OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Computer Science Review is 7. 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
Editorial Board	197
Characterising harmful API uses and repair techniques: Insights from a systematic review	192
Blockchain verification and validation: Techniques, challenges, and research directions	191
A comprehensive review on current issues and advancements of Internet of Things in precision agriculture	174
The ML-based sensor data deception targeting cyber–physical systems: A review	158
A comprehensive review on machine learning-based VPN detection: Scenarios, methods, and open challenges	157
The Lonely Runner Conjecture turns 60	126
A comprehensive review of usage control frameworks	126
A search for good pseudo-random number generators: Survey and empirical studies	123
Research communities in cyber security: A comprehensive literature review	119
Editorial Board	110
Studying fake news spreading, polarisation dynamics, and manipulation by bots: A tale of networks and language	100
Network resource management mechanisms in SDN enabled WSNs: A comprehensive review	91
A systematic review of federated learning incentive mechanisms and associated security challenges	86
Non-square grids: A new trend in imaging and modeling?	83
A survey of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and edge computing for Web 3.0	71
Software as storytelling: A systematic literature review	69
Building blocks of sharding blockchain systems: Concepts, approaches, and open problems	69
Quantum secure authentication and key agreement protocols for IoT-enabled applications: A comprehensive survey and open challenges	68
A survey of deep learning techniques for detecting and recognizing objects in complex environments	68
A survey of the European Open Science Cloud services for expanding the capacity and capabilities of multidisciplinary scientific applications	68
A conceptual framework to mitigate ransomware attacks on IoMT devices using threat intelligence: a systematic literature review	67
Model-based joint analysis of safety and security:Survey and identification of gaps	67
Leveraging 6G, extended reality, and IoT big data analytics for healthcare: A review	67
WebAssembly and security: A review	65

Empowering large language models to edge intelligence: A survey of edge efficient LLMs and techniques	63
Blockchain-based solutions for mobile crowdsensing: A comprehensive survey	62
Secure and privacy-preserving crowdsensing using smart contracts: Issues and solutions	61
A decade: Review of scene text detection methods	56
Auto-scaling mechanisms in serverless computing: A comprehensive review	53
Chaos Game Optimization: A comprehensive study of its variants, applications, and future directions	51
A systematic literature review on cross-language source code clone detection	49
A survey on deep matrix factorizations	49
Adding relevance to rigor: Assessing the contributions of SLRs in Software Engineering through Citation Context Analysis	48
Negative selection in anomaly detection—A survey	46
Securing Tomorrow of Next-Generation Technologies with Biometrics, State-of-The-Art Techniques, Open Challenges, and Future Research Directions	43
Recent advances in anomaly detection in Internet of Things: Status, challenges, and perspectives	43
Decentralization trends in identity management: From federated to Self-Sovereign Identity Management Systems	40
Reproducibility, Replicability and Repeatability: A survey of reproducible research with a focus on high performance computing	40
Towards data augmentation in graph neural network: An overview and evaluation	40
Future of cyberspace: A critical review of standard security protocols in the post-quantum era	39
A review of background, methods, limitations and opportunities of knowledge graph completion	38
Ontology learning towards expressiveness: A survey	37
Role of human physiology and facial biomechanics towards building robust deepfake detectors: A comprehensive survey and analysis	37
Review of Distributed Quantum Computing: From single QPU to High Performance Quantum Computing	36
A comprehensive survey on deep learning based malware detection techniques	35
Editorial Board	35
A survey of set accumulators for blockchain systems	35
The future of computing paradigms for medical and emergency applications	34
Editorial Board	34
A comprehensive survey of Federated Intrusion Detection Systems: Techniques, challenges and solutions	33
Intelligent computational techniques for physical object properties discovery, detection, and prediction: A comprehensive survey	33
Advances in online handwritten recognition in the last decades	32
A comprehensive review on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and DDoS attacks: Ecosystem, taxonomy, traffic engineering, challenges and research directions	31
A survey of lattice based expressive attribute based encryption	31
Dynamic computation offloading for ground and flying robots: Taxonomy, state of art, and future directions	30
Bridging the gap: A survey of document retrieval techniques for high-resource and low-resource languages	29
Advances in nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization for feature selection problem: A comprehensive survey	26
NLP-based techniques for Cyber Threat Intelligence	26
Editorial Board	24
A decade systematic review of fusion techniques in financial market prediction	24
A survey on GANs for computer vision: Recent research, analysis and taxonomy	24
Addressing the challenges of modern DNS a comprehensive tutorial	23
A Comprehensive review of ‘Internet of Healthcare Things’: Networking aspects, technologies, services, applications, challenges, and security concerns	23
