OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of ACM Computing Surveys is 48. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Survey of Heuristics for Profile and Wavefront Reductions	3668
A Taxonomy and Comparative Analysis of IPv4 Identifier Selection Correctness, Security, and Performance	2936
A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy of Cybersecurity Challenges and Proactive Measures for IoD	1330
Open-Ethical AI: Advancements in Open-Source Human-Centric Neural Language Models	1264
A Comprehensive Review on IoT Marketplace Matchmaking: Approaches, Opportunities and Challenges	1099
Big Data Analytics and Internet of Things Combined with Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Effective Emergency Management: A Comprehensive Survey	1043
FPGA-Enabled Machine Learning Applications in Earth Observation: A Systematic Review	777
Escorting the Confidentiality and Integrity of UAVs: What Exactly Can Trusted Execution Environment Offer?	638
The Landscape of GPU-Centric Communication	599
Brave New GES World: A Systematic Literature Review of Gestures and Referents in Gesture Elicitation Studies	594
Privacy Intelligence: A Survey on Image Privacy in Online Social Networks	531
Towards Trustworthy AI-Empowered Real-Time Bidding for Online Advertisement Auctioning	523
Diagnosis of Benign Positional Vertigo: A Systematic Review of Machine Learning and Deep Learning within Videonystagmography	517
Timed Automata as a Formalism for Expressing Security: A Survey on Theory and Practice	494
I Know What You Trained Last Summer: A Survey on Stealing Machine Learning Models and Defences	471
A Comprehensive Survey of Transformers in Text Recognition: Techniques, Challenges, and Future Directions	471
DNN Partitioning for Cooperative Inference in Edge Intelligence: Modeling, Solutions, Toolchains	467
Neural Architecture Search Survey: A Hardware Perspective	418
A Survey on Aspect-Based Sentiment Classification	404
Remote Respiration Measurement with RGB Cameras: A Review and Benchmark	399
A Review of Olfactory Display Designs for Virtual Reality Environments	386
Fairness in Ranking, Part II: Learning-to-Rank and Recommender Systems	383
A Survey on Stability of Learning with Limited Labelled Data and its Sensitivity to the Effects of Randomness	376
Demystify the Fuzzing Methods: A Comprehensive Survey	346
Down the Rabbit Hole: Detecting Online Extremism, Radicalisation, and Politicised Hate Speech	334

Adversarial Attacks of Vision Tasks in the Past 10 Years: A Survey	324
A Survey on Exotic Signatures for Post-quantum Blockchain: Challenges and Research Directions	318
From Bugs to Benchmarks: A Comprehensive Survey of Software Defect Datasets	313
Underwater Optical Object Detection in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Current, Challenge, and Future	312
A Survey on Security of UAV Swarm Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures	297
Demystifying Graph Databases: Analysis and Taxonomy of Data Organization, System Designs, and Graph Queries	293
A Comprehensive Analysis of Explainable AI for Malware Hunting	285
A Systematic Literature Review on Automated Software Vulnerability Detection Using Machine Learning	271
Secure Robotics: Navigating Challenges at the Nexus of Safety, Trust, and Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Systems	262
Diffusion Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Methods and Applications	248
Data Readiness for AI: A 360-Degree Survey	247
Exploring Neuromorphic Computing Based on Spiking Neural Networks: Algorithms to Hardware	247
Machine Learning and Physics: A Survey of Integrated Models	245
A Survey on Kolmogorov-Arnold Network	241
Utilizing Internet of Things in Human-Building Interaction to Support Sustainable Built Environments	240
Slicing of Probabilistic Programs: A Review of Existing Approaches	237
A Survey on the State of the Art of Causally Consistent Cloud Systems	235
Botnet Business Models, Takedown Attempts, and the Darkweb Market: A Survey	229
A Survey on Virtual Network Functions for Media Streaming: Solutions and Future Challenges	222
Recent Advances in Automatic Term Extraction: A Comprehensive Survey	220
ISP Meets Deep Learning: A Survey on Deep Learning Methods for Image Signal Processing	218
Private Graph Data Release: A Survey	217
