OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Computer Science Review is 23. 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
A comprehensive review of usage control frameworks	126
The Lonely Runner Conjecture turns 60	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
A survey of the European Open Science Cloud services for expanding the capacity and capabilities of multidisciplinary scientific applications	68
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 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 survey on deep matrix factorizations	49
A systematic literature review on cross-language source code clone detection	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
Recent advances in anomaly detection in Internet of Things: Status, challenges, and perspectives	43
Securing Tomorrow of Next-Generation Technologies with Biometrics, State-of-The-Art Techniques, Open Challenges, and Future Research Directions	43
Towards data augmentation in graph neural network: An overview and evaluation	40
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
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 survey of set accumulators for blockchain systems	35
A comprehensive survey on deep learning based malware detection techniques	35
Editorial Board	35
The future of computing paradigms for medical and emergency applications	34
Editorial Board	34
Intelligent computational techniques for physical object properties discovery, detection, and prediction: A comprehensive survey	33
A comprehensive survey of Federated Intrusion Detection Systems: Techniques, challenges and solutions	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
A survey on GANs for computer vision: Recent research, analysis and taxonomy	24
Editorial Board	24
A decade systematic review of fusion techniques in financial market prediction	24
Server placement in mobile cloud computing: A comprehensive survey for edge computing, fog computing and cloudlet	23
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