Everything about Credential Management

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Credential ManagementA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: SALF: A Blockchain-Based Framework for Scalable Academic Credential Management and Institutional GovernanceInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The medical staff services handbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: A Security Credential Management System for V2X CommunicationsCited 192 times
5. Go sideways: WebAuthnA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: PasskeyA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A Security Credential Management System for V2X Communications

  Benedikt Brecht, Dean Therriault, Andre Weimerskirch · 2018 · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 192 citations

• Blockchain and the Future of Digital Learning Credential Assessment and Management

  Merija Jirgensons, Jānis Kapenieks · 2018 · Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability · 161 citations

• Distributed credential chain discovery in trust management

  Ninghui Li, William H. Winsborough, John C. Mitchell · 2003 · Journal of Computer Security · 145 citations

• The Key to Intelligent Transportation: Identity and Credential Management in Vehicular Communication Systems

  Mohammad Khodaei, Panos Papadimitratos · 2015 · IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine · 53 citations

• Blockchain-Based Credential Management for Anonymous Authentication in SAGVN

  Dongxiao Liu, Huaqing Wu, Cheng Huang · 2022 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 45 citations

• Credential Management for Automatic Identification Solutions in Supply Chain Management

  Marcel Henseler, Michael Rossberg, Guenter Schaefer · 2008 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 16 citations

• Accountable credential management system for vehicular communication

  Salabat Khan, Liehuang Zhu, Xiaoyan Yu · 2020 · Vehicular Communications · 15 citations

• Generic Construction of Threshold Credential Management With User-Autonomy Aggregation

  Meng Jia, Jing Chen, Kun He · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 11 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• SALF: A Blockchain-Based Framework for Scalable Academic Credential Management and Institutional Governance

  Mustafizul Haque, Bui Thanh Hung, Kamal Upreti · 2025 · Journal of Applied Science and Technology Trends · 6 citations

• DAVE-CC: A decentralized, access-controlled, verifiable ecosystem for cross-chain academic credential management

  Tuan-Dung Tran, Huynh Phan Gia Bao, Nguyen Tan Cam · 2025 · Journal of Information Security and Applications · 4 citations

• Standard of Micro-Credential Quality Management System To Enhance Employability and Competitiveness of Graduates

  Surono Surono · 2024 · Asian Journal of Social and Humanities · 4 citations

• Blockchain-Based E-Certificate System: Secure and Transparent Credential Management

  Umi Chotijah, Ilham Teguh Prayudha, Achmad Rifki · 2024 · JUSIFO (Jurnal Sistem Informasi) · 3 citations

• A Decentralized Threshold Credential Management With Fine-Grained Authentication for VANETs

  Jing Zhang, Xin Wang, Jie Cui · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The medical staff services handbookCindy A. Gassiot, Vicki L. Searcy · 2006
• Medical staff credentialingF. A. Rozovsky, Fay A. Rozovsky · 1993
• Medical staff managementChristine S. Mobley, Sheryl Deutsch · 1995
• The medical staff services handbookCindy A. Gassiot · 2011
• The medical staff services handbookCindy A. Gassiot · 2010
• 📕Credentialing in the managed care environmentHugh P. Greeley · 1996
• 📕Handbook of medical and professional staff managementVicki L. Searcy, Christina W. Giles · 2002
• Handbook of medical staff managementCindy A. Gassiot · 1990

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

🔗 Related topics

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• Passkey A passkey, also known as security key, is a pair of cryptographic keys that is generated by a user's authenticator linked to an account to authenticate…
• Single sign-on Single sign-on (SSO) is an authentication scheme that allows a user to log in with a single ID to any of several related, yet independent, software systems…
• FIDO Alliance The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance is an open industry association launched in February 2013 whose stated mission is to develop and promote authentication…
• Java Authentication and Authorization Service Java Authentication and Authorization Service, or JAAS, pronounced "Jazz", is the Java implementation of the standard Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)…
• Universal 2nd Factor Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) is an open standard that strengthens and simplifies two-factor authentication (2FA) using specialized Universal Serial Bus (USB)…
• Data Protection API Data Protection Application Programming Interface (DPAPI) is a simple cryptographic application programming interface available as a built-in component…
• Basic access authentication In the context of an HTTP transaction, basic access authentication is a method for an HTTP user agent (e.g. a web browser) to provide a user name and password…