OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ACM Computing Surveys is 37. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Comprehensive Review on IoT Marketplace Matchmaking: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges	2243
A Survey of Heuristics for Profile and Wavefront Reductions	2166
Escorting the Confidentiality and Integrity of UAVs: What Exactly Can Trusted Execution Environment Offer?	1857
A Survey on Stability of Learning with Limited Labelled Data and its Sensitivity to the Effects of Randomness	832
Down the Rabbit Hole: Detecting Online Extremism, Radicalisation, and Politicised Hate Speech	768
I Know What You Trained Last Summer: A Survey on Stealing Machine Learning Models and Defences	752
A Survey on Embedding Dynamic Graphs	730
Demystifying Graph Databases: Analysis and Taxonomy of Data Organization, System Designs, and Graph Queries	523
Adversarial Attacks of Vision Tasks in the Past 10 Years: A Survey	499
Exploring Neuromorphic Computing Based on Spiking Neural Networks: Algorithms to Hardware	489
Fairness in Ranking, Part II: Learning-to-Rank and Recommender Systems	443
Towards Trustworthy AI-Empowered Real-Time Bidding for Online Advertisement Auctioning	421
Timed Automata as a Formalism for Expressing Security: A Survey on Theory and Practice	386
Demystify the Fuzzing Methods: A Comprehensive Survey	381
Secure Robotics: Navigating Challenges at the Nexus of Safety, Trust, and Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Systems	374
Privacy Intelligence: A Survey on Image Privacy in Online Social Networks	364
A Review of Olfactory Display Designs for Virtual Reality Environments	338
Underwater Optical Object Detection in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Current, Challenge, and Future	336
A Comprehensive Survey of Transformers in Text Recognition: Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions	318
Remote Respiration Measurement with RGB Cameras: A Review and Benchmark	313
Brave New GES World: A Systematic Literature Review of Gestures and Referents in Gesture Elicitation Studies	311
Open-Ethical AI: Advancements in Open-Source Human-Centric Neural Language Models	300
A Survey on Exotic Signatures for Post-quantum Blockchain: Challenges and Research Directions	284
A Survey on Security of UAV Swarm Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures	282
Neural Architecture Search Survey: A Hardware Perspective	273

A Survey on Kolmogorov-Arnold Network	269
Data Readiness for AI: A 360-Degree Survey	262
A Systematic Literature Review on Automated Software Vulnerability Detection Using Machine Learning	255
A Comprehensive Analysis of Explainable AI for Malware Hunting	251
Machine Learning and Physics: A Survey of Integrated Models	237
Transformers in Vision: A Survey	228
A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification	226
Domain Generalization in Computational Pathology: Survey and Guidelines	225
Diffusion Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Methods and Applications	225
Deep Causal Learning: Representation, Discovery and Inference	217
Future UAV/Drone Systems for Intelligent Active Surveillance and Monitoring	203
A Survey on Virtual Network Functions for Media Streaming: Solutions and Future Challenges	202
Botnet Business Models, Takedown Attempts, and the Darkweb Market: A Survey	202
From Reactive to Active Sensing: A Survey on Information Gathering in Decision-theoretic Planning	198
Systematic Literature Review on Parallel Trajectory-based Metaheuristics	196
Remote Electronic Voting in Uncontrolled Environments: A Classifying Survey	194
A Survey on the State of the Art of Causally Consistent Cloud Systems	192
A Systematic Literature Review on Multimodal Text Summarization	183
Deep Learning Models for Serendipity Recommendations: A Survey and New Perspectives	179
Slicing of Probabilistic Programs: A Review of Existing Approaches	179
Private Graph Data Release: A Survey	173
Engineering Blockchain-based Software Systems: Foundations, Survey, and Future Directions	171
Multi-Class Imbalanced Data Handling with Concept Drift in Fog Computing: A Taxonomy, Review, and Future Directions	171
