Ten years of cybersecurity governance, risk and compliance: a bibliometric examination of research themes, trends, and influencers

Abstract

Cybersecurity is an area of predominant research both for academicians and practitioners. With organizations scrambling to keep up with growing cybersecurity concerns, tremendous growth is observed in the number of articles published in this area. The purpose of this research is to examine the conceptual foundations of cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance based on a detailed analysis of research articles published within the last 10 years (2013 – 2023). Using a combination of bibliometrics and text analysis techniques, this study aims to (a): identify the research themes, and their relationship, (b): the evolution of research themes over time, and (c): identify the most influential authors, articles, journals, institutions, and countries. As per the results, twelve important research themes were identified, with recent studies focusing on cybersecurity research in relation to artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT, autonomous vehicles, and supply chains. Based on the corpus, RLUK – a consortium of research libraries in the United Kingdom is the institution and the United States of America is the nation, with the most author affiliations. IEEE Access is the top journal in terms of the number of articles and Computers & Security is the most cited journal.