OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computer Science Review is 25. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

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
A systematic review of federated learning incentive mechanisms and associated security challenges	107
Twenty years of Nešetřil’s classification programme of Ramsey classes	107
A comprehensive review on machine learning-based VPN detection: Scenarios, methods, and open challenges	106
Network resource management mechanisms in SDN enabled WSNs: A comprehensive review	104
Sequential recommender systems: A methodological taxonomy and research frontiers	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
Leveraging 6G, extended reality, and IoT big data analytics for healthcare: A review	84
State-of-the-art image and video-based steganalysis techniques: A comprehensive review, challenges and future recommendations for digital forensic experts	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
A decade survey on exploration-exploitation trade-off in Metaheuristics: A proposal for conceptual framework-based validation model	77
Building blocks of sharding blockchain systems: Concepts, approaches, and open problems	77
A conceptual framework to mitigate ransomware attacks on IoMT devices using threat intelligence: a systematic literature review	74
Recommender systems and sustainability: a dual perspective	74
Advancing GNSS with machine learning: A systematic review of techniques and applications	71
WebAssembly and security: A review	67
GAI & cybersecurity: Bi-visions	67
A survey of AI-supported materials informatics	66
Enhancing IoT security with resource-efficient cryptography: A comprehensive review of lightweight and hybrid algorithms	65
Exploring transparency in pathological image analysis: A comprehensive review of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) techniques	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
Distributed edge artificial intelligence empowered data trading: Theories, algorithms, and applications	49
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
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
A comprehensive survey of image steganography: From traditional vision techniques to deep learning paradigms—Trends, challenges, and applications	41
Federated learning for intelligent transportation systems: Emerging trends, challenges and future directions	41
Homomorphic cryptography: Challenges and perspectives	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 large language models for legal tasks: Progress, prospects and challenges	38
A survey of set accumulators for blockchain systems	38
From mathematical to AI-based methods: A review of marine PNT data fusion and uncertainty handling	37
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
Ontology learning towards expressiveness: A survey	35
A review of background, methods, limitations and opportunities of knowledge graph completion	35
A systematic review of deep learning-based models for elderly and human activity recognition	34
Preface: Special issue in honor of Josep Díaz	33
Future of cyberspace: A critical review of standard security protocols in the post-quantum era	33
Random spanning trees and forests: a geometric focus	32
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
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
Dynamic computation offloading for ground and flying robots: Taxonomy, state of art, and future directions	28
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
Explainable AI for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases: Unveiling methods, opportunities, and challenges	27
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
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
An overview of sign language processing from natural language processing perspective	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