Stacey O’Brien

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Stacey O’Brien is a scholar working on Pollution, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Stacey O’Brien has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Pollution, 14 papers in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and 2 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Stacey O’Brien's work include Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (14 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (14 papers) and Municipal Solid Waste Management (7 papers). Stacey O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Microplastics and Plastic Pollution (14 papers), Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (14 papers) and Municipal Solid Waste Management (7 papers). Stacey O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Stacey O’Brien's co-authors include Elvis D. Okoffo, Kevin V. Thomas, Jake O’Brien, Francisca Ribeiro, Benjamin J. Tscharke, Cassandra Rauert, Stephen D. Burrows, Xianyu Wang, Saer Samanipour and Jochen F. Mueller and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Environmental Science & Technology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Stacey O’Brien

19 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

There's something in the air: A review of sources, prevalence and behaviour of microplastics in the atmosphere

2023 232 citations Stacey O’Brien, Cassandra Rauert et al. The Science of The Total Environment profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stacey O’Brien Australia	17	1.5k	1.2k	276	226	193	19	1.7k
Thilakshani Atugoda Sri Lanka	5	1.1k 0.8×	761 0.6×	295 1.1×	163 0.7×	118 0.6×	6	1.3k
Lujian Lin China	14	856 0.6×	680 0.6×	245 0.9×	106 0.5×	106 0.5×	19	1.0k
Zhilin Zhu China	10	2.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.2×	588 2.1×	324 1.4×	378 2.0×	18	2.4k
Steve Carr United States	12	2.1k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	390 1.4×	340 1.5×	412 2.1×	19	2.4k
Dunzhu Li Ireland	14	700 0.5×	456 0.4×	163 0.6×	120 0.5×	162 0.8×	26	955
Maya Al-Sid-Cheikh United Kingdom	10	652 0.4×	325 0.3×	138 0.5×	125 0.6×	156 0.8×	16	836
Siyi Lin China	12	574 0.4×	335 0.3×	116 0.4×	198 0.9×	161 0.8×	22	888
Sirui Ma China	9	803 0.5×	507 0.4×	287 1.0×	126 0.6×	72 0.4×	12	925
Zirui Luo China	14	612 0.4×	390 0.3×	142 0.5×	307 1.4×	163 0.8×	25	1.6k
Meral Yurtsever Türkiye	13	527 0.4×	443 0.4×	110 0.4×	104 0.5×	66 0.3×	20	830

Countries citing papers authored by Stacey O’Brien

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stacey O’Brien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

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

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19 of 19 papers shown

Burrows, Stephen D., John M. Colwell, Sarit Kaserzon, et al.. (2024). UV sources and plastic composition influence microplastic surface degradation: Implications for plastic weathering studies. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances. 14. 100428–100428. 21 indexed citations

O’Brien, Stacey, Cassandra Rauert, Francisca Ribeiro, et al.. (2023). There's something in the air: A review of sources, prevalence and behaviour of microplastics in the atmosphere. The Science of The Total Environment. 874. 162193–162193. 232 indexed citations breakdown →

Burrows, Stephen D., Rebecca Olive, Stacey O’Brien, & Tamara S. Galloway. (2022). Connection is key when there's no planet B: The need to innovate environmental science communication with transdisciplinary approaches. The Science of The Total Environment. 853. 158435–158435. 4 indexed citations

Burrows, Stephen D., Francisca Ribeiro, Stacey O’Brien, et al.. (2022). The message on the bottle: Rethinking plastic labelling to better encourage sustainable use. Environmental Science & Policy. 132. 109–118. 22 indexed citations

Ribeiro, Francisca, Elvis D. Okoffo, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2021). Out of sight but not out of mind: Size fractionation of plastics bioaccumulated by field deployed oysters. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100021–100021. 45 indexed citations

Okoffo, Elvis D., Stacey O’Brien, Francisca Ribeiro, et al.. (2021). Plastic particles in soil: state of the knowledge on sources, occurrence and distribution, analytical methods and ecological impacts. Environmental Science Processes & Impacts. 23(2). 240–274. 97 indexed citations

Okoffo, Elvis D., Erica Donner, S. P. McGrath, et al.. (2021). Plastics in biosolids from 1950 to 2016: A function of global plastic production and consumption. Water Research. 201. 117367–117367. 127 indexed citations

Toapanta, Tania, Elvis D. Okoffo, Stacey O’Brien, et al.. (2021). Influence of surface oxidation on the quantification of polypropylene microplastics by pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry. The Science of The Total Environment. 796. 148835–148835. 42 indexed citations

O’Brien, Stacey, Elvis D. Okoffo, Cassandra Rauert, et al.. (2021). Quantification of selected microplastics in Australian urban road dust. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 416. 125811–125811. 98 indexed citations

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Okoffo, Elvis D., Stacey O’Brien, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2021). Does size matter? Quantification of plastics associated with size fractionated biosolids. The Science of The Total Environment. 811. 152382–152382. 25 indexed citations

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Ribeiro, Francisca, Elvis D. Okoffo, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2020). Quantitative Analysis of Selected Plastics in High-Commercial-Value Australian Seafood by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(15). 9408–9417. 205 indexed citations

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Okoffo, Elvis D., Benjamin J. Tscharke, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2020). Release of Plastics to Australian Land from Biosolids End-Use. Environmental Science & Technology. 54(23). 15132–15141. 93 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Stacey, Elvis D. Okoffo, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2020). Airborne emissions of microplastic fibres from domestic laundry dryers. The Science of The Total Environment. 747. 141175–141175. 170 indexed citations

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Okoffo, Elvis D., Francisca Ribeiro, Jake O’Brien, et al.. (2020). Identification and quantification of selected plastics in biosolids by pressurized liquid extraction combined with double-shot pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. The Science of The Total Environment. 715. 136924–136924. 208 indexed citations

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Okoffo, Elvis D., Stacey O’Brien, Jake O’Brien, Benjamin J. Tscharke, & Kevin V. Thomas. (2019). Wastewater treatment plants as a source of plastics in the environment: a review of occurrence, methods for identification, quantification and fate. Environmental Science Water Research & Technology. 5(11). 1908–1931. 179 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Stacey, Eva Malacova, Jill Sherriff, & Lucinda J. Black. (2017). The Prevalence and Predictors of Dietary Supplement Use in the Australian Population. Nutrients. 9(10). 1154–1154. 63 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Stacey, et al.. (2017). Comparison of ultra high performance supercritical fluid chromatography, ultra high performance liquid chromatography, and gas chromatography for the separation of synthetic cathinones. Journal of Separation Science. 40(17). 3545–3556. 36 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Stacey, et al.. (2015). Application of mixed-mode ultra high performance liquid chromatography to forensic drug analysis. Analytical Methods. 7(23). 9763–9772. 10 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Stacey, et al.. (2013). Improved Adhesion of Gold Thin Films Evaporated on Polymer Resin: Applications for Sensing Surfaces and MEMS. Sensors. 13(6). 7021–7032. 33 indexed citations

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