UNSW-NB15

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Network traffic, intrusion, fraud and anomaly records used to compare detection methods.

Names searched for: UNSW-NB15

Key findings#

From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 95 archived papers mentioned UNSW-NB15 in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Jan 2025 (8).
UNSW-NB15 was mentioned in 1 paper in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #165 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
By journal category: Information Systems (1).
Most of them appeared in Computers & Security (1).
From 2017 to 2026 (so far), UNSW-NB15 was mentioned in 159 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in AI (112), information systems (42) and operations research (2).
43 of them were published in 2025, against 4 in 2017.
Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (4), SRM Institute of Science and Technology (3) and Swansea University (3).
The journals publishing most of them were Computers & Security (20), Artificial Intelligence Review (14) and Expert Systems with Applications (14).
The most-cited of them is “Performance Analysis of Intrusion Detection Systems Using a Feature Selection Method on the UNSW-NB15 Dataset” (Journal Of Big Data, 2020), with 575 citations.
Papers use UNSW-NB15 most often with NSL-KDD / KDD Cup 99 (99), CIC-IDS2017 / CSE-CIC-IDS2018 (53) and IoT intrusion data (Bot-IoT, TON_IoT, CICIoT2023) (36); it has 9 partners in the code and data network, in the group around NSL-KDD / KDD Cup 99, UNSW-NB15, CIC-IDS2017 /….

Mentions over 36 months#

Papers mentioning it by publication month, Nov 2023 to Oct 2026 (titles, abstracts and keywords; the full texts of earlier months are still being searched)
Trend	Nov 23–Oct 24	Nov 24–Oct 25	Nov 25–Oct 26	36 months
	27	43	25	95

Papers per year#

20172026 (so far)

Papers per publication year and category
Category	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026 (so far)
AI	3	0	3	4	10	7	13	22	35	15
Information Systems	1	0	2	4	5	5	8	6	8	3
Operations Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0
Statistics	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Higher Education and Research	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
All categories	4	1	5	8	15	12	23	29	43	19

Where the papers come from#

Journals with the most papers, since 2023
#	Journal	Papers
1	Computers & Security	20
2	Artificial Intelligence Review	14
3	Expert Systems with Applications	14
4	Neural Computing and Applications	12
5	Journal Of Big Data	11
6	Knowledge and Information Systems	8
7	Information Sciences	7
8	Knowledge-Based Systems	7
9	Applied Intelligence	5
10	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	2

Institutions with the most papers, since 2023
#	Institution	Papers
1	Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation	4
2	SRM Institute of Science and Technology	3
3	Swansea University	3
4	Deakin University	2
5	Heilongjiang University	2
6	Lancaster University	2
7	Massey University	2
8	National Institute of Technology Nagaland	2
9	Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman	2
10	The University of Queensland	2

Countries with the most papers, since 2023
#	Country	Papers
1	China	25
2	India	23
3	United States	11
4	United Kingdom	10
5	Australia	9
6	Egypt	7
7	Spain	6
8	Saudi Arabia	6
9	United Arab Emirates	4
10	Iran	4

Keywords with the most papers, since 2023
#	Keyword	Papers
1	UNSW-NB15	60
2	intrusion detection	39
3	network intrusion detection	31
4	class imbalance	26
5	feature selection	24
6	Internet of Things security	22
7	NSL-KDD dataset	22
8	intrusion detection systems	21
9	network traffic classification	18
10	network security	15

Most-cited papers#

Most-cited papers since 2017
#	Citations	Per month	Title	Journal	Published	Authors
1	575	8.1	Performance Analysis of Intrusion Detection Systems Using a Feature Selection Method on the UNSW-NB15 Dataset	Journal Of Big Data	2020-11-25	Sydney Mambwe Kasongo, Yanxia Sun
2	399	4.9	A feature selection algorithm for intrusion detection system based on Pigeon Inspired Optimizer	Expert Systems with Applications	2020-01-25	Hadeel Alazzam, Ahmad Sharieh, Khair Eddin Sabri
3	330	7.3	IGRF-RFE: a hybrid feature selection method for MLP-based network intrusion detection on UNSW-NB15 dataset	Journal Of Big Data	2023-02-05	Yuhua Yin, Julian Jang‐Jaccard, Wen Li Xu et al.
4	315	9.7	Machine learning-based network intrusion detection for big and imbalanced data using oversampling, stacking feature embedding and feature extraction	Journal Of Big Data	2024-02-22	Md. Alamin Talukder, Md. Manowarul Islam, Md. Ashraf Uddin et al.
5	287	4.1	Resampling imbalanced data for network intrusion detection datasets	Journal Of Big Data	2021-01-06	Sikha S. Bagui, Kunqi Li

Archive counts by publication year: a paper counts when its title, abstract or keywords name the dataset, or when OpenAlex's full-text search finds it there (searched for the last 30 days' papers and, by a pass over the past years, for older ones). Names added to the list later are looked for in older papers as the archive is read again.

Used together with#

Papers use UNSW-NB15 most often with NSL-KDD / KDD Cup 99 (99), CIC-IDS2017 / CSE-CIC-IDS2018 (53) and IoT intrusion data (Bot-IoT, TON_IoT, CICIoT2023) (36); it has 9 partners in the code and data network, in the group around NSL-KDD / KDD Cup 99, UNSW-NB15, CIC-IDS2017 /…. The whole network →

What papers use UNSW-NB15 together with (at least 3 papers; lift 1 = chance)
Used with	Type	Papers using both	Lift
NSL-KDD / KDD Cup 99	Dataset	99	128.4
CIC-IDS2017 / CSE-CIC-IDS2018	Dataset	53	113.1
IoT intrusion data (Bot-IoT, TON_IoT, CICIoT2023)	Dataset	36	106.2
Kaggle	Dataset	6	3.1
CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100	Dataset	5	1.1
UCI Machine Learning Repository	Dataset	5	2.4
CEC benchmark functions	Dataset	3	1.4
MNIST / Fashion-MNIST	Dataset	3	0.8
MODIS	Dataset	3	2.2

Papers mentioning UNSW-NB15 in the last 30 days, newest first.
Date	Title	Journal	Authors	Affiliations
2026-10-24	How evaluation protocol choices inflate intrusion detection accuracy: A three-dataset systematic study	Computers & Security	Mohammed BERHILI, Omar Chaieb, Mohammed Benabdellah	Mohamed I University

Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). UNSW-NB15. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/unsw-nb15

@misc{scholar4ai-datasets-unsw-nb15,
  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {UNSW-NB15},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/unsw-nb15}},
  urldate = {2026-11-05},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}

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