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title: "NDSS (A*): papers and universities"
description: "NDSS (Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium) is rated A* by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 612 of its papers from 2024–2026 (140 in 2024, 211 in 2025, 261 in 2026). By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from the United States (271), China (268) and Germany (60)."
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# NDSS: Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium — papers and institutions, 2024–2026

Papers of NDSS, Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (CORE rank A*; field: Cybersecurity and privacy), 2024–2026: per year, the institutions, countries and topics, and the most-cited papers. Ranks are those of the CORE Conference Rankings, edition ICORE2026 (portal.core.edu.au), applied to every year shown. Papers are the works OpenAlex lists for the conference's proceedings, or for the issues of a conference-linked journal that publishes its papers (such as PACMPL, PVLDB or ACM TOG), by publication year; workshops, companion volumes, posters and Findings are left out. A paper counts once for each institution and country among its authors' affiliations as OpenAlex assigns them; papers without affiliations in OpenAlex count for none. For conferences published in book series that OpenAlex files as one source (LNCS, LIPIcs, SIAM and IOS Press proceedings), the papers are found by DOI: those of the volumes with the conference's title in Crossref, or LIPIcs DOIs, which name the conference. Conferences without DOIs (PMLR, USENIX, OpenReview) are listed without counts. A dash (–) for a year means OpenAlex has no papers of the conference for it yet: the proceedings are not published or indexed yet, or the conference did not meet that year (some meet every other year). 2026 counts what OpenAlex had indexed by 2026-11-02.

All conferences: https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings.md

## Key findings

- NDSS (Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium) is rated A* by the CORE Conference Rankings (ICORE2026); OpenAlex lists 612 of its papers from 2024–2026 (140 in 2024, 211 in 2025, 261 in 2026).
- By the countries of the authors' institutions, the most papers come from the United States (271), China (268) and Germany (60).
- The institutions with the most papers are Tsinghua University (73), Zhejiang University (45) and Chinese Academy of Sciences (33).
- Its most-cited paper of these years is “Large Language Model guided Protocol Fuzzing” (2024), with 247 citations.

## Papers per year

*NDSS papers per publication year in OpenAlex (–: not in OpenAlex yet)*

| Year | Papers | With affiliations |
|---|---:|---:|
| 2024 | 140 | 136 |
| 2025 | 211 | 209 |
| 2026 | 261 | 254 |

## Sources

*Where OpenAlex lists the papers*

| OpenAlex source | Which papers |
|---|---|
| [S4306420590](https://openalex.org/S4306420590) | The conference's proceedings |

## Who publishes there

*Institutions with the most NDSS papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Tsinghua University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/tsinghua-university.md) | 73 |
| 2 | [Zhejiang University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/zhejiang-university.md) | 45 |
| 3 | [Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 33 |
| 4 | [University of Chinese Academy of Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences.md) | 30 |
| 5 | Institute of Information Engineering | 26 |
| 6 | Helmholtz Center for Information Security | 21 |
| 7 | [Peking University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/peking-university.md) | 18 |
| 8 | Purdue University West Lafayette | 16 |
| 9 | [Southeast University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/southeast-university.md) | 16 |
| 10 | Georgia Institute of Technology | 15 |

*Countries with the most NDSS papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 271 |
| 2 | China | 268 |
| 3 | Germany | 60 |
| 4 | Hong Kong | 37 |
| 5 | Singapore | 36 |
| 6 | Australia | 26 |
| 7 | Canada | 21 |
| 8 | South Korea | 21 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 20 |
| 10 | Netherlands | 17 |

*Keywords with the most NDSS papers, 2024–2026*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [large language models](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/large-language-models.md) | 45 |
| 2 | vulnerability detection | 26 |
| 3 | trusted execution environments | 23 |
| 4 | side-channel attacks | 21 |
| 5 | backdoor attacks | 18 |
| 6 | adversarial robustness | 14 |
| 7 | black-box attacks | 13 |
| 8 | denial-of-service attacks | 13 |
| 9 | fuzzing | 13 |
| 10 | privacy leakage | 13 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited NDSS papers of 2024–2026 (citations counted by OpenAlex)*

| # | Citations | Title | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---|---|---|
| 1 | 247 | [Large Language Model guided Protocol Fuzzing](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2024.24556) | 2024-01-01 | Ruijie Meng, Мартин Мирчев, Marcel Böhme et al. |
| 2 | 125 | [MASTERKEY: Automated Jailbreaking of Large Language Model Chatbots](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2024.24188) | 2024-01-01 | Gelei Deng, Yi Liu, Yuekang Li et al. |
| 3 | 71 | [PropertyGPT: LLM-driven Formal Verification of Smart Contracts through Retrieval-Augmented Property Generation](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2025.241357) | 2025-01-01 | Ye Liu, Yue Xue, Daoyuan Wu et al. |
| 4 | 57 | [BumbleBee: Secure Two-party Inference Framework for Large Transformers](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2025.230057) | 2025-01-01 | Wen-jie Lu, Zhicong Huang, Zhen Gu et al. |
| 5 | 57 | [Low-Quality Training Data Only? A Robust Framework for Detecting Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2024.23081) | 2024-01-01 | Yuqi Qing, Qilei Yin, Xinhao Deng et al. |
| 6 | 53 | [DeGPT: Optimizing Decompiler Output with LLM](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2024.24401) | 2024-01-01 | Peiwei Hu, Ruigang Liang, Kai Chen |
| 7 | 50 | [FreqFed: A Frequency Analysis-Based Approach for Mitigating Poisoning Attacks in Federated Learning](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2024.24620) | 2024-01-01 | Hossein Fereidooni, Alessandro Pegoraro, Phillip Rieger et al. |
| 8 | 47 | [Secure Transformer Inference Made Non-interactive](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2025.230868) | 2025-01-01 | Jiawen Zhang, Xinpeng Yang, Lipeng He et al. |
| 9 | 46 | [NODLINK: An Online System for Fine-Grained APT Attack Detection and Investigation](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2024.23204) | 2024-01-01 | Shaofei Li, Feng Dong, Xusheng Xiao et al. |
| 10 | 40 | [Detecting Voice Cloning Attacks via Timbre Watermarking](https://doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2024.24200) | 2024-01-01 | Chang Liu, Jie Zhang, Tianwei Zhang et al. |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). NDSS: Usenix Network and Distributed System Security Symposium — papers and institutions, 2024–2026. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/proceedings/ndss

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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).