Routing optimization strategies in data center networks: A survey	23
Server placement in mobile cloud computing: A comprehensive survey for edge computing, fog computing and cloudlet	23
Deep anomaly detection for time series: A survey	22
Secure storage—Confidentiality and authentication	22
Facial expression and body gesture emotion recognition: A systematic review on the use of visual data in affective computing	21
A survey on algorithms for Nash equilibria in finite normal-form games	21
Comprehensive survey of the solving puzzle problems	21
A systematic review of quantum image processing: Representation, applications and future perspectives	21
Knowledge graph representation learning: A comprehensive and experimental overview	20
Design practices in visualization driven data exploration for non-expert audiences	20
Intelligent visual analytics for food safety: A comprehensive review	20

Multimodal missing data in healthcare: A comprehensive review and future directions	18
Defense strategies for Adversarial Machine Learning: A survey	18
DDoS attacks & defense mechanisms in SDN-enabled cloud: Taxonomy, review and research challenges	18
Maximal cliques summarization: Principles, problem classification, and algorithmic approaches	17
Offloading decision and resource allocation in aerial computing: A comprehensive survey	17
Parameterized algorithms on geometric intersection graphs	17
Image processing and artificial intelligence for apple detection and localization: A comprehensive review	17
Advancing IoT-driven WSNs with context-aware routing: A comprehensive review	17
Deep learning for unmanned aerial vehicles detection: A review	16
A comprehensive review on applications of Raspberry Pi	15
A comprehensive survey of golden jacal optimization and its applications	15
Editorial Board	14
A systematic literature review on chaotic maps-based image security techniques	14
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
Virtual Customer Assistants in finance: From state of the art and practices to design guidelines	14
Parameterized analysis and crossing minimization problems	13
Twenty-two years since revealing cross-site scripting attacks: A systematic mapping and a comprehensive survey	13
Integration of hyperspectral imaging and autoencoders: Benefits, applications, hyperparameter tunning and challenges	13
Task scheduling in fog environment — Challenges, tools & methodologies: A review	13
A systematic review on cover selection methods for steganography: Trend analysis, novel classification and analysis of the elements	13
A systematic literature review on the use of machine learning in code clone research	13
A survey on detecting mental disorders with natural language processing: Literature review, trends and challenges	13
Advances in attention mechanisms for medical image segmentation	13
State of the art on quality control for data streams: A systematic literature review	12
Advancing smart transportation: A review of computer vision and photogrammetry in learning-based dimensional road pavement defect detection	12
Fog computing for next-generation Internet of Things: Fundamental, state-of-the-art and research challenges	12
Hazy to hazy free: A comprehensive survey of multi-image, single-image, and CNN-based algorithms for dehazing	12
Harnessing Heterogeneous Information Networks: A systematic literature review	11
Editorial Board	11
Digital to quantum watermarking: A journey from past to present and into the future	11
From past to present: A survey of malicious URL detection techniques, datasets and code repositories	11
Secret sharing: A comprehensive survey, taxonomy and applications	11
Multiple clusterings: Recent advances and perspectives	10
Unsupervised affinity learning based on manifold analysis for image retrieval: A survey	10
Research communities in cyber security vulnerability assessments: A comprehensive literature review	10
Towards accessible chart visualizations for the non-visuals: Research, applications and gaps	10
Integrating Explainable AI with Federated Learning for Next-Generation IoT: A comprehensive review and prospective insights	10
An empirical investigation of task scheduling and VM consolidation schemes in cloud environment	10
Fundamental design aspects of UAV-enabled MEC systems: A review on models, challenges, and future opportunities	10
Graph-based deep learning techniques for remote sensing applications: Techniques, taxonomy, and applications — A comprehensive review	9
Edge-AI empowered Cyber-Physical Systems: A comprehensive review on performance analysis	9
A survey on the Distributed Computing stack	9
A systematic review of explainability in computational intelligence for optimization	9
Low-light multimodal object detection: A survey	9
Maritime search and rescue missions with aerial images: A survey	8
Revolutionizing textual data insights: A comprehensive review of the dual relationship between transformers and clustering in textual data analysis	8
A comprehensive survey on sentiment analysis: Framework, techniques, and applications	8
Neural Natural Language Processing for unstructured data in electronic health records: A review	7
Artificial intelligence based classification for waste management: A survey based on taxonomy, classification & future direction	7
A review of IoT security and privacy using decentralized blockchain techniques	7
A comprehensive survey on data aggregation techniques in UAV-enabled Internet of things	7
Sand cat swarm optimization: A comprehensive review of algorithmic advances, structural enhancements, and engineering applications	7
Deep learning for intelligent demand response and smart grids: A comprehensive survey	7