OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACM Computing Surveys is 106. 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
From Bugs to Benchmarks: A Comprehensive Survey of Software Defect Datasets	2852
A Survey on Exotic Signatures for Post-quantum Blockchain: Challenges and Research Directions	2721
Secure Robotics: Navigating Challenges at the Nexus of Safety, Trust, and Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Systems	1181
Remote Respiration Measurement with RGB Cameras: A Review and Benchmark	1089
A Comprehensive Survey of Transformers in Text Recognition: Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions	991
A Survey of Heuristics for Profile and Wavefront Reductions	950
Big Data Analytics and Internet of Things Combined with Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Effective Emergency Management: A Comprehensive Survey	678
A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification	565
Neural Architecture Search Survey: A Hardware Perspective	525
Fairness in Ranking, Part II: Learning-to-Rank and Recommender Systems	485
Brave New GES World: A Systematic Literature Review of Gestures and Referents in Gesture Elicitation Studies	476
Down the Rabbit Hole: Detecting Online Extremism, Radicalisation, and Politicised Hate Speech	469
Adversarial Attacks of Vision Tasks in the Past 10 Years: A Survey	441
FPGA-Enabled Machine Learning Applications in Earth Observation: A Systematic Review	425
A Survey on Security of UAV Swarm Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures	421
A Comprehensive Review on IoT Marketplace Matchmaking: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges	405
I Know What You Trained Last Summer: A Survey on Stealing Machine Learning Models and Defences	372
A Review of Olfactory Display Designs for Virtual Reality Environments	361
A Comprehensive Analysis of Explainable AI for Malware Hunting	354
A Survey on Kolmogorov-Arnold Network	349
Diffusion Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Methods and Applications	334
Machine Learning and Physics: A Survey of Integrated Models	314
Exploring Neuromorphic Computing Based on Spiking Neural Networks: Algorithms to Hardware	311
Demystifying Graph Databases: Analysis and Taxonomy of Data Organization, System Designs, and Graph Queries	297
A Systematic Literature Review on Automated Software Vulnerability Detection Using Machine Learning	294

Towards Trustworthy AI-Empowered Real-Time Bidding for Online Advertisement Auctioning	293
A Taxonomy and Comparative Analysis of IPv4 Identifier Selection Correctness, Security, and Performance	291
A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy of Cybersecurity Challenges and Proactive Measures for IoD	279
Diagnosis of Benign Positional Vertigo: A Systematic Review of Machine Learning and Deep Learning within Videonystagmography	276
DNN Partitioning for Cooperative Inference in Edge Intelligence: Modeling, Solutions, Toolchains	265
Escorting the Confidentiality and Integrity of UAVs: What Exactly Can Trusted Execution Environment Offer?	253
Timed Automata as a Formalism for Expressing Security: A Survey on Theory and Practice	250
Open-Ethical AI: Advancements in Open-Source Human-Centric Neural Language Models	236
Demystify the Fuzzing Methods: A Comprehensive Survey	219
Underwater Optical Object Detection in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Current, Challenge, and Future	217
A Survey on Stability of Learning with Limited Labelled Data and its Sensitivity to the Effects of Randomness	217
Data Readiness for AI: A 360-Degree Survey	216
Privacy Intelligence: A Survey on Image Privacy in Online Social Networks	216
Explainability in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Review into Current Methods and Applications	213
Remote Electronic Voting in Uncontrolled Environments: A Classifying Survey	213
Deep Causal Learning: Representation, Discovery and Inference	210
A Survey on the State of the Art of Causally Consistent Cloud Systems	200
Text Classification Using Graph Convolutional Networks: A Comprehensive Survey	196
A Systematic Literature Review on Multimodal Text Summarization	194
Bridging the Gap between Spatial and Spectral Domains: A Unified Framework for Graph Neural Networks	193
A Survey on Virtual Network Functions for Media Streaming: Solutions and Future Challenges	185
Future UAV/Drone Systems for Intelligent Active Surveillance and Monitoring	183
From Reactive to Active Sensing: A Survey on Information Gathering in Decision-theoretic Planning	183
Domain Generalization in Computational Pathology: Survey and Guidelines	179
Large Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization: A Systematic Review	178
A Survey on Synchronous Augmented, Virtual, andMixed Reality Remote Collaboration Systems	175
