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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluation of network expansion decisions for resilient interdependent critical infrastructures with different topologies	100
Editorial	98
An AutoML-based security defender for industrial control systems	94
Mitigation of the impact of disturbances in gas transmission systems	80
Corrigendum to ‘VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble’ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 37 (2022), 100525	77
VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble	65
IPSMInfer: Industrial proprietary protocol state machine inference from network traces	64
Physical performance of power grids against earthquakes: from framework to implementation	50
National and international maritime situational awareness model examples and the effects of North Stream Pipelines sabotage	48
Vulnerability assessment of urban road traffic systems based on traffic flow	45
DSACR: A defense-based system with adaptive cyber resilience for industrial control systems	43
Need for intensive care? A socio-technical systems perspective on water supply failure preparedness in German health care facilities	40
A management knowledge graph approach for critical infrastructure protection: Ontology design, information extraction and relation prediction	35
Vulnerability analysis of critical infrastructure network	34
A comparative study of cyber security intrusion detection in healthcare systems	34
APT attacks on industrial control systems: A tale of three incidents	31
Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) Testbed Design of Thermal Power Plant for Threat Modeling and Attack Vector Analysis	31
Advances in UAV detection: integrating multi-sensor systems and AI for enhanced accuracy and efficiency	24
Resilience analysis of interdependent critical infrastructure systems considering deep learning and network theory	24
An evaluation framework for industrial control system cyber incidents	23
Intelligent Intrusion Detection Scheme for Smart Power-Grid Using Optimized Ensemble Learning on Selected Features	23
A threat modeling language for generating attack graphs of substation automation systems	22
Assessing the comprehensive importance of power grid nodes based on DEA	22
Systemic cyber risk	21
Editorial Board	21

Robustness analysis of electricity networks against failure or attack: The case of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM)	20
FDI attack detection using extra trees algorithm and deep learning algorithm-autoencoder in smart grid	19
Measuring spatial accessibility to critical infrastructure: The Access Road Identification model	19
Assessing earthquake risks to lifeline infrastructure systems in the United States	19
Machine learning for cybersecurity in smart grids: A comprehensive review-based study on methods, solutions, and prospects	19
Technological advancements and innovations in enhancing resilience of electrical distribution systems	18
A game-theoretic method to optimize allocation of defensive resource to protect urban water treatment plants against physical attacks	18
Interdependencies and supply chain	17
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements	17
Situation Awareness for Cyber Resilience: A review	17
Chance-constrained vulnerability assessment of smart water distribution systems against stealthy false data injection attacks	16
A review on effective alarm management systems for industrial process control: Barriers and opportunities	16
Rule-based anomaly detection for railway signalling networks	16
Assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection projects using a MCDA method	15
Enhancing urban system resilience to earthquake disasters: Impact of interdependence and resource allocation	15
Machine learning applications in the resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems—A systematic literature review	14
Digital Twin-assisted anomaly detection for industrial scenarios	14
OptAML: Optimized adversarial machine learning on water treatment and distribution systems	14
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	13
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and satellite communications	13
Evaluating regional emergency response capabilities using entropy weight and matter-element extension theory	12
The drift of industrial control systems to pseudo security	12
SuPOR: A lightweight stream cipher for confidentiality and attack-resilient visual data security in IoT	11
A hypothesis-driven framework for resilience analysis of public transport network under compound failure scenarios	11
Using Kolmogorov–Arnold network for cyber–physical system security: A fast and efficient approach	10
Exploring the concept of public-private partnership in building critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events: A systematic review	10
Vulnerability analysis of S7 PLCs: Manipulating the security mechanism	9
Resilience quantification and recovery strategy simulation for urban underground logistics systems under node and link attacks: A case study of Nanjing city	9
SituRepair: Incorporating machine-learning fault class prediction to inform situational multiple fault automatic program repair	9
Risk assessment and mitigation for electric power sectors: A developing country's perspective	9
Announcement: Change in Editorship	9
A forensics and compliance auditing framework for critical infrastructure protection	8
Securing industrial control systems: Developing a SCADA/IoT test bench and evaluating lightweight cipher performance on hardware simulator	8
Vulnerability analysis of urban road networks based on traffic situation	8
Robustness evaluation method and defense strategy of electricity-heat integrated energy system	8
Estimating the frequency of cyber threats to nuclear power plants based on operating experience analysis	8
A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques	8
Effect of adding physical links on the robustness of the Internet modeled as a physical–logical interdependent network using simple strategies	8
Artificial immunity-based energy theft detection for advanced metering infrastructures	8
Critical flow centrality measures on interdependent networks with time-varying demands	8
A multi-criteria framework for critical infrastructure systems resilience	8
Interdependencies and third parties	7
Editorial Board	7
Digital twin application in lifecycle security of critical infrastructures: A systematic literature review	7
From breach to bias: Measuring reputation value and trust recovery after cyber incidents in critical infrastructure	7
Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity	7
Comprehensive vulnerability assessment for environmental facility depending on spatial characteristics in South Korea	7
FingerCI: Writing industrial process specifications from network traffic	7
Security in Digital Aeronautical Communications A Comprehensive Gap Analysis	7

Protection of critical infrastructures in times of peace and war	7
Feasibility of critical infrastructure protection using network functions for programmable and decoupled ICS policy enforcement over WAN	6
Demonstration of denial of charging attack on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and its consequences	6
The digital divide in state vulnerability to submarine communications cable failure	6
A survey on safeguarding critical infrastructures: Attacks, AI security, and future directions	6
Vulnerable underground entrance understanding for visual surveillance systems	6
Cross trust: A decentralized MA-ABE mechanism for cross-border identity authentication	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
Threat Modelling of Cyber–Physical Systems Using an Applied π-Calcul	6
Software-Defined Networking approaches for intrusion response in Industrial Control Systems: A survey	6
Measurement protection to prevent cyber–physical attacks against power system State Estimation	5
Impact of Internet and mobile communication on cyber resilience: A multivariate adaptive regression spline modeling approach	5
A multi-source power grid's resilience enhancement strategy based on subnet division and power dispatch	5
Space cybersecurity challenges, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness, and future directions	5
The wireless network jamming problem subject to protocol interference using directional antennas and with battery capacity constraints	5
A novel deep learning based security assessment framework for enhanced security in swarm network environment	5
Cyber-threat landscape of border control infrastructures	5
Design of a coordinated cyber-physical attack in IoT based smart grid under limited intruder accessibility	5
Analysis and lessons identified on critical infrastructures and dependencies from an empirical data set	5
Editorial	5
A novel cost-based optimization model for electric power distribution systems resilience improvement under dust storms	5
Editorial Board	5
SIRT: A distinctive and smart invasion recognition tool (SIRT) for defending IoT integrated ICS from cyber-attacks	5
STADe: An unsupervised time-windows method of detecting anomalies in oil and gas Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) networks	5
Evaluation of SDN security measures in the context of IEC 62443-3-3	4
A hybrid deep learning model for discrimination of physical disturbance and cyber-attack detection in smart grid	4
Resilience in cogeneration systems: Graphical analysis of novel indexes and system behavior under failure scenarios	4
Obfuscation strategies for industrial control systems	4
Load-altering attack detection on smart grid using functional observers	4
A flexible OT testbed for evaluating on-device implementations of IEC-61850 GOOSE	4