Pete Burnap

9.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
156 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Pete Burnap is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Pete Burnap has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 62 papers in Information Systems and 53 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Pete Burnap's work include Network Security and Intrusion Detection (46 papers), Information and Cyber Security (29 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (27 papers). Pete Burnap is often cited by papers focused on Network Security and Intrusion Detection (46 papers), Information and Cyber Security (29 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (27 papers). Pete Burnap collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Pete Burnap's co-authors include Matthew Williams, Luke Sloan, Omer Rana, Kevin Jones, Eirini Anthi, Jeffrey Morgan, Lowri Williams, George Theodorakopoulos, Adam Edwards and William Housley and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Accounting and Economics.

In The Last Decade

Pete Burnap

148 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A review of cyber security risk assessment methods for SCADA systems

2015 394 citations Pete Burnap, Kevin Jones et al. Computers & Security profile →
A Supervised Intrusion Detection System for Smart Home IoT Devices

2019 371 citations Eirini Anthi, Lowri Williams et al. IEEE Internet of Things Journal profile →
Cyber Hate Speech on Twitter: An Application of Machine Classification and Statistical Modeling for Policy and Decision Making

2015 359 citations Pete Burnap, Matthew Williams profile →
Who Tweets? Deriving the Demographic Characteristics of Age, Occupation and Social Class from Twitter User Meta-Data

2015 267 citations Pete Burnap, Matthew Williams et al. profile →
Towards an Ethical Framework for Publishing Twitter Data in Social Research: Taking into Account Users’ Views, Online Context and Algorithmic Estimation

2017 249 citations Matthew Williams, Pete Burnap et al. profile →
Us and them: identifying cyber hate on Twitter across multiple protected characteristics

2016 228 citations Pete Burnap, Matthew Williams profile →
Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review

2022 113 citations Omer Rana, Pete Burnap et al. ACM Computing Surveys profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pete Burnap United Kingdom	39	2.3k	1.6k	1.6k	1.3k	1.1k	156	5.6k
Bernard J. Jansen United States	56	3.7k 1.6×	5.9k 3.6×	728 0.5×	3.7k 2.8×	854 0.8×	432	14.1k
Haining Wang United States	43	2.5k 1.1×	2.4k 1.5×	2.8k 1.8×	977 0.7×	2.0k 1.8×	238	6.1k
Nigel Shadbolt United Kingdom	37	2.6k 1.1×	1.9k 1.1×	839 0.5×	989 0.7×	239 0.2×	270	5.6k
Ed H. United States	49	3.3k 1.4×	3.8k 2.3×	684 0.4×	1.8k 1.4×	508 0.5×	174	9.8k
Yan Chen China	35	1.1k 0.5×	1.8k 1.1×	904 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	423 0.4×	174	4.7k
Jason Hong United States	55	3.2k 1.4×	5.6k 3.4×	2.1k 1.3×	4.0k 3.0×	2.9k 2.7×	248	12.8k
Tim Finin United States	57	8.3k 3.5×	6.0k 3.6×	4.6k 2.9×	2.1k 1.6×	1.1k 1.0×	405	15.0k
Norman Sadeh United States	48	2.8k 1.2×	2.5k 1.5×	1.3k 0.8×	3.7k 2.8×	1.3k 1.2×	201	8.5k
John G. Breslin Ireland	35	1.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	765 0.5×	506 0.4×	186 0.2×	238	4.9k
Arvind Narayanan United States	33	4.1k 1.8×	2.9k 1.8×	835 0.5×	2.3k 1.7×	831 0.8×	80	7.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pete Burnap

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Anthi, Eirini, et al.. (2025). Collaborative intrusion detection in resource-constrained IoT environments: Challenges, methods, and future directions a review. Journal of Information Security and Applications. 93. 104127–104127.

Heartfield, Ryan, et al.. (2025). Real-Time Anomaly Detection for Industrial Robotic Arms Using Edge Computing. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(15). 29696–29712. 1 indexed citations

Burnap, Pete, et al.. (2025). Towards the Deployment of Realistic Autonomous Cyber Network Defence: A Systematic Review. ACM Computing Surveys. 58(1). 1–36. 1 indexed citations

Williams, Lowri & Pete Burnap. (2025). The Emotional Landscape of Technological Innovation: A Data-Driven Case Study of ChatGPT’s Launch. Informatics. 12(3). 58–58. 1 indexed citations

Williams, Lowri, et al.. (2025). The Evolution of Digital Security by Design Using Temporal Network Analysis. Informatics. 12(1). 8–8. 1 indexed citations

Anthi, Eirini, et al.. (2025). STADe: An unsupervised time-windows method of detecting anomalies in oil and gas Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) networks. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection. 49. 100762–100762.

Burnap, Pete, et al.. (2024). Mapping Automated Cyber Attack Intelligence to Context-Based Impact on System-Level Goals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 340–356.

Heartfield, Ryan, et al.. (2024). CASPER: Context-Aware IoT Anomaly Detection System for Industrial Robotic Arms. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 5(3). 1–36. 5 indexed citations

Williams, Lowri, Eirini Anthi, & Pete Burnap. (2024). Comparing Hierarchical Approaches to Enhance Supervised Emotive Text Classification. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 8(4). 38–38. 4 indexed citations

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Williams, Lowri, et al.. (2024). Topic Modelling: Going beyond Token Outputs. Big Data and Cognitive Computing. 8(5). 44–44. 5 indexed citations

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Williams, Lowri, Eirini Anthi, & Pete Burnap. (2024). Uncovering Key Factors That Drive the Impressions of Online Emerging Technology Narratives. Information. 15(11). 706–706.

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Saxena, Neetesh, et al.. (2023). Extended Dependency Modeling Technique for Cyber Risk Identification in ICS. IEEE Access. 11. 37229–37242. 3 indexed citations

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Saxena, Neetesh, et al.. (2023). Understanding Indicators of Compromise against Cyber-attacks in Industrial Control Systems: A Security Perspective. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. 7(2). 1–33. 30 indexed citations

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Giommoni, Luca, et al.. (2023). Digital fingerprinting for identifying malicious collusive groups on Twitter. ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University). 9(1). 2 indexed citations

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Reinecke, Philipp, et al.. (2022). Cybersecurity Challenges in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry: An Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) Perspective. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. 6(3). 1–27. 22 indexed citations

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Saxena, Neetesh, et al.. (2022). Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Situational Awareness of Complex Operational Technology Attacks: A Review. ACM Computing Surveys. 55(10). 1–36. 92 indexed citations

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Burnap, Pete, et al.. (2021). Real-Time Malware Process Detection and Automated Process Killing. Security and Communication Networks. 2021. 1–23. 6 indexed citations

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Saxena, Neetesh, et al.. (2020). PharmaCrypt: Blockchain for Critical Pharmaceutical Industry to Counterfeit Drugs. Computer. 53(7). 29–44. 45 indexed citations

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Radanliev, Petar, David De Roure, Kevin Page, et al.. (2020). Design of a dynamic and self-adapting system, supported with artificial intelligence, machine learning and real-time intelligence for predictive cyber risk analytics.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Burnap, Pete, et al.. (2017). Malware classification using self organising feature maps and machine activity data. Computers & Security. 73. 399–410. 99 indexed citations

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