Nan Sun

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 818 citations indexed

About

Nan Sun is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Sun has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 818 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Information Systems, 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Nan Sun's work include Spam and Phishing Detection (7 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (7 papers) and Information and Cyber Security (5 papers). Nan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Spam and Phishing Detection (7 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (7 papers) and Information and Cyber Security (5 papers). Nan Sun collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and Singapore. Nan Sun's co-authors include Jun Zhang, Paul Rimba, Yang Xiang, Tat‐Seng Chua, Chao Zhang, Leo Yu Zhang, Xia Hu, Shang Gao, Xiaoxing Mo and Ming Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Food Chemistry and IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

In The Last Decade

Nan Sun

22 papers receiving 777 citations

Hit Papers

Data-Driven Cybersecurity Incident Prediction: A Survey 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2023 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Data-Driven Cybersecurity Incident Prediction: A Survey
    2018 236 citations Nan Sun, Jun Zhang et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →
  2. Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining for Proactive Cybersecurity Defense: A Survey and New Perspectives
    2023 119 citations Nan Sun, Ming Ding et al. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials profile →

Peers

Nan Sun
Nafei Zhu China
Josiane Xavier Parreira Germany
E Haihong China
Marcel Karnstedt Germany
Alex Ng Australia
Muhammad Saad United States
Francesco Moscato Italy
Pratyusa K. Manadhata United States
George Karabatis United States
Incheon Paik Japan
Nafei Zhu China
Nan Sun
Citations per year, relative to Nan Sun Nan Sun (= 1×) peers Nafei Zhu

Countries citing papers authored by Nan Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nan Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nan Sun. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nan Sun. The network helps show where Nan Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nan Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nan Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nan Sun. Nan Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Huang, He, Nan Sun, Massimiliano Tani, et al.. (2025). Can LLM-generated misinformation be detected: A study on Cyber Threat Intelligence. Future Generation Computer Systems. 173. 107877–107877.
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Qu, Youyang, Ming Ding, Nan Sun, et al.. (2025). The Frontier of Data Erasure: A Survey on Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models. Computer. 58(1). 45–57. 7 indexed citations
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Chang, Ya-Ting, et al.. (2024). DiHAN: A Novel Dynamic Hierarchical Graph Attention Network for Fake News Detection. 197–206. 1 indexed citations
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Mo, Xiaoxing, Leo Yu Zhang, Wei Luo, et al.. (2024). Robust Backdoor Detection for Deep Learning via Topological Evolution Dynamics. 2048–2066. 7 indexed citations
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Sun, Nan, Ming Ding, Jiaojiao Jiang, et al.. (2023). Cyber Threat Intelligence Mining for Proactive Cybersecurity Defense: A Survey and New Perspectives. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 25(3). 1748–1774. 119 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sun, Nan, et al.. (2023). On the Development of a Protection Profile Module for Encryption Key Management Components. IEEE Access. 11. 9113–9121. 3 indexed citations
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Ren, Fengling, Nan Sun, T. H. Misselbrook, et al.. (2022). Responses of crop productivity and reactive nitrogen losses to the application of animal manure to China's main crops: A meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 850. 158064–158064. 43 indexed citations
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Sun, Nan, Chang‐Tsun Li, Md Zahidul Islam, et al.. (2022). Defining Security Requirements With the Common Criteria: Applications, Adoptions, and Challenges. IEEE Access. 10. 44756–44777. 20 indexed citations
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Sun, Nan, et al.. (2022). Towards Generalized Deepfake Detection With Continual Learning On Limited New Data. 1–7. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Nan, Jun Zhang, Shang Gao, et al.. (2022). Cyber Information Retrieval Through Pragmatics Understanding and Visualization. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 20(2). 1186–1199. 5 indexed citations
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Sun, Nan, et al.. (2022). Advanced Face Anti-Spoofing with Depth Segmentation. 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). 1–6. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Nan, et al.. (2022). Blockwise Spectral Analysis for Deepfake Detection in High-fidelity Videos. 1–9. 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Nan, Jun Zhang, Paul Rimba, et al.. (2018). Data-Driven Cybersecurity Incident Prediction: A Survey. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 21(2). 1744–1772. 236 indexed citations breakdown →
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Guan, Zhitao, et al.. (2015). A comprehensive survey of false data injection in smart grid. International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing. 8(1). 27–27. 22 indexed citations
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Sun, Nan, et al.. (2014). iCARE: A framework for big data-based banking customer analytics. IBM Journal of Research and Development. 58(5/6). 4:1–4:9. 61 indexed citations
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Hu, Xia, Nan Sun, Chao Zhang, & Tat‐Seng Chua. (2009). Exploiting internal and external semantics for the clustering of short texts using world knowledge. National University of Singapore. 919–928. 170 indexed citations

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