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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	163
Evaluation of network expansion decisions for resilient interdependent critical infrastructures with different topologies	90
Corrigendum to ‘VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble’ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 37 (2022), 100525	88
An AutoML-based security defender for industrial control systems	88
VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble	74
Mitigation of the impact of disturbances in gas transmission systems	73
IPSMInfer: Industrial proprietary protocol state machine inference from network traces	62
National and international maritime situational awareness model examples and the effects of North Stream Pipelines sabotage	60
Physical performance of power grids against earthquakes: from framework to implementation	46
Vulnerability assessment of urban road traffic systems based on traffic flow	41
Need for intensive care? A socio-technical systems perspective on water supply failure preparedness in German health care facilities	40
Vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructure network	40
DSACR: A defense-based system with adaptive cyber resilience for industrial control systems	38
A management knowledge graph approach for critical infrastructure protection: Ontology design, information extraction and relation prediction	37
Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) Testbed Design of Thermal Power Plant for Threat Modeling and Attack Vector Analysis	33
A comparative study of cyber security intrusion detection in healthcare systems	32
APT attacks on industrial control systems: A tale of three incidents	32
Systemic cyber risk	31
Editorial Board	30
An evaluation framework for industrial control system cyber incidents	29
A threat modeling language for generating attack graphs of substation automation systems	28
Robustness analysis of electricity networks against failure or attack: The case of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM)	25
Intelligent Intrusion Detection Scheme for Smart Power-Grid Using Optimized Ensemble Learning on Selected Features	24
Advances in UAV detection: integrating multi-sensor systems and AI for enhanced accuracy and efficiency	23
Resilience analysis of interdependent critical infrastructure systems considering deep learning and network theory	23

Assessing the comprehensive importance of power grid nodes based on DEA	22
Assessing earthquake risks to lifeline infrastructure systems in the United States	20
A game-theoretic method to optimize allocation of defensive resource to protect urban water treatment plants against physical attacks	20
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements	18
Measuring spatial accessibility to critical infrastructure: The Access Road Identification model	18
FDI attack detection using extra trees algorithm and deep learning algorithm-autoencoder in smart grid	18
Technological advancements and innovations in enhancing resilience of electrical distribution systems	18
Machine learning for cybersecurity in smart grids: A comprehensive review-based study on methods, solutions, and prospects	17
Situation Awareness for Cyber Resilience: A review	17
Interdependencies and supply chain	17
Enhancing urban system resilience to earthquake disasters: Impact of interdependence and resource allocation	17
Assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection projects using a MCDA method	17
Chance-constrained vulnerability assessment of smart water distribution systems against stealthy false data injection attacks	16
Rule-based anomaly detection for railway signalling networks	15
A review on effective alarm management systems for industrial process control: Barriers and opportunities	15
Digital Twin-assisted anomaly detection for industrial scenarios	15
End-User Privacy Protection Scheme from cyber intrusion in smart grid advanced metering infrastructure	14
OptAML: Optimized adversarial machine learning on water treatment and distribution systems	14
Machine learning applications in the resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems—A systematic literature review	14
Optimized unmanned aerial vehicle pathway system in disaster resilience network	13
Protection of large-scale smart grids against false data injection cyberattacks leading to blackouts	13
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and satellite communications	13
A homogeneous ensemble based dynamic artificial neural network for solving the intrusion detection problem	13
Evaluating regional emergency response capabilities using entropy weight and matter-element extension theory	12
Evaluation on nuclear emergency response strategies in the Asia-Pacific region	12
The drift of industrial control systems to pseudo security	12
Exploring the concept of public-private partnership in building critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events: A systematic review	12
Editorial Board	11
A hypothesis-driven framework for resilience analysis of public transport network under compound failure scenarios	11
Resilience quantification and recovery strategy simulation for urban underground logistics systems under node and link attacks: A case study of Nanjing city	11
Robustness evaluation method and defense strategy of electricity-heat integrated energy system	10
Announcement: Change in Editorship	10
Vulnerability analysis of S7 PLCs: Manipulating the security mechanism	9
SituRepair: Incorporating machine-learning fault class prediction to inform situational multiple fault automatic program repair	8
Artificial immunity-based energy theft detection for advanced metering infrastructures	8
Effect of adding physical links on the robustness of the Internet modeled as a physical–logical interdependent network using simple strategies	8
A forensics and compliance auditing framework for critical infrastructure protection	8
Risk assessment and mitigation for electric power sectors: A developing country's perspective	8
A multi-criteria framework for critical infrastructure systems resilience	7
Cybersecurity professionals information sharing sources and networks in the U.S. electrical power industry	7
Comprehensive vulnerability assessment for environmental facility depending on spatial characteristics in South Korea	7
Editorial Board	7
Critical flow centrality measures on interdependent networks with time-varying demands	7
A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques	7
Interdependencies and third parties	7
Feasibility of critical infrastructure protection using network functions for programmable and decoupled ICS policy enforcement over WAN	7
Estimating the frequency of cyber threats to nuclear power plants based on operating experience analysis	7
Securing industrial control systems: Developing a SCADA/IoT test bench and evaluating lightweight cipher performance on hardware simulator	7
Vulnerability analysis of urban road networks based on traffic situation	7
Security in Digital Aeronautical Communications A Comprehensive Gap Analysis	7

FingerCI: Writing industrial process specifications from network traffic	7
Cybersecurity Assessment Framework for Digital Interface Between Safety and Security at Nuclear Power Plants	6
Demonstration of denial of charging attack on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and its consequences	6
The digital divide in state vulnerability to submarine communications cable failure	6
A survey on safeguarding critical infrastructures: Attacks, AI security, and future directions	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
Vulnerable underground entrance understanding for visual surveillance systems	6
Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity	6
Threat Modelling of Cyber–Physical Systems Using an Applied π-Calcul	6
SIRT: A distinctive and smart invasion recognition tool (SIRT) for defending IoT integrated ICS from cyber-attacks	5
Design of a coordinated cyber-physical attack in IoT based smart grid under limited intruder accessibility	5
Editorial Board	5
Analysis and lessons identified on critical infrastructures and dependencies from an empirical data set	5
Cyber-threat landscape of border control infrastructures	5
A multi-source power grid's resilience enhancement strategy based on subnet division and power dispatch	5
Impact of Internet and mobile communication on cyber resilience: A multivariate adaptive regression spline modeling approach	5
Nodal vulnerability assessment of water distribution networks: An integrated Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS approach	5
Cross trust: A decentralized MA-ABE mechanism for cross-border identity authentication	5
Software-Defined Networking approaches for intrusion response in Industrial Control Systems: A survey	5
Editorial	4
A novel cost-based optimization model for electric power distribution systems resilience improvement under dust storms	4
A hybrid deep learning model for discrimination of physical disturbance and cyber-attack detection in smart grid	4
A flexible OT testbed for evaluating on-device implementations of IEC-61850 GOOSE	4
The wireless network jamming problem subject to protocol interference using directional antennas and with battery capacity constraints	4
Space cybersecurity challenges, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness, and future directions	4
Resilience in cogeneration systems: Graphical analysis of novel indexes and system behavior under failure scenarios	4
Load-altering attack detection on smart grid using functional observers	4
STADe: An unsupervised time-windows method of detecting anomalies in oil and gas Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) networks	4
Measurement protection to prevent cyber–physical attacks against power system State Estimation	4
A novel deep learning based security assessment framework for enhanced security in swarm network environment	4
Evaluation of SDN security measures in the context of IEC 62443-3-3	4