International Journal of Critical Infrastructures

Aims & Scope

IJCIS provides a professional and scholarly forum for cross-learning between different scientific and technological disciplines, and between business and economic, as well as between societal and managerial, disciplines in the area of critical infrastructures.

Critical infrastructures are networks for the provision of telecommunication and information services, energy services (electrical power, natural gas, oil and heat), water supply, transportation of people and goods, banking and financial services, government services and emergency services.

Topics covered include Critical infrastructure (CI) design,/protection/management Emerging systemic risks: policy, standards and regulations Institutional design, market structuring, network regulation Risk/vulnerability/resilience based decision-making Risk/vulnerability criteria development for assessing robustness Governance models/policy instruments in liberalised markets System dynamic behaviour Vulnerability/resilience economics; behaviour of interdependent CIs Cyber security and CI protection Stakeholder interactions and trust building Advanced control engineering concepts/ICTs in complex networks Cross-border interconnections, international harmonisation Global CIs; geopolitical risk assessment Threat identification/assessment/monitoring models/techniques Next generation intelligent infrastructures.

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Energy, Engineering and Environmental Science, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Modelling interdependent infrastructures using interacting dynamical models

  Citation: 403

  Authors: V., L., F., S., S. De, R.

• Information technology governance and cybersecurity at the board level

  Citation: 138

  Authors: Abdalmuttaleb M.A. Musleh Al

• Assessing infrastructure interdependencies: the challenge of risk analysis for complex adaptive systems

  Citation: 109

  Authors: Theresa, Walt, Dianne

• Optimal recovery sequencing for enhanced resilience and service restoration in transportation networks

  Citation: 104

  Authors: Eric D., Mark A., Nathanael J.K.

• Modelling infrastructures as socio-technical systems

  Citation: 95

  Authors: Maarten, Maarten, Peter, Ibo Van De

• The next step: quantifying infrastructure interdependencies to improve security

  Citation: 77

  Authors: Rae, Carlos E.

• Resilience of civil infrastructure systems: literature review for improved asset management

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Leon F., Sunil K.

• Nineteen national cyber security strategies

  Citation: 71

  Authors: Eric, Kim, Patrick De

• Modelling of cascading effects and efficient response to disaster spreading in complex networks

  Citation: 68

  Authors: K., L., D.

• Assessing n-order dependencies between critical infrastructures

  Citation: 66

  Authors: Panayiotis, Marianthi, Dimitris