Michael J. O’Brien

5.6k citations
69 papers · 1.9k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 23
Topics
Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers)Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers)Plant and animal studies (11 papers)

In The Last Decade

Michael J. O’Brien

67 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Michael J. O’Brien
Comparison fields: 5 of 118
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation 901
  • Global and Planetary Change 824
  • Plant Science 578
  • Ecology 296
  • Atmospheric Science 289
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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael J. O’Brien

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

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

All Works

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About Michael J. O’Brien

Michael J. O’Brien is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Space and Planetary Science and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 69 papers that have together received 1.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers) and Plant and animal studies (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (901 citations), Global and Planetary Change (824 citations) and Ecological Modeling (92 citations). Michael J. O’Brien has collaborated with scholars based in Spain, Switzerland and United States. Frequent co-authors include Andy Hector, Christopher D. Philipson, John Tay, Sebastian Leuzinger, R. Lee Lyman, Robert C. Dunnell, Glen Reynolds, Bernhard Schmid, Robert C. Ong and Francisco I. Pugnaire. Their work appears in journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

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