Kevin J. O’Brien

4.6k citations
93 papers · 2.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 19
Topics
China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (53 papers)Chinese history and philosophy (33 papers)China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (11 papers)

In The Last Decade

Kevin J. O’Brien

85 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Rightful Resistance in Rural China199920262008201720061999200400600

Peers

Kevin J. O’Brien
Comparison fields: 5 of 95
  • Political Science and International Relations 1.7k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.6k
  • Economics and Econometrics 151
  • Gender Studies 146
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences 118
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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin J. O’Brien

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin J. O’Brien

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#WorkIndexed citations
1
Our Voices II: The DE-colonial Project
2
2
The Struggle Over Village Elections
2
3 12
4
Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture
10
5
Contentious Veterans: China's Retired Officers Speak Out
2
6 37
7 8
8
For architecture and country
0
9
Politics at the Boundary: Mixed Signals and the Chinese State
19
10
Understanding China's Grassroots Elections
2
11
Hunting for Political Change
1
12
Collective Action in the Chinese Countryside
6
13 79
14
Studying Contention in Contemporary China
8
15 12
16
Discovery, Research (Re)Design, and Theory Building
5
17 1
18
Villagers, elections, and citizenship in contemporary China
2
19 1
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Real-Time Data Verification
8

About Kevin J. O’Brien

Kevin J. O’Brien is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems and Management, having authored 93 papers that have together received 2.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (53 papers), Chinese history and philosophy (33 papers) and China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Political Science and International Relations (1.7k citations), Sociology and Political Science (1.6k citations) and Public Administration (96 citations). Kevin J. O’Brien has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and China. Frequent co-authors include Lianjiang Li, Yanhua Deng, Rachel E. Stern, Rongbin Han, Neil J. Diamant, Stanley Lubman, Jingzhong Ye, Emily T. Yeh, Dennis Wittmer and Bahman P. Ebrahimi. Their work appears in journals such as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.

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