Wadii Boulila

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
156 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Wadii Boulila is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Wadii Boulila has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 38 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 37 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Wadii Boulila's work include Network Security and Intrusion Detection (18 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (14 papers) and Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques (12 papers). Wadii Boulila is often cited by papers focused on Network Security and Intrusion Detection (18 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (14 papers) and Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques (12 papers). Wadii Boulila collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and United Kingdom. Wadii Boulila's co-authors include Maha Driss, Jawad Ahmad, Anis Koubâa, Imed Riadh Farah, Mahmood Safaei, Henda Ben Ghézala, Safa Ben Atitallah, Elankovan Sundararajan, Azrulhizam Shapi’i and Amir Hussain and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Wadii Boulila

144 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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 systematic literature review on obesity: Understanding the causes & consequences of obesity and reviewing various machine learning approaches used to predict obesity

2021 391 citations Maha Driss, Wadii Boulila et al. profile →
Big data and IoT-based applications in smart environments: A systematic review

2020 250 citations Wadii Boulila, Amir Hussain et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wadii Boulila Saudi Arabia	35	1.0k	1.0k	727	411	358	156	3.8k
Mukesh Prasad Australia	31	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	679 1.7×	298 0.8×	201	5.2k
Amira S. Ashour Egypt	36	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	409 0.6×	271 0.7×	250 0.7×	165	4.1k
Vinod Kumar India	39	911 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	640 0.9×	518 1.3×	556 1.6×	235	4.5k
Irfan Mehmood South Korea	36	921 0.9×	1.6k 1.6×	555 0.8×	346 0.8×	162 0.5×	120	4.0k
Weibo Liu China	29	2.0k 1.9×	1.6k 1.5×	570 0.8×	252 0.6×	248 0.7×	95	5.9k
Sami Bourouis Saudi Arabia	29	845 0.8×	596 0.6×	424 0.6×	364 0.9×	124 0.3×	110	2.5k
Qingchen Zhang China	29	1.2k 1.1×	660 0.6×	787 1.1×	512 1.2×	111 0.3×	117	3.0k
Chih‐Wei Hsu Taiwan	24	1.3k 1.2×	988 1.0×	218 0.3×	317 0.8×	282 0.8×	170	5.5k
Mamta Mittal India	28	1.0k 1.0×	709 0.7×	269 0.4×	442 1.1×	224 0.6×	109	3.2k
Manuel Graña Spain	31	1.6k 1.5×	971 0.9×	395 0.5×	184 0.4×	383 1.1×	304	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Wadii Boulila

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wadii Boulila

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All Works

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Driss, Maha, et al.. (2025). EFS-IDS: An Enhanced Feature-Selective Intrusion Detection System for Imbalanced IoT Traffic Data. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 6. 9673–9695.

Gupta, Divya, et al.. (2025). Empowering drones in vehicular network through fog computing and blockchain technology. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0314420–e0314420. 2 indexed citations

Atitallah, Safa Ben, Maha Driss, Wadii Boulila, & Anis Koubâa. (2025). Securing Industrial IoT Environments: A Fuzzy Graph Attention Network for Robust Intrusion Detection. IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society. 6. 1065–1076.

Taneja, Ashu, Shalli Rani, & Wadii Boulila. (2025). Resource Control in IRS Assisted Multi-Access Edge Computing for Sustainable 6G IIoT Networks. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 6. 2757–2765. 3 indexed citations

Ullah, Safi, Wadii Boulila, Anis Koubâa, & Jawad Ahmad. (2024). Attention-Based Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Intrusion Detection in IIoT Networks. Procedia Computer Science. 246. 3323–3332.

Shukla, Varun, et al.. (2024). On Similarity Measures of Complex Picture Fuzzy Sets With Applications in the Field of Pattern Recognition. IEEE Access. 12. 83104–83117. 7 indexed citations

Varone, Giuseppe, Wadii Boulila, Angelo Pascarella, Sara Gasparini, & Umberto Aguglia. (2024). Instrumentation for TMS‐EEG Experiment: ArTGen and a Custom EEG Interface. International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology. 34(4). 2 indexed citations

Jemmali, Mahdi, et al.. (2024). Leveraging Drone-Assisted Surveillance for Effective Forest Conservation: A Case Study in Australia’s Daintree Rainforest. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 11(19). 31167–31179. 2 indexed citations

Boulila, Wadii, et al.. (2024). An effective weight initialization method for deep learning: Application to satellite image classification. Expert Systems with Applications. 254. 124344–124344. 1 indexed citations

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Benjdira, Bilel, Anas M. Ali, Anis Koubâa, Adel Ammar, & Wadii Boulila. (2024). DM–AHR: A Self-Supervised Conditional Diffusion Model for AI-Generated Hairless Imaging for Enhanced Skin Diagnosis Applications. Cancers. 16(17). 2947–2947. 2 indexed citations

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Shruti, Shalli Rani, & Wadii Boulila. (2024). Securing internet of things device data: An ABE approach using fog computing and generative AI. Expert Systems. 42(2). 1 indexed citations

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Khan, Zahid, Anis Koubâa, Bilel Benjdira, & Wadii Boulila. (2023). A game theory approach for smart traffic management. Computers & Electrical Engineering. 110. 108825–108825. 10 indexed citations

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Rani, Shalli, et al.. (2023). HOMLC-Hyperparameter Optimization for Multi-Label Classification of Intrusion Detection Data for Internet of Things Network. Sensors. 23(19). 8333–8333. 7 indexed citations

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Abbas, Sidra, Wadii Boulila, Maha Driss, et al.. (2023). Aspect Category Detection of Mobile Edge Customer Reviews: A Distributed and Trustworthy Restaurant Recommendation System. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. 70(1). 2170–2177. 9 indexed citations

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Kamran, Kamran, et al.. (2023). Numerical Solution of Advection–Diffusion Equation of Fractional Order Using Chebyshev Collocation Method. Fractal and Fractional. 7(10). 762–762. 10 indexed citations

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Mezni, Haithem, et al.. (2022). SmartWater: A Service-Oriented and Sensor Cloud-Based Framework for Smart Monitoring of Water Environments. Remote Sensing. 14(4). 922–922. 22 indexed citations

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Ismail, Nor Azman, Wadii Boulila, Adel Ammar, et al.. (2022). A Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Brain Tumour Classification. Entropy. 24(6). 799–799. 116 indexed citations

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Boulila, Wadii, Zain Hussain, Asrar Rashid, et al.. (2021). A Novel Coupled Reaction-Diffusion System for Explainable Gene Expression Profiling. Sensors. 21(6). 2190–2190. 1 indexed citations

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Varone, Giuseppe, Zain Hussain, Zakariya Sheikh, et al.. (2021). Real-Time Artifacts Reduction during TMS-EEG Co-Registration: A Comprehensive Review on Technologies and Procedures. Sensors. 21(2). 637–637. 25 indexed citations

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Shafique, Arslan, et al.. (2020). Detecting the Security Level of Various Cryptosystems Using Machine Learning Models. IEEE Access. 9. 9383–9393. 31 indexed citations

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