George O'connor

Active 1987–2025

211
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39,239
Citations
106
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Citations

Citations per year for George O'connor1960: 1 citations1974: 2 citations1984: 1 citations1986: 1 citations1989: 10 citations1990: 12 citations1991: 12 citations1992: 39 citations1993: 39 citations1994: 35 citations1995: 68 citations1996: 75 citations1997: 80 citations1998: 78 citations1999: 86 citations2000: 113 citations2001: 116 citations2002: 131 citations2003: 180 citations2004: 158 citations2005: 204 citations2006: 168 citations2007: 208 citations2008: 215 citations2009: 231 citations2010: 238 citations2011: 302 citations2012: 294 citations2013: 281 citations2014: 272 citations2015: 306 citations2016: 266 citations2017: 330 citations2018: 330 citations2019: 1,041 citations2020: 1,214 citations2021: 1,161 citations2022: 959 citations2023: 804 citations2024: 1,201 citations2025: 514 citations2026: 12 citations1961–1973: no citations, so these years are not shown1975–1983: no citations, so these years are not shown1985: no citations, so this year is not shown1987–1988: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 5,056 citing papers, 30% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,313 citing papers, 7.8% of this breakdownChina: 1,034 citing papers, 6.1% of this breakdownCanada: 812 citing papers, 4.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 717 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownGermany: 621 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownItaly: 618 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownNetherlands: 567 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownSpain: 504 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownFrance: 450 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownSweden: 383 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 319 citing papers, 1.9% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Medicine66.9%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.7%
  • Environmental Science4.7%
  • Psychology4.1%
  • Neuroscience3.6%
  • Immunology and Microbiology1.9%
  • Other6.1%

Topics

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research7%
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases6.6%
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research4.7%
  • Sleep and related disorders3.6%
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep3.1%
  • Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis1.8%
  • Other73.2%

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  1. The Sleep Heart Health Study: Design, Rationale, and Methods

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , - SLEEP 1997 cited by 1,340

  2. Epigenetic Signatures of Cigarette Smoking

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Chen Yao, Douglas P. Kiel, Annette Peters, Rui Wang‐Sattler, Peter M. Visscher, Naomi R. Wray, John M. Starr, Jingzhong Ding, Carlos J. Rodríguez, Nicholas J. Wareham, Marguerite R. Irvin, Degui Zhi, Myrto Barrdahl, Paolo Vineis, Srikant Ambatipudi, André G. Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, Joel Schwartz, Elena Colicino, Lifang Hou, Pantel Vokonas, Dena Hernández, Andrew B. Singleton, Stefania Bandinelli, Stephen T. Turner, Erin B. Ware, Alicia K. Smith, Torsten Klengel, Elisabeth B. Binder, Bruce M. Psaty, Kent D. Taylor, Sina A. Gharib, Brenton R. Swenson, Liming Liang, Dawn L. DeMeo, George O'connor, Zdenko Herceg, Kerry J. Ressler, Karen N. Conneely, Nona Sotoodehnia, Sharon L. R. Kardia, David Melzer, Andrea Baccarelli, Joyce B. J. van Meurs, Isabelle Romieu, Donna K. Arnett, Ken K. Ong, Yongmei Liu, Mélanie Waldenberger, Ian J. Deary, Myriam Fornage, Daniel Levy, Stephanie J. London - Circulation Cardiovascular Genetics 2016 cited by 1,023

  3. Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , - PLoS Medicine 2009 cited by 1,459

  4. Prospective Study of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Incident Coronary Heart Disease and Heart Failure

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , - Circulation 2010 cited by 1,539

  5. Association of clonal hematopoiesis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Jerome I. Rotter, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Bing Yu, Lynette M. Sholl, Donna Neuberg, Siddhartha Jaiswal, Bruce D. Levy, Caroline A. Owen, Pradeep Natarajan, Edwin K. Silverman, Peter van Galen, Yohannes Tesfaigzi, Michael H. Cho, Benjamin L. Ebert - Blood 2021 cited by 229

  6. Association Between Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry and Clinical Outcomes in US Adults

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - JAMA 2021 cited by 281

  7. Obstructive Sleep Apnea–Hypopnea and Incident Stroke: The Sleep Heart Health Study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2010 cited by 1,261

  8. Sleep-disordered Breathing and Cardiovascular Disease

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2001 cited by 2,913

  9. Mepolizumab for urban children with exacerbation-prone eosinophilic asthma in the USA (MUPPITS-2): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , William W. Busse, Matthew C. Altman - The Lancet 2022 cited by 147

