Zhibo Sun

1.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 663 citations indexed

About

Zhibo Sun is a scholar working on Information Systems, Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhibo Sun has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 663 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Information Systems, 8 papers in Signal Processing and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Zhibo Sun's work include Spam and Phishing Detection (7 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (6 papers) and Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (4 papers). Zhibo Sun is often cited by papers focused on Spam and Phishing Detection (7 papers), Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (6 papers) and Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies (4 papers). Zhibo Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and South Korea. Zhibo Sun's co-authors include Yifan Yao, Kaidi Xu, Yue Zhang, Jinhao Duan, Yuanfang Cai, Adam Doupé, Gail‐Joon Ahn, Tiffany Bao, Yan Shoshitaishvili and Adam Oest and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Access and Computer Networks.

In The Last Decade

Zhibo Sun

18 papers receiving 620 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.

  1. A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
    2024 379 citations Yifan Yao, Jinhao Duan et al. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  2. RTIDS: A Robust Transformer-Based Approach for Intrusion Detection System
    2022 143 citations Zhibo Sun et al. IEEE Access profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zhibo Sun United States 8 338 220 202 184 59 19 663
Ala Mughaid Jordan 15 196 0.6× 146 0.7× 199 1.0× 110 0.6× 37 0.6× 47 582
Mohamed Nassar Lebanon 13 246 0.7× 209 0.9× 161 0.8× 98 0.5× 22 0.4× 53 451
Nathalie Baracaldo United States 14 880 2.6× 186 0.8× 197 1.0× 78 0.4× 138 2.3× 29 1.1k
Xiangyun Tang China 11 346 1.0× 290 1.3× 322 1.6× 46 0.3× 32 0.5× 28 649
Aitizaz Ali Malaysia 15 278 0.8× 434 2.0× 567 2.8× 58 0.3× 21 0.4× 52 862
Osbert Bastani United States 16 329 1.0× 85 0.4× 183 0.9× 136 0.7× 10 0.2× 48 668
Riivo Talviste Germany 4 468 1.4× 240 1.1× 288 1.4× 260 1.4× 75 1.3× 4 751
Caleb Chen Cao Hong Kong 11 350 1.0× 98 0.4× 125 0.6× 56 0.3× 18 0.3× 24 628
Sana Belguith United Kingdom 13 424 1.3× 302 1.4× 372 1.8× 130 0.7× 88 1.5× 28 803
Νικόλαος Αλεξόπουλος Germany 5 452 1.3× 256 1.2× 306 1.5× 271 1.5× 79 1.3× 8 753

Countries citing papers authored by Zhibo Sun

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhibo Sun

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zhibo 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 Zhibo Sun. The network helps show where Zhibo Sun may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhibo Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhibo Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhibo 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 Zhibo Sun. Zhibo Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Wang, Miao, et al.. (2025). AntidoteFL: Enhancing defense against poisoning attacks in federated learning. Computer Networks. 269. 111427–111427. 1 indexed citations
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Xie, Qiqi, et al.. (2024). Privacy-Enhanced Federated Learning Through Homomorphic Encryption With Cloud Federation. 1088–1095. 1 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhibo, Adam Oest, Gianluca Stringhini, et al.. (2024). From Victims to Defenders: An Exploration of the Phishing Attack Reporting Ecosystem. 49–64.
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Sun, Zhibo, et al.. (2024). Research on Path Planning Optimization Based on Genetic Algorithm. 1604–1608. 1 indexed citations
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Oest, Adam, Zhibo Sun, Gail‐Joon Ahn, et al.. (2024). Nothing Personal: Understanding the Spread and Use of Personally Identifiable Information in the Financial Ecosystem. 55–65. 1 indexed citations
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Yao, Yifan, Jinhao Duan, Kaidi Xu, et al.. (2024). A survey on large language model (LLM) security and privacy: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(2). 100211–100211. 379 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhang, Penghui, Zhibo Sun, Haehyun Cho, et al.. (2022). I'm SPARTACUS, No, I'm SPARTACUS. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 3165–3179. 13 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhibo, et al.. (2022). RTIDS: A Robust Transformer-Based Approach for Intrusion Detection System. IEEE Access. 10. 64375–64387. 143 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wang, Xinye, et al.. (2021). The intervening efficacy of health management based on family and organization on elderly diabetic patients.. PubMed. 13(4). 3549–3554. 2 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhibo, Adam Oest, Penghui Zhang, et al.. (2021). Having Your Cake and Eating It: An Analysis of {Concession-Abuse-as-a-Service}. 4169–4186. 6 indexed citations
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Oest, Adam, Haehyun Cho, Zhibo Sun, et al.. (2021). CrawlPhish: Large-Scale Analysis of Client-Side Cloaking Techniques in Phishing. IEEE Security & Privacy. 20(2). 10–21. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Penghui, Adam Oest, Haehyun Cho, et al.. (2021). CrawlPhish: Large-scale Analysis of Client-side Cloaking Techniques in Phishing. 1109–1124. 46 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhibo, et al.. (2019). Understanding and Predicting Private Interactions in Underground Forums. 303–314. 15 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhibo, et al.. (2016). Migrating GIS Big Data Computing from Hadoop to Spark: An Exemplary Study Using Twitter. 351–358. 8 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhibo, et al.. (2016). Towards Automated Threat Intelligence Fusion. 408–416. 19 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhibo, et al.. (2015). Dart: A Geographic Information System on Hadoop. 90–97. 18 indexed citations
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Sun, Zhibo, et al.. (2015). Kinematic Analysis and Leveling Control Method for a Novel Wheel-Legged Robot. The Open Mechanical Engineering Journal. 9(1). 467–474. 2 indexed citations
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