| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Edge Computing: Vision and Challenges | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2016 | 4,860 |
| 2 | Internet of Things for Smart Cities | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2014 | 4,572 |
| 3 | A Survey on Internet of Things: Architecture, Enabling Technologies, Security and Privacy, and Applications | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2017 | 1,938 |
| 4 | Fog and IoT: An Overview of Research Opportunities | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2016 | 1,740 |
| 5 | Mobile Edge Computing: A Survey | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 1,679 |
| 6 | Research Directions for the Internet of Things | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2014 | 1,506 |
| 7 | An Information Framework for Creating a Smart City Through Internet of Things | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2014 | 1,020 |
| 8 | Blockchain Meets IoT: An Architecture for Scalable Access Management in IoT | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 930 |
| 9 | A Comprehensive Survey on Internet of Things (IoT) Toward 5G Wireless Systems | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2020 | 922 |
| 10 | Connected Vehicles: Solutions and Challenges | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2014 | 913 |
| 11 | UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond: Recent Advances and Future Trends | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 864 |
| 12 | An IoT-Aware Architecture for Smart Healthcare Systems | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2015 | 850 |
| 13 | A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues in Internet-of-Things | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2017 | 837 |
| 14 | A Vision of IoT: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities With China Perspective | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2014 | 817 |
| 15 | An Overview of Internet of Things (IoT) and Data Analytics in Agriculture: Benefits and Challenges | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 817 |
| 16 | Blockchain for Internet of Things: A Survey | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 769 |
| 17 | Middleware for Internet of Things: A Survey | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2016 | 750 |
| 18 | Cyber-Physical Systems Security—A Survey | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2017 | 672 |
| 19 | Low-Altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicles-Based Internet of Things Services: Comprehensive Survey and Future Perspectives | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2016 | 645 |
| 20 | Blockchain-Based Decentralized Trust Management in Vehicular Networks | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 610 |
| 21 | IoT Considerations, Requirements, and Architectures for Smart Buildings—Energy Optimization and Next-Generation Building Management Systems | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2017 | 572 |
| 22 | Future Edge Cloud and Edge Computing for Internet of Things Applications | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 560 |
| 23 | Blockchain for Secure and Efficient Data Sharing in Vehicular Edge Computing and Networks | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 547 |
| 24 | A Survey of the State-of-the-Art Localization Techniques and Their Potentials for Autonomous Vehicle Applications | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 537 |
| 25 | Incentive Mechanism for Reliable Federated Learning: A Joint Optimization Approach to Combining Reputation and Contract Theory | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 520 |
| 26 | Evaluating Critical Security Issues of the IoT World: Present and Future Challenges | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 492 |
| 27 | Blockchain Technologies for the Internet of Things: Research Issues and Challenges | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 480 |
| 28 | Edge Intelligence: The Confluence of Edge Computing and Artificial Intelligence | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2020 | 480 |
| 29 | RFID Technology for IoT-Based Personal Healthcare in Smart Spaces | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2014 | 472 |
| 30 | Optimized Computation Offloading Performance in Virtual Edge Computing Systems Via Deep Reinforcement Learning | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 467 |
| 31 | Smart Contract-Based Access Control for the Internet of Things | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 465 |
| 32 | Review of Internet of Things (IoT) in Electric Power and Energy Systems | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 460 |
| 33 | IoT: Internet of Threats? A Survey of Practical Security Vulnerabilities in Real IoT Devices | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 445 |
| 34 | Optimal Workload Allocation in Fog-Cloud Computing Towards Balanced Delay and Power Consumption | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2016 | 437 |
| 35 | Blockchain-Based Dynamic Key Management for Heterogeneous Intelligent Transportation Systems | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2017 | 436 |
| 36 | Edge Computing for the Internet of Things: A Case Study | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 436 |
| 37 | Internet of Vehicles: Architecture, Protocols, and Security | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 435 |
| 38 | Cognitive Internet of Things: A New Paradigm Beyond Connection | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2014 | 434 |
| 39 | IoT-Based Big Data Storage Systems in Cloud Computing: Perspectives and Challenges | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2017 | 427 |
| 40 | Energy-Latency Tradeoff for Energy-Aware Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing Networks | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 426 |
| 41 | Satellite Communications Supporting Internet of Remote Things | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2016 | 396 |
| 42 | Multiobjective Optimization for Computation Offloading in Fog Computing | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 380 |
| 43 | Motor Anomaly Detection for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 373 |
| 44 | A Cooperative Partial Computation Offloading Scheme for Mobile Edge Computing Enabled Internet of Things | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 372 |
| 45 | 6G Internet of Things: A Comprehensive Survey | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2022 | 366 |
| 46 | LTE-V: A TD-LTE-Based V2X Solution for Future Vehicular Network | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2016 | 360 |
| 47 | IoT Middleware: A Survey on Issues and Enabling technologies | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2016 | 354 |
| 48 | Internet of Things (IoT) for Smart Precision Agriculture and Farming in Rural Areas | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 346 |
| 49 | Security and Privacy in Smart Health: Efficient Policy-Hiding Attribute-Based Access Control | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2018 | 342 |
| 50 | A Supervised Intrusion Detection System for Smart Home IoT Devices | IEEE Internet of Things Journal | 2019 | 335 |
