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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	171
Evaluation of network expansion decisions for resilient interdependent critical infrastructures with different topologies	92
Mitigation of the impact of disturbances in gas transmission systems	90
Corrigendum to ‘VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble’ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 37 (2022), 100525	90
An AutoML-based security defender for industrial control systems	76
VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble	74
National and international maritime situational awareness model examples and the effects of North Stream Pipelines sabotage	63
IPSMInfer: Industrial proprietary protocol state machine inference from network traces	61
Physical performance of power grids against earthquakes: from framework to implementation	48
Vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructure network	43
Vulnerability assessment of urban road traffic systems based on traffic flow	43
Need for intensive care? A socio-technical systems perspective on water supply failure preparedness in German health care facilities	42
DSACR: A defense-based system with adaptive cyber resilience for industrial control systems	38
A management knowledge graph approach for critical infrastructure protection: Ontology design, information extraction and relation prediction	37
A comparative study of cyber security intrusion detection in healthcare systems	34
Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) Testbed Design of Thermal Power Plant for Threat Modeling and Attack Vector Analysis	34
APT attacks on industrial control systems: A tale of three incidents	33
Systemic cyber risk	33
Editorial Board	31
An evaluation framework for industrial control system cyber incidents	30
Intelligent Intrusion Detection Scheme for Smart Power-Grid Using Optimized Ensemble Learning on Selected Features	29
Assessing the comprehensive importance of power grid nodes based on DEA	29
A threat modeling language for generating attack graphs of substation automation systems	27
Advances in UAV detection: integrating multi-sensor systems and AI for enhanced accuracy and efficiency	23
Robustness analysis of electricity networks against failure or attack: The case of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM)	23

Resilience analysis of interdependent critical infrastructure systems considering deep learning and network theory	23
A game-theoretic method to optimize allocation of defensive resource to protect urban water treatment plants against physical attacks	22
Assessing earthquake risks to lifeline infrastructure systems in the United States	22
Measuring spatial accessibility to critical infrastructure: The Access Road Identification model	20
Machine learning for cybersecurity in smart grids: A comprehensive review-based study on methods, solutions, and prospects	19
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements	19
Technological advancements and innovations in enhancing resilience of electrical distribution systems	19
Rule-based anomaly detection for railway signalling networks	18
FDI attack detection using extra trees algorithm and deep learning algorithm-autoencoder in smart grid	18
Interdependencies and supply chain	17
Chance-constrained vulnerability assessment of smart water distribution systems against stealthy false data injection attacks	17
A review on effective alarm management systems for industrial process control: Barriers and opportunities	17
Situation Awareness for Cyber Resilience: A review	17
Assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection projects using a MCDA method	17
Enhancing urban system resilience to earthquake disasters: Impact of interdependence and resource allocation	16
OptAML: Optimized adversarial machine learning on water treatment and distribution systems	16
Digital Twin-assisted anomaly detection for industrial scenarios	16
End-User Privacy Protection Scheme from cyber intrusion in smart grid advanced metering infrastructure	15
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and satellite communications	15
Optimized unmanned aerial vehicle pathway system in disaster resilience network	14
Machine learning applications in the resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems—A systematic literature review	14
A homogeneous ensemble based dynamic artificial neural network for solving the intrusion detection problem	14
Protection of large-scale smart grids against false data injection cyberattacks leading to blackouts	13
The drift of industrial control systems to pseudo security	13
Exploring the concept of public-private partnership in building critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events: A systematic review	12
Evaluating regional emergency response capabilities using entropy weight and matter-element extension theory	12
Evaluation on nuclear emergency response strategies in the Asia-Pacific region	12
Resilience quantification and recovery strategy simulation for urban underground logistics systems under node and link attacks: A case study of Nanjing city	12
