This publication is presented as the highest-impact publication, and the reviewers considered it the best in the field thus far. The article received 340,967 downloads in 2024, placing it as the second most downloaded publication in Scientific Reports under Nature Portfolio.
“This is truly an amazing paper. The dataset is like nothing I have seen in the past, combining both web crawling, search logs and a questionnaire. The size and scope of the data collected and analyzed is again very impressive, and I would nominate this paper as one of the best in the field so far.”
“This paper is well written and the methodology is sound, with multiple checks and balances included. The topic area is one that is underrepresented in the research literature, and this particular paper adds significantly to the body of extant knowledge in the area. Prior art has suffered from either poor methodologies or from small sample sets, which this paper addresses.”
“Overall, I think that the paper is a very strong contribution to the field and I expect it to have a high impact on future research and public health policy for countering CSAM.”
“One of the important contributions of the paper is that it draws attention to the incredible lack of interest in, or even recognition of, the problem of CSAM among some IT disciplines.”