Thomas W. O’Rourke

1.3k total citations
85 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas W. O’Rourke is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Speech and Hearing and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas W. O’Rourke has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in General Health Professions, 20 papers in Speech and Hearing and 14 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Thomas W. O’Rourke's work include School Health and Nursing Education (20 papers), Public Health Policies and Education (15 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers). Thomas W. O’Rourke is often cited by papers focused on School Health and Nursing Education (20 papers), Public Health Policies and Education (15 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (9 papers). Thomas W. O’Rourke collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Thomas W. O’Rourke's co-authors include Daniel Reines, Gerald S. Shadel, Marc F. J. M. Verhagen, Michael W. W. Adams, Nicole Doudican, Becky Smith, Paul W. Doetsch, John P. Allegrante, Jana S. Eaton and Hong Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Thomas W. O’Rourke

77 papers receiving 949 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas W. O’Rourke United States 15 432 197 130 117 106 85 1.0k
Andrew Robinson Australia 21 317 0.7× 302 1.5× 29 0.2× 165 1.4× 28 0.3× 68 1.2k
James J. Murphy United Kingdom 27 244 0.6× 31 0.2× 708 5.4× 213 1.8× 58 0.5× 103 2.0k
Anjali Gupta United States 10 151 0.3× 223 1.1× 52 0.4× 111 0.9× 11 0.1× 24 711
José A. García del Castillo Spain 16 206 0.5× 121 0.6× 160 1.2× 29 0.2× 13 0.1× 141 988
Caroline Perrin Canada 15 82 0.2× 91 0.5× 128 1.0× 172 1.5× 21 0.2× 41 611
Caroline Lang Germany 12 86 0.2× 65 0.3× 68 0.5× 47 0.4× 14 0.1× 31 779
Fernando Mendes Portugal 16 118 0.3× 208 1.1× 58 0.4× 50 0.4× 13 0.1× 65 858
Waqar Ahmad United Kingdom 25 176 0.4× 446 2.3× 19 0.1× 162 1.4× 69 0.7× 65 1.7k
M. Lyndon Haviland United States 14 53 0.1× 170 0.9× 1.0k 7.7× 375 3.2× 149 1.4× 25 1.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas W. O’Rourke

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., et al.. (2025). Quantifying the Impact of State Health Policy on State Population Health Outcomes. Health Promotion Practice. 27(1). 123–135.
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., et al.. (2015). Amyloid-like assembly of the low complexity domain of yeast Nab3. Prion. 9(1). 34–47. 13 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., et al.. (2013). Determinants of the Core Functions of Local Public Health Agencies. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 19(6). 575–581. 1 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., et al.. (2013). A Network of Interdependent Molecular Interactions Describes a Higher Order Nrd1-Nab3 Complex Involved in Yeast Transcription Termination. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(47). 34158–34167. 17 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., et al.. (2012). Yeast Nab3 Protein Contains a Self-assembly Domain Found in Human Heterogeneous Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein-C (hnRNP-C) That Is Necessary for Transcription Termination. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288(4). 2111–2117. 19 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W.. (2011). Snowplow Simulator Training Study. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Sean D., Hong Zhang, Jana S. Eaton, et al.. (2005). The Conserved Mec1/Rad53 Nuclear Checkpoint Pathway Regulates Mitochondrial DNA Copy Number inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 16(6). 3010–3018. 79 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., Nicole Doudican, Hong Zhang, et al.. (2005). Differential involvement of the related DNA helicases Pif1p and Rrm3p in mtDNA point mutagenesis and stability. Gene. 354. 86–92. 37 indexed citations
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Verhagen, Marc F. J. M., Thomas W. O’Rourke, Angeli Lal Menon, & Michael W. W. Adams. (2001). Heterologous expression and properties of the γ-subunit of the Fe-only hydrogenase from Thermotoga maritima. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1505(2-3). 209–219. 13 indexed citations
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Verhagen, Marc F. J. M., Thomas W. O’Rourke, & Michael W. W. Adams. (1999). The hyperthermophilic bacterium, Thermotoga maritima, contains an unusually complex iron-hydrogenase: amino acid sequence analyses versus biochemical characterization1GenBank accession number AF044577.1. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1412(3). 212–229. 81 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W.. (1996). Kids at Increased Risk in a Changing Environment — Challenges, Responses, and Opportunities. Journal of School Health. 66(1). 41–44. 2 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W.. (1995). Creating Capacity: A Research Agenda for School Health Education. Journal of School Health. 65(1). 33–37. 4 indexed citations
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Rogers, William H., Thomas W. O’Rourke, John E. Ware, Robert H. Brook, & Joseph P. Newhouse. (1991). Effects of cost sharing in health insurance on disability days. Health Policy. 18(2). 131–139. 6 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., et al.. (1985). Enriching Professional Preparation in School Health through International Study. Journal of School Health. 55(10). 425–427. 1 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., et al.. (1984). Health Risk Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors of Students Grades 7–12. Journal of School Health. 54(5). 210–214. 11 indexed citations
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Allegrante, John P., Rudolf G. Mortimer, & Thomas W. O’Rourke. (1980). Social-psychological factors in motorcycle safety helmet use: Implications for public policy. Journal of Safety Research. 12(3). 115–126. 14 indexed citations
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Allegrante, John P., Jim Collins, & Thomas W. O’Rourke. (1977). A discriminant analysis of student utilization behavior at a university health service.. PubMed. 26(3). 145–9.
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Martin, Gary & Thomas W. O’Rourke. (1972). The Perceived Effectiveness of Selected Programs and Sources with Respect to Preventing the Use of Dangerous Drugs. Journal of Drug Education. 2(4). 329–335. 2 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W., et al.. (1971). A Prospective Study of Trends in Youth Smoking. Journal of Drug Education. 1(1). 49–61. 4 indexed citations
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O’Rourke, Thomas W.. (1970). A prospective epidemiological study of youth smoking. University Microfilms eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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