Using Kolmogorov–Arnold network for cyber–physical system security: A fast and efficient approach	11
Editorial Board	11
A hypothesis-driven framework for resilience analysis of public transport network under compound failure scenarios	11
SuPOR: A lightweight stream cipher for confidentiality and attack-resilient visual data security in IoT	11
Announcement: Change in Editorship	10
Vulnerability analysis of S7 PLCs: Manipulating the security mechanism	9
Robustness evaluation method and defense strategy of electricity-heat integrated energy system	9
Risk assessment and mitigation for electric power sectors: A developing country's perspective	9
Effect of adding physical links on the robustness of the Internet modeled as a physical–logical interdependent network using simple strategies	8
Critical flow centrality measures on interdependent networks with time-varying demands	8
A forensics and compliance auditing framework for critical infrastructure protection	8
Artificial immunity-based energy theft detection for advanced metering infrastructures	8
SituRepair: Incorporating machine-learning fault class prediction to inform situational multiple fault automatic program repair	8
Vulnerability analysis of urban road networks based on traffic situation	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
Feasibility of critical infrastructure protection using network functions for programmable and decoupled ICS policy enforcement over WAN	7
A multi-criteria framework for critical infrastructure systems resilience	7
Securing industrial control systems: Developing a SCADA/IoT test bench and evaluating lightweight cipher performance on hardware simulator	7
FingerCI: Writing industrial process specifications from network traffic	7
Editorial Board	7
Cybersecurity Assessment Framework for Digital Interface Between Safety and Security at Nuclear Power Plants	7

Estimating the frequency of cyber threats to nuclear power plants based on operating experience analysis	7
A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques	7
From breach to bias: Measuring reputation value and trust recovery after cyber incidents in critical infrastructure	7
Comprehensive vulnerability assessment for environmental facility depending on spatial characteristics in South Korea	7
Interdependencies and third parties	7
A survey on safeguarding critical infrastructures: Attacks, AI security, and future directions	6
Vulnerable underground entrance understanding for visual surveillance systems	6
Protection of critical infrastructures in times of peace and war	6
ResNet50-1D-CNN: A new lightweight resNet50-One-dimensional convolution neural network transfer learning-based approach for improved intrusion detection in cyber-physical systems	6
Cross trust: A decentralized MA-ABE mechanism for cross-border identity authentication	6
Demonstration of denial of charging attack on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and its consequences	6
Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity	6
Digital twin application in lifecycle security of critical infrastructures: A systematic literature review	6
The digital divide in state vulnerability to submarine communications cable failure	6
Impact of Internet and mobile communication on cyber resilience: A multivariate adaptive regression spline modeling approach	5
Software-Defined Networking approaches for intrusion response in Industrial Control Systems: A survey	5
Editorial Board	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
Cyber-threat landscape of border control infrastructures	4
SIRT: A distinctive and smart invasion recognition tool (SIRT) for defending IoT integrated ICS from cyber-attacks	4
Measurement protection to prevent cyber–physical attacks against power system State Estimation	4
A novel deep learning based security assessment framework for enhanced security in swarm network environment	4
Resilience in cogeneration systems: Graphical analysis of novel indexes and system behavior under failure scenarios	4
Nodal vulnerability assessment of water distribution networks: An integrated Fuzzy AHP-TOPSIS approach	4
Analysis and lessons identified on critical infrastructures and dependencies from an empirical data set	4
Space cybersecurity challenges, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness, and future directions	4
A hybrid deep learning model for discrimination of physical disturbance and cyber-attack detection in smart grid	4
Evaluation of SDN security measures in the context of IEC 62443-3-3	4
The wireless network jamming problem subject to protocol interference using directional antennas and with battery capacity constraints	4
A multi-source power grid's resilience enhancement strategy based on subnet division and power dispatch	4
Editorial	4
STADe: An unsupervised time-windows method of detecting anomalies in oil and gas Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) networks	4
A novel cost-based optimization model for electric power distribution systems resilience improvement under dust storms	4