| Constructing the ideal victim in the United States of America’s annual trafficking in persons reports M Wilson, E O’Brien Crime, Law and Social Change 65 (1-2), 29-45, 2016 | 109 | 2016 |
| ‘Genuine’refugees or illegitimate ‘boat people ‘: Political constructions of asylum seekers and refugees in the Malaysia Deal debate E Rowe, E O'Brien Australian Journal of Social Issues 49 (2), 171-193, 2014 | 97 | 2014 |
| Ideal victims in trafficking awareness campaigns E O’Brien Crime, justice and social democracy: International perspectives, 315-326, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| Human trafficking heroes and villains: Representing the problem in anti-trafficking awareness campaigns E O’Brien Social & Legal Studies 25 (2), 205-224, 2016 | 75 | 2016 |
| The Politics of Sex Trafficking: a Moral Geography E O'Brien, SL Hayes, BJ Carpenter Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 | 67* | 2013 |
| Prostitution Ideology and Trafficking Policy: The Impact of Political Approaches to Domestic Sex Work on Human Trafficking Policy in Australia and the United States E O’Brien Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 36 (2), 191-212, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| Challenging the Human Trafficking Narrative: Victims, Villains, and Heroes E O'Brien | 38 | 2019 |
| Californian ‘John Schools’ and the social construction of prostitution A Gurd, E O’Brien Sexuality Research and Social Policy 10 (2), 149-158, 2013 | 34 | 2013 |
| Fuelling traffic: Abolitionist claims of a causal nexus between legalised prostitution and trafficking E O’Brien Crime, Law and Social Change 56, 547-565, 2011 | 32 | 2011 |
| Harm, Responsibility, Age, and Consent B Carpenter, E O’Brien, S Hayes, J Death New Criminal Law Review 17 (1), 23-54, 2014 | 25 | 2014 |
| Clinton, Bush, and Obama: Changing Policy and Rhetoric in the United States Annual Trafficking in Persons Report E O’Brien, M Wilson Global Human Trafficking, 123-137, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Sex trafficking and moral harm: Politicised understandings and depictions of the trafficked experience E O’Brien, B Carpenter, S Hayes Critical Criminology 21, 401-415, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| Dark numbers: challenges in measuring human trafficking E O'Brien Dialogue e-Journal 7 (2), 1-21, 2009 | 14 | 2009 |
| The Cairns abortion trial: Language, deviance, and the ‘spoiled identity’ B Evans, E O’Brien Journal of Sociology 51 (3), 755-768, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| Constructions of asylum seekers and refugees in Australian political discourse E Rowe, E O'Brien Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: Proceedings of the 2nd International …, 2013 | 12 | 2013 |
| Crime, Justice and Social Democracy: International Perspectives K Carrington, M Ball, E O'Brien, J Tauri Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 | 11 | 2012 |
| Human Trafficking and Heroic Consumerism E O’Brien International Journal of Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 7 (4), 51-66, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| The case for decriminalisation: Sex work and the law in Queensland E Jeffreys, E O’Brien, J Fawkes Crime and Justice Briefing Paper, Issue No 1, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Virtual Saviours: Digital games and anti-trafficking awareness-raising E O’Brien, H Berents Anti-Trafficking Review 13, 82-99, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Political investorism: Conceptualising the political participation of shareholders and investors E O’Brien, J Coneybeer, M Boersma, A Payne International Political Science Review 44 (5), 609-626, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |
