International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Hamid Jahankhani
- ISSN online
- 1751-9128
- ISSN print
- 1751-911X
- 6 issues per year
- Impact factor (Clarivate Analytics) 2024 JIF 0.5 (5 Year Impact Factor 0.4)
- CiteScore 2.2 (2024)
JCI 0.11
IJESDF aims to establish dialogue in an ideal and unique setting for researchers and practitioners to have a knowledge resource, report and publish scholarly articles and engage in debate on various security-related issues, new developments and latest proven methodologies in the field of electronic security and digital forensics. This includes the measures governments must take to protect the security of information on the Internet, the implications of cyber-crime in large corporations and for individuals, vulnerability research, zero day attacks, digital forensic investigation, ethical hacking, anti-forensics, identity fraud, phishing, pharming, relevant case studies, and "best practice" for tackling cyber crime.
IJESDF is an Open Access-only journal and article processing charges (APCs) apply.
Topics covered include
- Electronic security, information security systems, systems and network security
- Vulnerability research, ethical hacking, zero day attack, attack pattern recognition
- Computational immunology, authentication authorisations
- Security in mobile platforms, mobile agents/artificial intelligence
- Security: security policies/procedures, strategic approaches, requirements engineering
- Identity: theft, management systems, access management systems
- Open source intelligence, criminal data mining/network analysis/intelligence
- Phishing/pharming/spearphishing, cyber war, cybercrime detection/analysis
- Digital cities, GSM-solicited crime
- Computer/mobile device/network/software forensics, anti-forensics
- Digital forensics tools/techniques/standardisation, testing/approvals for forensic tools
- Crime scene/search and seizure processes, criminal investigation of mobile devices
- Investigative techniques, judicial processes, legal/ethical issues, cyber crime legislations
- Digital and physical surveillance, digital image manipulation
- Cryptographic algorithms/protocols, steganography, hidden data
Objectives
The widespread use of information and communications technology (ICT) has created a global platform for the exchange of ideas, goods and services; the benefits of which are enormous. However, it has also created boundless opportunities for fraud and deception. Cyber-crime is one of the biggest growth industry around the globe, whether it be in the form of violation of company policies, fraud, hate crime, extremism, child pornography, or terrorism. It is therefore paramount that the security industry raises its game to combat these threats. This is an issue of global importance as researchers, government officials, company executives and law enforcement agencies all over the world are struggling to cope.
Advancement in the field of information security and digital forensics are expected to continue increasing during the foreseeable future and the IJESDF is designed to meet the demand for researchers to publish high quality peer reviewed publications. The requirements of industry are varied, challenging and continually changing, with cyber security at the forefront of the knowledge explosion. Articles will focus on research and development, practical knowledge and they present an unbiased review, useful information and techniques.
Readership
The intended audience will include members in academia, public and private sector, students and those who are interested in and will benefit from electronic security and digital forensics. In addition the new journal will become a forum for building a community that will engage in dialogue and gain knowledge from each other.
Contents
IJESDF publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important topics in electronic security and digital forensics will occasionally be published.
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- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Compendex [formerly Ei] (Elsevier)
- Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- ACM Digital Library
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- Inspec (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
- J-Gate
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
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More journal lists/directories...Editor in Chief
- Jahankhani, Hamid, Northumbria University London Campus, UK
(hamid.jahankhani
northumbria.ac.uk)
Associate Editors
- Jamal, Arshad, Northumbria University London Campus, UK
- Watson, David Lilburn, Watson Business Solutions Ltd., UK
Editorial Board Members
- Ali, Rao Faizan, University of Kent, UK
- Blyth, Andrew, University of South Wales, UK
- Cano, Jeimy J., Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
- Cassano, Luca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Dastbaz, Mohammad, University of Suffolk, UK
- Dwivedi, Karan, Google, USA
- Dzemydiene, Dale, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
- Flechais, Ivan, Oxford University, UK
- George, Carlisle, Middlesex University, UK
- Gomez, Antonio Mana, University of Malaga, Spain
- Hassan, Bilal, Northumbria University, UK
- Hessami, Ali, Vega Systems, UK
- Hosseinian-Far, Amin, University of Hertfordshire, UK
- Hsu, Feng, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
- Jurjens, Jan, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering (ISST) and TU Dortmund, Germany
- Justickis, Viktoras, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania
- McEachen II, John C., Naval Postgraduate School, USA
- Me, Gianluigi, Università degli Studi "Tor Vergata", Italy
- Pattinson, Colin, Leeds Beckett University, UK
- Pohlmann, Norbert, University of Applied Sciences Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- Pournouri, Sina, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Revett, Kenneth, Champlain College, USA
- Sanghi, Dheeraj, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
- Shirvani, Ayoub, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
- Tenreiro de Magalhães, Sérgio, Champlain College, USA
- Tryfonas, Theodore, University of Bristol, UK
- Watney, Murdoch, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Weiss, Michael, Carleton University, Canada
- Zorkadis, Vasilios, Hellenic Data Protection Authority and Hellenic Open University, Portugal
A few essentials for publishing in this journal
- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
- All our articles go through a double-blind review process.
- All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors (PDF) is available.
- This is an Open Access-only journal. There is an article processing charge of US $1600 to publish in this journal. You can find more information on Open Access here. Authors who have submitted articles prior to 17 April 2025 will still have a choice of publishing as a standard or an Open Access article.
- All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
- View Author guidelines.
Submission process
Journal news
Just because you're a paranoid android...
15 January, 2026
A new forensic framework designed specifically for the Internet of Things (IoT) is discussed in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. This deep learning-driven system offers benefits over earlier approaches in detecting and reconstructing cyberattacks on components of the vast network of connected sensors, appliances and machines. It achieves an accuracy of almost 98 percent, according to the researchers, and cuts analysis time by more than three quarters [...]
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