Transfer Learning in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey	167
A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for ML/DL-based Software Engineering	164
Visual Tuning	164
Knowledge-based Cyber Physical Security at Smart Home: A Review	163
Text Classification Using Graph Convolutional Networks: A Comprehensive Survey	159
State-of-the-Art and Challenges of Engineering ML- Enabled Software Systems in the Deep Learning Era	158
The Role of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - A Systematic Review	155
How many FIDO protocols are needed? Analysing the technology, security and compliance	150
Security and Privacy in Unified Communication	148
On the Explainability of Natural Language Processing Deep Models	147
Personalization in Public Transport Passenger Information Systems: A Systematic Review and Framework	147
A Systematic Review of Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Strategies, and Prospects	146
A Contemporary Survey on Live Video Streaming from a Computation-Driven Perspective	146
Bridging the Gap between Spatial and Spectral Domains: A Unified Framework for Graph Neural Networks	145
Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models	144
A Systematic Review of Multimodal Signal Fusion for Acute Pain Assessment Systems	144
ISP Meets Deep Learning: A Survey on Deep Learning Methods for Image Signal Processing	143
A Survey and Taxonomy of Latency Compensation Techniques for Network Computer Games	143
Survey on Digital Video Stabilization: Concepts, Methods, and Challenges	137
A Survey of Multi-modal Knowledge Graphs: Technologies and Trends	135
A Comprehensive Review on Vision-Based Violence Detection in Surveillance Videos	134
Dataset Discovery and Exploration: A Survey	133
Wild Patterns Reloaded: A Survey of Machine Learning Security against Training Data Poisoning	133
A Survey on Synchronous Augmented, Virtual, andMixed Reality Remote Collaboration Systems	133
A Practical Tutorial on Graph Neural Networks	132
Explainability in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Review into Current Methods and Applications	130
A Survey of Security and Privacy Issues in V2X Communication Systems	129

A Survey on Hypergraph Representation Learning	129
A Review of Stability in Topic Modeling: Metrics for Assessing and Techniques for Improving Stability	128
A Taxonomy and Systematic Review of Gaze Interactions for 2D Displays: Promising Techniques and Opportunities	124
Blockchain Agnostic Protocols: An Analysis of the State of the Art	123
Evolving Paradigms in Automated Program Repair: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Opportunities	123
Advancing 5G Security and Privacy with AI: A Survey	122
Deep Learning Library Testing: Definition, Methods and Challenges	117
Private and Secure Distributed Deep Learning: A Survey	115
Survey and Taxonomy of Adversarial Reconnaissance Techniques	115
A Taxonomy and Survey on Grid-Based Routing Protocols Designed for Wireless Sensor Networks	114
Deep Learning for Code Intelligence: Survey, Benchmark and Toolkit	113
State of Practical Applicability of Regression Testing Research: A Live Systematic Literature Review	111
Distributed Scrum: A Case Meta-analysis	110
Driving Healthcare Monitoring with IoT and Wearable Devices: A Systematic Review	110
Visual Question Answering: A Survey of Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges	109
A Systematic Literature Review on Multi-Robot Task Allocation	107
Embedding Compression in Recommender Systems: A Survey	106
Deep Learning on Monocular Object Pose Detection and Tracking: A Comprehensive Overview	106
A Survey on Hyperdimensional Computing aka Vector Symbolic Architectures, Part II: Applications, Cognitive Models, and Challenges	106
Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Network Security for Vertical Applications: A Survey	105
Non-imaging Medical Data Synthesis for Trustworthy AI: A Comprehensive Survey	103
A Survey of AI-enabled Dynamic Manufacturing Scheduling: From Directed Heuristics to Autonomous Learning	103
A Survey on Deep Learning for Monte Carlo Path Tracing	102
Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review	102
Class-Imbalanced Learning on Graphs: A Survey	101
