---
title: "UNSW-NB15: papers using this data, journals and trends"
description: "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)."
url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/unsw-nb15
markdown_url: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/unsw-nb15.md
license: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)
share_text: "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). (as of 2026-11-05)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-05T06:02:37+09:00
window: 2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05
source: OpenAlex (CC0)
---

# UNSW-NB15

[Browse dataset profiles](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/directory/page/6.md)

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

- data category: Cybersecurity and anomaly detection benchmarks
- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- Names searched for: UNSW-NB15

Most-used data: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/datasets.md · All Cybersecurity and anomaly detection benchmarks datasets: https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cybersecurity-and-anomaly-detection-benchmarks.md



## 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

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 35 | 15 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 3 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-security.md) | 20 |
| 2 | [Artificial Intelligence Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/artificial-intelligence-review.md) | 14 |
| 3 | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 14 |
| 4 | [Neural Computing and Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/neural-computing-and-applications.md) | 12 |
| 5 | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 11 |
| 6 | [Knowledge and Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-and-information-systems.md) | 8 |
| 7 | [Information Sciences](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/information-sciences.md) | 7 |
| 8 | [Knowledge-Based Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/knowledge-based-systems.md) | 7 |
| 9 | [Applied Intelligence](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/applied-intelligence.md) | 5 |
| 10 | [IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/ieee-transactions-on-fuzzy-systems.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/swansea-university.md) | 3 |
| 4 | [Deakin University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/deakin-university.md) | 2 |
| 5 | Heilongjiang University | 2 |
| 6 | [Lancaster University](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/lancaster-university.md) | 2 |
| 7 | Massey University | 2 |
| 8 | National Institute of Technology Nagaland | 2 |
| 9 | Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman | 2 |
| 10 | [The University of Queensland](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/the-university-of-queensland.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/class-imbalance.md) | 26 |
| 5 | [feature selection](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/feature-selection.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-020-00379-6) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113249) | [Expert Systems with Applications](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/expert-systems-with-applications.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-023-00694-8) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-024-00886-w) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-020-00390-x) | [Journal Of Big Data](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-big-data.md) | 2021-01-06 | Sikha S. Bagui, Kunqi Li |

## 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 /….

*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](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/nsl-kdd-kdd-cup-99.md) | Dataset | 99 | 128.4 |
| [CIC-IDS2017 / CSE-CIC-IDS2018](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cic-ids2017-cse-cic-ids2018.md) | Dataset | 53 | 113.1 |
| [IoT intrusion data (Bot-IoT, TON_IoT, CICIoT2023)](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/iot-intrusion-data-bot-iot-ton-iot-ciciot2023.md) | Dataset | 36 | 106.2 |
| [Kaggle](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/kaggle.md) | Dataset | 6 | 3.1 |
| [CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cifar-10-cifar-100.md) | Dataset | 5 | 1.1 |
| [UCI Machine Learning Repository](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/uci-machine-learning-repository.md) | Dataset | 5 | 2.4 |
| [CEC benchmark functions](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/cec-benchmark-functions.md) | Dataset | 3 | 1.4 |
| [MNIST / Fashion-MNIST](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/mnist-fashion-mnist.md) | Dataset | 3 | 0.8 |
| [MODIS](https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/modis.md) | Dataset | 3 | 2.2 |

The whole network: https://scholar4ai.com/code/network.md

## Papers

*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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2026.105218) | [Computers & Security](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/computers-security.md) | 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

```bibtex
@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}
}
```

License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).