OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Computer Science Review is 37. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	190
Characterising harmful API uses and repair techniques: Insights from a systematic review	185
Blockchain verification and validation: Techniques, challenges, and research directions	182
The ML-based sensor data deception targeting cyber–physical systems: A review	170
A comprehensive review on current issues and advancements of Internet of Things in precision agriculture	153
A comprehensive review of usage control frameworks	153
Editorial Board	117
A systematic review of federated learning incentive mechanisms and associated security challenges	114
Network resource management mechanisms in SDN enabled WSNs: A comprehensive review	114
Studying fake news spreading, polarisation dynamics, and manipulation by bots: A tale of networks and language	114
Non-square grids: A new trend in imaging and modeling?	100
A search for good pseudo-random number generators: Survey and empirical studies	97
Research communities in cyber security: A comprehensive literature review	89
Model-based joint analysis of safety and security:Survey and identification of gaps	84
A survey of blockchain, artificial intelligence, and edge computing for Web 3.0	82
A survey of deep learning techniques for detecting and recognizing objects in complex environments	67
A survey of the European Open Science Cloud services for expanding the capacity and capabilities of multidisciplinary scientific applications	67
Leveraging 6G, extended reality, and IoT big data analytics for healthcare: A review	66
Building blocks of sharding blockchain systems: Concepts, approaches, and open problems	66
Software as storytelling: A systematic literature review	66
Quantum secure authentication and key agreement protocols for IoT-enabled applications: A comprehensive survey and open challenges	66
Empowering large language models to edge intelligence: A survey of edge efficient LLMs and techniques	65
Blockchain-based solutions for mobile crowdsensing: A comprehensive survey	64
A decade: Review of scene text detection methods	63
Auto-scaling mechanisms in serverless computing: A comprehensive review	61

Secure and privacy-preserving crowdsensing using smart contracts: Issues and solutions	58
WebAssembly and security: A review	57
Adding relevance to rigor: Assessing the contributions of SLRs in Software Engineering through Citation Context Analysis	54
A survey on deep matrix factorizations	49
Recent advances in anomaly detection in Internet of Things: Status, challenges, and perspectives	49
Chaos Game Optimization: A comprehensive study of its variants, applications, and future directions	45
Negative selection in anomaly detection—A survey	45
Reproducibility, Replicability and Repeatability: A survey of reproducible research with a focus on high performance computing	43
Towards data augmentation in graph neural network: An overview and evaluation	42
Future of cyberspace: A critical review of standard security protocols in the post-quantum era	40
Securing Tomorrow of Next-Generation Technologies with Biometrics, State-of-The-Art Techniques, Open Challenges, and Future Research Directions	40
Ontology learning towards expressiveness: A survey	37
Review of Distributed Quantum Computing: From single QPU to High Performance Quantum Computing	37
Role of human physiology and facial biomechanics towards building robust deepfake detectors: A comprehensive survey and analysis	37