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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial	139
Editorial Board	119
Evaluation of network expansion decisions for resilient interdependent critical infrastructures with different topologies	98
Mitigation of the impact of disturbances in gas transmission systems	91
Identifying cyber attack vulnerabilities in the main lubricating oil system of marine propulsion units	63
Corrigendum to ‘VetaDetect: Vehicle tampering detection with closed-loop model ensemble’ International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, 37 (2022), 100525	61
Dynamic protection of human-cyber-physical systems based on CPN and multi-agent reinforcement learning: Evidence from smart coal mines	59
An AutoML-based security defender for industrial control systems	53
IPSMInfer: Industrial proprietary protocol state machine inference from network traces	43
Physical performance of power grids against earthquakes: from framework to implementation	43
Vulnerability assessment of urban road traffic systems based on traffic flow	41
National and international maritime situational awareness model examples and the effects of North Stream Pipelines sabotage	38
Threat model for IEC 61850 based substation automation system	36
Cyber winter	35
DSACR: A defense-based system with adaptive cyber resilience for industrial control systems	34
Hardware-in-Loop (HIL) Testbed Design of Thermal Power Plant for Threat Modeling and Attack Vector Analysis	33
A management knowledge graph approach for critical infrastructure protection: Ontology design, information extraction and relation prediction	32
A comparative study of cyber security intrusion detection in healthcare systems	30
Need for intensive care? A socio-technical systems perspective on water supply failure preparedness in German health care facilities	30
A threat modeling language for generating attack graphs of substation automation systems	30
PowerRange: An immersive cyber range for power grid operators	29
Editorial Board	27
Robustness analysis of electricity networks against failure or attack: The case of the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM)	27
Systemic cyber risk	26
Assessing the comprehensive importance of power grid nodes based on DEA	23

Technological advancements and innovations in enhancing resilience of electrical distribution systems	22
Intelligent Intrusion Detection Scheme for Smart Power-Grid Using Optimized Ensemble Learning on Selected Features	22
Advances in UAV detection: integrating multi-sensor systems and AI for enhanced accuracy and efficiency	22
Securing the green grid: A data anomaly detection method for mitigating cyberattacks on smart meter measurements	22
Measuring spatial accessibility to critical infrastructure: The Access Road Identification model	20
Assessing earthquake risks to lifeline infrastructure systems in the United States	20
Machine learning for cybersecurity in smart grids: A comprehensive review-based study on methods, solutions, and prospects	19
Chance-constrained vulnerability assessment of smart water distribution systems against stealthy false data injection attacks	18
Interdependencies and supply chain	18
Vulnerability assessment of interdependent road-power networks with probability-based coupling strategies	18
Rule-based anomaly detection for railway signalling networks	18
Assessment of cross-border electricity interconnection projects using a MCDA method	17
A review on effective alarm management systems for industrial process control: Barriers and opportunities	17
Enhancing urban system resilience to earthquake disasters: Impact of interdependence and resource allocation	17
Digital Twin-assisted anomaly detection for industrial scenarios	16
Situation Awareness for Cyber Resilience: A review	16
Machine learning applications in the resilience of interdependent critical infrastructure systems—A systematic literature review	15
Cyber attacks on critical infrastructures and satellite communications	15
OptAML: Optimized adversarial machine learning on water treatment and distribution systems	15
The evolution of resilience from its ecological roots to critical infrastructure applications: Concepts, definitions and future directions	15
Dynamic optimization of multi-layered defenses inspired by Chakravyuh	14
Optimized unmanned aerial vehicle pathway system in disaster resilience network	14
Using Kolmogorov–Arnold network for cyber–physical system security: A fast and efficient approach	13
The drift of industrial control systems to pseudo security	13
Resilience of interdependent infrastructure networks: Review and future directions	13
Counter-UAV response capabilities for critical infrastructure protection: An empirical field assessment of human perception and firearm effectiveness against small unmanned aerial vehicles	12
Exploring the concept of public-private partnership in building critical infrastructure resilience against unexpected events: A systematic review	12
SuPOR: A lightweight stream cipher for confidentiality and attack-resilient visual data security in IoT	12
Evaluating regional emergency response capabilities using entropy weight and matter-element extension theory	12
