Ethical hacking and vulnerability assessments are gaining rapid momentum as academic
fields of study. Still, it is sometimes unclear what research areas are included in the
categories and how they fit into the traditional academic framework. Previous studies have
reviewed literature in the field, but the attempts use manual analysis and thus fail to provide
a comprehensive view of the domain. To better understand how the area is treated within
academia, 537,629 related articles from the Scopus database were analyzed. A Python …