Computer Science Review

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	270
The ML-based sensor data deception targeting cyber–physical systems: A review	228
From task-specific to foundation models: A paradigm shift in medical vision-language analysis	224
Characterising harmful API uses and repair techniques: Insights from a systematic review	218
Handwriting landscape for neurological disorders: A comprehensive analysis and AI-driven predictive insights	208
Blockchain verification and validation: Techniques, challenges, and research directions	193
A comprehensive review on current issues and advancements of Internet of Things in precision agriculture	185
Parameterised counting complexity theory	169
Non-square grids: A new trend in imaging and modeling?	165
The Lonely Runner Conjecture turns 60	146
Editorial Board	133
Gender Diversity Interventions in Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Review of Existing Practices	130
Classical neural networks for image classification - a review and comparison	129
Studying fake news spreading, polarisation dynamics, and manipulation by bots: A tale of networks and language	111
Twenty years of Nešetřil’s classification programme of Ramsey classes	107
A systematic review of federated learning incentive mechanisms and associated security challenges	107
A comprehensive review on machine learning-based VPN detection: Scenarios, methods, and open challenges	106
Sequential recommender systems: A methodological taxonomy and research frontiers	104
Network resource management mechanisms in SDN enabled WSNs: A comprehensive review	104
A search for good pseudo-random number generators: Survey and empirical studies	100
A comprehensive review of usage control frameworks	98
Software as storytelling: A systematic literature review	97
A survey of deep learning techniques for detecting and recognizing objects in complex environments	96
Multi-robot task assignment: A survey of algorithmic approaches, challenges, and future directions	92
Model-based joint analysis of safety and security:Survey and identification of gaps	90

A survey of the European Open Science Cloud services for expanding the capacity and capabilities of multidisciplinary scientific applications	85
State-of-the-art image and video-based steganalysis techniques: A comprehensive review, challenges and future recommendations for digital forensic experts	84
Leveraging 6G, extended reality, and IoT big data analytics for healthcare: A review	84
A survey of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and edge computing for Web 3.0	81
Quantum secure authentication and key agreement protocols for IoT-enabled applications: A comprehensive survey and open challenges	79
Building blocks of sharding blockchain systems: Concepts, approaches, and open problems	77
A decade survey on exploration-exploitation trade-off in Metaheuristics: A proposal for conceptual framework-based validation model	77
Recommender systems and sustainability: a dual perspective	74
A conceptual framework to mitigate ransomware attacks on IoMT devices using threat intelligence: a systematic literature review	74
Advancing GNSS with machine learning: A systematic review of techniques and applications	71
GAI & cybersecurity: Bi-visions	67
WebAssembly and security: A review	67
A survey of AI-supported materials informatics	66
Exploring transparency in pathological image analysis: A comprehensive review of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques	65
Enhancing IoT security with resource-efficient cryptography: A comprehensive review of lightweight and hybrid algorithms	65
Blockchain-based solutions for mobile crowdsensing: A comprehensive survey	64
Auto-scaling mechanisms in serverless computing: A comprehensive review	63
Empowering large language models to edge intelligence: A survey of edge efficient LLMs and techniques	61
A systematic literature review on cross-language source code clone detection	58
Security through the eyes of AI: How visualization is shaping malware detection	57
Adding relevance to rigor: Assessing the contributions of SLRs in Software Engineering through Citation Context Analysis	57
Negative selection in anomaly detection—A survey	57
The paradigm shift: A comprehensive survey on large vision language models for multimodal fake news detection	56
Chaos Game Optimization: A comprehensive study of its variants, applications, and future directions	55
Recent advances in anomaly detection in Internet of Things: Status, challenges, and perspectives	50
Isogeny-based cryptography: A comprehensive review on advancements, analysis of attacks, and future directions	49
Decentralization trends in identity management: From federated to Self-Sovereign Identity Management Systems	49
Distributed edge artificial intelligence empowered data trading: Theories, algorithms, and applications	49
A comprehensive review on the white shark optimizer, its variants, statistical analysis and performance evaluation	47
Towards data augmentation in graph neural network: An overview and evaluation	44
Learning-based approaches for wireless PHY layers from the perspective of conventional machine learning to foundation models: A comprehensive survey	42
Federated learning for intelligent transportation systems: Emerging trends, challenges and future directions	41
Homomorphic cryptography: Challenges and perspectives	41
A comprehensive survey of image steganography: From traditional vision techniques to deep learning paradigms—Trends, challenges, and applications	41
Reproducibility, Replicability and Repeatability: A survey of reproducible research with a focus on high performance computing	40
Fusing LLMs and diffusion models: A comprehensive survey of progress, challenges, and future directions in generative AI	39
