OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Drones is 52. 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
On IRS-Assisted Covert Communication with a Friendly UAV	570
Joint Deployment and Coverage Path Planning for Capsule Airports with Multiple Drones	283
Two Low-Complexity Efficient Beamformers for an IRS- and UAV-Aided Directional Modulation Network	209
Joint Design of Altitude and Channel Statistics Based Energy Beamforming for UAV-Enabled Wireless Energy Transfer	163
Drone-Based Monitoring to Remotely Assess a Beach Nourishment Program on Lord Howe Island	162
Improving Racing Drones Flight Analysis: A Data-Driven Approach Using Motion Capture Systems	154
OTFS-IM Modulation Based on Four-Dimensional Spherical Code in Air-to-Ground Communication	144
Multi-Node Joint Jamming Scheme for Secure UAV-Aided NOMA-CDRT Systems: Performance Analysis and Optimization	128
Strapdown Celestial Attitude Estimation from Long Exposure Images for UAV Navigation	109
Speed-First: An Aggressive Gradient-Based Local Planner for Quadrotor Faster Flight	107
LightMAN: A Lightweight Microchained Fabric for Assurance- and Resilience-Oriented Urban Air Mobility Networks	105
Special Issue on Intelligent Image Processing and Sensing for Drones	104
UAV Path Planning Using an Adaptive Strategy for the Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm	102
An Efficient and Low-Delay SFC Recovery Method in the Space–Air–Ground Integrated Aviation Information Network with Integrated UAVs	100
Tiny-Object Detection Based on Optimized YOLO-CSQ for Accurate Drone Detection in Wildfire Scenarios	99
Drone State Estimation Based on Frame-to-Frame Template Matching with Optimal Windows	97
Modulation Recognition of Low-SNR UAV Radar Signals Based on Bispectral Slices and GA-BP Neural Network	95
A Hierarchical Control Algorithm for a Pursuit–Evasion Game Based on Fuzzy Actor–Critic Learning and Model Predictive Control	95
Enhancing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Task Assignment with the Adaptive Sampling-Based Task Rationality Review Algorithm	89
A Ground Point Fitting Method for Winter Wheat Height Estimation Using UAV-Based SfM Point Cloud Data	89
A Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Throughput Maximization in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided Unmanned Aerial Vehicle–Integrated Sensing and Communication Network	81
The Use of Drones in the Spatial Social Sciences	79
Fault Tolerant Control of Drone Interceptors Using Command Filtered Backstepping and Fault Weighting Dynamic Control Allocation	78
Using Ground-Based Passive Reflectors for Improving UAV Landing	78
Monitoring Maize Leaf Spot Disease Using Multi-Source UAV Imagery	77

Path Planning for Fixed-Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: An Integrated Approach with Theta* and Clothoids	76
A Dynamic Checkpoint Interval Decision Algorithm for Live Migration-Based Drone-Recovery System	75
UAV-Aided Wireless Energy Transfer for Sustaining Internet of Everything in 6G	75
Wind Tunnel Investigation of the Icing of a Drone Rotor in Forward Flight	73
Automated Pavement Construction Inspection Using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS)—Hot Mixed Asphalt (HMA) Temperature Segregation	72
Consensus-Based Formation Control for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems in Complex Environments	71
Automated Rice Phenology Stage Mapping Using UAV Images and Deep Learning	69
Robust Nonlinear Control with Estimation of Disturbances and Parameter Uncertainties for UAVs and Integrated Brushless DC Motors	67
Deep Complex-Valued Convolutional Neural Network for Drone Recognition Based on RF Fingerprinting	66
VSAI: A Multi-View Dataset for Vehicle Detection in Complex Scenarios Using Aerial Images	64
Chattering Reduction of Sliding Mode Control for Quadrotor UAVs Based on Reinforcement Learning	63
Research on Modeling and Fault-Tolerant Control of Distributed Electric Propulsion Aircraft	61
LSTM-H: A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Accurate Livestock Movement Prediction in UAV-Based Monitoring Systems	60
A Systems Analysis of Energy Usage and Effectiveness of a Counter-Unmanned Aerial System Using a Cyber-Attack Approach	60
Path-Following Control of Small Fixed-Wing UAVs under Wind Disturbance	59
A Tunnel Crack Detection Method Based on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Equipped with a High-Speed Camera and Crack Recognition Algorithm Using Improved Multi-Scale Retinex and Prewitt–Otsu	59
BCDAIoD: An Efficient Blockchain-Based Cross-Domain Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones	58
Cooperative Drone and Water Supply Truck Scheduling for Wildfire Fighting Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	58
Research on Cooperative Obstacle Avoidance Decision Making of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms in Complex Environments under End-Edge-Cloud Collaboration Model	58
A Computational Model for Simulating the Performance of UAS-Based Construction Safety Inspection through a System Approach	58
AoI-Minimal Task Assignment and Trajectory Optimization in Multi-UAV-Assisted Wireless Powered IoT Networks	57
Go with the Flow: Estimating Wind Using Uncrewed Aircraft	56
Individualized Indicators and Estimation Methods for Tiger Nut (Cyperus esculentus L.) Tubers Yield Using Light Multispectral UAV and Lightweight CNN Structure	56
A Capacity-Constrained Weighted Clustering Algorithm for UAV Self-Organizing Networks Under Interference	55
Fuzzy Gain-Scheduling Based Fault Tolerant Visual Servo Control of Quadrotors	55
An Integrated Approach for Earth Infrastructure Monitoring Using UAV and ERI: A Systematic Review	54
Autonomous UAV-Based System for Scalable Tactile Paving Inspection	52