Timothy O’Connor

9.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
161 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Timothy O’Connor is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy O’Connor has authored 161 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Philosophy and 20 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Timothy O’Connor's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (40 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (36 papers) and Free Will and Agency (15 papers). Timothy O’Connor is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (40 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (36 papers) and Free Will and Agency (15 papers). Timothy O’Connor collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Timothy O’Connor's co-authors include Jacques Laval, Serge Boiteux, Timothy L. Bailey, Stéphane Richard, Palaniraja Thandapani, John J. Wyrick, Gerd P. Pfeifer, Alain Gouyette, Florence Lederer and Curtis Dyreson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Timothy O’Connor

156 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy O’Connor United States	48	4.2k	837	644	624	556	161	6.5k
Charles Brenner United States	62	6.7k 1.6×	449 0.5×	2.3k 3.5×	194 0.3×	2.0k 3.6×	233	14.4k
Robert Meadows United States	41	7.7k 1.8×	587 0.7×	1.4k 2.1×	244 0.4×	286 0.5×	95	10.1k
Richard G. Moran United States	33	2.3k 0.6×	355 0.4×	858 1.3×	236 0.4×	153 0.3×	105	4.2k
James C. Metcalfe United Kingdom	54	5.7k 1.3×	942 1.1×	835 1.3×	312 0.5×	714 1.3×	157	10.4k
Jennifer M. Bailey United States	42	4.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	2.8k 4.3×	112 0.2×	587 1.1×	155	9.0k
Graham Jamieson United States	40	1.8k 0.4×	332 0.4×	239 0.4×	751 1.2×	327 0.6×	132	5.8k
Ming‐Ming Zhou United States	64	13.9k 3.3×	1.8k 2.1×	1.8k 2.8×	398 0.6×	864 1.6×	204	18.2k
Steven Collins Australia	55	11.0k 2.6×	748 0.9×	1.5k 2.3×	118 0.2×	1.4k 2.5×	243	15.3k
Henry H. Heng United States	60	7.0k 1.7×	1.7k 2.0×	989 1.5×	123 0.2×	2.9k 5.2×	202	11.8k
Hong Wang China	53	4.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	995 1.5×	68 0.1×	479 0.9×	344	10.4k

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

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Cifuentes, Lizeth, Timothy O’Connor, Maria D. Hurtado, et al.. (2025). Genetic and physiological insights into satiation variability predict responses to obesity treatment. Cell Metabolism. 37(8). 1655–1666.e5. 3 indexed citations

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Cifuentes, Lizeth, et al.. (2024). 638 PERFORMANCE OF A MACHINE-LEARNING GENE RISK SCORE BIOMARKER ON PREDICTING RESPONSE TO SEMAGLUTIDE: A PROSPECTIVELY FOLLOWED MULTI-CENTER BIOBANK AND OUTCOMES REGISTRY. Gastroenterology. 166(5). S–148.

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Ashing, Kimlin, et al.. (2022). Does neighborhood or residence influence continued smoking among cancer patients: a spatial-ecological and descriptive analyses brief report. Cancer Causes & Control. 34(4). 389–398. 2 indexed citations

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Padilla, María L., et al.. (2022). Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer: future directions and challenges. Breathe. 18(4). 220147–220147. 27 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Timothy, Charles E. Grant, Mikael Bodén, & Timothy L. Bailey. (2020). T-Gene: improved target gene prediction. Bioinformatics. 36(12). 3902–3904. 13 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Timothy, et al.. (2020). Oxidative demethylase ALKBH5 repairs DNA alkylation damage and protects against alkylation-induced toxicity. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 534. 114–120. 9 indexed citations

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Wilson, David L., Andrew A. Beharry, Avinash C. Srivastava, Timothy O’Connor, & Eric T. Kool. (2018). Fluorescence Probes for ALKBH2 Allow the Measurement of DNA Alkylation Repair and Drug Resistance Responses. Angewandte Chemie. 130(39). 13078–13082. 8 indexed citations

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Wilson, David L., Andrew A. Beharry, Avinash C. Srivastava, Timothy O’Connor, & Eric T. Kool. (2018). Fluorescence Probes for ALKBH2 Allow the Measurement of DNA Alkylation Repair and Drug Resistance Responses. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(39). 12896–12900. 22 indexed citations

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Liu, Liang, Weiying Zhou, Chun-Ting Cheng, et al.. (2014). TGFβ Induces “BRCAness” and Sensitivity to PARP Inhibition in Breast Cancer by Regulating DNA-Repair Genes. Molecular Cancer Research. 12(11). 1597–1609. 55 indexed citations

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Weitzel, Jeffrey N., et al.. (2012). Enhancement of Synthetic Lethality via Combinations of ABT-888, a PARP Inhibitor, and Carboplatin In Vitro and In Vivo Using BRCA1 and BRCA2 Isogenic Models. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 11(9). 1948–1958. 50 indexed citations

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Enatsu, Rei, Kazutaka Jin, Yuichi Kubota, et al.. (2012). Correlations between ictal propagation and response to electrical cortical stimulation: A cortico-cortical evoked potential study. Epilepsy Research. 101(1-2). 76–87. 54 indexed citations

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Luo, Li, Stephanie L. Nay, Sang‐Won Park, et al.. (2012). DNA Repair in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Is Distinct from That in Non-Pluripotent Human Cells. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e30541–e30541. 49 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Timothy & Gerald P. Holmquist. (2009). Algorithm for writing a scientific manuscript. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. 37(6). 344–348. 13 indexed citations

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Davis, Jeremy, Timothy O’Connor, Naïma Moustaïd‐Moussa, et al.. (2007). Soy Protein and Isoflavones Influence Adiposity and Development of Metabolic Syndrome in the Obese Male ZDF Rat. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. 51(1). 42–52. 69 indexed citations

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O'Brien, Deborah A., Kenneth Nally, Raymond Kelly, et al.. (2005). Targeting the Fas/Fas ligand pathway in cancer. Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets. 9(5). 1031–1044. 54 indexed citations

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Dong, Min, Lakshmaiah Gingipalli, Jean‐François Cloutier, et al.. (2005). Development of enzymatic probes of oxidative and nitrosative DNA damage caused by reactive nitrogen species. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 594(1-2). 120–134. 24 indexed citations

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Dhérin, Claudine, Didier Gasparutto, Timothy O’Connor, Jean Cadet, & Serge Boiteux. (2004). Excision by the human methylpurine DNAN‐glycosylase of cyanuric acid, a stable and mutagenic oxidation product of 8‐oxo‐7,8‐dihydroguanine. International Journal of Radiation Biology. 80(1). 21–27. 15 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Timothy. (2000). Persons and causes : the metaphysics of free will. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 137 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Timothy. (1996). Why Agent Causation?. Philosophical Topics. 24(2). 143–158. 13 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Timothy. (1995). Agents, causes, and events : essays on indeterminism and free will. Oxford University Press eBooks. 47 indexed citations

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