Clare O’Brien

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 105 citations indexed

About

Clare O’Brien is a scholar working on Safety Research, Nutrition and Dietetics and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Clare O’Brien has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 105 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Safety Research, 3 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 2 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Clare O’Brien's work include Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 papers) and Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (2 papers). Clare O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 papers) and Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (2 papers). Clare O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Italy. Clare O’Brien's co-authors include Eleanor Fisher, Valentina Barca, Jeremy Holland, Catriona Reddin, Maria Costello, Martin O’Donnell, Conor Judge, Luca Pellerano, Luca Tiberti and Ugo Gentilini and has published in prestigious journals such as World Development, Personality and Individual Differences and JAMA Neurology.

In The Last Decade

Clare O’Brien

10 papers receiving 98 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cardioprotective Glucose-Lowering Agents and Dementia Risk

2025 17 citations Clare O’Brien, Maria Costello et al. JAMA Neurology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Clare O’Brien United Kingdom	4	55	30	21	18	14	12	105
Adriana Conconi Argentina	5	39 0.7×	32 1.1×	64 3.0×	18 1.0×	9 0.6×	13	106
Michael T. Weber United States	4	73 1.3×	56 1.9×	23 1.1×	23 1.3×	68 4.9×	7	154
Mohammad Hossein Hakimi Indonesia	2	39 0.7×	30 1.0×	16 0.8×	25 1.4×	11 0.8×	2	95
Jennifer Meredith United States	3	21 0.4×	35 1.2×	8 0.4×	18 1.0×	7 0.5×	5	78
Dennis Egger United States	3	39 0.7×	44 1.5×	23 1.1×	11 0.6×	14 1.0×	6	90
Jonathan Argent Kazakhstan	5	32 0.6×	28 0.9×	33 1.6×	11 0.6×	12 0.9×	5	78
César Calvo United Kingdom	4	80 1.5×	24 0.8×	115 5.5×	17 0.9×	83 5.9×	7	158
Mirela de Carvalho Brazil	5	22 0.4×	30 1.0×	50 2.4×	10 0.6×	6 0.4×	16	82
Gargi Wable Grandner United States	5	33 0.6×	22 0.7×	3 0.1×	85 4.7×	5 0.4×	5	131
B. Piedad Urdinola Colombia	4	73 1.3×	28 0.9×	31 1.5×	43 2.4×	39 2.8×	6	170

Countries citing papers authored by Clare O’Brien

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Fields of papers citing papers by Clare O’Brien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Clare O’Brien. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Clare O’Brien 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 Clare O’Brien. Clare O’Brien is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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12 of 12 papers shown

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O’Brien, Clare, et al.. (2025). Cardioprotective Glucose-Lowering Agents and Dementia Risk. JAMA Neurology. 82(5). 450–450. 17 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Brien, Clare, Neophytos Georgiou, & Jonathan Bartholomaeus. (2024). The association between belief in a just world and endorsing conspiracy theories is moderated by ambiguity tolerance, but not scientific reasoning. Personality and Individual Differences. 233. 112885–112885. 1 indexed citations

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Boellinghaus, Inga, et al.. (2021). A Grounded Theory Analysis of the Experience of Therapy in the Context of Negative Change. SAGE Open. 11(2). 1 indexed citations

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Gentilini, Ugo, et al.. (2018). Human(itarian) Capital?. Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Holland, Jeremy, et al.. (2018). Getting the most out of participatory impact assessment: reflections from a multi-country cash transfer impact assessment. CentAUR (University of Reading).

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Fisher, Eleanor, et al.. (2017). The Livelihood Impacts of Cash Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Beneficiary Perspectives from Six Countries. World Development. 99. 299–319. 67 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Clare & Luca Pellerano. (2015). Determinants of take-up of welfare programmes: evidence from a conditional cash transfer in Kazakhstan. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 23(2). 89–104. 3 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Clare. (2015). Poverty and social justice in central Asia. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice. 23(2). 83–88. 1 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Clare, et al.. (2014). Factors Affecting the Cost-efficiency of Electronic Transfers in Humanitarian Programmes. 6 indexed citations

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Notten, Geranda, et al.. (2013). Are cash transfers a realistic policy tool for poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Congo-Brazzaville and Côte d’Ivoire. Global Social Policy. 13(2). 168–192. 4 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Clare. (2011). Depression, cause or consequence of pathological gambling and its implications for treatment. Counselling Psychology Review. 26(1). 53–61. 3 indexed citations

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Aitken, Clare A., et al.. (2003). Establishing an electronic document delivery service for the BMA library. VINE. 33(2). 72–77.

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