Siobhán O’Brien

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 899 citations indexed

About

Siobhán O’Brien is a scholar working on Genetics, Sociology and Political Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Siobhán O’Brien has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 899 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Siobhán O’Brien's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (13 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 papers) and Plant and animal studies (5 papers). Siobhán O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (13 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (9 papers) and Plant and animal studies (5 papers). Siobhán O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Ireland. Siobhán O’Brien's co-authors include Craig Winstanley, Michael A. Brockhurst, Joanne L. Fothergill, Angus Buckling, David J. Hodgson, Steve Paterson, David Williams, Elze Hesse, Emily V. Davies and Chloë E. James and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Siobhán O’Brien

21 papers receiving 893 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.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Evolutionary Adaptation and Diversification in Cystic Fibrosis Chronic Lung Infections

2016 486 citations Craig Winstanley, Siobhán O’Brien et al. Trends in Microbiology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Siobhán O’Brien United Kingdom	11	543	246	233	204	196	22	899
Martin Holm Rau Denmark	14	586 1.1×	238 1.0×	292 1.3×	107 0.5×	235 1.2×	19	973
Susse Kirkelund Hansen Denmark	8	678 1.2×	210 0.9×	281 1.2×	248 1.2×	288 1.5×	9	1.1k
Peter Jorth United States	17	654 1.2×	171 0.7×	190 0.8×	206 1.0×	176 0.9×	35	1.2k
Sophie E. Darch United States	10	594 1.1×	131 0.5×	109 0.5×	166 0.8×	221 1.1×	17	909
Irene Bianconi Italy	19	663 1.2×	228 0.9×	240 1.0×	125 0.6×	110 0.6×	27	1.0k
Aaron Hinz Canada	16	872 1.6×	329 1.3×	102 0.4×	203 1.0×	456 2.3×	31	1.2k
Matthew S. Byrd United States	11	899 1.7×	247 1.0×	127 0.5×	141 0.7×	184 0.9×	11	1.2k
Elizabeth H. Sims United States	9	489 0.9×	173 0.7×	80 0.3×	167 0.8×	180 0.9×	10	820
Kelly M. Colvin United States	8	889 1.6×	234 1.0×	85 0.4×	135 0.7×	201 1.0×	8	1.2k
Henrik Almblad United States	7	626 1.2×	187 0.8×	59 0.3×	144 0.7×	257 1.3×	10	822

Countries citing papers authored by Siobhán O’Brien

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Fields of papers citing papers by Siobhán O’Brien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Siobhán O’Brien. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Siobhán O’Brien. The network helps show where Siobhán O’Brien may publish in the future.

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

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Murphy, Kylie, et al.. (2025). Australian preservice teachers’ reflections on how a group placement model influenced their professional learning. The Australian Educational Researcher. 52(6). 4149–4170.

Fenton, Andy, et al.. (2024). Nutrient-rich spatial refuges buffer against extinction and promote evolutionary rescue in evolving microbial populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2036). 20242197–20242197. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Sumit, et al.. (2024). Secondary messenger signalling influences Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation to sinus and lung environments. The ISME Journal. 18(1). 3 indexed citations

Hesse, Elze & Siobhán O’Brien. (2024). Ecological dependencies and the illusion of cooperation in microbial communities. Microbiology. 170(2). 5 indexed citations

Hesse, Elze, Adela M. Luján, Siobhán O’Brien, et al.. (2024). Parallel ecological and evolutionary responses to selection in a natural bacterial community. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(36). e2403577121–e2403577121. 4 indexed citations

O’Brien, Siobhán, et al.. (2023). Community composition drives siderophore dynamics in multispecies bacterial communities. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 23(1). 45–45. 6 indexed citations

Turner, Kristina, et al.. (2023). Lessons learnt during COVID-19: making sense of Australian and Swedish university lecturers’ experience. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. 20(1). 25–25. 6 indexed citations

Hesse, Elze, Siobhán O’Brien, Adela M. Luján, et al.. (2021). Stress causes interspecific facilitation within a compost community. Ecology Letters. 24(10). 2169–2177. 27 indexed citations

O’Brien, Siobhán, et al.. (2021). Species interactions drive the spread of ampicillin resistance in human-associated gut microbiota. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 9(1). 256–266. 7 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Siobhán, et al.. (2020). Transposable temperate phages promote the evolution of divergent social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations. Access Microbiology. 2(1). 4 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Siobhán, et al.. (2020). Resource heterogeneity and the evolution of public goods cooperation. Evolution Letters. 4(2). 155–163. 7 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Siobhán, Rolf Kümmerli, Steve Paterson, Craig Winstanley, & Michael A. Brockhurst. (2019). Transposable temperate phages promote the evolution of divergent social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1912). 20191794–20191794. 18 indexed citations

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Buontempo, Peter, et al.. (2017). Pegylated Carboxyhemoglobin Bovine (SANGUINATE®) Restores RBCs Roundness and Reduces Pain during a Sickle Cell Vaso-Occlusive Crisis. Blood. 130(Suppl_1). 969–969. 3 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Siobhán, David Williams, Joanne L. Fothergill, et al.. (2017). High virulence sub-populations in Pseudomonas aeruginosa long-term cystic fibrosis airway infections. BMC Microbiology. 17(1). 30–30. 33 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Siobhán & Joanne L. Fothergill. (2017). The role of multispecies social interactions in shaping Pseudomonas aeruginosa pathogenicity in the cystic fibrosis lung. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 364(15). 95 indexed citations

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Davies, Emily V., Chloë E. James, David Williams, et al.. (2016). Temperate phages both mediate and drive adaptive evolution in pathogen biofilms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(29). 8266–8271. 83 indexed citations

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Winstanley, Craig, Siobhán O’Brien, & Michael A. Brockhurst. (2016). Pseudomonas aeruginosa Evolutionary Adaptation and Diversification in Cystic Fibrosis Chronic Lung Infections. Trends in Microbiology. 24(5). 327–337. 486 indexed citations breakdown →

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O’Brien, Siobhán & Angus Buckling. (2015). The sociality of bioremediation. EMBO Reports. 16(10). 1241–1245. 18 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Siobhán, David J. Hodgson, & Angus Buckling. (2014). Social evolution of toxic metal bioremediation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 281(1787). 20140858–20140858. 47 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Siobhán, David J. Hodgson, & Angus Buckling. (2013). The interplay between microevolution and community structure in microbial populations. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 24(4). 821–825. 16 indexed citations

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