A Survey of Privacy Attacks in Machine Learning	101
The Role of Multi-Agents in Digital Twin Implementation: Short Survey	99
Knowledge Graph Embedding: A Survey from the Perspective of Representation Spaces	98
Deep Generative Models for Therapeutic Peptide Discovery: A Comprehensive Review	98
Threats to Training: A Survey of Poisoning Attacks and Defenses on Machine Learning Systems	98
Eco-Friendly Route Planning Algorithms: Taxonomies, Literature Review and Future Directions	97
Deep Learning Methods for Abstract Visual Reasoning: A Survey on Raven's Progressive Matrices	97
Semantic Knowledge Graphs for the News: A Review	94
From Perception to Computation: Revisiting Delay Optimization for Connected Autonomous Vehicles	94
A.I. Robustness: a Human-Centered Perspective on Technological Challenges and Opportunities	93
Heterogeneous Federated Learning: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges	91
Lost in Translation? Found in Evaluation: A Comprehensive Survey on Sentence-Level Translation Evaluation	91
Examining the Current Status and Emerging Trends in Continuous Authentication Technologies through Citation Network Analysis	91
Advancements in AI-Generated Content Forensics: A Systematic Literature Review	90
Aortic Vessel Tree Segmentation for Cardiovascular Diseases Treatment: Status Quo	90
Microarchitectural Attacks in Heterogeneous Systems: A Survey	89
A Survey of Tool Support for Working with Design Decisions in Code	89
Automatic Performance Assessment in Three-dimensional Interactive Haptic Medical Simulators: A Systematic Review	89
Lightweight Consensus in Blockchain: A Systematic Literature Review	89
IMPACTS Homeostasis Trust Management System: Optimizing Trust in Human-AI Teams	89
Human Image Generation: A Comprehensive Survey	88
Deep Person Generation: A Survey from the Perspective of Face, Pose, and Cloth Synthesis	88
Unsupervised Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection in Automotive Trucks: A Survey	88
Heterogeneous Network Access and Fusion in Smart Factory: A Survey	87
Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing Networks: A Survey	87
A Primer on Pretrained Multilingual Language Models	86
Pushing the Level of Abstraction of Digital System Design: A Survey on How to Program FPGAs	85
Natural Language–Based Conceptual Modelling Frameworks: State of the Art and Future Opportunities	85
Computational Techniques in PET/CT Image Processing for Breast Cancer: A Systematic Mapping Review	84
Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference and Machine Learning: A Survey	83
A Taxonomy of Cyber Defence Strategies Against False Data Attacks in Smart Grids	83
Big Code Search: A Bibliography	83
A Review on Tools, Mechanics, Benefits, and Challenges of Gamified Software Testing	82
Mix-Zones as an Effective Privacy Enhancing Technique in Mobile and Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks	82
Conversational Agents in Therapeutic Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Survey	82
A Survey on Deep Learning for Symbolic Music Generation: Representations, Algorithms, Evaluations, and Challenges	81
A Survey on Deep Learning for Human Mobility	79
Racial Bias within Face Recognition: A Survey	79
An Experimental Investigation of Text-based CAPTCHA Attacks and Their Robustness	79
Strategic Decisions: Survey, Taxonomy, and Future Directions from Artificial Intelligence Perspective	79
A Survey of Side-Channel Attacks on Branch Prediction Units	78
Data Mining on Smartphones: An Introduction and Survey	78
A Survey of Hardware-Based AES SBoxes: Area, Performance, and Security	78
A Survey of Hardware Improvements to Secure Program Execution	78
Capturing Dynamics of Information Diffusion in SNS: A Survey of Methodology and Techniques	78
FairSNA: Algorithmic Fairness in Social Network Analysis	77
An All-Inclusive Taxonomy and Critical Review of Blockchain-Assisted Authentication and Session Key Generation Protocols for IoT	77
Fairness in Ranking, Part I: Score-Based Ranking	76
Self-supervised Learning for Electroencephalogram: A Systematic Survey	75
Survey of Approaches for Postprocessing of Static Analysis Alarms	75
Connect API with Blockchain: A Survey on Blockchain Oracle Implementation	74
