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Researcher · Trinity University · United States

Peter O’Brien

Peter O’Brien publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and History, on topics such as Religion and Society Interactions, Migration, Refugees, and Integration and Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,614,094
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#501,749
of 1,627,098
Works
54
Citations
225
Citations per work
4.2
h-index
8
i10-index 7Top 32% in Sociology and Political Science
Peter O’Brien

What does Peter O’Brien research?

Peter O’Brien's work is mostly in Social Sciences (69%), Arts and Humanities (13%).

Social Sciences: 44 works · 81.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 69.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 22 works · 41.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 15 works · 27.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 12.8% of their workHistory: 3 works · 5.6% of their workArcheology: 1 works · 2.4% of their workPhilosophy: 1 works · 2.4% of their workReligious studies: 1 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 18.1% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter O’Brien54works
Social Sciences82%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences3769.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities712.8%
  2. Everything else1018.1%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science41% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations28% of their works
  3. 3History6% of their works
  4. 4Archeology2% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy2% of their works
  6. 6Religious studies2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter O’Brien's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Globalization, Politics, Secularism, Nationalism, Public Sphere, Religion, Immigration and Social Boundaries.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization264 topics
  2. Politics202 topics
  3. Secularism172 topics
  4. Nationalism162 topics
  5. Public Sphere111 topic
  6. Religion111 topic
  7. Immigration91 topic
  8. Social Boundaries91 topic
  9. Radicalization71 topic
  10. Terrorism71 topic
  11. Islamic reform61 topic
  12. Middle East61 topic
  13. Populism51 topic
  14. Right-Wing51 topic
  15. Christian-Muslim Relations41 topic
  16. European Integration41 topic
  17. Gospel Translation41 topic
  18. Governance41 topic
  19. French Revolution31 topic
  20. Napoleonic Wars31 topic

Where does Peter O’Brien work?

Peter O’Brien's main affiliation in the publication record is Trinity University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter O’Brien have?

OpenAlex counts 54 works and 225 citations for Peter O’Brien, an h-index of 8, ranking #1,614,094 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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