Visual Tuning	209
Remote Electronic Voting in Uncontrolled Environments: A Classifying Survey	207
A Survey on Synchronous Augmented, Virtual, andMixed Reality Remote Collaboration Systems	205
Deep Learning Models for Serendipity Recommendations: A Survey and New Perspectives	204
State-of-the-Art and Challenges of Engineering ML- Enabled Software Systems in the Deep Learning Era	203
Knowledge-based Cyber Physical Security at Smart Home: A Review	196
Future UAV/Drone Systems for Intelligent Active Surveillance and Monitoring	195
Large Language Models for Combinatorial Optimization: A Systematic Review	194
From Reactive to Active Sensing: A Survey on Information Gathering in Decision-theoretic Planning	187
How many FIDO protocols are needed? Analysing the technology, security and compliance	185
Systematic Literature Review on Parallel Trajectory-based Metaheuristics	185
Personalization in Public Transport Passenger Information Systems: A Systematic Review and Framework	177
The Role of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Achieving the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - A Systematic Review	175
On the Explainability of Natural Language Processing Deep Models	175
A Systematic Review of Multimodal Signal Fusion for Acute Pain Assessment Systems	172
A Systematic Literature Review on Multimodal Text Summarization	169
Enhancing Privacy-Preserving Software Development from a Developers’ Perspective: A Survey	166
Multi-Class Imbalanced Data Handling with Concept Drift in Fog Computing: A Taxonomy, Review, and Future Directions	165
Dataset Discovery and Exploration: A Survey	164
A Survey of Multi-modal Knowledge Graphs: Technologies and Trends	159
A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for ML/DL-based Software Engineering	158
Text Classification Using Graph Convolutional Networks: A Comprehensive Survey	156
Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): Visualization Insight -- Two Decades of Research, Practice, and Future Directions	155
Concept-based Explainable Artificial Intelligence: A Survey	153
A Comprehensive Review on Vision-Based Violence Detection in Surveillance Videos	150
Explainability in Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Review into Current Methods and Applications	150
Deep Causal Learning: Representation, Discovery and Inference	149
A Survey of Security and Privacy Issues in V2X Communication Systems	149

Transfer Learning in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey	147
Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models	144
A Survey on Hypergraph Representation Learning	143
Bridging the Gap between Spatial and Spectral Domains: A Unified Framework for Graph Neural Networks	142
Engineering Blockchain-based Software Systems: Foundations, Survey, and Future Directions	141
Domain Generalization in Computational Pathology: Survey and Guidelines	139
Wild Patterns Reloaded: A Survey of Machine Learning Security against Training Data Poisoning	138
A Systematic Review of Cross-Lingual Sentiment Analysis: Tasks, Strategies, and Prospects	135
Advancing 5G Security and Privacy with AI: A Survey	133
Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Network Security for Vertical Applications: A Survey	133
Evolving Paradigms in Automated Program Repair: Taxonomy, Challenges, and Opportunities	132
Deep Learning Methods for Abstract Visual Reasoning: A Survey on Raven's Progressive Matrices	132
A Survey on Deep Learning for Monte Carlo Path Tracing	132
Distributed Scrum: A Case Meta-analysis	132
A Taxonomy and Systematic Review of Gaze Interactions for 2D Displays: Promising Techniques and Opportunities	132
A Taxonomy and Survey on Grid-Based Routing Protocols Designed for Wireless Sensor Networks	131
Blockchain Agnostic Protocols: An Analysis of the State of the Art	131
Private and Secure Distributed Deep Learning: A Survey	129
Deep Learning for Code Intelligence: Survey, Benchmark and Toolkit	129
From Rules to Reasoning: A Survey of Large Language Model-Based Approaches to Scientific Hypothesis and Idea Generation	129
Deep Learning Library Testing: Definition, Methods and Challenges	128
Embedding Compression in Recommender Systems: A Survey	127
Survey and Taxonomy of Adversarial Reconnaissance Techniques	126