Recent Advances for Aerial Object Detection: A Survey	74
BFT in Blockchains: From Protocols to Use Cases	74
A Survey on Emerging Trends and Applications of 5G and 6G to Healthcare Environments	73
Deep Learning in Stance Detection: A Survey	73

Metaverse Platforms for Immersive Healthcare: A Survey on Telemedicine Solutions	73
Emotion Ontology Studies: A Framework for Expressing Feelings Digitally and its Application to Sentiment Analysis	72
A survey of 3D Space Path-Planning Methods and Algorithms	71
A Survey on Deep Learning for Design and Generation of Virtual Architecture	71
The Evolution of Reinforcement Learning in Quantitative Finance: A Survey	71
Cross-Chain Smart Contract Invocations: A Systematic Multi-Vocal Literature Review	71
Artificial Intelligence for Web 3.0: A Comprehensive Survey	71
A Brief Overview of Universal Sentence Representation Methods: A Linguistic View	71
Android Source Code Vulnerability Detection: A Systematic Literature Review	70
Representation Learning in Complex Logical Query Answering on Knowledge Graphs: A Survey	70
Challenges and Opportunities for Practical and Effective Dynamic Information Flow Tracking	69
Neural Network–Based Financial Volatility Forecasting: A Systematic Review	69
A Survey on Task Assignment in Crowdsourcing	69
A Survey on Deep Learning and Explainability for Automatic Report Generation from Medical Images	68
Federated Learning for Computationally Constrained Heterogeneous Devices: A Survey	68
Separation of Duty in Information Security	68
Integration of Sensing, Communication, and Computing for Metaverse: A Survey	68
Honeyword-based Authentication Techniques for Protecting Passwords: A Survey	67
Deep Learning for Time Series Classification and Extrinsic Regression: A Current Survey	67
Energy-Efficient Database Systems: A Systematic Survey	66
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning	66
A Comprehensive Survey of Few-shot Learning: Evolution, Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities	66
Energy Efficient Computing Systems: Architectures, Abstractions and Modeling to Techniques and Standards	64
A Taxonomy of Live Migration Management in Cloud Computing	64
SoK: Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) with Automated Market Maker (AMM) Protocols	64
Lightweight Deep Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments: A Survey	64
Backdoor Attacks and Defenses Targeting Multi-Domain AI Models: A Comprehensive Review	63
Software-Based Dialogue Systems: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges	63
Blockchain-Based Federated Learning for Securing Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey	62
Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Importance, Use Domains, Stages, Output Shapes, and Challenges	61
Public Datasets for Cloud Computing: A Comprehensive Survey	61
Proof Scores: A Survey	61
3D Face Reconstruction: The Road to Forensics	60
Automated Program Repair: Emerging Trends Pose and Expose Problems for Benchmarks	60
Cybersecurity in Electric and Flying Vehicles: Threats, Challenges, AI Solutions & Future Directions	60
Survey on Redundancy Based-Fault tolerance methods for Processors and Hardware accelerators - Trends in Quantum Computing, Heterogeneous Systems and Reliability	60
A Knowledge Graph-Based Survey on Distributed Ledger Technology for IoT Verticals	59
Camera Measurement of Physiological Vital Signs	59
The Evolution of Distributed Systems for Graph Neural Networks and Their Origin in Graph Processing and Deep Learning: A Survey	58
Distributed Machine Learning in Edge Computing: Challenges, Solutions and Future Directions	57
Few-Shot Relation Extraction Based on Prompt Learning: A Taxonomy, Survey, Challenges and Future Directions	57
A Survey on Privacy-Preserving Computing in the Automotive Domain	57
Manipulating Recommender Systems: A Survey of Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures	56
Transformers in Small Object Detection: A Benchmark and Survey of State-of-the-Art	56
Maintenance Operations on Cloud, Edge, and IoT Environments: Taxonomy, Survey, and Research Challenges	56
A Survey on Privacy of Personal and Non-Personal Data in B5G/6G Networks	56
