M. J. O’Brien

Sociology and Political Science · 2000–2014

A researcher in the Science corpus: 6 papers; trusts 21 researchers and is trusted by 5 researchers here, as inferred from the citation graph.

Subfields

• Sociology and Political Science — 21 citations into it; #9,005 of 22,756 by trust here, #13,822 by citations
• Cultural Studies — 19 citations into it; #211 of 609 by trust here, #276 by citations
• Genetics — 15 citations into it
• Paleontology — 12 citations into it
• Ecology — 11 citations into it
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics — 9 citations into it
• Anthropology — 8 citations into it; #230 of 443 by trust here, #253 by citations
• Molecular Biology — 8 citations into it

Whom M. J. O’Brien trusts overall

Their strongest outbound trust, strongest first, inferred from their citations.

1. Kevin N. Laland
2. R. Gray
3. Michael P. Cummings
4. Briggs Buchanan
5. Joseph Henrich
6. Jamshid Tehrani
7. Alex Mesoudi
8. Bruce D. Smith
9. K. Cuddington
10. Mark Collard

Who trusts M. J. O’Brien overall

1. Alex Mesoudi
2. S. Lycett
3. Bruce D. Smith
4. Mark Collard
5. Kevin N. Laland
6. Andrew Whiten
7. Matthew T. Boulanger
8. Jamshid Tehrani
9. Patrick McNamara
10. J. Odling-Smee

Papers from M. J. O’Brien's perspective

Ordered by how strongly the researchers M. J. O’Brien trusts endorse each paper. Same corpus, a different order for every researcher.

1. The evolution of prestige: freely conferred deference as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission. (Evolution and human behavior)
2. Cladistics Is Useful for Reconstructing Archaeological Phylogenies: Palaeoindian Points from the Southeastern United States
3. Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin
4. Investigating cultural evolution through biological phylogenetic analyses of Turkmen textiles
5. An experimental simulation of the “copy-successful-individuals” cultural learning strategy: adaptive landscapes, producer–scrounger dynamics, and informational access costs
6. Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
7. Cultural transmission and the diffusion of innovations : adoption dynamics indicate that biased cultural transmission is the predominate force in behavioral change and much of sociocultural evolution
8. Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution
9. Social learning strategies
10. PAUP* Phylogenetic analysis using parsimony (*and other methods) Version 4

Their papers

• Cultural Niche Construction: An Introduction (2011) — 262 citations
• Niche Construction Theory and Archaeology (2010) — 279 citations
• Innovation and cultural transmission in the American Paleolithic: Phylogenetic analysis of eastern Paleoindian projectile-point classes (2014) — 112 citations
• Cladistics and archaeology (2003) — 145 citations
• Cladistics Is Useful for Reconstructing Archaeological Phylogenies: Palaeoindian Points from the Southeastern United States (2001) — 264 citations
• Applying Evolutionary Archaeology: A Systematic Approach (2000) — 211 citations