Brian W. O’Shea

7.3k total citations
107 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Brian W. O’Shea is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian W. O’Shea has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23 papers in Instrumentation and 20 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Brian W. O’Shea's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (66 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (49 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (42 papers). Brian W. O’Shea is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (66 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (49 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (42 papers). Brian W. O’Shea collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Brian W. O’Shea's co-authors include Michael L. Norman, John Wise, Britton Smith, Matthew Turk, Tom Abel, Hao Xu, Eric Hallman, Facundo A. Gómez, G. Mark Voit and Greg L. Bryan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, JAMA and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Brian W. O’Shea

98 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brian W. O’Shea United States 35 3.5k 945 777 156 106 107 3.8k
Adam D. Myers United States 38 3.8k 1.1× 835 0.9× 1.3k 1.7× 57 0.4× 123 1.2× 107 4.2k
Q. A. Parker Australia 35 6.3k 1.8× 1.7k 1.8× 2.2k 2.8× 201 1.3× 192 1.8× 247 6.5k
Claudia del P. Lagos Australia 46 6.2k 1.8× 768 0.8× 3.4k 4.4× 97 0.6× 240 2.3× 215 6.5k
Will Handley United Kingdom 26 1.9k 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 194 0.2× 45 0.3× 135 1.3× 93 2.4k
Francesco Miniati Switzerland 27 2.4k 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 289 0.4× 308 2.0× 44 0.4× 68 2.9k
E. W. Greisen United States 12 4.0k 1.1× 2.1k 2.2× 634 0.8× 188 1.2× 87 0.8× 37 4.3k
M. S. Longair United Kingdom 31 4.4k 1.3× 2.5k 2.6× 830 1.1× 76 0.5× 195 1.8× 180 4.8k
Miloš Milosavljević United States 35 3.6k 1.0× 769 0.8× 1.1k 1.4× 49 0.3× 105 1.0× 90 4.0k
Ryan C. Hickox United States 31 3.5k 1.0× 894 0.9× 1.3k 1.6× 45 0.3× 41 0.4× 117 3.7k
J. J. Eldridge New Zealand 39 4.4k 1.3× 695 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 59 0.4× 45 0.4× 122 4.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian W. O’Shea

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian W. O’Shea

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bortz, David M., et al.. (2025). Influence of initial conditions on data-driven model identification and information entropy for ideal mhd problems. Journal of Computational Physics. 524. 113719–113719. 2 indexed citations
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Simons, Raymond C., Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, et al.. (2025). Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). IX. The Angular Momentum Evolution of Milky Way–like Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Gas. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(2). 250–250. 1 indexed citations
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Augustin, Ramona, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, et al.. (2025). FOGGIE. X. Characterizing the Small-scale Structure of the Circumgalactic Medium and Its Imprint on Observables. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 52–52.
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Acharyya, Ayan, Molly S. Peeples, Jason Tumlinson, et al.. (2025). Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). VIII. Complex and Stochastic Metallicity Gradients at z > 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 129–129. 8 indexed citations
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Smith, Britton, Brian W. O’Shea, Sadegh Khochfar, et al.. (2024). Why does the Milky Way have a metallicity floor?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(4). 3797–3807. 3 indexed citations
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Wright, Anna C., Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, et al.. (2024). Figuring Out Gas and Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). VII. The (Dis)assembly of Stellar Halos. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(1). 70–70. 9 indexed citations
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Grete, Philipp, Brian W. O’Shea, & Kris Beckwith. (2023). As a Matter of Dynamical Range – Scale Dependent Energy Dynamics in MHD Turbulence. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 942(2). L34–L34. 21 indexed citations
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Lochhaas, Cassandra, Jason Tumlinson, Molly S. Peeples, et al.. (2023). Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). VI. The Circumgalactic Medium of L ∗ Galaxies Is Supported in an Emergent, Nonhydrostatic Equilibrium. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(1). 43–43. 21 indexed citations
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Lochhaas, Cassandra, Jason Tumlinson, Brian W. O’Shea, et al.. (2021). Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE). V. The Virial Temperature Does Not Describe Gas in a Virialized Galaxy Halo. The Astrophysical Journal. 922(2). 121–121. 16 indexed citations
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O’Shea, Brian W., et al.. (2020). Halo Environment for Population III Star Formation. Research Notes of the AAS. 4(6). 93–93. 1 indexed citations
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Regan, John A., et al.. (2020). The Formation of Very Massive Stars in Early Galaxies and Implications for Intermediate Mass Black Holes. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 35 indexed citations
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Voit, G. Mark, Arif Babul, Iu. Babyk, et al.. (2019). Circumgalactic Gas and the Precipitation Limit. IRIS UNIMORE (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia). 1 indexed citations
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Ji, Alexander P., et al.. (2019). The Origin of r-process Enhanced Metal-poor Halo Stars In Now-destroyed Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(2). 247–247. 25 indexed citations
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Peeples, Molly S., Lauren Corlies, Jason Tumlinson, et al.. (2019). Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies in Enzo (FOGGIE). I. Resolving Simulated Circumgalactic Absorption at 2 ≤ z ≤ 2.5. The Astrophysical Journal. 873(2). 129–129. 171 indexed citations
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Hummels, Cameron, Britton Smith, Philip F. Hopkins, et al.. (2019). The Impact of Enhanced Halo Resolution on the Simulated Circumgalactic Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 882(2). 156–156. 152 indexed citations
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Emerick, Andrew, Greg L. Bryan, Mordecai‐Mark Mac Low, et al.. (2018). Metal Mixing and Ejection in Dwarf Galaxies Are Dependent on Nucleosynthetic Source. The Astrophysical Journal. 869(2). 94–94. 32 indexed citations
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Smith, Britton, Greg L. Bryan, Simon C. O. Glover, et al.. (2016). Grackle: Chemistry and radiative cooling library for astrophysical simulations. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 3 indexed citations
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Gómez, Facundo A., et al.. (2015). On the relevance of chaos for halo stars in the solar neighbourhood. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 453(3). 2831–2848. 16 indexed citations
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Xu, Hao, Kyungjin Ahn, John Wise, Michael L. Norman, & Brian W. O’Shea. (2014). HEATING THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM BY X-RAYS FROM POPULATION III BINARIES IN HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 44 indexed citations
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O’Shea, Brian W., Alexander Heger, & Tom Abel. (2008). First stars III : Santa Fe, New Mexico, 15-20 July 2007. American Institute of Physics eBooks.

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