A Review of Stability in Topic Modeling: Metrics for Assessing and Techniques for Improving Stability	125
State of Practical Applicability of Regression Testing Research: A Live Systematic Literature Review	125
Deep Learning on Monocular Object Pose Detection and Tracking: A Comprehensive Overview	122
Semantic Knowledge Graphs for the News: A Review	122
Function Calling in Large Language Models: Industrial Practices, Challenges, and Future Directions	122
From Perception to Computation: Revisiting Delay Optimization for Connected Autonomous Vehicles	121
Task Offloading for CAVs Edge Computing Environment: Taxonomy, Critical Review, and Future Road Map	120
Towards Reliable Forgetting: A Survey on Machine Unlearning Verification	120
A Survey of AI-enabled Dynamic Manufacturing Scheduling: From Directed Heuristics to Autonomous Learning	119
Visual Question Answering: A Survey of Methods, Datasets, Evaluation, and Challenges	119
A Survey of Privacy Attacks in Machine Learning	118
Driving Healthcare Monitoring with IoT and Wearable Devices: A Systematic Review	117
A.I. Robustness: a Human-Centered Perspective on Technological Challenges and Opportunities	117
Eco-Friendly Route Planning Algorithms: Taxonomies, Literature Review and Future Directions	117
A Survey on Hyperdimensional Computing aka Vector Symbolic Architectures, Part II: Applications, Cognitive Models, and Challenges	117
A Systematic Literature Review on Multi-Robot Task Allocation	116
Extending Silicon Lifetime: A Review of Design Techniques for Reliable Integrated Circuits	116
Threats to Training: A Survey of Poisoning Attacks and Defenses on Machine Learning Systems	115
The Role of Multi-Agents in Digital Twin Implementation: Short Survey	114
Non-imaging Medical Data Synthesis for Trustworthy AI: A Comprehensive Survey	113
Class-Imbalanced Learning on Graphs: A Survey	113
Heterogeneous Federated Learning: State-of-the-art and Research Challenges	113
Knowledge Graph Embedding: A Survey from the Perspective of Representation Spaces	112
Deep Generative Models for Therapeutic Peptide Discovery: A Comprehensive Review	112
A Survey of Tool Support for Working with Design Decisions in Code	111
Unsupervised Deep Learning for Anomaly Detection in Automotive Trucks: A Survey	111
Big Code Search: A Bibliography	111
Deep Person Generation: A Survey from the Perspective of Face, Pose, and Cloth Synthesis	110
Examining the Current Status and Emerging Trends in Continuous Authentication Technologies through Citation Network Analysis	109
Computational Techniques in PET/CT Image Processing for Breast Cancer: A Systematic Mapping Review	108
Lookup Table-based Computing: A Survey from Software Implementations to Hardware Architectures	108
Mix-Zones as an Effective Privacy Enhancing Technique in Mobile and Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks	107
Heterogeneous Network Access and Fusion in Smart Factory: A Survey	106
Lightweight Consensus in Blockchain: A Systematic Literature Review	106
Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defense Techniques: A Survey	105
An Experimental Investigation of Text-based CAPTCHA Attacks and Their Robustness	105
Lessons from Formally Verified Deployed Software Systems	104
Aortic Vessel Tree Segmentation for Cardiovascular Diseases Treatment: Status Quo	102
Digital Twins for Cultural Heritage: A Systematic Analysis of the State of the Art	102
A Review of Open-RAN Intelligence: Opportunities, Challenges, Real-Life Applications and Impacts	102
Confidential Computing on Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Systems: Survey and Future Directions	101
Pushing the Level of Abstraction of Digital System Design: A Survey on How to Program FPGAs	101
A Survey on 3D Gaussian Splatting	101
Natural Language–Based Conceptual Modelling Frameworks: State of the Art and Future Opportunities	100
A Taxonomy of Cyber Defence Strategies Against False Data Attacks in Smart Grids	100
Generative AI at the Edge: A Comprehensive Survey of Architectures, Hardware and Applications	100
Microarchitectural Attacks in Heterogeneous Systems: A Survey	99
A Survey on Deep Learning for Symbolic Music Generation: Representations, Algorithms, Evaluations, and Challenges	97
A Primer on Pretrained Multilingual Language Models	97
Human Image Generation: A Comprehensive Survey	97
