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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	124
Evaluation of network expansion decisions for resilient interdependent critical infrastructures with different topologies	114
Editorial Board	90
Mitigation of the impact of disturbances in gas transmission systems	87
An AutoML-based security defender for industrial control systems	75
Corrigendum to ‘VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble’ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 37 (2022), 100525	74
Dynamic protection of human-cyber-physical systems based on CPN and multi-agent reinforcement learning: Evidence from smart coal mines	58
VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble	57
Identifying cyber attack vulnerabilities in the main lubricating oil system of marine propulsion units	54
National and international maritime situational awareness model examples and the effects of North Stream Pipelines sabotage	53
Physical performance of power grids against earthquakes: from framework to implementation	49
IPSMInfer: Industrial proprietary protocol state machine inference from network traces	41
Vulnerability assessment of urban road traffic systems based on traffic flow	39
DSACR: A defense-based system with adaptive cyber resilience for industrial control systems	35
A management knowledge graph approach for critical infrastructure protection: Ontology design, information extraction and relation prediction	34
Need for intensive care? A socio-technical systems perspective on water supply failure preparedness in German health care facilities	32
Threat model for IEC 61850 based substation automation system	32
Cyber winter	29
Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) Testbed Design of Thermal Power Plant for Threat Modeling and Attack Vector Analysis	28
A comparative study of cyber security intrusion detection in healthcare systems	28
A threat modeling language for generating attack graphs of substation automation systems	26
APT attacks on industrial control systems: A tale of three incidents	26
Editorial Board	25
Systemic cyber risk	24
Advances in UAV detection: integrating multi-sensor systems and AI for enhanced accuracy and efficiency	24

Assessing the comprehensive importance of power grid nodes based on DEA	24
Robustness analysis of electricity networks against failure or attack: The case of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM)	23
Intelligent Intrusion Detection Scheme for Smart Power-Grid Using Optimized Ensemble Learning on Selected Features	21
Measuring spatial accessibility to critical infrastructure: The Access Road Identification model	21
Assessing earthquake risks to lifeline infrastructure systems in the United States	21
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements	20
Machine learning for cybersecurity in smart grids: A comprehensive review-based study on methods, solutions, and prospects	19
FDI attack detection using extra trees algorithm and deep learning algorithm-autoencoder in smart grid	19
Technological advancements and innovations in enhancing resilience of electrical distribution systems	19
Vulnerability assessment of interdependent road-power networks with probability-based coupling strategies	18
Interdependencies and supply chain	18
Rule-based anomaly detection for railway signalling networks	17
Enhancing urban system resilience to earthquake disasters: Impact of interdependence and resource allocation	16
Assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection projects using a MCDA method	16
Chance-constrained vulnerability assessment of smart water distribution systems against stealthy false data injection attacks	16
A review on effective alarm management systems for industrial process control: Barriers and opportunities	16
Situation Awareness for Cyber Resilience: A review	15
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
Digital Twin-assisted anomaly detection for industrial scenarios	14
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and satellite communications	14
Resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks: Review and future directions	12
Optimized unmanned aerial vehicle pathway system in disaster resilience network	12
The drift of industrial control systems to pseudo security	12
SuPOR: A lightweight stream cipher for confidentiality and attack-resilient visual data security in IoT	11
Using Kolmogorov–Arnold network for cyber–physical system security: A fast and efficient approach	11
Exploring the concept of public-private partnership in building critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events: A systematic review	11
Evaluating regional emergency response capabilities using entropy weight and matter-element extension theory	11
Dynamic optimization of multi-layered defenses inspired by Chakravyuh	11
Artificial immunity-based energy theft detection for advanced metering infrastructures	10
Robustness evaluation method and defense strategy of electricity-heat integrated energy system	10
Securing smart city Internet of Vehicles via transformer integrated consensus ensemble learning and bio-inspired metaheuristics	10
A forensics and compliance auditing framework for critical infrastructure protection	10
Feature extraction and selection for flooding-based multi-class DDoS attacks detection in IoT network	10
SituRepair: Incorporating machine-learning fault class prediction to inform situational multiple fault automatic program repair	10
Resilience quantification and recovery strategy simulation for urban underground logistics systems under node and link attacks: A case study of Nanjing city	10
A multi-criteria framework for critical infrastructure systems resilience	9
Estimating the frequency of cyber threats to nuclear power plants based on operating experience analysis	9
A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques	9
Securing industrial control systems: Developing a SCADA/IoT test bench and evaluating lightweight cipher performance on hardware simulator	9
Developing security metrics for space systems: A study considering the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and the NIS2	9
Vulnerability analysis of urban road networks based on traffic situation	9
Editorial Board	8
Interdependencies and third parties	8
Comprehensive vulnerability assessment for environmental facility depending on spatial characteristics in South Korea	8
From breach to bias: Measuring reputation value and trust recovery after cyber incidents in critical infrastructure	8
FingerCI: Writing industrial process specifications from network traffic	8
Protection of critical infrastructures in times of peace and war	8
Security in Digital Aeronautical Communications A Comprehensive Gap Analysis	8
Digital twin application in lifecycle security of critical infrastructures: A systematic literature review	7

Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity	7
Cross trust: A decentralized MA-ABE mechanism for cross-border identity authentication	7
Feasibility of critical infrastructure protection using network functions for programmable and decoupled ICS policy enforcement over WAN	7
ResNet50-1D-CNN: A new lightweight resNet50-One-dimensional convolution neural network transfer learning-based approach for improved intrusion detection in cyber-physical systems	7
Vulnerable underground entrance understanding for visual surveillance systems	7
A survey on safeguarding critical infrastructures: Attacks, AI security, and future directions	7
Demonstration of denial of charging attack on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and its consequences	7
A multi-source power grid's resilience enhancement strategy based on subnet division and power dispatch	6
Impact of Internet and mobile communication on cyber resilience: A multivariate adaptive regression spline modeling approach	6
Quantification of seismic resilience of water distribution networks considering interdependency using Dempster-Shafer theory	6
Securing the future: Integrating quantum computing and digital twin technologies into modern power & transportation systems for resilient smart cities against false data injection cyberattacks	6
The digital divide in state vulnerability to submarine communications cable failure	6
Software-Defined Networking approaches for intrusion response in Industrial Control Systems: A survey	6
SIRT: A distinctive and smart invasion recognition tool (SIRT) for defending IoT integrated ICS from cyber-attacks	6
Space cybersecurity challenges, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness, and future directions	5
STADe: An unsupervised time-windows method of detecting anomalies in oil and gas Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) networks	5
Editorial	5
The wireless network jamming problem subject to protocol interference using directional antennas and with battery capacity constraints	5
A novel deep learning based security assessment framework for enhanced security in swarm network environment	5
A novel cost-based optimization model for electric power distribution systems resilience improvement under dust storms	5
Resilience in cogeneration systems: Graphical analysis of novel indexes and system behavior under failure scenarios	4
A flexible OT testbed for evaluating on-device implementations of IEC-61850 GOOSE	4
Attacking the grid: Lessons from a guerrilla conflict and efforts for peace in Colombia: 1990–2018	4
Measurement protection to prevent cyber–physical attacks against power system State Estimation	4
Load-altering attack detection on smart grid using functional observers	4
A Cyber Incident Response and Recovery Framework to Support Operators of Industrial Control Systems	4
A hybrid deep learning model for discrimination of physical disturbance and cyber-attack detection in smart grid	4
Evaluation of SDN security measures in the context of IEC 62443-3-3	4