Jake O’Brien

11.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
165 papers, 7.7k citations indexed

About

Jake O’Brien is a scholar working on Pollution, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Toxicology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jake O’Brien has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 7.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Pollution, 50 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 29 papers in Toxicology. Recurrent topics in Jake O’Brien's work include Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (53 papers), Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (29 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (23 papers). Jake O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts (53 papers), Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis (29 papers) and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing (23 papers). Jake O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Netherlands and China. Jake O’Brien's co-authors include Kevin V. Thomas, Jochen F. Mueller, Benjamin J. Tscharke, Phong K. Thai, Phil M. Choi, Francisca Ribeiro, Elvis D. Okoffo, Stacey O’Brien, Saer Samanipour and Jiaying Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Jake O’Brien

157 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

First confirmed detection of SARS-CoV-2 in untreated wastewater in Australia: A proof of concept for the wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 in the community

2020 1.3k citations Jake O’Brien, Phil M. Choi et al. profile →
Wastewater-based epidemiology biomarkers: Past, present and future

2018 347 citations Phil M. Choi, Benjamin J. Tscharke et al. profile →
There's something in the air: A review of sources, prevalence and behaviour of microplastics in the atmosphere

2023 232 citations Stacey O’Brien, Francisca Ribeiro et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jake O’Brien	3.4k	2.3k	1.7k	1.6k	1.6k	165	7.7k
Benjamin J. Tscharke	1.6k 0.5×	2.0k 0.9×	706 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	798 0.5×	105	4.7k
Rolf U. Halden	6.5k 1.9×	900 0.4×	1.8k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	5.1k 3.1×	214	14.1k
Christoph Ort	3.9k 1.1×	1.0k 0.4×	734 0.4×	898 0.6×	2.6k 1.6×	112	7.3k
Phong K. Thai	2.8k 0.8×	763 0.3×	312 0.2×	797 0.5×	4.3k 2.6×	249	8.7k
Christian G. Daughton	5.1k 1.5×	490 0.2×	692 0.4×	682 0.4×	2.3k 1.4×	50	7.4k
Malcolm J. Reid	1.7k 0.5×	376 0.2×	281 0.2×	432 0.3×	946 0.6×	73	3.3k
Erica Donner	2.1k 0.6×	365 0.2×	630 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	975 0.6×	147	6.2k
Renzo Bagnati	3.4k 1.0×	284 0.1×	263 0.2×	484 0.3×	1.5k 0.9×	100	6.4k
Roman Grabic	5.6k 1.7×	285 0.1×	594 0.4×	610 0.4×	3.6k 2.2×	208	8.7k
Richard H. Lindberg	4.2k 1.2×	289 0.1×	470 0.3×	577 0.4×	1.7k 1.1×	61	5.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

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Zhao, Jiawei, Jake O’Brien, Lachlan Coin, et al.. (2025). Impact of human lifestyle on the pathogenic potential of urban wastewater. Environmental Research. 286(Pt 1). 122591–122591.

Li, Jinglong, et al.. (2025). Stability of Antibiotics and Their Metabolites in Sewers: Implications for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology and Antibiotic Sustainability. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(33). 17796–17810. 2 indexed citations

Li, Jinglong, Jake O’Brien, Benjamin J. Tscharke, et al.. (2025). Occurrence, Removal, and Risk Assessment of Antimicrobials and Their Transformation Products in Effluent from Australian Wastewater Treatment Plants. Environmental Science & Technology. 59(13). 6825–6838. 6 indexed citations

Livingston, Michael, Jake O’Brien, Richard Bade, et al.. (2024). Seven-years of alcohol consumption in Australia by wastewater analysis: Exploring patterns by remoteness and socioeconomic factors. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 259. 111317–111317. 3 indexed citations

O’Brien, Jake, et al.. (2024). A review of wastewater-based epidemiology for antimicrobial resistance surveillance. 3(1). 12 indexed citations

Wang, Zhe, Qiuda Zheng, Benjamin J. Tscharke, et al.. (2024). High throughput and sensitive quantitation of tobacco-specific alkaloids and nitrosamines in wastewater. Talanta. 277. 126401–126401. 4 indexed citations

Ahmed, Fahad, Benjamin J. Tscharke, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2023). National Wastewater Reconnaissance of Analgesic Consumption in Australia. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(4). 1712–1720. 15 indexed citations

Zheng, Qiuda, Cobus Gerber, Kathryn J. Steadman, et al.. (2023). Improving Wastewater-Based Tobacco Use Estimates Using Anabasine. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(21). 7958–7965. 7 indexed citations

Dewapriya, Pradeep, Sandra Nilsson, Sara Ghorbani Gorji, et al.. (2023). Novel Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Discovered in Cattle Exposed to AFFF-Impacted Groundwater. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(36). 13635–13645. 13 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Fahad, Jake O’Brien, Aparna Keshaviah, et al.. (2023). Wastewater-based monitoring could help guide responses to the USA opioid epidemic. Nature Water. 1(5). 401–404. 12 indexed citations

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Shimko, Katja M., Jake O’Brien, Benjamin J. Tscharke, et al.. (2023). Emergence and occurrence of performance-enhancing substance use in Australia determined by wastewater analysis. Nature Water. 1(10). 879–886. 3 indexed citations

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Wang, Zhe, Qiuda Zheng, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2023). Analysis of wastewater from 2013 to 2021 detected a recent increase in nicotine use in Queensland, Australia. Water Research. 250. 121040–121040. 3 indexed citations

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Ribeiro, Francisca, Elvis D. Okoffo, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2021). Out of sight but not out of mind: Size fractionation of plastics bioaccumulated by field deployed oysters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100021–100021. 45 indexed citations

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Ahmed, Fahad, Jiaying Li, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2021). In-sewer stability of selected analgesics and their metabolites. Water Research. 204. 117647–117647. 13 indexed citations

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Samanipour, Saer, Phil M. Choi, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2021). From Centroided to Profile Mode: Machine Learning for Prediction of Peak Width in HRMS Data. Analytical Chemistry. 93(49). 16562–16570. 14 indexed citations

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Thai, Phong K., Benjamin J. Tscharke, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2021). Estimating Alcohol Consumption by Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: An Assessment of the Correction Factor for Ethyl Sulfate Using Large-Scale National Monitoring Data. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 8(4). 333–338. 19 indexed citations

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Choi, Phil M., Jake O’Brien, Benjamin J. Tscharke, et al.. (2020). Population Socioeconomics Predicted Using Wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology Letters. 7(8). 567–572. 24 indexed citations

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Goulding, Neil, Matthew Hickman, Malcolm J. Reid, et al.. (2019). A comparison of trends in wastewater‐based data and traditional epidemiological indicators of stimulant consumption in three locations. Addiction. 115(3). 462–472. 9 indexed citations

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Okoffo, Elvis D., Stacey O’Brien, Jake O’Brien, Benjamin J. Tscharke, & Kevin V. Thomas. (2019). Wastewater treatment plants as a source of plastics in the environment: a review of occurrence, methods for identification, quantification and fate. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 5(11). 1908–1931. 179 indexed citations

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Samanipour, Saer, Jake O’Brien, Malcolm J. Reid, & Kevin V. Thomas. (2019). Self Adjusting Algorithm for the Nontargeted Feature Detection of High Resolution Mass Spectrometry Coupled with Liquid Chromatography Profile Data. Analytical Chemistry. 91(16). 10800–10807. 20 indexed citations

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