Lost in Translation? Found in Evaluation: A Comprehensive Survey on Sentence-Level Translation Evaluation	96
IMPACTS Homeostasis Trust Management System: Optimizing Trust in Human-AI Teams	95
Instrumental Variables in Causal Inference and Machine Learning: A Survey	95
Automatic Performance Assessment in Three-dimensional Interactive Haptic Medical Simulators: A Systematic Review	95
Conversational Agents in Therapeutic Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Survey	94
Advancements in AI-Generated Content Forensics: A Systematic Literature Review	94
A Review on Tools, Mechanics, Benefits, and Challenges of Gamified Software Testing	94

Implicit Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis: A Systematic Review	94
Wireless Powered Mobile Edge Computing Networks: A Survey	94
A Survey of Hardware Improvements to Secure Program Execution	93
Metaverse Platforms for Immersive Healthcare: A Survey on Telemedicine Solutions	92
Fairness in Ranking, Part I: Score-Based Ranking	92
State-of-the-Art Review and Comparative Experimentation of Emergency Call Prediction Models	92
Methods for Acquiring and Incorporating Knowledge into Stock Price Prediction: A Survey	92
A Comprehensive Review of Information Uncertainty Modelling in Domain Ontologies	92
Representation Learning in Complex Logical Query Answering on Knowledge Graphs: A Survey	91
Metrics for Privacy-Preserving Generative Models: A Comprehensive Survey	90
A Survey on Emerging Trends and Applications of 5G and 6G to Healthcare Environments	90
FairSNA: Algorithmic Fairness in Social Network Analysis	90
A Survey of Side-Channel Attacks on Branch Prediction Units	90
Separation of Duty in Information Security	90
Data Mining on Smartphones: An Introduction and Survey	89
Android Source Code Vulnerability Detection: A Systematic Literature Review	89
Deep Learning in Stance Detection: A Survey	88
Emotion Ontology Studies: A Framework for Expressing Feelings Digitally and its Application to Sentiment Analysis	88
Connect API with Blockchain: A Survey on Blockchain Oracle Implementation	87
Towards Pervasive Distributed Agentic Generative AI–A State of The Art	87
Spatio-Temporal Missing Data Imputation: A Systematic Literature Review with a Focus on Statistical and Machine Learning-Based Approaches	86
Artificial Intelligence for Web 3.0: A Comprehensive Survey	86
Integration of Sensing, Communication, and Computing for Metaverse: A Survey	86
Honeyword-based Authentication Techniques for Protecting Passwords: A Survey	85
Federated Learning for Computationally Constrained Heterogeneous Devices: A Survey	85
Racial Bias within Face Recognition: A Survey	84
Strategic Decisions: Survey, Taxonomy, and Future Directions from Artificial Intelligence Perspective	84
A survey of 3D Space Path-Planning Methods and Algorithms	84
Cross-Chain Smart Contract Invocations: A Systematic Multi-Vocal Literature Review	83
The Evolution of Reinforcement Learning in Quantitative Finance: A Survey	83
Impact of Intelligent Technologies on IoV Security: Integrating Edge Computing and AI	83
Recent Advances for Aerial Object Detection: A Survey	83
A Survey of Hardware-Based AES SBoxes: Area, Performance, and Security	83
An All-Inclusive Taxonomy and Critical Review of Blockchain-Assisted Authentication and Session Key Generation Protocols for IoT	83
Self-supervised Learning for Electroencephalogram: A Systematic Survey	82
A Survey on Deep Learning for Design and Generation of Virtual Architecture	81
Adversarial Machine Learning in IoT Security: A Comprehensive Survey	81
Deep Learning for Time Series Classification and Extrinsic Regression: A Current Survey	80
A Comprehensive Survey of Few-shot Learning: Evolution, Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities	80
Few-Shot Relation Extraction Based on Prompt Learning: A Taxonomy, Survey, Challenges and Future Directions	79
A Knowledge Graph-Based Survey on Distributed Ledger Technology for IoT Verticals	79
A Survey on Privacy-Preserving Computing in the Automotive Domain	79
Camera Measurement of Physiological Vital Signs	78
Public Datasets for Cloud Computing: A Comprehensive Survey	78
Comparing the Humanness of Machine-Generated and Human-Authored Text	78
Cyber Resilience in IoT Networks Revisited: Frameworks, Mechanisms, and Future Directions	77
