Richard A. O’Connor

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Richard A. O’Connor is a scholar working on Immunology, Oncology and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. O’Connor has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Immunology, 14 papers in Oncology and 6 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Richard A. O’Connor's work include T-cell and B-cell Immunology (26 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (22 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (22 papers). Richard A. O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on T-cell and B-cell Immunology (26 papers), Immunotherapy and Immune Responses (22 papers) and Immune Cell Function and Interaction (22 papers). Richard A. O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and France. Richard A. O’Connor's co-authors include Stephen M. Anderton, Melanie D. Leech, David Gray, Sheila Brown, Tom A. Barr, Vicky Lampropoulou, Simon Fillatreau, Ping Shen, Toralf Roch and Katy Malpass and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Journal of Experimental Medicine and The Journal of Immunology.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. O’Connor

58 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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B cell depletion therapy ameliorates autoimmune disease through ablation of IL-6–producing B cells

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard A. O’Connor United Kingdom	21	1.3k	394	389	220	161	58	2.0k
Sean Riminton Australia	22	1.6k 1.2×	221 0.6×	449 1.2×	273 1.2×	130 0.8×	50	2.4k
Anneli Jäger United States	7	2.6k 2.0×	549 1.4×	515 1.3×	356 1.6×	189 1.2×	8	3.3k
Atsunobu Takeda Japan	20	935 0.7×	177 0.4×	332 0.9×	255 1.2×	70 0.4×	32	1.7k
Mark A. Kroenke United States	14	1.8k 1.4×	319 0.8×	405 1.0×	291 1.3×	176 1.1×	20	2.3k
Gudrun F. Debes United States	21	1.9k 1.4×	318 0.8×	546 1.4×	268 1.2×	63 0.4×	34	2.6k
Kathleen S. Picha Canada	15	1.6k 1.2×	242 0.6×	427 1.1×	511 2.3×	145 0.9×	16	2.5k
Jon D. Laman Netherlands	12	1.1k 0.8×	356 0.9×	222 0.6×	191 0.9×	189 1.2×	14	1.6k
P J Perrin United States	21	1.2k 0.9×	168 0.4×	210 0.5×	160 0.7×	72 0.4×	38	1.7k
Alasdair R. Fraser United Kingdom	25	1.2k 0.9×	256 0.6×	515 1.3×	617 2.8×	35 0.2×	47	2.4k
Bradford L. McRae United States	20	1.6k 1.2×	369 0.9×	532 1.4×	371 1.7×	222 1.4×	41	2.2k

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Koppensteiner, Lilian, et al.. (2025). IFN γ and TNF α drive an inflammatory secretion profile in cancer‐associated fibroblasts from human non‐small cell lung cancer. FEBS Letters. 599(5). 713–723. 2 indexed citations

O’Connor, Richard A., et al.. (2023). Cancer-associated fibroblasts drive CXCL13 production in activated T cells via TGF-beta. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1221532–1221532. 30 indexed citations

Koppensteiner, Lilian, et al.. (2023). Location of CD39⁺ T cell subpopulations within tumors predict differential outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. 11(8). e006770–e006770. 19 indexed citations

Humphries, Duncan C., Richard A. O’Connor, Tom Quinn, et al.. (2023). Specific in situ immuno-imaging of pulmonary-resident memory lymphocytes in human lungs. Frontiers in Immunology. 14. 1100161–1100161. 4 indexed citations

Pohar, Jelka, Richard A. O’Connor, Benoît Manfroi, et al.. (2022). Antigen receptor‐engineered Tregs inhibit CNS autoimmunity in cell therapy using nonredundant immune mechanisms in mice. European Journal of Immunology. 52(8). 1335–1349. 6 indexed citations

Koppensteiner, Lilian, et al.. (2022). Cancer Associated Fibroblasts - An Impediment to Effective Anti-Cancer T Cell Immunity. Frontiers in Immunology. 13. 887380–887380. 38 indexed citations

Humphries, Duncan C., et al.. (2021). Pulmonary-Resident Memory Lymphocytes: Pivotal Orchestrators of Local Immunity Against Respiratory Infections. Frontiers in Immunology. 12. 738955–738955. 13 indexed citations

White, Madeleine P. J., Chris Johnston, John R. Grainger, et al.. (2020). The Helminth Parasite Heligmosomoides polygyrus Attenuates EAE in an IL-4Rα-Dependent Manner. Frontiers in Immunology. 11. 1830–1830. 18 indexed citations

O’Connor, Richard A., et al.. (2020). The Emerging Role of the c-MET-HGF Axis in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy. Frontiers in Oncology. 10. 54–54. 22 indexed citations

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Betts, Helen, et al.. (2018). Hypoxia imaging with [18F]HX4 PET in squamous cell head and neck cancers. Nuclear Medicine Communications. 40(1). 73–78. 10 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Richard A., et al.. (2018). Hepatic selective internal radiation therapy. Nuclear Medicine Communications. 39(9). 809–817. 3 indexed citations

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Arshad, Mubarik, Andrew Thornton, Haonan Lu, et al.. (2018). Discovery of pre-therapy 2-deoxy-2-18F-fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography-based radiomics classifiers of survival outcome in non-small-cell lung cancer patients. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 46(2). 455–466. 53 indexed citations

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Esterik, Penny Van & Richard A. O’Connor. (2017). The Dance of Nurture. Berghahn Books. 10 indexed citations

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Besusso, Dario, Louise Saul, Melanie D. Leech, et al.. (2015). 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3-Conditioned CD11c+ Dendritic Cells are Effective Initiators of CNS Autoimmune Disease. Frontiers in Immunology. 6. 575–575. 16 indexed citations

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McPherson, Rhoanne C., Helen Cambrook, Richard A. O’Connor, & Stephen M. Anderton. (2014). Induction of Passive EAE Using Myelin-Reactive CD4+ T Cells. Methods in molecular biology. 1193. 187–198. 14 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Richard A. & Stephen M. Anderton. (2008). Multi-faceted control of autoaggression: Foxp3+ regulatory T cells in murine models of organ-specific autoimmune disease. Cellular Immunology. 251(1). 8–18. 17 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Richard A., Catriona T. Prendergast, Catherine A. Sabatos, et al.. (2008). Cutting Edge: Th1 Cells Facilitate the Entry of Th17 Cells to the Central Nervous System during Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis. The Journal of Immunology. 181(6). 3750–3754. 253 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Richard A., Susan Wittmer, & Dyana K. Dalton. (2005). Infection-induced apoptosis deletes bystander CD4+ T cells: a mechanism for suppression of autoimmunity during BCG infection. Journal of Autoimmunity. 24(2). 93–100. 18 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Richard A., et al.. (2003). An enduring association? Microfilariae and immunosupression in lymphatic filariasis. Trends in Parasitology. 19(12). 565–570. 25 indexed citations

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Devaney, Eileen, et al.. (2002). Interleukin‐4 influences the production of microfilariae in a mouse model of Brugia infection. Parasite Immunology. 24(1). 29–37. 20 indexed citations

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