  10. A prospective microbiome‐wide association study of food sensitization and food allergy in early childhood

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Allergy 2017 cited by 251

  11. Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Elizabeth C. Oelsner, Stephen S. Rich, R. Graham Barr, Shona M. Kerr, Véronique Vitart, Michael R. Brown, Matthias Wielscher, Medea Imboden, Ayoung Jeong, Traci M. Bartz, Sina A. Gharib, Claudia Flexeder, Stefan Karrasch, Christian Gieger, Annette Peters, Beate Stubbe, Xiaowei Hu, Victor E. Ortega, Deborah A. Meyers, Eugene R. Bleecker, Stacey Gabriel, Namrata Gupta, Albert V. Smith, Jian’an Luan, Jinghua Zhao, Ailin Falkmo Hansen, Arnulf Langhammer, Cristen J. Willer, Laxmi Bhatta, David J. Porteous, Blair H. Smith, Archie Campbell, Tamar Sofer, Jiwon Lee, Martha L. Daviglus, Bing Yu, Elise Lim, Hanfei Xu, George O'connor, Gaurav Thareja, Omar Albagha, Said I. Ismail, Wadha Al‐Muftah, Radja Badji, Hamdi Mbarek, Dima Darwish, Tasnim Fadl, Heba Yasin, Maryem Ennaifar, Rania G. Abdel‐latif, Fatima Alkuwari, Muhammad Arshad Alvi, Yasser Al‐Sarraj, Chadi Saad, Asmaa Althani, Biobank and Sample Preparation, Eleni Fethnou, Fatima Qafoud, Eiman Alkhayat, Nahla Afifi, Sequencing and Genotyping group, Sara Tomei, Wei Liu, Stephan Lorenz, Applied Bioinformatics Core, Najeeb Syed, Hakeem Almabrazi, Fazulur Rehaman Vempalli, Ramzi Temanni, Data Management and Computing Infrastructure group and 95 more - Nature Genetics 2023 cited by 186

  12. Associations between outdoor air pollutants and non-viral asthma exacerbations and airway inflammatory responses in children and adolescents living in urban areas in the USA: a retrospective secondary analysis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - The Lancet Planetary Health 2023 cited by 109

  13. Genetic landscape of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identifies heterogeneous cell-type and phenotype associations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , David A. Lomas, Stephanie J. London, Deborah A. Meyers, George O'connor, Stephen I. Rennard, David A. Schwartz, Paweł Śliwiński, David Sparrow, David P. Strachan, Ruth Tal‐Singer, Yohannes Tesfaigzi, Jørgen Vestbo, Judith M. Vonk, Jae‐Joon Yim, Xiaobo Zhou, Yohan Bossé, Ani Manichaikul, Lies Lahousse, Edwin K. Silverman, H. Marike Boezen, Louise V. Wain, Martin D. Tobin, Brian D. Hobbs, Michael H. Cho, Nick Shrine, Anna L. Guyatt, Chiara Batini, Jing Hua Zhao, Matthias Wielscher, Understanding Society Scientific Group, Stefan Weiß, Katherine A. Kentistou, James P. Cook, Jennie Hui, Stefan Karrasch, Medea Imboden, Sarah E. Harris, Jonathan Marten, Stefan Enroth, Shona M. Kerr, Ida Surakka, Véronique Vitart, Terho Lehtimäki, Ralf Ewert, Christian Gieger, Georg Homuth, Peter K. Joshi, Claudia Langenberg, Lars Lind, Jian’an Luan, Anubha Mahajan, Alison D. Murray, David J. Porteous, Rajesh Rawal, Blair H. Smith, Paul R. H. J. Timmers, Olli Raitakari, Mika Kähönen, Ozren Polašek, Ulf Gyllensten, Igor Rudan, Ian J. Deary, Nicole Probst‐Hensch, Holger Schulz, Alan L. James, James F. Wilson, Beate Stubbe, Eleftheria Zeggini, Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin, Nick Wareham and 89 more - Nature Genetics 2019 cited by 423

  14. Genome-Wide Association Study of Susceptibility to Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Ayodeji Adegunsoye, Mary E. Strek, Margaret Neighbors, Xuting R. Sheng, Gunnar Guðmundsson, Vilmundur Guðnason, Hiroto Hatabu, David J. Lederer, Ani Manichaikul, John D. Newell, George O'connor, Victor E. Ortega, Hanfei Xu, Tasha E. Fingerlin, Yohan Bossé, Ke Hao, Philippe Joubert, David C. Nickle, Don D. Sin, Wim Timens, Dominic Furniss, Andrew P. Morris, Krina T. Zondervan, Ian P. Hall, Ian Sayers, Martin D. Tobin, Toby M. Maher, Michael H. Cho, Gary M. Hunninghake, David A. Schwartz, Brian L. Yaspan, Philip L. Molyneaux, Carlos Flores, Imre Noth, Gísli Jenkins, Louise V. Wain - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2019 cited by 341

  15. Association Between Interstitial Lung Abnormalities and All-Cause Mortality

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Christopher J. O’Donnell, Lenore J. Launer, Tamara B. Harrris, Vilmundur Guðnason, Edwin K. Silverman, George O'connor, George R. Washko, Iván O. Rosas, Gary M. Hunninghake, for the Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints (ECLIPSE) and COPDGene Investigators - JAMA 2016 cited by 465

