OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computer Science Review is 24. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	252
The ML-based sensor data deception targeting cyber–physical systems: A review	218
Blockchain verification and validation: Techniques, challenges, and research directions	205
From task-specific to foundation models: A paradigm shift in medical vision-language analysis	199
Characterising harmful API uses and repair techniques: Insights from a systematic review	199
A comprehensive review on current issues and advancements of Internet of Things in precision agriculture	170
Network resource management mechanisms in SDN enabled WSNs: A comprehensive review	167
Parameterised counting complexity theory	160
Non-square grids: A new trend in imaging and modeling?	159
The Lonely Runner Conjecture turns 60	140
A search for good pseudo-random number generators: Survey and empirical studies	122
Studying fake news spreading, polarisation dynamics, and manipulation by bots: A tale of networks and language	116
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	102
Editorial Board	102
Twenty years of Nešetřil’s classification programme of Ramsey classes	101
A comprehensive review of usage control frameworks	99
Gender Diversity Interventions in Software Engineering: A Comprehensive Review of Existing Practices	98
State-of-the-art image and video-based steganalysis techniques: A comprehensive review, challenges and future recommendations for digital forensic experts	93
Sequential recommender systems: A methodological taxonomy and research frontiers	93
Software as storytelling: A systematic literature review	88
Model-based joint analysis of safety and security:Survey and identification of gaps	87
Leveraging 6G, extended reality, and IoT big data analytics for healthcare: A review	87
A survey of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and edge computing for Web 3.0	82
A survey of deep learning techniques for detecting and recognizing objects in complex environments	79

Building blocks of sharding blockchain systems: Concepts, approaches, and open problems	76
A survey of the European Open Science Cloud services for expanding the capacity and capabilities of multidisciplinary scientific applications	71
WebAssembly and security: A review	70
Quantum secure authentication and key agreement protocols for IoT-enabled applications: A comprehensive survey and open challenges	70
Recommender systems and sustainability: a dual perspective	69
Enhancing IoT security with resource-efficient cryptography: A comprehensive review of lightweight and hybrid algorithms	68
A conceptual framework to mitigate ransomware attacks on IoMT devices using threat intelligence: a systematic literature review	67
Empowering large language models to edge intelligence: A survey of edge efficient LLMs and techniques	66
A survey of AI-supported materials informatics	66
Blockchain-based solutions for mobile crowdsensing: A comprehensive survey	63
Exploring transparency in pathological image analysis: A comprehensive review of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques	63
Auto-scaling mechanisms in serverless computing: A comprehensive review	61
A systematic literature review on cross-language source code clone detection	60
The paradigm shift: A comprehensive survey on large vision language models for multimodal fake news detection	57
Negative selection in anomaly detection—A survey	57
Adding relevance to rigor: Assessing the contributions of SLRs in Software Engineering through Citation Context Analysis	55
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	54
Distributed edge artificial intelligence empowered data trading: Theories, algorithms, and applications	52
A comprehensive survey of image steganography: From traditional vision techniques to deep learning paradigms—Trends, challenges, and applications	50
Isogeny-based cryptography: A comprehensive review on advancements, analysis of attacks, and future directions	50
Securing Tomorrow of Next-Generation Technologies with Biometrics, State-of-The-Art Techniques, Open Challenges, and Future Research Directions	50
Learning-based approaches for wireless PHY layers from the perspective of conventional machine learning to foundation models: A comprehensive survey	50
Decentralization trends in identity management: From federated to Self-Sovereign Identity Management Systems	48
A comprehensive review on the white shark optimizer, its variants, statistical analysis and performance evaluation	46
Towards data augmentation in graph neural network: An overview and evaluation	45
Homomorphic cryptography: Challenges and perspectives	45
Fusing LLMs and diffusion models: A comprehensive survey of progress, challenges, and future directions in generative AI	40
Future of cyberspace: A critical review of standard security protocols in the post-quantum era	39
Reproducibility, Replicability and Repeatability: A survey of reproducible research with a focus on high performance computing	39
A systematic review of deep learning-based models for elderly and human activity recognition	38
From mathematical to AI-based methods: A review of marine PNT data fusion and uncertainty handling	38
A survey of large language models for legal tasks: Progress, prospects and challenges	37
Ontology learning towards expressiveness: A survey	36
A review of background, methods, limitations and opportunities of knowledge graph completion	36
A survey of set accumulators for blockchain systems	35
A comprehensive survey on deep learning based malware detection techniques	35
Review of Distributed Quantum Computing: From single QPU to High Performance Quantum Computing	32
Role of human physiology and facial biomechanics towards building robust deepfake detectors: A comprehensive survey and analysis	32
Editorial Board	31
Random spanning trees and forests: a geometric focus	31
Intelligent computational techniques for physical object properties discovery, detection, and prediction: A comprehensive survey	30
The future of computing paradigms for medical and emergency applications	30
Federated learning in cloud-edge-fog architectures: Enhancing privacy, efficiency, and scalability	29
Explainable AI for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases: Unveiling methods, opportunities, and challenges	29
A comprehensive review on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and DDoS attacks: Ecosystem, taxonomy, traffic engineering, challenges and research directions	26
A comprehensive survey of Federated Intrusion Detection Systems: Techniques, challenges and solutions	26
Advances in online handwritten recognition in the last decades	26
Three-dimensional visualization of X-ray micro-CT with large-scale datasets: Efficiency and accuracy for real-time interaction	26
Editorial Board	26

AI-driven semantic information retrieval for Arabic language- systematic literature review	26
Dynamic computation offloading for ground and flying robots: Taxonomy, state of art, and future directions	26
Server placement in mobile cloud computing: A comprehensive survey for edge computing, fog computing and cloudlet	25
Advances in nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization for feature selection problem: A comprehensive survey	25
NLP-based techniques for Cyber Threat Intelligence	25
An overview of sign language processing from natural language processing perspective	24
Bridging the gap: A survey of document retrieval techniques for high-resource and low-resource languages	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