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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	147
Robustness of the Chinese power grid to cascading failures under attack and defense strategies	80
Evaluation of network expansion decisions for resilient interdependent critical infrastructures with different topologies	80
An AutoML-based security defender for industrial control systems	77
Vulnerabilities and countermeasures in electrical substations	65
Corrigendum to ‘VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble’ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 37 (2022), 100525	59
VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble	52
Mitigation of the impact of disturbances in gas transmission systems	50
Vulnerability assessment of urban road traffic systems based on traffic flow	39
Resilient backup controller placement in distributed SDN under critical targeted attacks	37
Physical performance of power grids against earthquakes: from framework to implementation	36
National and international maritime situational awareness model examples and the effects of North Stream Pipelines sabotage	35
Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) Testbed Design of Thermal Power Plant for Threat Modeling and Attack Vector Analysis	34
Vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructure network	34
Need for intensive care? A socio-technical systems perspective on water supply failure preparedness in German health care facilities	30
A management knowledge graph approach for critical infrastructure protection: Ontology design, information extraction and relation prediction	30
DSACR: A defense-based system with adaptive cyber resilience for industrial control systems	29
APT attacks on industrial control systems: A tale of three incidents	28
A comparative study of cyber security intrusion detection in healthcare systems	28
Systemic cyber risk	27
Editorial Board	27
A threat modeling language for generating attack graphs of substation automation systems	26
An evaluation framework for industrial control system cyber incidents	26
Resilience analysis of interdependent critical infrastructure systems considering deep learning and network theory	24
Robustness analysis of electricity networks against failure or attack: The case of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM)	22

Assessing the comprehensive importance of power grid nodes based on DEA	20
Intelligent Intrusion Detection Scheme for Smart Power-Grid Using Optimized Ensemble Learning on Selected Features	19
ARTINALI#: An Efficient Intrusion Detection Technique for Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems	18
FDI attack detection using extra trees algorithm and deep learning algorithm-autoencoder in smart grid	17
A game-theoretic method to optimize allocation of defensive resource to protect urban water treatment plants against physical attacks	17
Technological advancements and innovations in enhancing resilience of electrical distribution systems	17
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements	17
Rule-based anomaly detection for railway signalling networks	16
Machine learning for cybersecurity in smart grids: A comprehensive review-based study on methods, solutions, and prospects	16
Assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection projects using a MCDA method	15
Chance-constrained vulnerability assessment of smart water distribution systems against stealthy false data injection attacks	15
Enhancing urban system resilience to earthquake disasters: Impact of interdependence and resource allocation	15
A review on effective alarm management systems for industrial process control: Barriers and opportunities	15
OptAML: Optimized adversarial machine learning on water treatment and distribution systems	14
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and satellite communications	14
Digital Twin-assisted anomaly detection for industrial scenarios	14
End-User Privacy Protection Scheme from cyber intrusion in smart grid advanced metering infrastructure	14
Editorial Board	14
Machine learning applications in the resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems—A systematic literature review	13
Protection of large-scale smart grids against false data injection cyberattacks leading to blackouts	13
Optimized unmanned aerial vehicle pathway system in disaster resilience network	12
The drift of industrial control systems to pseudo security	12
Resilience quantification and recovery strategy simulation for urban underground logistics systems under node and link attacks: A case study of Nanjing city	11
Exploring the concept of public-private partnership in building critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events: A systematic review	11
A homogeneous ensemble based dynamic artificial neural network for solving the intrusion detection problem	11
A forensics and compliance auditing framework for critical infrastructure protection	10
A hypothesis-driven framework for resilience analysis of public transport network under compound failure scenarios	10
Evaluation on nuclear emergency response strategies in the Asia-Pacific region	10
Risk assessment and mitigation for electric power sectors: A developing country's perspective	10
Vulnerability analysis of S7 PLCs: Manipulating the security mechanism	9
Robustness evaluation method and defense strategy of electricity-heat integrated energy system	9
Editorial Board	9
SituRepair: Incorporating machine-learning fault class prediction to inform situational multiple fault automatic program repair	9
Announcement: Change in Editorship	9
Unsupervised machine learning techniques to prevent faults in railroad switch machines	9
Effect of adding physical links on the robustness of the Internet modeled as a physical–logical interdependent network using simple strategies	8
Vulnerability analysis of urban road networks based on traffic situation	8
Artificial immunity-based energy theft detection for advanced metering infrastructures	8
A multi-criteria framework for critical infrastructure systems resilience	7
Cybersecurity professionals information sharing sources and networks in the U.S. electrical power industry	7
Security in Digital Aeronautical Communications A Comprehensive Gap Analysis	7
Estimating the frequency of cyber threats to nuclear power plants based on operating experience analysis	7
Critical flow centrality measures on interdependent networks with time-varying demands	7
A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques	7
FingerCI: Writing industrial process specifications from network traffic	7
Securing industrial control systems: Developing a SCADA/IoT test bench and evaluating lightweight cipher performance on hardware simulator	7
Editorial Board	7
Interdependencies and third parties	7
Feasibility of critical infrastructure protection using network functions for programmable and decoupled ICS policy enforcement over WAN	6
A Systematic Literature Review on RAMS analysis for critical infrastructures protection	6

Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity	6
Demonstration of denial of charging attack on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and its consequences	6
Comprehensive vulnerability assessment for environmental facility depending on spatial characteristics in South Korea	6
Cross trust: A decentralized MA-ABE mechanism for cross-border identity authentication	5
Cyber-threat landscape of border control infrastructures	5
The digital divide in state vulnerability to submarine communications cable failure	5
Editorial Board	5
Cybersecurity Assessment Framework for Digital Interface Between Safety and Security at Nuclear Power Plants	5
Design of a coordinated cyber-physical attack in IoT based smart grid under limited intruder accessibility	5
Threat Modelling of Cyber–Physical Systems Using an Applied π-Calcul	5
Impact of Internet and mobile communication on cyber resilience: A multivariate adaptive regression spline modeling approach	5
ResNet50-1D-CNN: A new lightweight resNet50-One-dimensional convolution neural network transfer learning-based approach for improved intrusion detection in cyber-physical systems	5
Nodal vulnerability assessment of water distribution networks: An integrated Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS approach	5
Software-Defined Networking approaches for intrusion response in Industrial Control Systems: A survey	5
Vulnerable underground entrance understanding for visual surveillance systems	5
A survey on safeguarding critical infrastructures: Attacks, AI security, and future directions	5
A multi-source power grid's resilience enhancement strategy based on subnet division and power dispatch	5
Analysis and lessons identified on critical infrastructures and dependencies from an empirical data set	4
The wireless network jamming problem subject to protocol interference using directional antennas and with battery capacity constraints	4
SCOPE: Secure Compiling of PLCs in Cyber-Physical Systems	4
Measurement protection to prevent cyber–physical attacks against power system State Estimation	4
Editorial	4
A novel cost-based optimization model for electric power distribution systems resilience improvement under dust storms	4
A hybrid deep learning model for discrimination of physical disturbance and cyber-attack detection in smart grid	4
SIRT: A distinctive and smart invasion recognition tool (SIRT) for defending IoT integrated ICS from cyber-attacks	4
A novel deep learning based security assessment framework for enhanced security in swarm network environment	4
Space cybersecurity challenges, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness, and future directions	4