  16. Childhood Asthma Incidence, Early and Persistent Wheeze, and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Factors in the ECHO/CREW Consortium

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Albert M. Levin, Alex Binder, Alexandra R. Sitarik, Amanda Cyrus, Amber Spangenberg, Amelia Jones, Amy Dresen, Ana Manuelian, Andrea E. Cassidy‐Bushrow, Andrew Jerrison, Angela Freie, Anne Marie Singh, Anthony Wahlman, Audrey Urquhart, Aviva Lee-Parritz, Ben Green, Brenda Patterson, Brent Davidson, Brent F. Olson, Brian Hallmark, Caitlin Suddueth, Camille Johnson, Carin Lamm, Carole Ober, Carolina Jordan, Casper G. Bendixsen, Cathey Strauchman Boyer, Charles Barone, Charlotte Nicholas, Chris Lim, Chris M Reyes, Chris Sutton, C.J. Tisler, Christopher L. Wolfe, Christopher G. McKennan, Conner Fleurat, Daniel Nicolae, David J. Kemp, David O. Morgan, David Spies, Dean Billheimer, Deanna Cole, Deborah Chasman, Debra A. Stern, Deliang Tang, Dena Scott, Douglas DaSilva, Edlira Gjerasi, Edward Peterson, Elizabeth A. Anderson, Elizabeth Armagost, Elizabeth C. Matsui, Elizabeth Tesson, Elsie Parmar, Emily Bull, Eric Schauberger, Erin Donnerbauer, Frank R. Witter, Frederica P. Perera, Ganesa Wegienka, George O'connor, Geraldine Birg, Gina Simpson, Gina Crisafi, Gina M. Stouffer, Gordon R. Bloomberg, Grace K. LeMasters, Hae Jin Kim, Heather Floerke, Heidi S. Erickson and 134 more - JAMA Pediatrics 2022 cited by 130

  17. Associations of Neighborhood Opportunity and Social Vulnerability With Trajectories of Childhood Body Mass Index and Obesity Among US Children

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , Program Collaborators for Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes, Samia Baluch, Timothy Shields, Stephanie L. Merhar, Clement L. Ren, Gloria Pryhuber, Paul Moore, Rajan Wadhawan, Carol L. Wagner, John R Keller, Amy C. Reynolds, Roberta L. Keller, Mark L. Hudak, Adam Duncan, Ronald Walshburn, Susan L. Teitelbaum, Annemarie Stroustrup, Andrea Lampland, Dennis E. Mayock, Jonathan M. Mansbach, Jonathan M. Spergel, Michelle D. Stevenson, Cindy S. Bauer, James E. Gern, Christine M. Seroogy, Casper G. Bendixsen, Irva Hertz‐Picciotto, Catherine J. Karr, Alex Mason, Scott T. Weiss, George O'connor, Robert S. Zeiger, Leonard B. Bacharier, Brian S. Carter, Carmen J. Marsit, Steven L. Pastyrnak, Charles R. Neal, Lynne M. Smith, Jennifer Helderman, Robert S. Tepper, Craig J. Newschaffer, Heather E. Volk, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Jean M. Kerver, Charles Barone, Patricia McKane, Nigel Paneth, Michael R. Elliott, Susan L. Schantz, Christina A. Porucznik, Robert M. Silver, Elisabeth Conradt, Michelle Bosquet-Enlow, Kathi Huddleston, Nicki Bush, Ruby H.N. Nguyen, Emily S. Barrett, Alison E. Hipwell, Kate Keenan, Christiane Duarte, Glorisa Canino, Stephen R. Dager, Robert T. Schultz, Joseph Piven, Hyagriv N. Simhan, Frank D. Gilliland, Shoreh Farzan, Tracy Bastain - JAMA Network Open 2022 cited by 111

  18. Discriminative Accuracy of FEV1:FVC Thresholds for COPD-Related Hospitalization and Mortality

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - JAMA 2019 cited by 212

  19. Development and Progression of Interstitial Lung Abnormalities in the Framingham Heart Study

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2016 cited by 352

  20. Transcriptome networks identify mechanisms of viral and nonviral asthma exacerbations in children

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Nature Immunology 2019 cited by 183

  21. Effect of Prenatal Supplementation With Vitamin D on Asthma or Recurrent Wheezing in Offspring by Age 3 Years

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - JAMA 2016 cited by 432

  22. Effects of early-life exposure to allergens and bacteria on recurrent wheeze and atopy in urban children

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2014 cited by 395

  23. Seasonal airway microbiome and transcriptome interactions promote childhood asthma exacerbations

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2022 cited by 84

  24. MUC5B Promoter Polymorphism and Interstitial Lung Abnormalities

    Authors: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , - New England Journal of Medicine 2013 cited by 448