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Background: This report covers network security research papers from 2013 to 2022 using the Scopus interdisciplinary online database. The study’s goal is to examine the year-by-year growth of publications, relative growth rate and doubling time, top ten authors’ contributions, authorship patterns, degrees of collaboration, collaborative coefficient, collaborative index, co-author index, document types, time series analysis, contributions of top ten journals, institutions, countries, languages, and highly cited papers in network security research publications. Aim: This study studies or evaluates Network security research trends from 2013 to 2022 to discuss the possibility of employing data from the Scopus database. Between 2013 and 2022, there was an annual rise in Network security research articles of 84,739 research publications, 7,93,177 citations, 60372 cited publications, and 24367 uncited publications. Objectives: To perform a bibliometric analysis of the Citations and Publications on Network Security Research between 2013-2022. The authors’ study purpose is to look at how scientometric Network security research is evolving and to detect any trends in that development. It also intends to discover prior trends in Network security research publications published in scientometrics based on the sample data. Material: This study confirmed that the relative growth rate is decreasing trend. At the same time doubling time was found that 0.83 in the year 2014 and 4.89 in the year 2022 and it is confirmed that doubling time is an increasing trend. The subject a maximum of 69062 (81.34%) research publications are contributed by Computer Science, the authorship pattern, 5964 research publications are contributed by single authors, and the average degree of collaboration is 0.92. The collaboration coeffi cient of the average is 0.62. The collaboration Index average is 3.29. The Modified collaboration coef cient of the averageis 3.29. Result: The document types a maximum of 50492 (59.59%) research publications are contributed by conference paper, during the journal of the maximum of 5521 (33.63%) research publications are contributed by the lecture notes in computer science including subseries lecture notes in artificial intelligence and lecture notes in bioinformatics. The Institute a maximum of 1553 (17.93%) contributions are Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country, a maximum of 5521 (33.63%) research publications are contributed by the China. Conclusion: Network security consists of the provisions established in an underlying computer network infrastructure, rules set by the network administrator to safeguard the network and network-accessible resources from unauthorized access, and the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of these measures when combined.

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