Meredith O’Connor

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Meredith O’Connor is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Education and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Meredith O’Connor has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Clinical Psychology, 34 papers in Education and 29 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Meredith O’Connor's work include Early Childhood Education and Development (29 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (25 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (17 papers). Meredith O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on Early Childhood Education and Development (29 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (25 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (17 papers). Meredith O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Meredith O’Connor's co-authors include Nick Haslam, Steve Loughnan, Sharon Goldfeld, Amanda Kvalsvig, Craig A. Olsson, Ann Sanson, Jacolyn M. Norrish, John W. Toumbourou, Paige Williams and Justin Robinson and has published in prestigious journals such as PEDIATRICS, Child Development and American Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Meredith O’Connor

88 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Advances in Psychology Research

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meredith O’Connor Australia	24	873	536	508	415	340	93	2.1k
Bitte Modin Sweden	28	727 0.8×	750 1.4×	601 1.2×	373 0.9×	464 1.4×	95	2.1k
Steven C. Pitts United States	23	1.4k 1.6×	276 0.5×	454 0.9×	506 1.2×	368 1.1×	49	2.9k
H. Meltzer United Kingdom	13	1.5k 1.7×	434 0.8×	424 0.8×	552 1.3×	274 0.8×	13	2.6k
Michelle M. Englund United States	27	1.1k 1.3×	861 1.6×	483 1.0×	229 0.6×	319 0.9×	49	2.1k
Sarah Lindstrom Johnson United States	27	1.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.9×	887 1.7×	461 1.1×	374 1.1×	105	2.7k
Heather Prime Canada	18	1.6k 1.8×	500 0.9×	561 1.1×	218 0.5×	640 1.9×	40	2.5k
Alina Cosma Ireland	22	741 0.8×	507 0.9×	771 1.5×	265 0.6×	446 1.3×	64	1.8k
Damon Jones United States	24	1.6k 1.8×	1.0k 1.9×	559 1.1×	519 1.3×	493 1.4×	77	3.0k
Judi Kidger United Kingdom	25	1.3k 1.5×	609 1.1×	579 1.1×	579 1.4×	343 1.0×	89	2.4k
Éric Lacourse Canada	27	1.6k 1.9×	478 0.9×	784 1.5×	302 0.7×	515 1.5×	74	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Meredith O’Connor

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

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hong, Wei, Fiona Mensah, Elodie O’Connor, et al.. (2025). Measuring Child Disadvantage: Comparing Multidimensional and Socioeconomic Approaches for Predicting Developmental Outcomes. Australian Journal of Social Issues.

O’Connor, Meredith, Craig A. Olsson, Katherine Lange, et al.. (2024). Progressing “Positive Epidemiology”: A Cross-national Analysis of Adolescents’ Positive Mental Health and Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Epidemiology. 36(1). 28–39. 2 indexed citations

Letcher, Primrose, Christopher Greenwood, Jacqui A. Macdonald, et al.. (2024). Life course predictors of child emotional distress during the COVID ‐19 pandemic: Findings from a prospective intergenerational cohort study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 65(12). 1564–1579. 1 indexed citations

O’Connor, Meredith, Katherine Lange, Margarita Moreno‐Betancur, et al.. (2024). Socio‐economic disparities in the psychosocial and economic impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on children and young people in Australia. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. 61(2). 267–276.

Gunn, Lucy, et al.. (2024). Is the availability and quality of local early childhood education and care services associated with young children's mental health at school entry?. Health & Place. 89. 103327–103327. 1 indexed citations

Guo, Shuaijun, et al.. (2024). The effects of adverse and positive experiences on cardiovascular health in Australian children. International Journal of Cardiology. 411. 132262–132262. 1 indexed citations

Goldfeld, Sharon, Sarah A. O. Gray, Shuaijun Guo, et al.. (2023). Household income supplements in early childhood to reduce inequities in children's development. Social Science & Medicine. 340. 116430–116430. 6 indexed citations

Vella‐Brodrick, Dianne, Kent Patrick, Amanda Ng, et al.. (2023). Youth experiences of co-designing a well-being intervention: reflections, learnings and recommendations. Oxford Review of Education. 49(6). 838–857. 4 indexed citations

Kerr, Jessica A., Meredith O’Connor, Rohan Borschmann, et al.. (2023). Intervention targets for reducing mortality between mid-adolescence and mid-adulthood: a protocol for a machine-learning facilitated systematic umbrella review. BMJ Open. 13(10). e068733–e068733. 2 indexed citations

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Priest, Naomi, Shuaijun Guo, Dawid Gondek, et al.. (2023). The potential of intervening on childhood adversity to reduce socioeconomic inequities in body mass index and inflammation among Australian and UK children: A causal mediation analysis. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 77(10). 632–640. 1 indexed citations

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Letcher, Primrose, Christopher Greenwood, Jacqui A. Macdonald, et al.. (2023). Life course psychosocial precursors of parent mental health resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: A three-decade prospective cohort study. Journal of Affective Disorders. 335. 473–483. 1 indexed citations

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Guo, Shuaijun, Meredith O’Connor, Fiona Mensah, et al.. (2021). Measuring Positive Childhood Experiences: Testing the Structural and Predictive Validity of the Health Outcomes From Positive Experiences (HOPE) Framework. Academic Pediatrics. 22(6). 942–951. 34 indexed citations

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Goldfeld, Sharon, Margarita Moreno‐Betancur, Shuaijun Guo, et al.. (2021). Inequities in Children's Reading Skills: The Role of Home Reading and Preschool Attendance. Academic Pediatrics. 21(6). 1046–1054. 15 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Meredith, Anne‐Louise Ponsonby, Fiona Collier, et al.. (2020). Exposure to adversity and inflammatory outcomes in mid and late childhood. Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health. 9. 100146–100146. 16 indexed citations

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Priest, Naomi, Mandy Truong, Kevin Dunn, et al.. (2020). Racial discrimination and socioemotional and sleep problems in a cross-sectional survey of Australian school students. Archives of Disease in Childhood. 105(11). 1079–1085. 30 indexed citations

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Woolfenden, Susan, Claire Galea, Hannah Badland, et al.. (2020). Use of health services by preschool-aged children who are developmentally vulnerable and socioeconomically disadvantaged: testing the inverse care law. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 74(6). 495–501. 16 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Meredith, et al.. (2016). Child and Family Antecedents of Pain During the Transition to Adolescence: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study. Journal of Pain. 17(11). 1174–1182. 24 indexed citations

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Villanueva, Karen, Hannah Badland, Amanda Kvalsvig, et al.. (2015). Can the Neighborhood Built Environment Make a Difference in Children's Development? Building the Research Agenda to Create Evidence for Place-Based Children's Policy. Academic Pediatrics. 16(1). 10–19. 93 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Meredith, Elodie O’Connor, Amanda Kvalsvig, & Sharon Goldfeld. (2014). The relationship between early childhood education and care and English proficiency at school entry for bilingual children in Australia. 17(17). 161. 7 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Meredith, et al.. (2014). Understanding the impact of special health care needs on early school functioning: a conceptual model. Child Care Health and Development. 41(1). 15–22. 21 indexed citations

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