Evolutionary Computation for Sparse Multi-Objective Optimization: A Survey	56
Resource Management for Mission-Critical Applications in Edge Computing: Systematic Review on Recent Research and Open Issues	56
Resource-Efficient Convolutional Networks: A Survey on Model-, Arithmetic-, and Implementation-Level Techniques	55
A Systematic Collection of Medical Image Datasets for Deep Learning	55
Backdoor Attacks against Voice Recognition Systems: A Survey	55
A Survey on Services Placement Algorithms in Integrated Cloud-Fog / Edge Computing	54
Security and Privacy on Generative Data in AIGC: A Survey	54
Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning: State of the Art and Challenges	54
Constructing Neural Network Based Models for Simulating Dynamical Systems	54
Video Generative Adversarial Networks: A Review	54
Transforming Large-Size to Lightweight Deep Neural Networks for IoT Applications	54
From Anecdotal Evidence to Quantitative Evaluation Methods: A Systematic Review on Evaluating Explainable AI	53
Cryptographic Primitives in Script-based and Scriptless Payment Channel Networks: A Survey	53
Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming	53
War on JITs: Software-Based Attacks and Hybrid Defenses for JIT Compilers - A Comprehensive Survey	53
Towards Smart Education through Internet of Things: A Survey	52
A Survey on Mapping Semi-Structured Data and Graph Data to Relational Data	52
From Detection to Application: Recent Advances in Understanding Scientific Tables and Figures	52
Malware Detection with Artificial Intelligence: A Systematic Literature Review	51
A Joint Study of the Challenges, Opportunities, and Roadmap of MLOps and AIOps: A Systematic Survey	51
A Systematic Review of Data Quality in CPS and IoT for Industry 4.0	51
Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning in Production: An Overview of the Robustness in MLOps Approach	51
Deep Multimodal Data Fusion	51
A Survey and an Empirical Evaluation of Multi-View Clustering Approaches	51
Igniting Language Intelligence: The Hitchhiker’s Guide from Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to Language Agents	51
A Comprehensive Review and New Taxonomy on Superpixel Segmentation	51
A Comprehensive Review on Autonomous Navigation	51
A Survey of Binary Code Fingerprinting Approaches: Taxonomy, Methodologies, and Features	50
Common Threads in Incremental Data Flow Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey	50
On Identity, Transaction, and Smart Contract Privacy on Permissioned and Permissionless Blockchain: A Comprehensive Survey	50
The Internet of Bio-Nano Things with Insulin-Glucose, Security and Research Challenges: A Survey	50
A Comprehensive Survey on Collaborative Data-access Enablers in the IIoT	50
A Survey of Deep Learning for Low-shot Object Detection	50
Approximation Opportunities in Edge Computing Hardware: A Systematic Literature Review	49
A Survey on Spatio-Temporal Prediction: From Transformers to Foundation Models	49
DevOps Metrics and KPIs: A Multivocal Literature Review	49
A Survey on Graph Counterfactual Explanations: Definitions, Methods, Evaluation, and Research Challenges	47
3D Scene Geometry Estimation from 360° Imagery: A Survey	47
Toward Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (TAI) in the Context of Explainability and Robustness	46
A Systematic Review on Data Scarcity Problem in Deep Learning: Solution and Applications	46
A Survey of Next-generation Computing Technologies in Space-air-ground Integrated Networks	46
Computational Politeness in Natural Language Processing: A Survey	46
A Systematic Literature Review of Novelty Detection in Data Streams: Challenges and Opportunities	46
Few-Shot Object Detection: A Survey	46
Deep Learning for Time Series Forecasting: Tutorial and Literature Survey	45
A Survey of Real-Time Ethernet Modeling and Design Methodologies: From AVB to TSN	45
Memory Analysis for Malware Detection: A Comprehensive Survey Using the OSCAR Methodology	45
A Survey on Exploring Real and Virtual Social Network Rumors: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges	45
Industrial Internet of Things Ecosystems Security and Digital Forensics: Achievements, Open Challenges, and Future Directions	45