Kevin C. O'Brien

31 total papers · 1.0k total citations
16 papers, 897 citations indexed

About

Kevin C. O'Brien is a scholar working on Polymers and Plastics, Mechanical Engineering and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin C. O'Brien has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 897 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Polymers and Plastics, 6 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 2 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Kevin C. O'Brien's work include Synthesis and properties of polymers (5 papers), Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (5 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (2 papers). Kevin C. O'Brien is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and properties of polymers (5 papers), Membrane Separation and Gas Transport (5 papers) and Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (2 papers). Kevin C. O'Brien collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Kevin C. O'Brien's co-authors include William J. Koros, G. Ronald Husk, Timothy A. Barbari, Edgar S. Sanders, J. B. Lando, Weiling Sun, Li‐Ying Sun, Jinren Ni, Jennifer Long and C. E. Rogers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Langmuir and Journal of Membrane Science.

In The Last Decade

Kevin C. O'Brien

12 papers receiving 870 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Relationship between gas separation properties and chemical structure in a series of aromatic polyimides

1988 410 citations William J. Koros, G. Ronald Husk et al. Journal of Membrane Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Kevin C. O'Brien	751	514	314	241	118	16	897
K. Ghosal	746 1.0×	377 0.7×	305 1.0×	215 0.9×	195 1.7×	10	887
Atsushi Morisato	772 1.0×	276 0.5×	288 0.9×	207 0.9×	210 1.8×	18	875
S.M. Jordan	589 0.8×	330 0.6×	187 0.6×	223 0.9×	188 1.6×	9	728
Nozomu Tanihara	680 0.9×	270 0.5×	308 1.0×	196 0.8×	193 1.6×	14	774
Mariola Calle	743 1.0×	512 1.0×	466 1.5×	183 0.8×	151 1.3×	23	1.0k
Xiaofan Hu	604 0.8×	357 0.7×	411 1.3×	122 0.5×	152 1.3×	21	699
Svetlana I. Semenova	543 0.7×	250 0.5×	155 0.5×	192 0.8×	315 2.7×	24	759
Kryštof Pilnáček	637 0.8×	124 0.2×	324 1.0×	145 0.6×	210 1.8×	18	737
Joshua D. Moon	503 0.7×	136 0.3×	267 0.9×	245 1.0×	250 2.1×	28	845
Jongmyeong Lee	782 1.0×	195 0.4×	482 1.5×	171 0.7×	319 2.7×	29	981

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin C. O'Brien

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

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