Tooska Dargahi

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Tooska Dargahi is a scholar working on Information Systems, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Tooska Dargahi has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Information Systems, 21 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Tooska Dargahi's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (15 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (9 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (8 papers). Tooska Dargahi is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (15 papers), Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (9 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (8 papers). Tooska Dargahi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Iran and Italy. Tooska Dargahi's co-authors include Ali Dehghantanha, Mauro Conti, Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo, Reza M. Parizi, Moreno Ambrosin, Giuseppe Bianchi, Sana Belguith, Mohammad Esmaeili, Ahmad Khonsari and Alberto Caponi and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Access and IEEE Communications Magazine.

In The Last Decade

Tooska Dargahi

44 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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. A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security
    2019 397 citations Tooska Dargahi, Ali Dehghantanha et al. Digital Communications and Networks profile →

Peers

Tooska Dargahi
Mohammad Karim Sohrabi Iran
Alessio Merlo Italy
Bhabendu Kumar Mohanta India
Paolo Trunfio Italy
Ahmad Karim Pakistan
Gillian Dobbie New Zealand
Jingsha He China
Akshat Gaurav United States
Chi Yang Australia
Martin Henze Germany
Mohammad Karim Sohrabi Iran
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Countries citing papers authored by Tooska Dargahi

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tooska Dargahi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tooska Dargahi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tooska Dargahi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tooska Dargahi 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 Tooska Dargahi. Tooska Dargahi 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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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2025). Robust trust management in Intelligent Transportation System: A machine learning approach. International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection. 51. 100812–100812.
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Mostafavi, Seyedakbar, et al.. (2025). Secure and scalable trust management in IoT: A hierarchical blockchain-based approach. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 127. 110631–110631.
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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2024). Development of cybersecurity framework for FinTech innovations: Bahrain as a case study. 5(4). 501–532. 3 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2023). Deriving Environmental Risk Profiles for Autonomous Vehicles From Simulated Trips. IEEE Access. 11. 38385–38398. 1 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2023). PrivExtractor: Toward Redressing the Imbalance of Understanding between Virtual Assistant Users and Vendors. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security. 26(3). 1–29. 1 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2023). Poster: Continuous Authentication in Highly Connected 6G-enabled Transportation Systems. 171–172. 1 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2022). DeepClean: A Robust Deep Learning Technique for Autonomous Vehicle Camera Data Privacy. IEEE Access. 10. 124534–124544. 9 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2021). On the Security and Privacy Challenges of Virtual Assistants. Sensors. 21(7). 2312–2312. 60 indexed citations
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Dehghantanha, Ali, et al.. (2020). A Multilabel Fuzzy Relevance Clustering System for Malware Attack Attribution in the Edge Layer of Cyber-Physical Networks. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. 4(3). 1–22. 22 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2020). Security challenges of Internet of Underwater Things: A systematic literature review. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. 32(3). 31 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, et al.. (2019). A systematic literature review of blockchain cyber security. Digital Communications and Networks. 6(2). 147–156. 397 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dehghantanha, Ali, et al.. (2019). Cyber Kill Chain-Based Taxonomy of Advanced Persistent Threat Actors: Analogy of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. Journal of Information Processing Systems. 15(4). 865–889. 58 indexed citations
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Belguith, Sana, Nesrine Kaaniche, Mohammad Hammoudeh, & Tooska Dargahi. (2019). PROUD: Verifiable Privacy-preserving Outsourced Attribute Based SignCryption supporting access policy Update for cloud assisted IoT applications. Future Generation Computer Systems. 111. 899–918. 58 indexed citations
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Esmaeili, Mohammad, et al.. (2019). Blockchain-Based Privacy-Preserving Healthcare Architecture. University of Salford Institutional Repository (University of Salford). 1–4. 55 indexed citations
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Javadi, Hamid Haj Seyyed, et al.. (2018). A hierarchical key pre‐distribution scheme for fog networks. Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. 31(22). 11 indexed citations
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Caponi, Alberto, et al.. (2016). WI-FAB. Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University). 31–36. 5 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, Hamid Haj Seyyed Javadi, & Mehdi Hosseinzadeh. (2014). Application‐specific hybrid symmetric design of key pre‐distribution for wireless sensor networks. Security and Communication Networks. 8(8). 1561–1574. 18 indexed citations
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Dargahi, Tooska, Amir Masoud Rahmani, & Ahmad Khademzadeh. (2008). SP-AODV: A Semi-proactive AODV Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks. 613–617. 8 indexed citations

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