OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers & Security is 55. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	366
Navigating Cybersecurity Governance: The influence of opportunity structures in socio-technical transitions for small and medium enterprises	261
Multivariate time series anomaly detection with variational autoencoder and spatial–temporal graph network	219
A classifications framework for continuous biometric authentication (2018–2024)	182
How do mental models affect cybersecurity awareness? The roles of questioning styles, need for cognition, and graphical representations	179
Privacy and security of wearable internet of things: A scoping review and conceptual framework development for safety and health management in construction	150
E-WebGuard: Enhanced neural architectures for precision web attack detection	138
Detecting interest flooding attacks in NDN: A probability-based event-driven approach	135
RAF-AG: Report analysis framework for attack path generation	134
Enhancing data integrity in opportunistic mobile social network: Leveraging Berkle Tree and secure data routing against attacks	130
A hybrid scoring system for prioritization of software vulnerabilities	126
Container security: Precaution levels, mitigation strategies, and research perspectives	124
How to decrypt files encrypted by Rhysida ransomware without the attacker’s private key	118
SCASS: Breaking into SCADA Systems Security	113
Analysis of human reliability in detecting GPS spoofing on ECDIS in congested waterways under evidential reasoning and HEART approach	112
A review of privacy-preserving biometric identification and authentication protocols	110
A model-based approach for vulnerability analysis of IoT security protocols: The Z-Wave case study	107
Design and implementation of a closed loop time delay feedback control (CLTD-FC) system for mitigating DDos attacks	106
Editorial	104
MAG-PUFs: Authenticating IoT devices via electromagnetic physical unclonable functions and deep learning	98
The mediating role of security anxiety in internet threat avoidance behavior	97
Optimism amid risk: How non-IT employees’ beliefs affect cybersecurity behavior	94
Evaluation framework for quantum security risk assessment: A comprehensive strategy for quantum-safe transition	91
Enhancing user identification through batch averaging of independent window subsequences using smartphone and wearable data	85
A bio-inspired optimal feature with convolutional GhostNet based squeeze excited deep-scale capsule network for intrusion detection	85

A privacy preservation method for multiple-source unstructured data in online social networks	84
Efficient handover protocol for 5G and beyond networks	83
Information security policy non-compliance: Can capitulation theory explain user behaviors?	82
Examining usable security features and user perceptions of Physical Authentication Devices	81
A novel cryptosystem based on DNA cryptography and randomly generated mealy machine	74
Differential area analysis for ransomware attack detection within mixed file datasets	72
IoT security certifications: Challenges and potential approaches	71
Reading is not believing: A multimodal adversarial attacker for Chinese-NLP model	69
AIS-NIDS: An intelligent and self-sustaining network intrusion detection system	68
Defend against adversarial attacks in malware detection through attack space management	68
IoTSecSim: A framework for modelling and simulation of security in Internet of things	68
A lightweight packet forwarding verification in SDN using sketch	67
Adaptive and maladaptive factors behind password manager use: A hope-extended protection motivation perspective	67
Reducing fraud in organizations through information security policy compliance: An information security controls perspective	61
An empirical analysis of the information security culture key factors framework	61
Detecting abnormal logins by discovering anomalous links via graph transformers	61
An ensemble of pre-trained transformer models for imbalanced multiclass malware classification	60
Towards a cybersecurity culture-behaviour framework: A rapid evidence review	60
MaDroid: A maliciousness-aware multifeatured dataset for detecting android malware	59
Domain adaptation for Windows advanced persistent threat detection	59
A GPU-based machine learning approach for detection of botnet attacks	59
Machine learning-based early detection of IoT botnets using network-edge traffic	59
Designing accurate lightweight intrusion detection systems for IoT networks using fine-tuned linear SVM and feature selectors	58
A novel framework to identify cybersecurity challenges and opportunities for organizational digital transformation in the cloud	58
Editorial Board	58
HAE-HRL: A network intrusion detection system utilizing a novel autoencoder and a hybrid enhanced LSTM-CNN-based residual network	57
Editorial Board	57
Towards a metrics suite for evaluating cache side-channel vulnerability: Case studies on an open-source RISC-V processor	57
A novel Evil Twin MiTM attack through 802.11v protocol exploitation	56
Editorial Board	55
GAMBD: Generating adversarial malware against MalConv	55
Observational equivalence and security games: Enhancing the formal analysis of security protocols	55
Editorial Board	55
Beyond robustness: Resilience verification of tree-based classifiers	55