Emily O’Gorman

778 total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 421 citations indexed

About

Emily O’Gorman is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emily O’Gorman has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 421 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 7 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 7 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Emily O’Gorman's work include Geographies of human-animal interactions (10 papers), American Environmental and Regional History (6 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers). Emily O’Gorman is often cited by papers focused on Geographies of human-animal interactions (10 papers), American Environmental and Regional History (6 papers) and Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 papers). Emily O’Gorman collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United States. Emily O’Gorman's co-authors include Thom van Dooren, Stuart Cooke, Matthew Kearnes, Deborah Bird Rose, Matthew Chrulew, Andrea Gaynor, James Beattie, Fiona Miller, Jessie McLean and Matthew Henry and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Emily O’Gorman

26 papers receiving 364 citations

Hit Papers

Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 50 100 150
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. Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities
    2012 197 citations Deborah Bird Rose, Thom van Dooren et al. Environmental Humanities profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Emily O’Gorman Australia 10 160 128 63 62 51 29 421
Heather Anne Swanson Denmark 11 250 1.6× 143 1.1× 73 1.2× 70 1.1× 61 1.2× 24 542
Ursula Münster Germany 5 263 1.6× 135 1.1× 68 1.1× 25 0.4× 40 0.8× 9 472
Brian Williams United States 9 166 1.0× 178 1.4× 65 1.0× 36 0.6× 57 1.1× 22 456
Alex A. Moulton United States 8 155 1.0× 181 1.4× 49 0.8× 41 0.7× 64 1.3× 15 428
Franklin Ginn United Kingdom 16 365 2.3× 161 1.3× 55 0.9× 49 0.8× 66 1.3× 33 731
Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr‐Stubbs Australia 9 284 1.8× 245 1.9× 105 1.7× 26 0.4× 49 1.0× 14 709
Jake Kosek United States 4 127 0.8× 111 0.9× 49 0.8× 18 0.3× 66 1.3× 4 333
Astrida Neimanis Australia 13 274 1.7× 230 1.8× 34 0.5× 118 1.9× 86 1.7× 38 650
Makere Stewart‐Harawira Canada 7 114 0.7× 223 1.7× 38 0.6× 15 0.2× 64 1.3× 15 534
Steven E. Silvern United States 5 94 0.6× 151 1.2× 33 0.5× 23 0.4× 33 0.6× 8 444

Countries citing papers authored by Emily O’Gorman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Emily O’Gorman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Emily O’Gorman. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Emily O’Gorman. The network helps show where Emily O’Gorman may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emily O’Gorman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Emily O’Gorman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Emily O’Gorman 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 Emily O’Gorman. Emily O’Gorman 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
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Dooren, Thom van, Emily O’Gorman, & Grace Karskens. (2025). Eucalyptus histories and futures: Living and dying with hydrological infrastructures. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space.
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O’Gorman, Emily, et al.. (2025). ‘Every chance we get, we go’: An interview with Kazan Brown about Gundungurra Country, Burragorang Valley and the Warragamba Dam. Aboriginal History Journal. 48. 75–96. 1 indexed citations
3.
Houston, Donna, Michelle Lim, Andrew McGregor, et al.. (2024). Offsetting. Environmental Humanities. 16(2). 426–432. 1 indexed citations
4.
Suchet‐Pearson, Sandie, et al.. (2023). Legal Pluralism on Dyarubbin: Country-as-Lore/Law in Western Sydney, Australia. GeoHumanities. 9(2). 355–379. 5 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily, William San Martín, Mark Carey, & Sandra Swart. (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Environmental History. 3 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily, et al.. (2022). Wayilwan Women Caring for Country: Dynamic Knowledges, Decolonising Historical Methodologies, and Colonial Explorer Journals. Journal of Australian Studies. 47(1). 160–180.
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Fuller, Sara, Kristian Ruming, Andrew Burridge, et al.. (2021). Delivering the discipline: Teaching geography and planning during COVID‐19. Geographical Research. 59(3). 331–340. 9 indexed citations
8.
O’Gorman, Emily. (2021). Wetlands in a Dry Land. University of Washington Press eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily & Ruth Morgan. (2021). Fluid Terrains: Approaches in Environmental History. Australian Historical Studies. 52(2). 141–170. 3 indexed citations
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Potter, Emily, Fiona Miller, Eva Lövbrand, et al.. (2020). A manifesto for shadow places: Re-imagining and co-producing connections for justice in an era of climate change. Environment and Planning E Nature and Space. 5(1). 272–292. 14 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily & Andrea Gaynor. (2020). More-Than-Human Histories. Environmental History. 25(4). 711–735. 49 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily & Thom van Dooren. (2016). The Promises of Pests: Wildlife in Agricultural Landscapes. Australian Zoologist. 39(1). 81–84. 9 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily. (2016). The pelican slaughter of 1911: a history of competing values, killing and private property from the Coorong, South Australia. Geographical Research. 54(3). 285–300. 6 indexed citations
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Beattie, James, et al.. (2015). Eco-cultural networks and the British Empire. 4 indexed citations
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Beattie, James, et al.. (2014). Rethinking the British Empire through Eco-Cultural Networks: Materialist-Cultural Environmental History, Relational Connections and Agency. Environment and History. 20(4). 561–575. 9 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily. (2014). Belonging (Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Beattie, James, Emily O’Gorman, & Matthew Henry. (2014). Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 11 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily. (2013). Growing rice on the Murrumbidgee River: cultures, politics, and practices of food production and water use, 1900 to 2012. Journal of Australian Studies. 37(1). 96–115. 5 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Emily. (2012). Local Knowledge and the State: The 1990 Floods in Cunnamulla, Queensland, Australia. Environmental History. 17(3). 512–546. 6 indexed citations
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Rose, Deborah Bird, Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew, et al.. (2012). Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities. Environmental Humanities. 1(1). 1–5. 197 indexed citations breakdown →

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