David Backer

611 total citations
23 papers, 305 citations indexed

About

David Backer is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, David Backer has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 305 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in General Health Professions and 3 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in David Backer's work include Political Conflict and Governance (6 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 papers) and Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 papers). David Backer is often cited by papers focused on Political Conflict and Governance (6 papers), Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 papers) and Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (3 papers). David Backer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Norway. David Backer's co-authors include Ravi Bhavnani, Kathryn Grace, Molly E. Brown, Karsten Donnay, David Cunningham, Peter White, Karl H. Pfuetze, Paul Huth, Shannon Doocy and David J. Carroll and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences and World Politics.

In The Last Decade

David Backer

22 papers receiving 261 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Backer United States	10	164	67	62	44	28	23	305
Alexander De Waal United Kingdom	10	267 1.6×	216 3.2×	109 1.8×	30 0.7×	45 1.6×	14	484
Wade Pendleton Canada	11	165 1.0×	34 0.5×	87 1.4×	44 1.0×	15 0.5×	23	373
Joël W. Gregory Canada	11	215 1.3×	45 0.7×	40 0.6×	15 0.3×	8 0.3×	39	438
John Borton United Kingdom	12	137 0.8×	65 1.0×	41 0.7×	9 0.2×	30 1.1×	22	334
Jude Murison Belgium	10	174 1.1×	40 0.6×	22 0.4×	12 0.3×	5 0.2×	17	309
John Magistro United States	6	161 1.0×	58 0.9×	30 0.5×	6 0.1×	28 1.0×	11	289
Susanne Jaspars United Kingdom	14	183 1.1×	54 0.8×	153 2.5×	99 2.3×	4 0.1×	35	425
Catrine Christiansen Denmark	6	207 1.3×	40 0.6×	29 0.5×	16 0.4×	10 0.4×	11	278
Ore Koren United States	11	306 1.9×	64 1.0×	98 1.6×	10 0.2×	4 0.1×	36	440
Charles Martin-Shields Germany	7	198 1.2×	53 0.8×	83 1.3×	23 0.5×	2 0.1×	18	367

Countries citing papers authored by David Backer

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Backer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Backer

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Min, Brian, et al.. (2023). Local Partisan Biases in Allocations of Foreign Aid: A Study of Agricultural Assistance in India. World Politics. 75(1). 43–98. 3 indexed citations

Grace, Kathryn, et al.. (2022). Conflict and Climate Factors and the Risk of Child Acute Malnutrition Among Children Aged 24–59 Months: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. PubMed. 10(2). 329–358. 10 indexed citations

Backer, David, et al.. (2021). Visualizing trends in food security across Africa, 2009–2020: Data and animations at a grid-cell level. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 36. 106999–106999. 3 indexed citations

Brown, Molly E., et al.. (2021). Considering climate and conflict conditions together to improve interventions that prevent child acute malnutrition. The Lancet Planetary Health. 5(9). e654–e658. 16 indexed citations

Brown, Molly E., David Backer, Peter White, et al.. (2020). Empirical studies of factors associated with child malnutrition: highlighting the evidence about climate and conflict shocks. Food Security. 12(6). 1241–1252. 38 indexed citations

Brown, Mark, et al.. (2019). Modeling Climate and Conflict Shocks on Acute Malnutrition in Children. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2019. 1 indexed citations

Donnay, Karsten, et al.. (2018). Integrating Conflict Event Data. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 63(5). 1337–1364. 31 indexed citations

Donnay, Karsten, et al.. (2018). Integrating Conflict Event Data. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Backer, David. (2017). The False Promise of Education. Humanities Commons CORE (Modern Language Association / Columbia University).

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Backer, David, et al.. (2016). Humanizing Transitional Justice: Reflections on the Role of Survey Research in Studying Violent Conflict and its Aftermath. 1–47. 2 indexed citations

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Caramani, Daniele, et al.. (2014). GeoReferenced Electoral Districts Datasets. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 1 indexed citations

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Backer, David. (2008). Reconstructing the Rwandan Genocide in Search of Local Dynamics. 4(1). 179–185. 2 indexed citations

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Bhavnani, Ravi, David Backer, & Rick Riolo. (2008). Simulating closed regimes with agent based models. Complexity. 14(1). 36–44. 1 indexed citations

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Bhavnani, Ravi & David Backer. (2007). Social capital and political violence in sub-Saharan Africa. Graduate Institute Geneva Institutional Repository (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies). 11 indexed citations

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Backer, David. (2007). Victims’ responses to truth commissions: Evidence from South Africa. 195–226. 9 indexed citations

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Backer, David. (2006). Book Review: Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?. Comparative Political Studies. 39(9). 1157–1161. 1 indexed citations

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Backer, David. (2005). Evaluating Transitional Justice in South Africa From a Victim's Perspective. 12(2). 2 indexed citations

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Backer, David. (2003). Civil society and transitional justice: possibilities, patterns and prospects. Journal of Human Rights. 2(3). 297–313. 44 indexed citations

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Bhavnani, Ravi & David Backer. (2000). Localized Ethnic Conflict and Genocide. Journal of Conflict Resolution. 44(3). 283–306. 49 indexed citations

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Pfuetze, Karl H. & David Backer. (1967). CLINICAL TUBERCULOSIS. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. 253(2). 245–245. 9 indexed citations

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