Benjamin O’Brien

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Benjamin O’Brien is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin O’Brien has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 18 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 13 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Benjamin O’Brien's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (37 papers), Dielectric materials and actuators (33 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (13 papers). Benjamin O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (37 papers), Dielectric materials and actuators (33 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (13 papers). Benjamin O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, France and Switzerland. Benjamin O’Brien's co-authors include Iain A. Anderson, Emilio P. Calius, Todd Gisby, Thomas G. McKay, Thomas McKay, Sheng Quan Xie, Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea, E. Haemmerle and Chris Melhuish and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin O’Brien

48 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Multi-functional dielectric elastomer artificial muscles for soft and smart machines

2012 533 citations Iain A. Anderson, Todd Gisby et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin O’Brien New Zealand	18	1.9k	694	538	364	111	51	2.0k
Todd Gisby New Zealand	15	1.3k 0.7×	355 0.5×	382 0.7×	210 0.6×	93 0.8×	25	1.4k
Gábor Kovács Switzerland	21	1.9k 1.0×	404 0.6×	762 1.4×	435 1.2×	149 1.3×	55	2.0k
Ronald Pelrine United States	12	2.4k 1.2×	501 0.7×	988 1.8×	469 1.3×	276 2.5×	22	2.6k
David McCoul China	19	1.1k 0.6×	285 0.4×	220 0.4×	203 0.6×	176 1.6×	31	1.2k
Harsha Prahlad United States	17	926 0.5×	389 0.6×	357 0.7×	198 0.5×	82 0.7×	31	1.2k
Ehsan Hajiesmaili United States	10	918 0.5×	485 0.7×	217 0.4×	118 0.3×	107 1.0×	11	1.1k
Hareesh Godaba United Kingdom	15	1.1k 0.6×	425 0.6×	179 0.3×	166 0.5×	161 1.5×	34	1.2k
Silvain Michel Switzerland	16	963 0.5×	266 0.4×	374 0.7×	235 0.6×	122 1.1×	51	1.2k
Scott Stanford United States	16	1.8k 0.9×	623 0.9×	611 1.1×	294 0.8×	155 1.4×	19	2.0k
Seiki Chiba Japan	12	1.2k 0.6×	399 0.6×	421 0.8×	225 0.6×	131 1.2×	55	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin O’Brien

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20 of 20 papers shown

O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2025). Do Children Laugh Like Their Parents? Conversational Laughter Mimicry Occurrence and Acoustic Alignment in Middle-Childhood. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 49(1). 53–83. 1 indexed citations

Ott, Sascha, Zheng‐Yii Lee, Elyad Ekrami, et al.. (2024). The effect of high-dose selenium on mortality and postoperative organ dysfunction in post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock patients supported with mechanical circulatory support – A post-hoc analysis of the SUSTAIN CSX trial. Journal of Critical Care. 83. 154853–154853.

O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Droplet‐based optical trapping for cell separation in mock forensic samples. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 69(1). 273–281. 6 indexed citations

Bonastre, Jean-François, et al.. (2023). Describing the phonetics in the underlying speech attributes for deep and interpretable speaker recognition. 3207–3211. 1 indexed citations

O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Enhancing Expressivity Transfer in Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2022). Correlates of vowel clarity in the spectrotemporal modulation domain: Application to speech impairment evaluation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 152(5). 2675–2691. 2 indexed citations

O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2021). Anonymous Speaker Clusters: Making Distinctions Between Anonymised Speech Recordings with Clustering Interface. 3580–3584. 1 indexed citations

O’Brien, Benjamin, Christine Meunier, & Alain Ghio. (2021). Presentation matters: Evaluating speaker identification tasks. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Online sonification for golf putting gesture: reduced variability of motor behaviour and perceptual judgement. Experimental Brain Research. 238(4). 883–895. 5 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2020). Online sonification improves cycling performance through kinematic and muscular reorganisations. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 20929–20929. 9 indexed citations

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Rosset, Samuel, et al.. (2013). Tunable grating with active feedback. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8687. 86872F–86872F. 4 indexed citations

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Gisby, Todd, Benjamin O’Brien, & Iain A. Anderson. (2013). Self sensing feedback for dielectric elastomer actuators. Applied Physics Letters. 102(19). 131 indexed citations

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McKay, Thomas, Benjamin O’Brien, Emilio P. Calius, & Iain A. Anderson. (2012). Self-priming dielectric elastomer generator design. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8340. 83401Y–83401Y. 12 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Benjamin, Thomas G. McKay, Sheng Quan Xie, Emilio P. Calius, & Iain A. Anderson. (2011). Dielectric elastomer memory. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7976. 797621–797621. 12 indexed citations

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Anderson, Iain A., Ioannis Ieropoulos, Thomas McKay, Benjamin O’Brien, & Chris Melhuish. (2011). Power for Robotic Artificial Muscles. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 16(1). 107–111. 48 indexed citations

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Anderson, Iain A., et al.. (2011). A soft and dexterous motor. Applied Physics Letters. 98(12). 43 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2010). Dielectric elastomer switches for smart artificial muscles. Applied Physics A. 100(2). 385–389. 84 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Benjamin, Todd Gisby, Sheng Quan Xie, Emilio P. Calius, & Iain A. Anderson. (2010). Biomimetic control for DEA arrays. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7642. 764220–764220. 8 indexed citations

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Anderson, Iain A., et al.. (2009). A dielectric elastomer actuator thin membrane rotary motor. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7287. 72871H–72871H. 14 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Benjamin, et al.. (2007). Integrated extension sensor based on resistance and voltage measurement for a dielectric elastomer. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6524. 652415–652415. 70 indexed citations

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