Securing Tomorrow of Next-Generation Technologies with Biometrics, State-of-The-Art Techniques, Open Challenges, and Future Research Directions	39
A survey of set accumulators for blockchain systems	38
A survey of large language models for legal tasks: Progress, prospects and challenges	38
Realization of measurement-based quantum computing model in fault-tolerant distributed quantum systems	37
Role of human physiology and facial biomechanics towards building robust deepfake detectors: A comprehensive survey and analysis	37
From mathematical to AI-based methods: A review of marine PNT data fusion and uncertainty handling	37
A review of background, methods, limitations and opportunities of knowledge graph completion	35
Ontology learning towards expressiveness: A survey	35
A systematic review of deep learning-based models for elderly and human activity recognition	34
Future of cyberspace: A critical review of standard security protocols in the post-quantum era	33
Preface: Special issue in honor of Josep Díaz	33
Review of Distributed Quantum Computing: From single QPU to High Performance Quantum Computing	32
Editorial Board	32
A comprehensive survey on deep learning based malware detection techniques	32

Random spanning trees and forests: a geometric focus	32
Intelligent computational techniques for physical object properties discovery, detection, and prediction: A comprehensive survey	31
The future of computing paradigms for medical and emergency applications	30
Advances in online handwritten recognition in the last decades	30
Federated learning in cloud-edge-fog architectures: Enhancing privacy, efficiency, and scalability	29
Three-dimensional visualization of X-ray micro-CT with large-scale datasets: Efficiency and accuracy for real-time interaction	28
A comprehensive survey of Federated Intrusion Detection Systems: Techniques, challenges and solutions	28
Dynamic computation offloading for ground and flying robots: Taxonomy, state of art, and future directions	28
AI-driven semantic information retrieval for Arabic language- systematic literature review	27
Editorial Board	27
A comprehensive review on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and DDoS attacks: Ecosystem, taxonomy, traffic engineering, challenges and research directions	27
Explainable AI for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases: Unveiling methods, opportunities, and challenges	27
An overview of sign language processing from natural language processing perspective	26
Addressing the challenges of modern DNS a comprehensive tutorial	26
Many-objective hyper-heuristics: A state-of-the-art survey	26
A comprehensive survey on steganography of medical images	26
Visualization methods for explainable medical imaging diagnosis: A survey	26
Server placement in mobile cloud computing: A comprehensive survey for edge computing, fog computing and cloudlet	25
A Comprehensive review of ‘Internet of Healthcare Things’: Networking aspects, technologies, services, applications, challenges, and security concerns	25
Advances in nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization for feature selection problem: A comprehensive survey	25
Advanced computational models for urban traffic flow prediction: A comprehensive review and future directions	25
Bridging the gap: A survey of document retrieval techniques for high-resource and low-resource languages	23
NLP-based techniques for Cyber Threat Intelligence	23
A decade systematic review of fusion techniques in financial market prediction	23
A survey on GANs for computer vision: Recent research, analysis and taxonomy	23
The rise and resilience of multivariate cryptography: Advances, pitfalls, and promising pathways	22
Techniques in parameterized approximation	21
Routing optimization strategies in data center networks: A survey	21
Knowledge graph representation learning: A comprehensive and experimental overview	21
Emerging security paradigms in IoT: A scientometric analysis of research trends and future prospects	20
From relation extraction to triplet extraction: A survey on low-resource scenarios	20
Computational Social Choice: Parameterized complexity and challenges	20
Comprehensive survey of the solving puzzle problems	20
A systematic review of quantum image processing: Representation, applications and future perspectives	19
Neuro-symbolic agentic AI: Architectures, integration patterns, applications, open challenges and future research directions	19
Deep anomaly detection for time series: A survey	19
A survey on algorithms for Nash equilibria in finite normal-form games	18
Facial expression and body gesture emotion recognition: A systematic review on the use of visual data in affective computing	18
Defense strategies for Adversarial Machine Learning: A survey	17
Potential of artificial intelligence in deepfake media: From generation to detection mechanisms, state-of-the-art, and challenges	17
Methods and trends in detecting AI-generated images: A comprehensive review	16
Image processing and artificial intelligence for apple detection and localization: A comprehensive review	16
Strategic offloading in autonomous vehicles: A systematic survey of current schemes, challenges, and future prospects	16
Design practices in visualization driven data exploration for non-expert audiences	15
Advancing unsupervised clustering: A systematic review of hybrid K-means and metaheuristic optimization algorithms in data mining	15
Intelligent visual analytics for food safety: A comprehensive review	15
Multimodal missing data in healthcare: A comprehensive review and future directions	15
DDoS attacks & defense mechanisms in SDN-enabled cloud: Taxonomy, review and research challenges	15
Editorial Board	14
Maximal cliques summarization: Principles, problem classification, and algorithmic approaches	14
Editorial Board	14
A systematic literature review on the use of machine learning in code clone research	14
