Timothy K. O’Connor

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Timothy K. O’Connor is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy K. O’Connor has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 4 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Timothy K. O’Connor's work include Plant and animal studies (4 papers), Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (3 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Timothy K. O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (4 papers), Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure (3 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (2 papers). Timothy K. O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Timothy K. O’Connor's co-authors include Steven W. Kembel, Jessica L. Green, Stephen P. Hubbell, S. Joseph Wright‬, Holly K. Arnold, James Meadow, Brendan J. M. Bohannan, G. Z. Brown, Dale Northcutt and Gwynne Mhuireach and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Timothy K. O’Connor

11 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest

2014 428 citations Steven W. Kembel, Timothy K. O’Connor et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy K. O’Connor United States	9	427	331	297	228	185	11	1.2k
Hélène Niculita‐Hirzel Switzerland	19	183 0.4×	492 1.5×	225 0.8×	186 0.8×	291 1.6×	50	1.2k
M. Thibaudon France	28	1.1k 2.6×	469 1.4×	96 0.3×	1.1k 5.0×	231 1.2×	143	2.9k
Daniela I. Drautz‐Moses Singapore	23	83 0.2×	148 0.4×	748 2.5×	126 0.6×	263 1.4×	70	1.6k
Jacob G. Mills Australia	12	284 0.7×	201 0.6×	366 1.2×	73 0.3×	303 1.6×	15	971
Isabelle Laforest‐Lapointe Canada	19	42 0.1×	651 2.0×	617 2.1×	221 1.0×	285 1.5×	40	1.6k
Nicoletta Righini Mexico	12	69 0.2×	154 0.5×	670 2.3×	160 0.7×	289 1.6×	22	1.4k
Adam R. Burns United States	14	74 0.2×	137 0.4×	1.0k 3.5×	87 0.4×	518 2.8×	17	1.9k
Guillaume J. Bilodeau Canada	23	189 0.4×	1.1k 3.2×	447 1.5×	167 0.7×	205 1.1×	71	1.7k
Ed Newbigin Australia	37	473 1.1×	2.7k 8.2×	2.2k 7.3×	1.2k 5.4×	98 0.5×	99	4.3k
Germán Bonilla‐Rosso Switzerland	17	29 0.1×	244 0.7×	254 0.9×	226 1.0×	302 1.6×	26	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timothy K. O’Connor

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11 of 11 papers shown

Landis, Jacob B., Timothy K. O’Connor, Robert G. Laport, et al.. (2024). nQuack: An R package for predicting ploidal level from sequence data using site‐based heterozygosity. Applications in Plant Sciences. 12(4). e11606–e11606. 10 indexed citations

O’Connor, Timothy K., et al.. (2021). Ecological basis and genetic architecture of crypsis polymorphism in the desert clicker grasshopper ( Ligurotettix coquilletti ). Evolution. 75(10). 2441–2459. 3 indexed citations

O’Connor, Timothy K., Robert G. Laport, & Noah K. Whiteman. (2019). Polyploidy in creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) shapes the biogeography of specialist herbivores. Journal of Biogeography. 46(3). 597–610. 9 indexed citations

Morlon, Hélène, Timothy K. O’Connor, Jessica A. Bryant, et al.. (2015). The Biogeography of Putative Microbial Antibiotic Production. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0130659–e0130659. 9 indexed citations

Kembel, Steven W., Timothy K. O’Connor, Holly K. Arnold, et al.. (2014). Relationships between phyllosphere bacterial communities and plant functional traits in a neotropical forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(38). 13715–13720. 428 indexed citations breakdown →

Kembel, Steven W., James Meadow, Timothy K. O’Connor, et al.. (2014). Architectural Design Drives the Biogeography of Indoor Bacterial Communities. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e87093–e87093. 156 indexed citations

Meadow, James, Adam Altrichter, Steven W. Kembel, et al.. (2014). Bacterial communities on classroom surfaces vary with human contact. Microbiome. 2(1). 7–7. 126 indexed citations

Meadow, James, Adam Altrichter, Steven W. Kembel, et al.. (2013). Indoor airborne bacterial communities are influenced by ventilation, occupancy, and outdoor air source. Indoor Air. 24(1). 41–48. 283 indexed citations

Meadow, James, et al.. (2013). Significant changes in the skin microbiome mediated by the sport of roller derby. PeerJ. 1. e53–e53. 71 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Timothy K., Christopher K. Starr, & Sydney A. Cameron. (2011). The Neotropical social wasp Mischocyttarus ‘alfkenii’ Ducke (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) is a pair of ethospecies. Systematic Entomology. 36(3). 446–452. 5 indexed citations

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Hines, Heather M., James H. Hunt, Timothy K. O’Connor, Joseph J. Gillespie, & Sydney A. Cameron. (2007). Multigene phylogeny reveals eusociality evolved twice in vespid wasps. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(9). 3295–3299. 116 indexed citations

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