| Indigestible food, conquering hordes, and waste materials: Metaphors of immigrants and the early immigration restriction debate in the United States GV O'Brien Metaphor and symbol 18 (1), 33-47, 2003 | 332 | 2003 |
| Framing the moron: The social construction of feeble-mindedness in the American eugenic era GV O’Brien Framing the moron, 2015 | 85 | 2015 |
| Eugenics, genetics, and the minority group model of disabilities: Implications for social work advocacy GV O'Brien Social Work 56 (4), 347-354, 2011 | 53 | 2011 |
| People with cognitive disabilities: The argument from marginal cases and social work ethics GV O'Brien Social Work 48 (3), 331-337, 2003 | 44 | 2003 |
| Metaphors and the pejorative framing of marginalized groups: Implications for social work education GV O'Brien Journal of Social Work Education 45 (1), 29-46, 2009 | 41 | 2009 |
| Protecting the Social Body: Use of the Organism Metaphor in Fighting the "Menace of the Feebleminded" GV O'Brien Mental Retardation 37 (3), 188-200, 1999 | 39 | 1999 |
| Rosemary Kennedy: the importance of a historical footnote G O’Brien Journal of family history 29 (3), 225-236, 2004 | 25 | 2004 |
| Reaching beyond the moron: Eugenic control of secondary disability groups GV O'Brien, ME Bundy J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 36, 153, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| Contagion and the National Body: the organism metaphor in American thought G O'Brien Routledge, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| Anchors on the ship of progress and weeds in the human garden: Objectivist rhetoric in American eugenic writings G O'Brien Disability Studies Quarterly 31 (3), 2011 | 16 | 2011 |
| The Americans with Disabilities Act: A decision tree for social services administrators GV O'Brien, C Ellegood Social Work 50 (3), 271-279, 2005 | 14 | 2005 |
| Persons with mental illness and the Americans With Disabilities Act: Implications for the social work profession GV O'Brien, MS Brown Social Work in Mental Health 7 (5), 442-457, 2009 | 11 | 2009 |
| Primary, secondary, and tertiary direct threat: Issues in the employment of persons with HIV/AIDS. GV O'Brien, C Schiro-Geist Rehabilitation Education, 1997 | 11 | 1997 |
| Margaret Sanger and the Nazis: How many degrees of separation? GV O'Brien Social work 58 (3), 285-287, 2013 | 10 | 2013 |
| Social justice implications of the organism metaphor GV O'Brien J. Soc. & Soc. Welfare 37, 95, 2010 | 10 | 2010 |
| The “art” of social work and the ADA's essential functions provision: Challenges and recommendations GV O'Brien, J Leneave Administration in Social Work 32 (4), 87-99, 2008 | 9 | 2008 |
| Persons with HIV/AIDS in the workplace: Implications for employee assistance professionals GV O'brien, M Koerkenmeier Employee Assistance Quarterly 16 (3), 9-23, 2001 | 8 | 2001 |
| Direct threat issues in the employment of persons with disabilities: Implications for the social work profession GV O'brien, ME Maue Journal of Social Work in Disability & Rehabilitation 1 (1), 39-51, 2002 | 6 | 2002 |
| The utility of simulated clients in macro-practice courses G O’Brien, KAE Carter, JR Swanke Journal of Teaching in Social Work 38 (5), 551-568, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Implications of Australian Distance Education Models for Rehabilitation Education [and] Comments on O'Brien et al GV O'Brien Journal of Rehabilitation Administration 19 (4), 315-25, 1995 | 5 | 1995 |