TopVenues: A Reproducible Corpus and Tooling Substrate for Cybersecurity Literature Reviews

Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 16 Jun 2026] TopVenues: A Reproducible Corpus and Tooling Substrate for Cybersecurity Literature Reviews Sidnei Barbieri, Ágney Lopes Roth Ferraz, Lourenço Alves Pereira Júnior Cybersecurity literature reviews require a reproducible denominator: the set of papers that a protocol includes before screening and synthesis begin. Today, that denominator is often reconstructed from publisher portals, bibliographic indices, and scholarly application programming interfaces (APIs) whose coverage, formats, and query semantics change over time. This paper presents TopVenues, an open-source system that materializes corpus construction as a versioned research artifact. TopVenues declares a venue and year scope, uses DBLP Computer Science Bibliography (DBLP) as the metadata spine, enriches records with abstracts and BibTeX entries via open scholarly APIs and publisher-specific extractors, and stores the results in a monotonic SQLite snapshot, accessible via a command-line interface (CLI), a web interface, and export paths for review workflows. The May 2026 snapshot contains 9,925 papers from 11 cybersecurity sources over 2017 to 2026, with 99.86% abstract coverage and 99.99% BibTeX coverage; keyword search over the full corpus completes in under 31 ms, and a 250-test suite validates the data-integrity invariants. The fixed denominator also enables repeatable measurement: 29.2% of 2024 to 2025 papers from the four top-ranked security conferences in our scope appear as arXiv preprints, with a median of five months before publication, and a prior-author-track-record filter yields a 16.5x precision gain at 90% recall for triaging preprints that later appear in the same venue set. TopVenues links corpus construction to auditable cybersecurity measurement by making the corpus itself executable, inspectable, and citable. The artifact is available at this https URL. Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Cite as: arXiv:2606.18320 [cs.CR]   (or arXiv:2606.18320v1 [cs.CR] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.18320 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Ágney Lopes Roth Ferraz [view email] [v1] Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:54:50 UTC (29 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: cs.CR < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-06 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)