and backend APIs. This website is hosted on a Hetzner VPS because Vercel could not handle the Python backend.
Feel free to reach out to me at jkohhokj[at]gmail[dot]com if you have any comments, concerns, or questions. Alternatively, you can always create a pull request on this website's GitHub page.
This means that labs like SETH Lab at Texas A&M that regularly publish to CSS, Usenix, and S&P, but are under the ECE department, are not included in this ranking. ComSec Rankings ranks all universities from number of publications, regardless of department, straight from the proceedings distributed during that conference.
Methodology
ComSec Rankings goes off of the digitally-accessible proceedings from each major conference such as this paper for the 2024 USENIX conference:
https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/sec24_contents.pdf
Each publication can only be counted once for a university regardless of how many authors are attributed to that university. If an author belongs to multiple universities then each university will recieve credit for that publication.
Please note that each conference has their own timeline of how dated the proceedings appear which may affect the metrics displayed on the charts. The earliest that I have found for each conference is listed below:
CCS: 1993
IEEE S&P: 2016
USENIX: 2015
Another note for CCS is that posters listed on the proceedings are not counted, only papers.
To find the full details of the web scraping, data processing, and backend API check out the source code on GitHub.
Meta Info
ComSec Rankings uses Next.js and TailwindCSS on the frontend with Python as data collection and backend APIs. This website is hosted on a Hetzner VPS because Vercel could not handle the Python backend.
Feel free to reach out to me at jkohhokj[at]gmail[dot]com if you have any comments, concerns, or questions. Alternatively, you can always create a pull request on this website's GitHub page.