Paul Watters

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
205 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Paul Watters is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Watters has authored 205 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Information Systems, 61 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 43 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Paul Watters's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (36 papers), Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (35 papers) and Spam and Phishing Detection (34 papers). Paul Watters is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (36 papers), Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (35 papers) and Spam and Phishing Detection (34 papers). Paul Watters collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Paul Watters's co-authors include A. S. M. Kayes, Mamoun Alazab, Robert Layton, Iqbal H. Sarker, Alex Ng, Richard Dazeley, Shahriar Badsha, Hamed Alqahtani, Susan Bruck and Sarah Boslaugh and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Access and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Paul Watters

192 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Cybersecurity data science: an overview from machine lear... 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 100 200 300

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Watters Australia 32 1.5k 1.2k 1.2k 943 494 205 3.6k
Eleni Stroulia Canada 35 2.6k 1.7× 1.4k 1.1× 1.0k 0.9× 424 0.4× 416 0.8× 265 4.8k
Apu Kapadia United States 31 827 0.5× 1.5k 1.3× 660 0.6× 494 0.5× 1.2k 2.5× 109 3.2k
David Camacho Spain 32 734 0.5× 1.7k 1.4× 827 0.7× 577 0.6× 446 0.9× 265 4.4k
Pearl Pu Switzerland 33 1.9k 1.3× 1.6k 1.3× 437 0.4× 458 0.5× 716 1.4× 146 3.8k
Steven P. Reiss United States 36 2.5k 1.6× 1.6k 1.3× 1.2k 1.0× 295 0.3× 244 0.5× 164 4.4k
Shadi Aljawarneh Jordan 33 1.8k 1.1× 1.8k 1.5× 1.7k 1.4× 1.1k 1.2× 138 0.3× 150 4.6k
John Yen United States 34 702 0.5× 2.0k 1.7× 525 0.4× 296 0.3× 444 0.9× 184 4.8k
Mykola Pechenizkiy Netherlands 31 951 0.6× 3.5k 2.9× 806 0.7× 698 0.7× 240 0.5× 206 5.7k
Hamed Haddadi United Kingdom 29 1.0k 0.7× 1.8k 1.5× 1.5k 1.3× 463 0.5× 1.2k 2.4× 108 5.3k
Daniele Quercia United Kingdom 30 704 0.5× 673 0.6× 274 0.2× 276 0.3× 971 2.0× 144 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Watters

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Watters

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Watters

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Watters. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Watters 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 Paul Watters. Paul Watters 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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Watters, Paul, et al.. (2026). The Relationship Between a CSAM Warning Messaging Chatbot and User Behavior on Pornhub. Victims & Offenders. 21(3). 574–602.
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Sušnjak, Teo, Timothy R. McIntosh, Andre L. C. Barczak, et al.. (2025). Over the Edge of Chaos? Excess Complexity as a Roadblock to Artificial General Intelligence. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 56(1). 29–41.
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McIntosh, Timothy R., Teo Sušnjak, Tong Liu, et al.. (2024). Ransomware Reloaded: Re-examining Its Trend, Research and Mitigation in the Era of Data Exfiltration. ACM Computing Surveys. 57(1). 1–40. 9 indexed citations
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Watters, Paul, et al.. (2024). Blurring the lines: the vague boundary between mainstream and deviant internet pornography tags for at-risk viewers. Journal of Sexual Aggression. 31(3). 361–377. 3 indexed citations
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Zhu, Jinting, Julian Jang‐Jaccard, Amardeep Singh, Paul Watters, & Seyit Camtepe. (2023). Task-Aware Meta Learning-Based Siamese Neural Network for Classifying Control Flow Obfuscated Malware. Future Internet. 15(6). 214–214. 4 indexed citations
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Sarker, Iqbal H., A. S. M. Kayes, Shahriar Badsha, et al.. (2020). Cybersecurity data science: an overview from machine learning perspective. Journal Of Big Data. 7(1). 366 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shit, Rathin Chandra, Suraj Sharma, Paul Watters, et al.. (2020). Privacy‐preserving cooperative localization in vehicular edge computing infrastructure. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 34(14). 10 indexed citations
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Suriadi, Suriadi, et al.. (2016). Characterizing Problem Gamblers in New Zealand: A Novel Expression of Process Cubes.. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 185–192. 1 indexed citations
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Layton, Robert, Paul Watters, & Richard Dazeley. (2013). Local n-grams for author identification: notebook for PAN at CLEF 2013. Own your potential (DEAKIN). 1–4. 4 indexed citations
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Alazab, Mamoun, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Paul Watters, Moutaz Alazab, & Ammar Alazab. (2011). Cybercrime : the case of obfuscated malware. Deakin Research Online (Deakin University). 6 indexed citations
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Alazab, Mamoun, Sitalakshmi Venkatraman, Paul Watters, & Moutaz Alazab. (2011). Zero-day malware detection based on supervised learning algorithms of API call signatures. FedUni ResearchOnline (Federation University Australia). 171–182. 118 indexed citations
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Land, Lesley Pek Wee, et al.. (2010). Descriptive data mining on fraudulent online dating profiles. Journal of the Association for Information Systems. 145. 5 indexed citations
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Watters, Paul & Margaret O’Mahony. (2007). The relationship between geometric design consistency and safety on rural single carriageways in Ireland. 8 indexed citations
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O’Mahony, Margaret, Brian Caulfield, & Paul Watters. (2006). Response to Cash-Outs for Work Place Parking. Transportation Research Board 85th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board. 1 indexed citations
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Coltheart, Max, et al.. (1999). SPP volume 10 issue 1 Cover and Front matter. 10(1). f1–f5. 1 indexed citations
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Watters, Paul, et al.. (1996). Social processes as dynamical processes: Qualitative dynamical systems theory in social psychology. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 9 indexed citations
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Snelson, A., et al.. (1992). THE JOURNEY TO WORK: REPORTS AND STATED PREFERENCE OF 2520 AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION EMPLOYEES AND THEIR RESPONSE TO A CAR-SHARING INITIATIVE. Traffic engineering & control. 33(11). 619–623. 1 indexed citations

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