Artificial immunity-based energy theft detection for advanced metering infrastructures	11
Robustness evaluation method and defense strategy of electricity-heat integrated energy system	11
A forensics and compliance auditing framework for critical infrastructure protection	11
Resilience quantification and recovery strategy simulation for urban underground logistics systems under node and link attacks: A case study of Nanjing city	11
Securing smart city Internet of Vehicles via transformer integrated consensus ensemble learning and bio-inspired metaheuristics	11
A multi-criteria framework for critical infrastructure systems resilience	10
Developing security metrics for space systems: A study considering the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and the NIS2	10
Vulnerability analysis of urban road networks based on traffic situation	10
A taxonomy of IoT firmware security and principal firmware analysis techniques	9
Feature extraction and selection for flooding-based multi-class DDoS attacks detection in IoT network	9
FingerCI: Writing industrial process specifications from network traffic	9
Securing industrial control systems: Developing a SCADA/IoT test bench and evaluating lightweight cipher performance on hardware simulator	9
Security in Digital Aeronautical Communications A Comprehensive Gap Analysis	8
Editorial Board	8
Demonstration of denial of charging attack on electric vehicle charging infrastructure and its consequences	8
From breach to bias: Measuring reputation value and trust recovery after cyber incidents in critical infrastructure	8
S-LARF: Layered Adversarial Resilience Framework for spaceborne anomaly detection	8
Protection of critical infrastructures in times of peace and war	8
Interdependencies and third parties	8
Cost-aware resilience modeling under deceptive attack scenarios in critical infrastructure defense	8
Comprehensive vulnerability assessment for environmental facility depending on spatial characteristics in South Korea	8

Advancing coordination in critical maritime infrastructure protection: Lessons from maritime piracy and cybersecurity	7
Quantification of seismic resilience of water distribution networks considering interdependency using Dempster-Shafer theory	7
Digital twin application in lifecycle security of critical infrastructures: A systematic literature review	7
Feasibility of critical infrastructure protection using network functions for programmable and decoupled ICS policy enforcement over WAN	7
ResNet50-1D-CNN: A new lightweight resNet50-One-dimensional convolution neural network transfer learning-based approach for improved intrusion detection in cyber-physical systems	7
A survey on safeguarding critical infrastructures: Attacks, AI security, and future directions	7
Cross trust: A decentralized MA-ABE mechanism for cross-border identity authentication	7
Detection of Cyber and Physical Disturbances in Power Systems Using Data-Driven Deep Learning Methods	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	6
Vulnerable underground entrance understanding for visual surveillance systems	6
A multi-source power grid's resilience enhancement strategy based on subnet division and power dispatch	6
SIRT: A distinctive and smart invasion recognition tool (SIRT) for defending IoT integrated ICS from cyber-attacks	6
Software-Defined Networking approaches for intrusion response in Industrial Control Systems: A survey	6
A complex networks framework for cyber-physical power system critical node identification considering various communication structures and coupling relationships	5
A novel deep learning based security assessment framework for enhanced security in swarm network environment	5
Securing the future: Integrating quantum computing and digital twin technologies into modern power & transportation systems for resilient smart cities against false data injection cyberattacks	5
A novel cost-based optimization model for electric power distribution systems resilience improvement under dust storms	5
STADe: An unsupervised time-windows method of detecting anomalies in oil and gas Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) networks	5
Measurement protection to prevent cyber–physical attacks against power system State Estimation	5
The wireless network jamming problem subject to protocol interference using directional antennas and with battery capacity constraints	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
Attacking the grid: Lessons from a guerrilla conflict and efforts for peace in Colombia: 1990–2018	4
Space cybersecurity challenges, mitigation techniques, anticipated readiness, and future directions	4
A deterministic, immutable enforcement architecture for OT–IT boundaries in critical infrastructure systems	4
A tri-level optimization model for interdependent infrastructure network resilience against compound hazard events	4
GridPRISM: Provenance-aware real-time intrusion detection via prior-guided subgraph routing and auditable budgeted semantic masking	4
Resilience in cogeneration systems: Graphical analysis of novel indexes and system behavior under failure scenarios	4
A flexible OT testbed for evaluating on-device implementations of IEC-61850 GOOSE	4