Brendan O’Connor

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
132 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Brendan O’Connor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brendan O’Connor has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and 26 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Brendan O’Connor's work include Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (26 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (25 papers) and Topic Modeling (22 papers). Brendan O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (26 papers), Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology (25 papers) and Topic Modeling (22 papers). Brendan O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and United Kingdom. Brendan O’Connor's co-authors include Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng, Noah A. Smith, Kevin P. Pipe, Max Shtein, Jacob Eisenstein, Gerard O’Cuinn, Nathan Schneider and Kevin Gimpel and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Materials, Applied Physics Letters and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Brendan O’Connor

129 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Cheap and fast---but is it good? 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2011 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Cheap and fast---but is it good?
    2008 1.3k citations Brendan O’Connor et al. profile →
  2. Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
    2011 743 citations Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider et al. profile →

Peers

Brendan O’Connor
Comparison fields: 5 of 203
  • Artificial Intelligence 2.2k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 1.1k
  • Molecular Biology 1.0k
  • Computer Science Applications 780
  • Polymers and Plastics 695
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Countries citing papers authored by Brendan O’Connor

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brendan O’Connor

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brendan O’Connor

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brendan O’Connor. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brendan O’Connor based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brendan O’Connor. Brendan O’Connor is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Where on Earth Do Users Say They Are?: Geo-Entity Linking for Noisy Multilingual User Input
2024 ·(unknown), Brendan O’Connor
3
2
ezCoref: Towards Unifying Annotation Guidelines for Coreference Resolution
2023 ·Ankita Gupta, (unknown), Wenlong Zhao, Kalpesh Krishna, (unknown), (unknown), Mohit Iyyer, Brendan O’Connor
1
3
Examining Political Rhetoric with Epistemic Stance Detection
2022 ·Ankita Gupta, Su Lin Blodgett, Justin H. Gross, Brendan O’Connor
0
4
Environmental and economic impacts of solar‐powered integrated greenhouses
2019 ·Journal of Industrial Ecology ·(unknown), Eshwar Ravishankar, Brendan O’Connor, Jeremiah X. Johnson, Joseph F. DeCarolis
55
5
Exploring Summary-Expanded Entity Embeddings for Entity Retrieval.
2018 ·(unknown), (unknown), James Allan, Brendan O’Connor
2
6
Improved Part-of-Speech Tagging for Online Conversational Text with Word Clusters
2018 ·Figshare ·(unknown), Brendan O’Connor, Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Noah A. Smith
152
7
Strong polymer molecular weight-dependent material interactions: impact on the formation of the polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction morphology
2017 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Joo‐Hyun Kim, Abay Gadisa, Charley Schaefer, Huifeng Yao, Bhoj Gautam, Nrup Balar, Masoud Ghasemi, Iordania Constantinou, Franky So, Brendan O’Connor, Kenan Gündoğdu, Jianhui Hou, Harald Ade
48
8
Diffusion of Lexical Change in Social Media
2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O’Connor, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing
132
9
Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, June 9-14, 2013, Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2013 ·(unknown), Brendan O’Connor, Chris Dyer, Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Noah A. Smith
1
10
Reproduction of Mucohaemorrhagic Diarrhea and Colitis Indistinguishable from Swine Dysentery following Experimental Inoculation with “Brachyspira hampsonii” Strain 30446
2013 ·PLoS ONE ·Joseph E. Rubin, (unknown), Janet E. Hill, (unknown), Champika Fernando, Yanyun Huang, Brendan O’Connor, John C. S. Harding
61
11
Mapping the geographical diffusion of new words
2012 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Jacob Eisenstein, Brendan O’Connor, Noah A. Smith, Eric P. Xing
23
12
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics breakdown →
2011 ·Kevin Gimpel, Nathan Schneider, Brendan O’Connor, Dipanjan Das, D. Quinn Mills, Jacob Eisenstein, Michael Heilman, Dani Yogatama, (unknown), Noah A. Smith
743
13
Optimization of the enzyme-linked lectin assay for enhanced glycoprotein and glycoconjugate analysis
2011 ·Analytical Biochemistry ·Róisı́n Thompson, (unknown), Michael P. O’Connell, Brendan O’Connor, Paul Clarke
53
14
Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography
2010 ·Methods in molecular biology ·Philip M. Cummins, Brendan O’Connor
19
15
Ion-Exchange Chromatography: Basic Principles and Application to the Partial Purification of Soluble Mammalian Prolyl Oligopeptidase
2010 ·Methods in molecular biology ·Philip M. Cummins, (unknown), Brendan O’Connor
23
16
Purification and Characterization of a Z-Pro-prolinal-Insensitive Z-Gly-Pro-7-amino-4-methyl Coumarin-Hydrolyzing Peptidase from Bovine Serum—A New Proline-Specific Peptidase
2001 ·Protein Expression and Purification ·Yvonne A. Birney, Brendan O’Connor
18
17
Pyroglutamyl peptidase: an overview of the three known enzymatic forms
1998 ·Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology ·Philip M. Cummins, Brendan O’Connor
77
18
A study of a highly specific pyroglutamyl aminopeptidase type-II from the membrane fraction of bovine brain
1998 ·The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology ·(unknown), Brendan O’Connor
10
19
Identification and Initial Characterization of a N‐Benzyloxycarbonyl‐Prolyl‐Prolinal (Z‐Pro‐Prolinal)‐Insensitive 7‐(N‐Benzyloxycarbonyl‐Glycyl‐Prolyl‐Amido)‐4‐Methylcoumarin (Z‐Gly‐Pro‐NH‐Mec)‐Hydrolysing Peptidase in Bovine Serum
1997 ·European Journal of Biochemistry ·(unknown), Brendan O’Connor
22
20
The Development of Two Fluorimetric Assays for the Determination of Pyroglutamyl Aminopeptidase Type-II Activity
1997 ·Analytical Biochemistry ·(unknown), Rhona M. O'Leary, Brendan O’Connor
3

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