Most cited papers in Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
What are the most cited papers in Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies?
The most cited paper in Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies is "Big other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization" (Shoshana Zuboff, 2015), with 2,962 citations. Next come "Stuxnet: Dissecting a Cyberwarfare Weapon" (1,910) and "Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion" (1,746).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 173 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization Shoshana Zuboff · Journal of Information Technology | Mar 2015 | 2,962 |
| 2 | Stuxnet: Dissecting a Cyberwarfare Weapon Ralph Langner · IEEE Security & Privacy | May 2011 | 1,910 |
| 3 | Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion Henry John Farrell, Abraham L. Newman · International Security | 2019 | 1,746 |
| 4 | The Stability of a Unipolar World William C. Wohlforth · International Security | Jul 1999 | 1,238 |
| 5 | From information security to cyber security Rossouw von Solms, Johan van Niekerk · Computers & Security | 29 Apr 2013 | 1,065 |
| 6 | Stuxnet and the Future of Cyber War James P. Farwell, Rafal Rohozinski · Survival | 28 Jan 2011 | 954 |
| 7 | Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis Graham T. Allison · American Political Science Review | Nov 1969 | 848 |
| 8 | Is Anybody Still a Realist? Jeffrey W. Legro, Andrew M. Moravcsik · International Security | Oct 1999 | 726 |
| 9 | Cyber War Will Not Take Place Thomas Rid · Journal of Strategic Studies | 5 Oct 2011 | 660 |
| 10 | Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World Jack Landman Goldsmith · Strategic Direction | 23 Oct 2007 | 631 |
| 11 | Coup-proofing: Its Practice and Consequences in the Middle East James T. Quinlivan · International Security | Oct 1999 | 555 |
| 12 | The Art of Deception, Controlling the Human Element of Security Jeffrey Barlow · CommonKnowledge Research Repository (Pacific University Oregon) | 2003 | 526 |
| 13 | Digital Disaster, Cyber Security, and the Copenhagen School Lene Hansen, Helen F. Nissenbaum · International Studies Quarterly | Dec 2009 | 507 |
| 14 | Deterrence and Dissuasion in Cyberspace Joseph S. Nye · International Security | 2017 | 479 |
| 15 | Command of the Commons: The Military Foundation of U.S. Hegemony Barry R. Posen · International Security | Jul 2003 | 467 |
| 16 | Stuxnet and the Limits of Cyber Warfare Jon R. Lindsay · Security Studies | Jul 2013 | 463 |
| 17 | The Fight for Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, and Why It Matters, Especially for the EU Luciano Floridi · Philosophy & Technology | 12 Aug 2020 | 449 |
| 18 | Deplatforming: Following extreme Internet celebrities to Telegram and alternative social media RICHARD A. ROGERS · European Journal of Communication | 6 May 2020 | 446 |
| 19 | Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States James D. Fearon, David D. Laitin · International Security | Apr 2004 | 441 |
| 20 | What does the notion of “sovereignty” mean when referring to the digital? Stéphane Couture, Sophie Toupin · New Media & Society | 12 Aug 2019 | 426 |
| 21 | The Hunt For The Kill Switch Sally Adee · IEEE Spectrum | May 2008 | 422 |
| 22 | Information Warfare And Security Dorothy E. Denning · EDPACS | Mar 2000 | 411 |
| 23 | Digital sovereignty Julia Pohle, Thorsten Thiel · Internet Policy Review | 17 Dec 2020 | 408 |
| 24 | Tweeting theJihad: Social Media Networks of Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq Jytte Klausen · Studies in Conflict and Terrorism | 17 Oct 2014 | 396 |
| 25 | Security Seeking under Anarchy: Defensive Realism Revisited Jeffrey W. Taliaferro · International Security | 2001 | 396 |
| 26 | The Myth of Cyberwar: Bringing War in Cyberspace Back Down to Earth Erik Gartzke · International Security | Oct 2013 | 384 |
| 27 | A taxonomy of cyber-harms: Defining the impacts of cyber-attacks and understanding how they propagate Ioannis Agrafiotis, Jason R. C. Nurse, Michael H. Goldsmith et al. · Journal of Cybersecurity | 2018 | 375 |
| 28 | Cyber risk and cybersecurity: a systematic review of data availability Frank Cremer, Barry A. Sheehan, Michael Fortmann et al. · The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance Issues and Practice | 17 Feb 2022 | 351 |
| 29 | Internet, social media and online hate speech. Systematic review Sergio Andrés Castaño-Pulgarín, Natalia Suárez-Betancur, Luz Magnolia Tilano Vega et al. · Aggression and Violent Behavior | 5 Apr 2021 | 349 |
| 30 | German Yearbook of International Law Sienho Yee · Chinese Journal of International Law | 30 May 2017 | 346 |
| 31 | Accountability in a computerized society Helen F. Nissenbaum · Science and Engineering Ethics | Mar 1996 | 339 |
| 32 | Cyber situational awareness – A systematic review of the literature Ulrik Franke, Joel Brynielsson · Computers & Security | 3 Jul 2014 | 332 |
| 33 | Cyberwar is coming! John Arquilla, David F. Ronfeldt · Comparative Strategy | Apr 1993 | 332 |
| 34 | A survey SCADA of and critical infrastructure incidents Bill Miller, Dale C. Rowe | 11 Oct 2012 | 319 |
| 35 | Defining Cybersecurity Dan Craigen, Nadia Diakun-Thibault, Randy Purse · Technology Innovation Management Review | 30 Oct 2014 | 308 |
| 36 | Escape velocity: cyberculture at the end of the century Made Veriza Arika Dery · IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication | Jun 1999 | 303 |
| 37 | Between coordination and regulation: Finding the governance in Internet governance Jeanette Hofmann, Christian Katzenbach, Kirsten Gollatz · New Media & Society | 31 Mar 2016 | 293 |
| 38 | From Preponderance to Offshore Balancing: America's Future Grand Strategy Christopher M. Layne · International Security | Jul 1997 | 289 |
| 39 | Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation Jack M. Balkin · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2017 | 286 |
| 40 | Digital Speech and Democratic Culture: a Theory of Freedom of Expression for the Information Society Jack M. Balkin · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2003 | 286 |
| 41 | Nuclear deterrence theory the search for credibility Robert Powell | 1990 | 285 |
| 42 | Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Rational Choice and Security Studies Stephen M. Walt · International Security | Apr 1999 | 279 |
| 43 | What is Good Governance? Madhu Prabakaran · SSRN Electronic Journal | 2011 | 273 |
| 44 | Cybersecurity in Hospitals: A Systematic, Organizational Perspective Mohammad S. Jalali, Jessica Kaiser · Journal of Medical Internet Research | 19 Apr 2018 | 268 |
| 45 | Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics Christopher Kelty · Cultural Anthropology | May 2005 | 261 |
| 46 | Building Cybersecurity Awareness: The need for evidence-based framing strategies Hans de Bruijn, Marijn Janssen · Government Information Quarterly | 2017 | 253 |
| 47 | Offense, Defense, and the Causes of War Stephen Van Evera · International Security | Apr 1998 | 251 |
| 48 | Eavesdropping in communication networks Tom M. Peake · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 31 Mar 2005 | 248 |
| 49 | Soft ethics, the governance of the digital and the General Data Protection Regulation Luciano Floridi · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences | 15 Oct 2018 | 240 |
| 50 | Invisible Digital Front: Can Cyber Attacks Shape Battlefield Events? Nadiya Kostyuk, Yuri M Zhukov · Journal of Conflict Resolution | 10 Nov 2017 | 237 |
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