OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computers & Security is 56. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Navigating Cybersecurity Governance: The influence of opportunity structures in socio-technical transitions for small and medium enterprises	372
Multivariate time series anomaly detection with variational autoencoder and spatial–temporal graph network	190
Defend against adversarial attacks in malware detection through attack space management	189
Reading is not believing: A multimodal adversarial attacker for Chinese-NLP model	158
Editorial Board	146
Towards a metrics suite for evaluating cache side-channel vulnerability: Case studies on an open-source RISC-V processor	140
A novel Evil Twin MiTM attack through 802.11v protocol exploitation	140
Reviewer Acknowledgement 2021	134
A bio-inspired optimal feature with convolutional GhostNet based squeeze excited deep-scale capsule network for intrusion detection	129
Exploring compiler optimization space for control flow obfuscation	124
Vulnerabilities in Android webview objects: Still not the end!	123
MADONNA: Browser-based malicious domain detection using Optimized Neural Network by leveraging AI and feature analysis	119
RETRACTED: I recognize you by your steps: Privacy impact of pedometer data	118
AttackNet: Enhancing biometric security via tailored convolutional neural network architectures for liveness detection	113
Covert timing channel detection based on isolated binary trees	110
A lightweight packet forwarding verification in SDN using sketch	109
Analysis of human reliability in detecting GPS spoofing on ECDIS in congested waterways under evidential reasoning and HEART approach	106
Improving transferable adversarial attack via feature-momentum	101
An analysis of zero-trust architecture and its cost-effectiveness for organizational security	98
FineFool: A novel DNN object contour attack on image recognition based on the attention perturbation adversarial technique	96
A permission-carrying security policy and static enforcement for information flows in Android programs	96
On Detecting and Classifying DGA Botnets and their Families	92
PPT: A privacy-preserving global model training protocol for federated learning in P2P networks	91
AutoVAS: An automated vulnerability analysis system with a deep learning approach	89
Don’t get stung, cover your ICS in honey: How do honeypots fit within industrial control system security	85

A typology of cybersecurity behavior among knowledge workers	82
Investigating machine learning attacks on financial time series models	78
TZMon: Improving mobile game security with ARM trustzone	77
The moderating effect of abusive supervision on information security policy compliance: Evidence from the hospitality industry	76
The effectiveness of zoom touchscreen gestures for authentication and identification and its changes over time	75
A traffic anomaly detection scheme for non-directional denial of service attacks in software-defined optical network	72
Cybersecurity preparedness of small-to-medium businesses: A Western Australia study with broader implications	71
The Security Awareness Adventure: A serious game for security awareness training utilizing a state transition system and a probabilistic model	71
Cloud computing security: A survey of service-based models	68
MGA-IDS: Optimal feature subset selection for anomaly detection framework on in-vehicle networks-CAN bus based on genetic algorithm and intrusion detection approach	68
Influencing the security prioritisation of an agile software development project	68
Usable and secure? User perception of four authentication methods for mobile banking	66
Security First, Security by Design, or Security Pragmatism – Strategic Roles of IT Security in Digitalization Projects	62
A systematic literature review on online assessment security: Current challenges and integrity strategies	62
Learning from cyber security incidents: A systematic review and future research agenda	62
GCN-MHSA: A novel malicious traffic detection method based on graph convolutional neural network and multi-head self-attention mechanism	62
AIDTF: Adversarial training framework for network intrusion detection	62
Understanding the chief information security officer: Qualifications and responsibilities for cybersecurity leadership	61
Study on the latent state of Kaminsky-style DNS cache poisoning: Modeling and empirical analysis	61
SENSE: An unsupervised semantic learning model for cross-platform vulnerability search	61
An improved ShapeShifter method of generating adversarial examples for physical attacks on stop signs against Faster R-CNNs	60
DeMal: Module decomposition of malware based on community discovery	60
You are your friends: Detecting malware via guilt-by-association and exempt-by-reputation	60
An optimized differential privacy scheme with reinforcement learning in VANET	59
On the Effectiveness of Ransomware Decryption Tools	58
A multi-type vulnerability detection framework with parallel perspective fusion and hierarchical feature enhancement	58
Examining the inconsistent effect of privacy control on privacy concerns in e-commerce services: The moderating role of privacy experience and risk propensity	58
Comparative evaluation of recent universal adversarial perturbations in image classification	58
Improving adversarial transferability through hybrid augmentation	58
BiTCN-TAEfficientNet malware classification approach based on sequence and RGB fusion	58
Fuzzing drones for anomaly detection: A systematic literature review	57