OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Computer Science Review is 10. 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 of usage control frameworks	153
A comprehensive review on current issues and advancements of Internet of Things in precision agriculture	153
Editorial Board	117
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
A systematic review of federated learning incentive mechanisms and associated security challenges	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 the European Open Science Cloud services for expanding the capacity and capabilities of multidisciplinary scientific applications	67
A survey of deep learning techniques for detecting and recognizing objects in complex environments	67
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
Leveraging 6G, extended reality, and IoT big data analytics for healthcare: A review	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
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
Ontology learning towards expressiveness: A survey	37
A comprehensive survey on deep learning based malware detection techniques	36
Editorial Board	34
A survey of set accumulators for blockchain systems	34
Intelligent computational techniques for physical object properties discovery, detection, and prediction: A comprehensive survey	34
Editorial Board	33
A survey of lattice based expressive attribute based encryption	33
Advances in online handwritten recognition in the last decades	33
The future of computing paradigms for medical and emergency applications	33
Dynamic computation offloading for ground and flying robots: Taxonomy, state of art, and future directions	32
A comprehensive review on Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and DDoS attacks: Ecosystem, taxonomy, traffic engineering, challenges and research directions	31
A comprehensive survey of Federated Intrusion Detection Systems: Techniques, challenges and solutions	31
Addressing the challenges of modern DNS a comprehensive tutorial	31
Advances in nature-inspired metaheuristic optimization for feature selection problem: A comprehensive survey	30
Editorial Board	30
Bridging the gap: A survey of document retrieval techniques for high-resource and low-resource languages	30
Server placement in mobile cloud computing: A comprehensive survey for edge computing, fog computing and cloudlet	29
A Comprehensive review of ‘Internet of Healthcare Things’: Networking aspects, technologies, services, applications, challenges, and security concerns	28
A survey on GANs for computer vision: Recent research, analysis and taxonomy	26
A systematic review of quantum image processing: Representation, applications and future perspectives	26
Secure storage—Confidentiality and authentication	23
Comprehensive survey of the solving puzzle problems	23
Knowledge graph representation learning: A comprehensive and experimental overview	22
A survey on algorithms for Nash equilibria in finite normal-form games	22
Multimodal missing data in healthcare: A comprehensive review and future directions	21
Image processing and artificial intelligence for apple detection and localization: A comprehensive review	21
Intelligent visual analytics for food safety: A comprehensive review	21
Facial expression and body gesture emotion recognition: A systematic review on the use of visual data in affective computing	21
Design practices in visualization driven data exploration for non-expert audiences	20
DDoS attacks & defense mechanisms in SDN-enabled cloud: Taxonomy, review and research challenges	20
Defense strategies for Adversarial Machine Learning: A survey	20
Offloading decision and resource allocation in aerial computing: A comprehensive survey	19
Editorial Board	19
Task scheduling in fog environment — Challenges, tools & methodologies: A review	19
A systematic literature review on the use of machine learning in code clone research	18
Parameterized analysis and crossing minimization problems	18
A comprehensive survey of golden jacal optimization and its applications	18

Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17
A survey on detecting mental disorders with natural language processing: Literature review, trends and challenges	17
A comprehensive review on applications of Raspberry Pi	17
Advances in attention mechanisms for medical image segmentation	15
Deep learning for unmanned aerial vehicles detection: A review	15
A systematic literature review on chaotic maps-based image security techniques	15
Virtual Customer Assistants in finance: From state of the art and practices to design guidelines	15
Twenty-two years since revealing cross-site scripting attacks: A systematic mapping and a comprehensive survey	14
A systematic review on cover selection methods for steganography: Trend analysis, novel classification and analysis of the elements	13
Secret sharing: A comprehensive survey, taxonomy and applications	13
Integration of hyperspectral imaging and autoencoders: Benefits, applications, hyperparameter tunning and challenges	13
Hazy to hazy free: A comprehensive survey of multi-image, single-image, and CNN-based algorithms for dehazing	13
Advancing smart transportation: A review of computer vision and photogrammetry in learning-based dimensional road pavement defect detection	13
State of the art on quality control for data streams: A systematic literature review	13
Fog computing for next-generation Internet of Things: Fundamental, state-of-the-art and research challenges	13
Editorial Board	13
Digital to quantum watermarking: A journey from past to present and into the future	12
Multiple clusterings: Recent advances and perspectives	12
Harnessing Heterogeneous Information Networks: A systematic literature review	12
Towards accessible chart visualizations for the non-visuals: Research, applications and gaps	12
Research communities in cyber security vulnerability assessments: A comprehensive literature review	12
Unsupervised affinity learning based on manifold analysis for image retrieval: A survey	12
Fundamental design aspects of UAV-enabled MEC systems: A review on models, challenges, and future opportunities	11
Integrating Explainable AI with Federated Learning for Next-Generation IoT: A comprehensive review and prospective insights	11
An empirical investigation of task scheduling and VM consolidation schemes in cloud environment	10
An inclusive analysis for performance and efficiency of graph neural network models for node classification	10
Graph-based deep learning techniques for remote sensing applications: Techniques, taxonomy, and applications — A comprehensive review	10
A survey on the Distributed Computing stack	10
Neural Natural Language Processing for unstructured data in electronic health records: A review	10