Tim O’Brien

943 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 409 citations indexed

About

Tim O’Brien is a scholar working on Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim O’Brien has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 409 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 2 papers in Surgery and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Tim O’Brien's work include Renal cell carcinoma treatment (2 papers), Renal and related cancers (2 papers) and Clinical practice guidelines implementation (1 paper). Tim O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Renal cell carcinoma treatment (2 papers), Renal and related cancers (2 papers) and Clinical practice guidelines implementation (1 paper). Tim O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Tim O’Brien's co-authors include Ghislaine Scélo, Ben Challacombe, Rodolfo Montironi, Maria I. Carlo, Brian Shuch, Laura Bukavina, Wassim Kassouf, Thomas J. Mitchell, Karim Bensalah and Hendrik Van Poppel and has published in prestigious journals such as European Urology, European Radiology and European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery.

In The Last Decade

Tim O’Brien

5 papers receiving 405 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.

Epidemiology of Renal Cell Carcinoma: 2022 Update

2022 358 citations Laura Bukavina, Karim Bensalah et al. European Urology profile →

Peers

Tim O’Brien

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Maedeh Barahman Iran

Oskar Bergengren Sweden

Nityam Rathi United States

Nathalie Letarte Canada

Raju Chelluri United States

Taher Abu Hejleh United States

Taryn Stoffs United States

Wei‐Chun Hsu United States

Stephen A. Brassell United States

Tuomas P. Kilpeläinen Finland

Maedeh Barahman Iran

Tim O’Brien

168 ×0.6

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130 ×0.7

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106 ×1.0

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67 ×0.8

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46 ×0.6

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Citations per year, relative to Tim O’Brien Tim O’Brien (= 1×) peers Maedeh Barahman

Countries citing papers authored by Tim O’Brien

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim O’Brien

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tim 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 Tim O’Brien. The network helps show where Tim O’Brien may publish in the future.

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

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

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7 of 7 papers shown

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O’Brien, Tim, et al.. (2025). Data-driven decision-making: Turning insights into action. Journal of Clinical Urology. 18(4). 286–289.

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O’Brien, Tim, et al.. (2023). A scoping review protocol to identify strategies to implement evidence-based diabetic foot disease guidelines for healthcare professionals in primary care. HRB Open Research. 6. 20–20. 2 indexed citations

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Bukavina, Laura, Karim Bensalah, Freddie Bray, et al.. (2022). Epidemiology of Renal Cell Carcinoma: 2022 Update. European Urology. 82(5). 529–542. 358 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wallis, Christopher J.D., James W.F. Catto, Antonio Finelli, et al.. (2020). The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Genitourinary Cancer Care: Re-envisioning the Future. European Urology. 78(5). 731–742. 33 indexed citations

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Gwozdz, Adam, James Budge, Anna Louise Pouncey, et al.. (2019). The Incidence of Venous Outflow Obstruction as a Complicating Factor of Retroperitoneal Fibrosis. European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 58(6). e257–e258.

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O’Brien, Tim, et al.. (2016). A case of surgically treated peristomal pyoderma gangrenosum in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. Journal of Surgical Case Reports. 2016(6). rjw103–rjw103. 3 indexed citations

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Krokidis, Μiltiadis, et al.. (2013). Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of small renal tumours in patients with a single functioning kidney: long-term results. European Radiology. 23(7). 1933–1939. 13 indexed citations

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