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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	152
Robustness of the Chinese power grid to cascading failures under attack and defense strategies	85
Evaluation of network expansion decisions for resilient interdependent critical infrastructures with different topologies	83
An AutoML-based security defender for industrial control systems	82
Vulnerabilities and countermeasures in electrical substations	67
Corrigendum to ‘VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble’ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 37 (2022), 100525	62
VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble	55
Mitigation of the impact of disturbances in gas transmission systems	53
Vulnerability assessment of urban road traffic systems based on traffic flow	41
National and international maritime situational awareness model examples and the effects of North Stream Pipelines sabotage	37
Resilient backup controller placement in distributed SDN under critical targeted attacks	37
Physical performance of power grids against earthquakes: from framework to implementation	36
Vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructure network	35
Need for intensive care? A socio-technical systems perspective on water supply failure preparedness in German health care facilities	34
DSACR: A defense-based system with adaptive cyber resilience for industrial control systems	30
A management knowledge graph approach for critical infrastructure protection: Ontology design, information extraction and relation prediction	30
A comparative study of cyber security intrusion detection in healthcare systems	29
Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) Testbed Design of Thermal Power Plant for Threat Modeling and Attack Vector Analysis	29
APT attacks on industrial control systems: A tale of three incidents	28
Editorial Board	27
Systemic cyber risk	27
Assessing the comprehensive importance of power grid nodes based on DEA	27
A threat modeling language for generating attack graphs of substation automation systems	26
Resilience analysis of interdependent critical infrastructure systems considering deep learning and network theory	24
An evaluation framework for industrial control system cyber incidents	22

Robustness analysis of electricity networks against failure or attack: The case of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM)	20
Intelligent Intrusion Detection Scheme for Smart Power-Grid Using Optimized Ensemble Learning on Selected Features	19
A game-theoretic method to optimize allocation of defensive resource to protect urban water treatment plants against physical attacks	18
ARTINALI#: An Efficient Intrusion Detection Technique for Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems	18
Rule-based anomaly detection for railway signalling networks	17
Machine learning for cybersecurity in smart grids: A comprehensive review-based study on methods, solutions, and prospects	17
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements	17
Enhancing urban system resilience to earthquake disasters: Impact of interdependence and resource allocation	17
Technological advancements and innovations in enhancing resilience of electrical distribution systems	17
Assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection projects using a MCDA method	17
FDI attack detection using extra trees algorithm and deep learning algorithm-autoencoder in smart grid	17
A review on effective alarm management systems for industrial process control: Barriers and opportunities	16
Chance-constrained vulnerability assessment of smart water distribution systems against stealthy false data injection attacks	16
Editorial Board	16
Machine learning applications in the resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems—A systematic literature review	15
OptAML: Optimized adversarial machine learning on water treatment and distribution systems	15
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and satellite communications	15
Digital Twin-assisted anomaly detection for industrial scenarios	15
Optimized unmanned aerial vehicle pathway system in disaster resilience network	14
End-User Privacy Protection Scheme from cyber intrusion in smart grid advanced metering infrastructure	14
Protection of large-scale smart grids against false data injection cyberattacks leading to blackouts	13
The drift of industrial control systems to pseudo security	13
Exploring the concept of public-private partnership in building critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events: A systematic review	13
A homogeneous ensemble based dynamic artificial neural network for solving the intrusion detection problem	13
Evaluation on nuclear emergency response strategies in the Asia-Pacific region	12
A hypothesis-driven framework for resilience analysis of public transport network under compound failure scenarios	12
Resilience quantification and recovery strategy simulation for urban underground logistics systems under node and link attacks: A case study of Nanjing city	12
Announcement: Change in Editorship	11
Editorial Board	11
Risk assessment and mitigation for electric power sectors: A developing country's perspective	11
Unsupervised machine learning techniques to prevent faults in railroad switch machines	10
Robustness evaluation method and defense strategy of electricity-heat integrated energy system	10
Effect of adding physical links on the robustness of the Internet modeled as a physical–logical interdependent network using simple strategies	10
Vulnerability analysis of S7 PLCs: Manipulating the security mechanism	10
A forensics and compliance auditing framework for critical infrastructure protection	10
Critical flow centrality measures on interdependent networks with time-varying demands	9
Artificial immunity-based energy theft detection for advanced metering infrastructures	9
Vulnerability analysis of urban road networks based on traffic situation	9
SituRepair: Incorporating machine-learning fault class prediction to inform situational multiple fault automatic program repair	9
A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques	8
Securing industrial control systems: Developing a SCADA/IoT test bench and evaluating lightweight cipher performance on hardware simulator	8
Estimating the frequency of cyber threats to nuclear power plants based on operating experience analysis	8
Cybersecurity professionals information sharing sources and networks in the U.S. electrical power industry	8
Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity	7
Editorial Board	7
Demonstration of denial of charging attack on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and its consequences	7
Security in Digital Aeronautical Communications A Comprehensive Gap Analysis	7
A multi-criteria framework for critical infrastructure systems resilience	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

Interdependencies and third parties	7
FingerCI: Writing industrial process specifications from network traffic	7
A Systematic Literature Review on RAMS analysis for critical infrastructures protection	7
Comprehensive vulnerability assessment for environmental facility depending on spatial characteristics in South Korea	7
Vulnerable underground entrance understanding for visual surveillance systems	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
Threat Modelling of Cyber–Physical Systems Using an Applied π-Calcul	6
Cross trust: A decentralized MA-ABE mechanism for cross-border identity authentication	6
Software-Defined Networking approaches for intrusion response in Industrial Control Systems: A survey	6
Cybersecurity Assessment Framework for Digital Interface Between Safety and Security at Nuclear Power Plants	6
Editorial	5
Nodal vulnerability assessment of water distribution networks: An integrated Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS approach	5
Impact of Internet and mobile communication on cyber resilience: A multivariate adaptive regression spline modeling approach	5
Editorial Board	5
Analysis and lessons identified on critical infrastructures and dependencies from an empirical data set	5
Design of a coordinated cyber-physical attack in IoT based smart grid under limited intruder accessibility	5
Cyber-threat landscape of border control infrastructures	5
The wireless network jamming problem subject to protocol interference using directional antennas and with battery capacity constraints	5
SIRT: A distinctive and smart invasion recognition tool (SIRT) for defending IoT integrated ICS from cyber-attacks	5
A multi-source power grid's resilience enhancement strategy based on subnet division and power dispatch	5
Evaluation of SDN security measures in the context of IEC 62443-3-3	4
Space cybersecurity challenges, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness, and future directions	4
A hybrid deep learning model for discrimination of physical disturbance and cyber-attack detection in smart grid	4
Load-altering attack detection on smart grid using functional observers	4
A novel deep learning based security assessment framework for enhanced security in swarm network environment	4
Measurement protection to prevent cyber–physical attacks against power system State Estimation	4
SCOPE: Secure Compiling of PLCs in Cyber-Physical Systems	4
A novel cost-based optimization model for electric power distribution systems resilience improvement under dust storms	4
A flexible OT testbed for evaluating on-device implementations of IEC-61850 GOOSE	4