Kevin J. O’Brien

198 total papers · 4.6k total citations
93 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Kevin J. O’Brien is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin J. O’Brien has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 54 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Kevin J. O’Brien's work include China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (52 papers), Chinese history and philosophy (33 papers) and China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (11 papers). Kevin J. O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (52 papers), Chinese history and philosophy (33 papers) and China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (11 papers). Kevin J. O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and China. Kevin J. O’Brien's co-authors include Lianjiang Li, Yanhua Deng, Rachel E. Stern, Rongbin Han, Neil J. Diamant, Stanley Lubman, Emily T. Yeh, Jingzhong Ye, Dennis Wittmer and Bahman P. Ebrahimi and has published in prestigious journals such as World Politics, Comparative Political Studies and Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Kevin J. O’Brien

85 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Rightful Resistance in Ru... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2006 1999 200 400 600
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 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.

  1. Rightful Resistance in Rural China
    2006 646 citations Kevin J. O’Brien, Lianjiang Li Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  2. Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China
    1999 367 citations Kevin J. O’Brien, Lianjiang Li Comparative Politics profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Kevin J. O’Brien 1.7k 1.6k 150 146 118 93 2.4k
Elizabeth J. Perry 1.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 176 1.2× 117 0.8× 37 0.3× 76 2.6k
Lianjiang Li 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 169 1.1× 113 0.8× 64 0.5× 33 1.9k
David Howarth 981 0.6× 1.3k 0.8× 95 0.6× 126 0.9× 67 0.6× 88 2.7k
David McCrone 1.2k 0.7× 1.7k 1.1× 137 0.9× 174 1.2× 93 0.8× 141 2.8k
Javier Auyero 1.4k 0.8× 2.2k 1.4× 190 1.3× 118 0.8× 73 0.6× 114 3.3k
Edward Aspinall 1.8k 1.0× 2.0k 1.3× 160 1.1× 153 1.0× 86 0.7× 97 2.9k
John A. Hall 1.2k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 387 2.6× 85 0.6× 64 0.5× 128 2.9k
Joel S. Migdal 1.1k 0.7× 1.6k 1.0× 164 1.1× 57 0.4× 115 1.0× 52 2.2k
Adrian Favell 953 0.6× 1.8k 1.1× 85 0.6× 82 0.6× 35 0.3× 77 2.4k
John M. Dunn 1.6k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 274 1.8× 114 0.8× 33 0.3× 110 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin J. O’Brien

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin J. O’Brien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

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

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