Thomas O’Brien

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
138 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas O’Brien is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas O’Brien has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 14 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 12 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in Thomas O’Brien's work include Political Conflict and Governance (12 papers), Maritime Ports and Logistics (11 papers) and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (9 papers). Thomas O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Political Conflict and Governance (12 papers), Maritime Ports and Logistics (11 papers) and Urban and Freight Transport Logistics (9 papers). Thomas O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Thomas O’Brien's co-authors include Geneviève Giuliano, Sreekanth Pannala, Yesim Igci, Arthur T. Andrews, Sankaran Sundaresan, Evan Granite, Remus Creţan, John M. Kuhlman, E. David Huckaby and Paul G. A. Cizmas and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Finance, Journal of Business Ethics and Chemical Engineering Science.

In The Last Decade

Thomas O’Brien

124 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Filtered two‐fluid models for fluidized gas‐particle suspensions
    2008 392 citations Thomas O’Brien et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas O’Brien United Kingdom 21 472 324 300 295 276 138 2.2k
Wai Ming To Macao 32 303 0.6× 130 0.4× 729 2.4× 183 0.6× 56 0.2× 161 3.5k
Abdul Aziz Malaysia 27 203 0.4× 155 0.5× 223 0.7× 250 0.8× 39 0.1× 213 2.6k
Clark W. Bullard United States 19 137 0.3× 919 2.8× 282 0.9× 201 0.7× 67 0.2× 54 2.6k
Peter J. G. Pearson United Kingdom 29 28 0.1× 152 0.5× 642 2.1× 319 1.1× 57 0.2× 113 3.5k
Francesco Fuso Nerini Sweden 24 34 0.1× 98 0.3× 500 1.7× 64 0.2× 150 0.5× 52 4.1k
Arvind K. Jain India 16 52 0.1× 161 0.5× 862 2.9× 87 0.3× 39 0.1× 51 2.7k
Wei Hu China 25 477 1.0× 179 0.6× 189 0.6× 80 0.3× 12 0.0× 105 1.7k
G. David Garson United States 20 33 0.1× 162 0.5× 338 1.1× 112 0.4× 18 0.1× 77 2.4k
Tessaleno Devezas Portugal 21 34 0.1× 147 0.5× 154 0.5× 79 0.3× 34 0.1× 72 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas O’Brien

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas O’Brien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

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

All Works

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O’Brien, Thomas. (2024). Street-level bureaucracy in weak state institutions. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. 62(4). 458–460. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2022). Activism and Digital Culture in Australia. Information Communication & Society. 25(14). 2172–2173.
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O’Brien, Thomas & Nicholas Huntington. (2022). ‘Vaccine passports equal Apartheid’: Covid-19 and parliamentary occupation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Social movement studies. 23(6). 849–855. 3 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2022). Multispecies households in the Saian Mountains: ecology at the Russia-Mongolia border. Landscape Research. 47(5). 714(a)–716. 4 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Internal migration and stigmatization in the rural Banat region of Romania. Identities. 30(5). 704–724. 29 indexed citations
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Huntington, Nicholas & Thomas O’Brien. (2021). Tied to a star: the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand and the 2020 election. Environmental Politics. 30(4). 669–676. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2021). “We stand in the Luddite legacy”: tracking patterns of anti-GM protest and crop-trashing in the United Kingdom. Journal of Cultural Geography. 38(3). 313–335. 2 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2020). Corruption: an intractable issue. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. 58(2). 250–257. 2 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2019). Animal intimacies: interspecies relatedness in India’s central Himalayas. Contemporary South Asia. 27(1). 134–135. 35 indexed citations
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Creţan, Remus & Thomas O’Brien. (2019). Corruption and conflagration: (in)justice and protest in Bucharest after theColectivfire. Urban Geography. 41(3). 368–388. 32 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2019). The Oxford handbook of social and political trust. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. 6(4). 515–518. 65 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas & Remus Creţan. (2018). The role of identity in the 2015 Romanian shepherd protests. Identities. 26(4). 470–488. 16 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2017). Europe’s Prolonged Crisis: The Making or The Unmaking of a Political Union. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. 4(2). 231–233. 2 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2017). Workers and trade unions for climate solidarity: tackling climate change in a neoliberal world. Labor History. 58(4). 582–583. 1 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2015). Camping, climbing trees and marching to Parliament: spatial dimensions of environmental protest in New Zealand. Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online. 11(1). 11–22. 6 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas. (2010). Stuck in the Middle: Maintaining the Organizational Legitimacy of the Regional Environmental Center. VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. 21(3). 339–357. 13 indexed citations
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O’Brien, Thomas, et al.. (1973). Anosov Flows and Expansiveness. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 40(2). 625–625. 1 indexed citations

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