OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	108
Editorial Board	107
Evaluation of network expansion decisions for resilient interdependent critical infrastructures with different topologies	84
Identifying cyber attack vulnerabilities in the main lubricating oil system of marine propulsion units	81
An AutoML-based security defender for industrial control systems	69
VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble	67
Corrigendum to ‘VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble’ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 37 (2022), 100525	53
Mitigation of the impact of disturbances in gas transmission systems	50
National and international maritime situational awareness model examples and the effects of North Stream Pipelines sabotage	49
Physical performance of power grids against earthquakes: from framework to implementation	46
Vulnerability assessment of urban road traffic systems based on traffic flow	42
IPSMInfer: Industrial proprietary protocol state machine inference from network traces	38
DSACR: A defense-based system with adaptive cyber resilience for industrial control systems	37
Need for intensive care? A socio-technical systems perspective on water supply failure preparedness in German health care facilities	37
A management knowledge graph approach for critical infrastructure protection: Ontology design, information extraction and relation prediction	32
Threat model for IEC 61850 based substation automation system	25
Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) Testbed Design of Thermal Power Plant for Threat Modeling and Attack Vector Analysis	25
APT attacks on industrial control systems: A tale of three incidents	24
A comparative study of cyber security intrusion detection in healthcare systems	23
Advances in UAV detection: integrating multi-sensor systems and AI for enhanced accuracy and efficiency	23
A threat modeling language for generating attack graphs of substation automation systems	23
Editorial Board	22
Systemic cyber risk	20
Assessing the comprehensive importance of power grid nodes based on DEA	20
A game-theoretic method to optimize allocation of defensive resource to protect urban water treatment plants against physical attacks	19

Robustness analysis of electricity networks against failure or attack: The case of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM)	19
Intelligent Intrusion Detection Scheme for Smart Power-Grid Using Optimized Ensemble Learning on Selected Features	19
An evaluation framework for industrial control system cyber incidents	19
Measuring spatial accessibility to critical infrastructure: The Access Road Identification model	18
Assessing earthquake risks to lifeline infrastructure systems in the United States	18
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements	18
FDI attack detection using extra trees algorithm and deep learning algorithm-autoencoder in smart grid	17
Technological advancements and innovations in enhancing resilience of electrical distribution systems	17
Machine learning for cybersecurity in smart grids: A comprehensive review-based study on methods, solutions, and prospects	17
Interdependencies and supply chain	16
Enhancing urban system resilience to earthquake disasters: Impact of interdependence and resource allocation	15
Rule-based anomaly detection for railway signalling networks	15
Assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection projects using a MCDA method	14
Vulnerability assessment of interdependent road-power networks with probability-based coupling strategies	14
Chance-constrained vulnerability assessment of smart water distribution systems against stealthy false data injection attacks	14
Situation Awareness for Cyber Resilience: A review	14
A review on effective alarm management systems for industrial process control: Barriers and opportunities	13
OptAML: Optimized adversarial machine learning on water treatment and distribution systems	12
Digital Twin-assisted anomaly detection for industrial scenarios	11
Machine learning applications in the resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems—A systematic literature review	10
The drift of industrial control systems to pseudo security	10
Optimized unmanned aerial vehicle pathway system in disaster resilience network	10
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and satellite communications	10
Resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks: Review and future directions	10
Exploring the concept of public-private partnership in building critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events: A systematic review	9
Evaluating regional emergency response capabilities using entropy weight and matter-element extension theory	9
SuPOR: A lightweight stream cipher for confidentiality and attack-resilient visual data security in IoT	9
Dynamic optimization of multi-layered defenses inspired by Chakravyuh	9
Resilience quantification and recovery strategy simulation for urban underground logistics systems under node and link attacks: A case study of Nanjing city	9
Risk assessment and mitigation for electric power sectors: A developing country's perspective	8
A forensics and compliance auditing framework for critical infrastructure protection	8
Feature extraction and selection for flooding-based multi-class DDoS attacks detection in IoT network	8
Robustness evaluation method and defense strategy of electricity-heat integrated energy system	8
Using Kolmogorov–Arnold network for cyber–physical system security: A fast and efficient approach	8
Estimating the frequency of cyber threats to nuclear power plants based on operating experience analysis	8
Developing security metrics for space systems: A study considering the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and the NIS2	8
SituRepair: Incorporating machine-learning fault class prediction to inform situational multiple fault automatic program repair	8
Effect of adding physical links on the robustness of the Internet modeled as a physical–logical interdependent network using simple strategies	8
Securing industrial control systems: Developing a SCADA/IoT test bench and evaluating lightweight cipher performance on hardware simulator	8
Artificial immunity-based energy theft detection for advanced metering infrastructures	8
A multi-criteria framework for critical infrastructure systems resilience	7
FingerCI: Writing industrial process specifications from network traffic	7
Vulnerability analysis of urban road networks based on traffic situation	7
Interdependencies and third parties	7
A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques	7
Security in Digital Aeronautical Communications A Comprehensive Gap Analysis	7
Editorial Board	6
ResNet50-1D-CNN: A new lightweight resNet50-One-dimensional convolution neural network transfer learning-based approach for improved intrusion detection in cyber-physical systems	6
Digital twin application in lifecycle security of critical infrastructures: A systematic literature review	6
Vulnerable underground entrance understanding for visual surveillance systems	6

Protection of critical infrastructures in times of peace and war	6
Feasibility of critical infrastructure protection using network functions for programmable and decoupled ICS policy enforcement over WAN	6
A survey on safeguarding critical infrastructures: Attacks, AI security, and future directions	6
Software-Defined Networking approaches for intrusion response in Industrial Control Systems: A survey	6
Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity	6
Comprehensive vulnerability assessment for environmental facility depending on spatial characteristics in South Korea	6
From breach to bias: Measuring reputation value and trust recovery after cyber incidents in critical infrastructure	6
Cross trust: A decentralized MA-ABE mechanism for cross-border identity authentication	6
Demonstration of denial of charging attack on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and its consequences	6
The wireless network jamming problem subject to protocol interference using directional antennas and with battery capacity constraints	5
The digital divide in state vulnerability to submarine communications cable failure	5
A multi-source power grid's resilience enhancement strategy based on subnet division and power dispatch	5
Securing the future: Integrating quantum computing and digital twin technologies into modern power & transportation systems for resilient smart cities against false data injection cyberattacks	5
SIRT: A distinctive and smart invasion recognition tool (SIRT) for defending IoT integrated ICS from cyber-attacks	5
Impact of Internet and mobile communication on cyber resilience: A multivariate adaptive regression spline modeling approach	5
STADe: An unsupervised time-windows method of detecting anomalies in oil and gas Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) networks	5
Quantification of seismic resilience of water distribution networks considering interdependency using Dempster-Shafer theory	5
Cyber-threat landscape of border control infrastructures	5
A novel deep learning based security assessment framework for enhanced security in swarm network environment	4
Space cybersecurity challenges, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness, and future directions	4
A novel cost-based optimization model for electric power distribution systems resilience improvement under dust storms	4
Editorial	4
Evaluation of SDN security measures in the context of IEC 62443-3-3	4
A flexible OT testbed for evaluating on-device implementations of IEC-61850 GOOSE	4
Measurement protection to prevent cyber–physical attacks against power system State Estimation	4
A hybrid deep learning model for discrimination of physical disturbance and cyber-attack detection in smart grid	4