OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Annual Reviews in Control is 30. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A real-time interactive decision-making and control framework for complex cyber-physical-human systems	118
The data-driven approach to classical control theory	114
Linear quantum systems: A tutorial	104
A comprehensive review of models and nonlinear control strategies for blood glucose regulation in artificial pancreas	85
Contamination event diagnosis in drinking water networks: A review	80
Safe-by-design planner–tracker synthesis with a hierarchy of system models	76
Adaptive conductance control	75
Applications of metaheuristic optimization algorithms in model predictive control for chemical engineering processes: A systematic review	73
A review on VSC-HVDC control schemes	67
Control-theoretic modeling of multi-species water quality dynamics in drinking water networks: Survey, methods, and test cases	66
Cognitive systems and interoperability in the enterprise: A systematic literature review	62
Model Predictive Control of water resources systems: A review and research agenda	62
A critical review of cyber-physical security for building automation systems	60
Probabilistic prediction methods for nonlinear systems with application to stochastic model predictive control	49
A survey on tracking control of unmanned underwater vehicles: Experiments-based approach	48
A review of physics-based learning for system health management	46
Quantum covariance and filtering	46
State estimation of the Stefan PDE: A tutorial on design and applications to polar ice and batteries	45
Learning safe control for multi-robot systems: Methods, verification, and open challenges	44
Editorial Board	41
Probabilistic feasibility in data-driven multi-agent non-convex optimization	40
Ergodic risk-sensitive control—A survey	40
Adaptive control and reinforcement learning for vehicle suspension control: A review	37
Safety-critical control for autonomous systems: Control barrier functions via reduced-order models	36
Behavioral theory for stochastic systems? A data-driven journey from Willems to Wiener and back again	33

Reinforcement Learning for feedback-enabled cyber resilience	33
Closed-form and robust expressions for data-driven LQ control	32
Learning and forgetting in systems neuroscience: A control perspective	31
A brief survey on encrypted control: From the first to the second generation and beyond	30
The optimization landscape of hybrid quantum–classical algorithms: From quantum control to NISQ applications	30