Ben Backes

40 total papers · 472 total citations
22 papers, 242 citations indexed

About

Ben Backes is a scholar working on Education, Information Systems and Management and Demography. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Backes has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 242 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Education, 3 papers in Information Systems and Management and 3 papers in Demography. Recurrent topics in Ben Backes’s work include School Choice and Performance (18 papers), Higher Education Research Studies (16 papers) and Education Systems and Policy (3 papers). Ben Backes is often cited by papers focused on School Choice and Performance (18 papers), Higher Education Research Studies (16 papers) and Education Systems and Policy (3 papers). Ben Backes collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ben Backes's co-authors include Kate Antonovics, James Cowan, Michael Hansén, Zeyu Xu, Dan Goldhaber, Harry J. Holzer, Cory Koedel, Michael Podgursky, Kate Sullivan and Shawn Ni and has published in prestigious journals such as Educational Researcher, The Journal of Human Resources and Journal of Learning Disabilities.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Backes

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Backes. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Backes based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ben Backes. Ben Backes is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Ben Backes

20 papers receiving 217 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Backes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ben Backes. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ben Backes. The network helps show where Ben Backes may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Ben Backes

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