Lily O’Connor

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Lily O’Connor is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lily O’Connor has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Infectious Diseases, 9 papers in Epidemiology and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Lily O’Connor's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (10 papers), Microscopic Colitis (7 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (4 papers). Lily O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (10 papers), Microscopic Colitis (7 papers) and Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology (4 papers). Lily O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Lily O’Connor's co-authors include Derrick W. Crook, Mark H. Wilcox, Tim Peto, David W. Eyre, David Griffiths, John Finney, Kate E. Dingle, David Wyllie, Alison Vaughan and A. Sarah Walker and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, PLoS ONE and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Lily O’Connor

20 papers receiving 1.9k 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 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.

Diverse Sources of C. difficile Infection Identified on Whole-Genome Sequencing

2013 487 citations David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule et al. New England Journal of Medicine profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lily O’Connor United Kingdom	14	1.6k	1.1k	362	319	276	20	2.0k
Patrizia Spigaglia Italy	30	2.0k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	424 1.2×	229 0.7×	368 1.3×	75	2.5k
Alison Vaughan United Kingdom	17	1.8k 1.1×	1.0k 1.0×	532 1.5×	280 0.9×	397 1.4×	25	2.4k
Paola Mastrantonio Italy	31	2.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	492 1.4×	211 0.7×	407 1.5×	113	3.1k
Bernadette Young United Kingdom	16	989 0.6×	552 0.5×	498 1.4×	83 0.3×	247 0.9×	30	1.6k
Denise Drudy Ireland	17	1.2k 0.7×	630 0.6×	164 0.5×	114 0.4×	219 0.8×	25	1.5k
Céline Harmanus Netherlands	30	2.8k 1.8×	1.6k 1.5×	528 1.5×	283 0.9×	488 1.8×	74	3.1k
Carlos Sánchez‐Carrillo Spain	21	611 0.4×	630 0.6×	168 0.5×	62 0.2×	101 0.4×	71	1.2k
Todd Lasco United States	22	877 0.6×	653 0.6×	162 0.4×	46 0.1×	134 0.5×	53	1.4k
Béatrice Burghoffer France	19	1.2k 0.8×	820 0.8×	214 0.6×	166 0.5×	173 0.6×	28	1.6k
M. H. Wilcox United Kingdom	17	711 0.5×	386 0.4×	215 0.6×	117 0.4×	119 0.4×	35	1.1k

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

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lily O’Connor. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lily 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 Lily O’Connor. Lily 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

Cox, Kevin L., et al.. (2025). ExPOSE : a comprehensive toolkit to perform expansion microscopy in plant protoplast systems. The Plant Journal. 121(5). e70049–e70049. 2 indexed citations

Qi, Mingsheng, Jeffrey C. Berry, Kira M. Veley, et al.. (2022). Identification of beneficial and detrimental bacteria impacting sorghum responses to drought using multi-scale and multi-system microbiome comparisons. The ISME Journal. 16(8). 1957–1969. 59 indexed citations

Nan, Guo-Ling, et al.. (2022). A cascade of bHLH-regulated pathways programs maize anther development. The Plant Cell. 34(4). 1207–1225. 29 indexed citations

Zhan, Junpeng, Lily O’Connor, D. Blaine Marchant, et al.. (2022). Coexpression network and trans‐activation analyses of maize reproductive phasiRNA loci. The Plant Journal. 113(1). 160–173. 4 indexed citations

O’Connor, Lily, et al.. (2021). Unique N-Terminal Interactions Connect F-BOX STRESS INDUCED (FBS) Proteins to a WD40 Repeat-like Protein Pathway in Arabidopsis. Plants. 10(10). 2228–2228. 4 indexed citations

Chavada, Ruchir, et al.. (2018). 'Careful goodbye at the door': is there role for antimicrobial stewardship interventions for antimicrobial therapy prescribed on hospital discharge?. BMC Infectious Diseases. 18(1). 225–225. 25 indexed citations

Batey, Robert G, et al.. (2017). Real world experience: treating hepatitis C in Alice Springs, Australia 2007–16. Journal of Hepatology. 66(1). S733–S733. 1 indexed citations

Buchanan, James, Sarah Wordsworth, Lily O’Connor, et al.. (2015). Management of patients with suspected infectious diarrhoea in hospitals in England. Journal of Hospital Infection. 90(3). 199–207. 3 indexed citations

Pankhurst, Louise, Louissa Macfarlane-Smith, James Buchanan, et al.. (2014). Can rapid integrated polymerase chain reaction-based diagnostics for gastrointestinal pathogens improve routine hospital infection control practice? A diagnostic study. Health Technology Assessment. 18(53). 1–167. 16 indexed citations

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Eyre, David W., David Griffiths, Alison Vaughan, et al.. (2013). Asymptomatic Clostridium difficile Colonisation and Onward Transmission. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e78445–e78445. 101 indexed citations

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Eyre, David W., Madeleine Cule, Daniel J. Wilson, et al.. (2013). Diverse Sources of C. difficile Infection Identified on Whole-Genome Sequencing. New England Journal of Medicine. 369(13). 1195–1205. 487 indexed citations breakdown →

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Walker, A. Sarah, David W. Eyre, David Wyllie, et al.. (2013). Relationship Between Bacterial Strain Type, Host Biomarkers, and Mortality in Clostridium difficile Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 56(11). 1589–1600. 173 indexed citations

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Planche, Tim, Kerrie Davies, Pietro G. Coen, et al.. (2013). Differences in outcome according to Clostridium difficile testing method: a prospective multicentre diagnostic validation study of C difficile infection. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 13(11). 936–945. 318 indexed citations

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Didelot, Xavier, David W. Eyre, Madeleine Cule, et al.. (2012). Microevolutionary analysis of Clostridium difficile genomes to investigate transmission. Genome biology. 13(12). R118–R118. 157 indexed citations

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Eyre, David W., A. Sarah Walker, David Wyllie, et al.. (2012). Predictors of First Recurrence of Clostridium difficile Infection: Implications for Initial Management. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 55(suppl 2). S77–S87. 180 indexed citations

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Eyre, David W., Tanya Golubchik, N Claire Gordon, et al.. (2012). A pilot study of rapid benchtop sequencing of Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile for outbreak detection and surveillance. BMJ Open. 2(3). e001124–e001124. 192 indexed citations

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Walker, A. Sarah, David W. Eyre, David Wyllie, et al.. (2012). Characterisation of Clostridium difficile Hospital Ward–Based Transmission Using Extensive Epidemiological Data and Molecular Typing. PLoS Medicine. 9(2). e1001172–e1001172. 148 indexed citations

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Williamson, Susan, Kyle Knox, Antonina A. Votintseva, et al.. (2012). Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus Acquisition and Transmission Rates in 3 Wards Using spa Typing. 1 indexed citations

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Wyllie, David, Amy S. Walker, Ruth R. Miller, et al.. (2011). Decline of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Oxfordshire hospitals is strain-specific and preceded infection-control intensification. BMJ Open. 1(1). e000160–e000160. 44 indexed citations

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Walker, Sarah, Tim Peto, Lily O’Connor, Derrick W. Crook, & David Wyllie. (2008). Are There Better Methods of Monitoring MRSA Control than Bacteraemia Surveillance? An Observational Database Study. PLoS ONE. 3(6). e2378–e2378. 15 indexed citations

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