Editorial Board	14
Parameterized analysis and crossing minimization problems	14
Parameterized Complexity in Machine Learning	14
Parameterized algorithms on geometric intersection graphs	14
Advancing IoT-driven WSNs with context-aware routing: A comprehensive review	14
Virtual Customer Assistants in finance: From state of the art and practices to design guidelines	14
Deep learning for unmanned aerial vehicles detection: A review	13
Offloading decision and resource allocation in aerial computing: A comprehensive survey	13
A comprehensive survey of golden jacal optimization and its applications	13
AI-driven blockchain technology in smart healthcare system: Opportunities, challenges and future implications	13
Task scheduling in fog environment — Challenges, tools & methodologies: A review	13
A survey on detecting mental disorders with natural language processing: Literature review, trends and challenges	12
A comprehensive review on applications of Raspberry Pi	12
Integration of hyperspectral imaging and autoencoders: Benefits, applications, hyperparameter tunning and challenges	12
From vectors to knowledge graphs: A comprehensive analysis of modern retrieval-augmented generation architectures	12
Quantum artificial intelligence: A survey	12
A systematic literature review on chaotic maps-based image security techniques	12
A systematic review on cover selection methods for steganography: Trend analysis, novel classification and analysis of the elements	12
Explainable AI methods for drug discovery: A survey of interpretability, metrics and mechanistic insight	12
Revisiting workflow scheduling with the power of edge computing: Taxonomy, review, and open challenges	11
Twenty-two years since revealing cross-site scripting attacks: A systematic mapping and a comprehensive survey	11
Fog computing for next-generation Internet of Things: Fundamental, state-of-the-art and research challenges	11
Advances in attention mechanisms for medical image segmentation	11
Intra-node transaction parallelism in blockchains: Models, solutions, and trends	11
New paradigm of distributed artificial intelligence for LLM implementation and its key technologies	11
State of the art on quality control for data streams: A systematic literature review	10
Cognitive mapping variants and their training algorithms	10
Advancing smart transportation: A review of computer vision and photogrammetry in learning-based dimensional road pavement defect detection	10

Preference alignment on diffusion models: A comprehensive survey for image generation and editing	10
Hazy to hazy free: A comprehensive survey of multi-image, single-image, and CNN-based algorithms for dehazing	10
Large language models hallucination: A comprehensive survey	10
Graph intelligence for IoT and CPS security: From connectivity patterns to cyber-physical reasoning	10
A survey and illustrative example of hybrid semantic and contextual models for improving diversity and accuracy in personalized tag recommendation	10
Editorial Board	10
Secret sharing: A comprehensive survey, taxonomy and applications	10
The evolution of natural language processing: How prompt optimization and language models are shaping the future	10
Digital to quantum watermarking: A journey from past to present and into the future	9
Machine learning-driven evolution of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles	9
Multiple clusterings: Recent advances and perspectives	9
Research communities in cyber security vulnerability assessments: A comprehensive literature review	9
An empirical investigation of task scheduling and VM consolidation schemes in cloud environment	9
A comprehensive review of recommender systems: Transitioning from theory to practice	9
Fundamental design aspects of UAV-enabled MEC systems: A review on models, challenges, and future opportunities	8
Editorial Board	8
Unsupervised affinity learning based on manifold analysis for image retrieval: A survey	8
A comprehensive review on quantum steganography techniques for data hiding	8
From past to present: A survey of malicious URL detection techniques, datasets and code repositories	8
Integrating Explainable AI with Federated Learning for Next-Generation IoT: A comprehensive review and prospective insights	8
Harnessing Heterogeneous Information Networks: A systematic literature review	8
Towards accessible chart visualizations for the non-visuals: Research, applications and gaps	8
A multi-dimensional study of IoT DDoS in smart environments: SDN integration, taxonomy, security gaps, and emerging defenses	8
A comprehensive review of temporal reasoning with multimodal LLMs: Foundations, challenges, and healthcare applications	8
A survey on SSD wear leveling techniques	7
Edge-AI empowered Cyber-Physical Systems: A comprehensive review on performance analysis	7
Graph-based deep learning techniques for remote sensing applications: Techniques, taxonomy, and applications — A comprehensive review	7
A comprehensive survey on data aggregation techniques in UAV-enabled Internet of things	7
Low-light multimodal object detection: A survey	7
Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in solid waste management: A sustainable way toward future	6
Revolutionizing textual data insights: A comprehensive review of the dual relationship between transformers and clustering in textual data analysis	6
What can artificial intelligence do for soil health in agriculture?	6
Big data energy systems: A survey of practices and associated challenges	6
Maritime search and rescue missions with aerial images: A survey	6
Sand cat swarm optimization: A comprehensive review of algorithmic advances, structural enhancements, and engineering applications	6
AI-driven botnet detection in IoT networks: A comprehensive research review	6
A comprehensive survey on sentiment analysis: Framework, techniques, and applications	6