| Children's independent spatial mobility in the urban public realm M O'brien, D Jones, D Sloan, M Rustin Childhood 7 (3), 257-277, 2000 | 658 | 2000 |
| Children in the City M O'Brien Taylor & Francis, 2002 | 546* | 2002 |
| Fathers, parental leave policies, and infant quality of life: International perspectives and policy impact M O'Brien The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 624 (1 …, 2009 | 382 | 2009 |
| Reassessing fatherhood: New observations on fathers and the modern family. CE Lewis, ME O'Brien Sage Publications, Inc, 1987 | 342 | 1987 |
| Children in families: Research and policy J Brannen, M O'Brien Routledge, 2002 | 272 | 2002 |
| Shared caring: bringing fathers into the frame M O'Brien Equal Opportunities Commission, 2005 | 254 | 2005 |
| Working fathers: Earning and caring M O'Brien, I Shemilt Equal Opportunities Commission, 2003 | 251 | 2003 |
| Childhood and the sociological gaze: paradigms and paradoxes J Brannen, M O'Brien Sociology 29 (4), 729-737, 1995 | 243 | 1995 |
| Fathers, work and family life: Global perspectives and new insights M O'Brien, B Brandth, E Kvande Community, Work and Family 10 (4), 375-386, 2007 | 221 | 2007 |
| The father figure L McKee, M O'Brien Tavistock, 1982 | 199 | 1982 |
| Interviewing men: Taking gender seriously L McKee, M O'Brien The public and the private, 147-161, 1983 | 198 | 1983 |
| Good partner, good parent: Responsiveness mediates the link between romantic attachment and parenting style A Millings, J Walsh, E Hepper, M O’Brien Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 39 (2), 170-180, 2013 | 170 | 2013 |
| Clinical spectrum and genotype–phenotype associations of KCNA2-related encephalopathies S Masnada, UBS Hedrich, E Gardella, J Schubert, C Kaiwar, EW Klee, ... Brain 140 (9), 2337-2354, 2017 | 162 | 2017 |
| Fathering behind bars in English prisons: imprisoned fathers' identity and contact with their children. L Clarke, M O'Brien, RD Day, H Godwin, J Connolly, J Hemmings, ... Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research & Practice about Men as Fathers 3 (3), 2005 | 153 | 2005 |
| Dynamics of parental leave in Anglophone countries: The paradox of state expansion in liberal welfare regimes M Baird, M O'Brien Community, Work & Family 18 (2), 198-217, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
| ‘Islamic capital’and family life: The role of Islam in parenting M Franceschelli, M O’Brien Sociology 48 (6), 1190-1206, 2014 | 125 | 2014 |
| Children and families in communities: Theory, research, policy and practice J Barnes, IB Katz, JE Korbin, M O'Brien John Wiley & Sons, 2006 | 112 | 2006 |
| Fatherhood and father involvement: Emerging constructs and theoretical orientations RD Day, C Lewis, M O'Brien, ME Lamb Sourcebook of family theory & research, 341-366, 2005 | 101 | 2005 |
| Founders, Classics and the Concept of a Canon P Baehr, M O’BRIEN SAGE Publications Ltd, 1994 | 101 | 1994 |
| Children’s constructions of family and kinship M O’Brien, P Alldred, D Jones Children in families, 98-114, 2002 | 97 | 2002 |
