Oliver O’Brien

1.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
15 papers, 854 citations indexed

About

Oliver O’Brien is a scholar working on Transportation, Geography, Planning and Development and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver O’Brien has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 854 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Transportation, 4 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 3 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Oliver O’Brien's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 papers) and Geographic Information Systems Studies (4 papers). Oliver O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (5 papers), Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (5 papers) and Geographic Information Systems Studies (4 papers). Oliver O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Ireland and Switzerland. Oliver O’Brien's co-authors include James Cheshire, Michael Batty, Marko Tainio, James Woodcock, Anna Goodman, James Cheshire, Matheus P. Viana, Martin Zaltz Austwick, Emanuele Strano and Alex Singleton and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, BMJ and Geographical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Oliver O’Brien

15 papers receiving 819 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.

Health effects of the London bicycle sharing system: health impact modelling study

2014 304 citations James Woodcock, Marko Tainio et al. BMJ profile →
Mining bicycle sharing data for generating insights into sustainable transport systems

2013 286 citations Oliver O’Brien, James Cheshire et al. Journal of Transport Geography profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Oliver O’Brien United Kingdom	9	667	203	180	87	86	15	854
Asha Weinstein Agrawal United States	16	669 1.0×	171 0.8×	163 0.9×	51 0.6×	116 1.3×	62	867
Nebiyou Tilahun United States	13	790 1.2×	166 0.8×	189 1.1×	56 0.6×	73 0.8×	42	966
Yan Xing United States	7	721 1.1×	140 0.7×	125 0.7×	79 0.9×	109 1.3×	12	786
Sarah Kavage United States	8	580 0.9×	114 0.6×	139 0.8×	71 0.8×	85 1.0×	15	665
Bruce Appleyard United States	15	561 0.8×	106 0.5×	163 0.9×	39 0.4×	81 0.9×	60	712
Houshmand Masoumi Germany	16	494 0.7×	119 0.6×	177 1.0×	50 0.6×	72 0.8×	75	746
Sabreena Anowar United States	15	500 0.7×	253 1.2×	151 0.8×	49 0.6×	64 0.7×	36	705
Tomás Ruíz Spain	15	582 0.9×	169 0.8×	106 0.6×	24 0.3×	124 1.4×	51	786
Geneviève Boisjoly Canada	16	1.1k 1.6×	216 1.1×	260 1.4×	37 0.4×	93 1.1×	52	1.2k
Louis A. Merlin United States	16	808 1.2×	169 0.8×	245 1.4×	59 0.7×	109 1.3×	36	994

Countries citing papers authored by Oliver O’Brien

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver O’Brien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver O’Brien

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

Longley, Paul, et al.. (2023). A neighbourhood Output Area Classification from the 2021 and 2022 UK censuses. Geographical Journal. 190(2). 11 indexed citations

O’Brien, Oliver. (2022). Thematic mapping: 101 inspiring ways to visualise empirical data. International Journal of Cartography. 1–2. 2 indexed citations

O’Brien, Oliver, et al.. (2022). Implementing Medical Student Teaching on Gynaecological Healthcare of Transgender Patients.. PubMed. 115(7). 632–632. 2 indexed citations

Lan, Tian, Oliver O’Brien, James Cheshire, Alex Singleton, & Paul Longley. (2022). From Data to Narratives: Scrutinising the Spatial Dimensions of Social and Cultural Phenomena Through Lenses of Interactive Web Mapping. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis. 6(2). 4 indexed citations

O’Brien, Oliver, et al.. (2021). A global comparison of bicycle sharing systems. Journal of Transport Geography. 94. 103119–103119. 17 indexed citations

Reynolds, Ciara, et al.. (2020). Maternal employment and pregnancy outcomes in a large European maternity hospital. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 250. 86–92. 7 indexed citations

O’Brien, Oliver, et al.. (2016). Collecting and Visualizing Real-Time Urban Data through City Dashboards. Built Environment. 42(3). 498–509. 19 indexed citations

O’Brien, Oliver & James Cheshire. (2015). Interactive mapping for large, open demographic data sets using familiar geographical features. Journal of Maps. 12(4). 676–683. 22 indexed citations

Woodcock, James, Marko Tainio, James Cheshire, Oliver O’Brien, & Anna Goodman. (2014). Health effects of the London bicycle sharing system: health impact modelling study. BMJ. 348(feb13 1). g425–g425. 304 indexed citations breakdown →

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Austwick, Martin Zaltz, Oliver O’Brien, Emanuele Strano, & Matheus P. Viana. (2013). The Structure of Spatial Networks and Communities in Bicycle Sharing Systems. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74685–e74685. 107 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Oliver, James Cheshire, & Michael Batty. (2013). Mining bicycle sharing data for generating insights into sustainable transport systems. Journal of Transport Geography. 34. 262–273. 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheshire, James & Oliver O’Brien. (2013). Revealing and Informing Transport Behaviour from Bicycle Sharing Systems. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations

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Batty, Mark, et al.. (2013). Visualising spatial and social media. UCL Discovery (University College London). 3 indexed citations

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Singleton, Alex, Paul Longley, Rebecca Allen, & Oliver O’Brien. (2010). Estimating secondary school catchment areas and the spatial equity of access. Computers Environment and Urban Systems. 35(3). 241–249. 46 indexed citations

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Singleton, Alex, Alan Wilson, & Oliver O’Brien. (2010). Geodemographics and spatial interaction: an integrated model for higher education. Journal of Geographical Systems. 14(2). 223–241. 21 indexed citations

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