Sean C. O’Hern

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Sean C. O’Hern is a scholar working on Water Science and Technology, Biomedical Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean C. O’Hern has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Water Science and Technology, 6 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Sean C. O’Hern's work include Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (6 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (6 papers) and Graphene research and applications (5 papers). Sean C. O’Hern is often cited by papers focused on Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies (6 papers), Membrane Separation Technologies (6 papers) and Graphene research and applications (5 papers). Sean C. O’Hern collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and India. Sean C. O’Hern's co-authors include Rohit Karnik, Tahar Laoui, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Michael S. H. Boutilier, Muataz Ali Atieh, Jing Kong, Yi Song, Thomas Humplik, Jongho Lee and Syed Fida Hassan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nano Letters, ACS Nano and Nature Nanotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Sean C. O’Hern

7 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Selective Ionic Transport through Tunable Subnanometer Pores in Single-Layer Graphene Membranes

2014 676 citations Sean C. O’Hern, Michael S. H. Boutilier et al. Nano Letters profile →
Nanostructured materials for water desalination

2011 503 citations Thomas Humplik, Jongho Lee et al. Nanotechnology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean C. O’Hern United States	7	1.6k	1.4k	1.1k	568	314	7	2.2k
David Cohen‐Tanugi United States	10	2.4k 1.5×	2.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.8×	462 0.8×	312 1.0×	12	3.1k
Zhigong Song China	14	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 1.1×	992 0.9×	272 0.5×	257 0.8×	25	2.1k
Christie Thomas Cherian India	5	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	926 0.8×	470 0.8×	186 0.6×	7	1.8k
Jijo Abraham United Kingdom	3	1.1k 0.7×	998 0.7×	832 0.7×	452 0.8×	169 0.5×	3	1.6k
Eric R. Meshot United States	23	696 0.4×	1.3k 0.9×	197 0.2×	397 0.7×	174 0.6×	48	1.8k
Chenyue Wu Hong Kong	18	490 0.3×	547 0.4×	441 0.4×	477 0.8×	182 0.6×	24	1.2k
Andrew Pratt United Kingdom	13	496 0.3×	731 0.5×	458 0.4×	327 0.6×	175 0.6×	69	1.3k
Shihao Ding China	21	267 0.2×	984 0.7×	290 0.3×	1.0k 1.8×	182 0.6×	83	1.6k
Chao Fang United States	20	427 0.3×	388 0.3×	296 0.3×	433 0.8×	170 0.5×	56	1.2k
Ananth Govind Rajan United States	25	584 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	167 0.2×	685 1.2×	219 0.7×	57	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean C. O’Hern

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean C. O’Hern

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

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Humplik, Thomas, Jongho Lee, Sean C. O’Hern, et al.. (2017). Enhanced water transport and salt rejection through hydrophobic zeolite pores. Nanotechnology. 28(50). 505703–505703. 11 indexed citations

2.

Jain, Tarun, Ricardo Guerrero, Michael S. H. Boutilier, et al.. (2015). Heterogeneous sub-continuum ionic transport in statistically isolated graphene nanopores. Nature Nanotechnology. 10(12). 1053–1057. 219 indexed citations

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O’Hern, Sean C., Doojoon Jang, Suman Bose, et al.. (2015). Nanofiltration across Defect-Sealed Nanoporous Monolayer Graphene. Nano Letters. 15(5). 3254–3260. 267 indexed citations

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Boutilier, Michael S. H., Chengzhen Sun, Sean C. O’Hern, et al.. (2014). Implications of Permeation through Intrinsic Defects in Graphene on the Design of Defect-Tolerant Membranes for Gas Separation. ACS Nano. 8(1). 841–849. 179 indexed citations

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O’Hern, Sean C., Michael S. H. Boutilier, Juan Carlos Idrobo, et al.. (2014). Selective Ionic Transport through Tunable Subnanometer Pores in Single-Layer Graphene Membranes. Nano Letters. 14(3). 1234–1241. 676 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Hern, Sean C., Cameron A. Stewart, Michael S. H. Boutilier, et al.. (2012). Selective Molecular Transport through Intrinsic Defects in a Single Layer of CVD Graphene. ACS Nano. 6(11). 10130–10138. 322 indexed citations

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Humplik, Thomas, Jongho Lee, Sean C. O’Hern, et al.. (2011). Nanostructured materials for water desalination. Nanotechnology. 22(29). 292001–292001. 503 indexed citations breakdown →

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