Concept-based Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey	168
Deep Learning Models for Serendipity Recommendations: A Survey and New Perspectives	167
Personalization in Public Transport Passenger Information Systems: A Systematic Review and Framework	163
A Survey of Security and Privacy Issues in V2X Communication Systems	162
Private Graph Data Release: A Survey	162
A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for ML/DL-based Software Engineering	162
Wild Patterns Reloaded: A Survey of Machine Learning Security against Training Data Poisoning	161
On the Explainability of Natural Language Processing Deep Models	159
Utilizing Internet of Things in Human-Building Interaction to Support Sustainable Built Environments	158
The Role of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - A Systematic Review	155
Slicing of Probabilistic Programs: A Review of Existing Approaches	153
Dataset Discovery and Exploration: A Survey	151
A Comprehensive Review on Vision-Based Violence Detection in Surveillance Videos	150
A Systematic Review of Multimodal Signal Fusion for Acute Pain Assessment Systems	146
ISP Meets Deep Learning: A Survey on Deep Learning Methods for Image Signal Processing	141
Knowledge-based Cyber Physical Security at Smart Home: A Review	133
How many FIDO protocols are needed? Analysing the technology, security and compliance	131
Botnet Business Models, Takedown Attempts, and the Darkweb Market: A Survey	130
Systematic Literature Review on Parallel Trajectory-based Metaheuristics	128
Engineering Blockchain-based Software Systems: Foundations, Survey, and Future Directions	126
Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): Visualization Insight -- Two Decades of Research, Practice, and Future Directions	126
A Systematic Review of Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Strategies, and Prospects	126
A Survey of Multi-modal Knowledge Graphs: Technologies and Trends	125
Recent Advances in Automatic Term Extraction: A Comprehensive Survey	125

Multi-Class Imbalanced Data Handling with Concept Drift in Fog Computing: A Taxonomy, Review, and Future Directions	124
Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models	123
Transfer Learning in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey	123
State-of-the-Art and Challenges of Engineering ML- Enabled Software Systems in the Deep Learning Era	123
Visual Tuning	122
A Review of Stability in Topic Modeling: Metrics for Assessing and Techniques for Improving Stability	122
Deep Learning Methods for Abstract Visual Reasoning: A Survey on Raven's Progressive Matrices	122
A Survey on Hypergraph Representation Learning	122
A.I. Robustness: a Human-Centered Perspective on Technological Challenges and Opportunities	121
Deep Learning Library Testing: Definition, Methods and Challenges	119
Driving Healthcare Monitoring with IoT and Wearable Devices: A Systematic Review	117
Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Network Security for Vertical Applications: A Survey	117
Embedding Compression in Recommender Systems: A Survey	117
Distributed Scrum: A Case Meta-analysis	116
Advancing 5G Security and Privacy with AI: A Survey	115
Blockchain Agnostic Protocols: An Analysis of the State of the Art	114
Task Offloading for CAVs Edge Computing Environment: Taxonomy, Critical Review, and Future Road Map	113
State of Practical Applicability of Regression Testing Research: A Live Systematic Literature Review	113
Function Calling in Large Language Models: Industrial Practices, Challenges, and Future Directions	112
Private and Secure Distributed Deep Learning: A Survey	111
Deep Generative Models for Therapeutic Peptide Discovery: A Comprehensive Review	110
Eco-Friendly Route Planning Algorithms: Taxonomies, Literature Review and Future Directions	109
Threats to Training: A Survey of Poisoning Attacks and Defenses on Machine Learning Systems	109
Visual Question Answering: A Survey of Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges	109
Knowledge Graph Embedding: A Survey from the Perspective of Representation Spaces	108
Semantic Knowledge Graphs for the News: A Review	108
A Survey on Hyperdimensional Computing aka Vector Symbolic Architectures, Part II: Applications, Cognitive Models, and Challenges	107
Class-Imbalanced Learning on Graphs: A Survey	107
A Survey of AI-enabled Dynamic Manufacturing Scheduling: From Directed Heuristics to Autonomous Learning	107
A Taxonomy and Systematic Review of Gaze Interactions for 2D Displays: Promising Techniques and Opportunities	106
Evolving Paradigms in Automated Program Repair: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Opportunities	106
Survey and Taxonomy of Adversarial Reconnaissance Techniques	106