Liam O’Connor

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Liam O’Connor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Oncology and Cancer Research. According to data from OpenAlex, Liam O’Connor has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Oncology and 8 papers in Cancer Research. Recurrent topics in Liam O’Connor's work include Cell death mechanisms and regulation (9 papers), Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (4 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (3 papers). Liam O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on Cell death mechanisms and regulation (9 papers), Cancer-related Molecular Pathways (4 papers) and Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism (3 papers). Liam O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Liam O’Connor's co-authors include Andreas Strasser, Vishva M. Dixit, David C.S. Huang, Lorraine A. O’Reilly, Jerry M. Adams, Philippe Bouillet, Stephen Wilcox, Liz Milla, Margs S. Brennan and Lin Tai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Liam O’Connor

25 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Apoptosis Signaling

2000 1.2k citations Andreas Strasser, Liam O’Connor et al. Annual Review of Biochemistry profile →
Bim: a novel member of the Bcl-2 family that promotes apoptosis

1998 962 citations Liam O’Connor The EMBO Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liam O’Connor Australia	16	2.8k	842	794	567	343	25	3.9k
Debra T. Chao United States	18	2.9k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	505 0.9×	352 1.0×	28	4.3k
John C. Reed United States	12	3.8k 1.4×	1.0k 1.2×	789 1.0×	637 1.1×	386 1.1×	13	5.0k
Ulrich Maurer Germany	26	2.4k 0.9×	813 1.0×	707 0.9×	407 0.7×	456 1.3×	43	3.4k
Stephen Baird Canada	25	3.2k 1.2×	621 0.7×	595 0.7×	522 0.9×	439 1.3×	48	4.1k
Jialing Xiang United States	26	2.5k 0.9×	758 0.9×	635 0.8×	493 0.9×	342 1.0×	67	3.4k
Javier Naval Spain	40	3.4k 1.2×	837 1.0×	1.6k 2.0×	717 1.3×	464 1.4×	106	5.1k
Natalie Roy Canada	10	3.8k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	924 1.2×	706 1.2×	376 1.1×	13	5.0k
Colin Adrain United Kingdom	25	3.1k 1.1×	738 0.9×	888 1.1×	404 0.7×	581 1.7×	44	4.4k
Erinna F. Lee Australia	37	4.4k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	948 1.2×	429 0.8×	616 1.8×	73	5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Liam O’Connor

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Liam O’Connor

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liam O’Connor

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cheesman, Alexander W., et al.. (2024). Modelling internal stem damage in savanna trees: Error in aboveground biomass with terrestrial laser scanning and allometry. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(9). 1639–1652. 3 indexed citations

O’Connor, Liam, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of Food Homogenates on Cell Survival In Vitro. Food and Environmental Virology. 16(2). 253–260. 1 indexed citations

Janic, Ana, Liz J. Valente, Matthew J. Wakefield, et al.. (2018). DNA repair processes are critical mediators of p53-dependent tumor suppression. Nature Medicine. 24(7). 947–953. 119 indexed citations

Wormald, Samuel, Anita Lerch, Dmitri Mouradov, & Liam O’Connor. (2017). Somatic mutation footprinting reveals a unique tetranucleotide signature associated with intron–exon boundaries in lung cancer. Carcinogenesis. 39(2). 225–231. 2 indexed citations

Lerch, Anita, Cristian Koepfli, Natalie Hofmann, et al.. (2017). Development of amplicon deep sequencing markers and data analysis pipeline for genotyping multi-clonal malaria infections. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 864–864. 71 indexed citations

O’Connor, Liam, Ishna N. Mistry, Sarah Collins, et al.. (2016). CYP450 Enzymes Effect Oxygen-Dependent Reduction of Azide-Based Fluorogenic Dyes. ACS Central Science. 3(1). 20–30. 66 indexed citations

O’Connor, Liam, et al.. (2016). Design, synthesis and evaluation of molecularly targeted hypoxia-activated prodrugs. Nature Protocols. 11(4). 781–794. 66 indexed citations

O’Connor, Liam, et al.. (2015). Efficient synthesis of 2-nitroimidazole derivatives and the bioreductive clinical candidate Evofosfamide (TH-302). Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 2(9). 1026–1029. 23 indexed citations

Aubrey, Brandon J., Gemma L. Kelly, Andrew J. Kueh, et al.. (2015). An Inducible Lentiviral Guide RNA Platform Enables the Identification of Tumor-Essential Genes and Tumor-Promoting Mutations In Vivo. Cell Reports. 10(8). 1422–1432. 272 indexed citations

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Mouradov, Dmitri, Clare Sloggett, Robert N. Jorissen, et al.. (2014). Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines Are Representative Models of the Main Molecular Subtypes of Primary Cancer. Cancer Research. 74(12). 3238–3247. 287 indexed citations

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Wormald, Samuel, Liz Milla, & Liam O’Connor. (2013). Association of candidate single nucleotide polymorphisms with somatic mutation of the epidermal growth factor receptor pathway. BMC Medical Genomics. 6(1). 43–43. 7 indexed citations

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Marsden, Vanessa S., Liam O’Connor, Lorraine A. O’Reilly, et al.. (2002). Apoptosis initiated by Bcl-2-regulated caspase activation independently of the cytochrome c/Apaf-1/caspase-9 apoptosome. Nature. 419(6907). 634–637. 477 indexed citations

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Ofir, Rivka, et al.. (2000). Gamma -Radiation-Induced Growth Arrest and Apoptosis in p53-Null Lymphoma Cells Is Accompanied by Modest Transcriptional Changes in Many Genes. DNA and Cell Biology. 19(1). 29–37. 5 indexed citations

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Strasser, Andreas, Hamsa Puthalakath, Philippe Bouillet, et al.. (2000). The Role of Bim, a Proapoptotic BH3‐Only Member of the Bcl‐2 Family, in Cell‐Death Control. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 917(1). 541–548. 117 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Liam, Alan W. Harris, & Andreas Strasser. (2000). CD95 (Fas/APO-1) and p53 signal apoptosis independently in diverse cell types.. PubMed. 60(5). 1217–20. 51 indexed citations

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Strasser, Andreas, Liam O’Connor, & Vishva M. Dixit. (2000). Apoptosis Signaling. Annual Review of Biochemistry. 69(1). 217–245. 1192 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Connor, Liam & Andreas Strasser. (1999). Fas, p53, and Apoptosis. Science. 284(5419). 1431–1431. 15 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Liam. (1998). Bim: a novel member of the Bcl-2 family that promotes apoptosis. The EMBO Journal. 17(2). 384–395. 962 indexed citations breakdown →

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Currie, Bart J., et al.. (1993). A New Focus of Scrub Typhus in Tropical Australia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 49(4). 425–429. 31 indexed citations

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Bucens, Marion R. & Liam O’Connor. (1988). Rabies — it can happen here. The Medical Journal of Australia. 149(11-12). 576–577. 2 indexed citations

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