Cloud Outsourcing Risk Management for Cloud Consumers: A Systematic Literature Review	77
Transformers in Small Object Detection: A Benchmark and Survey of State-of-the-Art	76
Resource-Efficient Convolutional Networks: A Survey on Model-, Arithmetic-, and Implementation-Level Techniques	76
Energy-Efficient Database Systems: A Systematic Survey	75
A Survey on Privacy of Personal and Non-Personal Data in B5G/6G Networks	75
Transforming Large-Size to Lightweight Deep Neural Networks for IoT Applications	74
Cybersecurity in Electric and Flying Vehicles: Threats, Challenges, AI Solutions & Future Directions	74
A Survey on Services Placement Algorithms in Integrated Cloud-Fog / Edge Computing	74
Distributed Machine Learning in Edge Computing: Challenges, Solutions and Future Directions	74
Survey on Redundancy Based-Fault tolerance methods for Processors and Hardware accelerators - Trends in Quantum Computing, Heterogeneous Systems and Reliability	73
SoK: Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) with Automated Market Maker (AMM) Protocols	73
Backdoor Attacks against Voice Recognition Systems: A Survey	73
Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Importance, Use Domains, Stages, Output Shapes, and Challenges	73
Maintenance Operations on Cloud, Edge, and IoT Environments: Taxonomy, Survey, and Research Challenges	73
Resource Management for Mission-Critical Applications in Edge Computing: Systematic Review on Recent Research and Open Issues	72
A Systematic Collection of Medical Image Datasets for Deep Learning	72
A Taxonomy of Live Migration Management in Cloud Computing	71
3D Face Reconstruction: The Road to Forensics	71
The Evolution of Distributed Systems for Graph Neural Networks and Their Origin in Graph Processing and Deep Learning: A Survey	71
Proof Scores: A Survey	70
Constructing Neural Network Based Models for Simulating Dynamical Systems	70
Explainable Deep Reinforcement Learning: State of the Art and Challenges	70
Backdoor Attacks and Defenses Targeting Multi-Domain AI Models: A Comprehensive Review	69
Lightweight Deep Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments: A Survey	69
Automated Program Repair: Emerging Trends Pose and Expose Problems for Benchmarks	69
Evolutionary Computation for Sparse Multi-Objective Optimization: A Survey	69
AI-Enhanced Cybersecurity in Edge Computing: Threats, Solutions, and Future Directions	69
Blockchain-Based Federated Learning for Securing Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey	68
Security and Privacy on Generative Data in AIGC: A Survey	68
Software-Based Dialogue Systems: Survey, Taxonomy, and Challenges	67
Manipulating Recommender Systems: A Survey of Poisoning Attacks and Countermeasures	67
Understanding Hallucinations in Large Visual and Language Models	67
Common Threads in Incremental Data Flow Analysis: A Comprehensive Survey	66
Clinical XAI: A Tutorial on Concepts, Methods, and Modalities from Linear Models to LLMs	66
A Survey on Mapping Semi-Structured Data and Graph Data to Relational Data	66
From Anecdotal Evidence to Quantitative Evaluation Methods: A Systematic Review on Evaluating Explainable AI	66
Survey on Explainable AI for Traditional Machine Learning and Domains	66
Cross-lingual Offensive Language Detection: A Systematic Review of Dataset, Approach and Challenge	65
Igniting Language Intelligence: The Hitchhiker’s Guide from Chain-of-Thought Reasoning to Language Agents	64
Large-Scale UAV Swarm Coordination for Sensing and Communication: A Spatiotemporal Perspective	64
The Internet of Bio-Nano Things with Insulin-Glucose, Security and Research Challenges: A Survey	64
On Identity, Transaction, and Smart Contract Privacy on Permissioned and Permissionless Blockchain: A Comprehensive Survey	64
A Survey of Deep Learning for Low-shot Object Detection	64
DevOps Metrics and KPIs: A Multivocal Literature Review	63
From Detection to Application: Recent Advances in Understanding Scientific Tables and Figures	63
Approximation Opportunities in Edge Computing Hardware: A Systematic Literature Review	62
Toward Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (TAI) in the Context of Explainability and Robustness	62
Optimization Techniques for GPU Programming	62
Cryptographic Primitives in Script-based and Scriptless Payment Channel Networks: A Survey	62