Eric Backlund

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Eric Backlund is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Health and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Backlund has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in General Health Professions, 10 papers in Health and 3 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Recurrent topics in Eric Backlund's work include Health disparities and outcomes (9 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (6 papers). Eric Backlund is often cited by papers focused on Health disparities and outcomes (9 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Employment and Welfare Studies (6 papers). Eric Backlund collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Eric Backlund's co-authors include Paul D. Sorlie, Norman J. Johnson, Jacob B. Keller, Eugene Rogot, Norman F. Johnson, George A. Kaplan, Roger T. Anderson, John Lynch, Michael Wolfson and Roger T. Anderson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, Stroke and American Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Eric Backlund

14 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

US mortality by economic, demographic, and social characteristics: the National Longitudinal Mortality Study.

1995 580 citations Paul D. Sorlie, Eric Backlund et al. American Journal of Public Health profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Backlund United States	13	1.4k	1.4k	462	258	241	14	2.6k
Tuija Martelin Finland	29	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	410 0.9×	226 0.9×	177 0.7×	74	2.7k
Richard P. Mero United States	11	1.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	669 1.4×	297 1.2×	251 1.0×	11	3.3k
Felicia LeClere United States	20	1.1k 0.7×	934 0.7×	891 1.9×	364 1.4×	113 0.5×	36	2.6k
Kristiina Manderbacka Finland	23	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	213 0.5×	209 0.8×	97 0.4×	97	2.6k
Nancy Moss United States	22	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	533 1.2×	438 1.7×	211 0.9×	55	4.3k
Albert‐Jan Roskam Netherlands	8	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.1×	167 0.4×	195 0.8×	126 0.5×	11	2.7k
M. Schaap Netherlands	8	1.6k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	168 0.4×	142 0.6×	185 0.8×	13	2.9k
Sylvie Gadeyne Belgium	22	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	236 0.5×	155 0.6×	295 1.2×	91	2.3k
José JM Geurts Netherlands	7	1.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.3×	201 0.4×	92 0.4×	105 0.4×	9	2.7k
Sally Macintyre United Kingdom	20	648 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	258 0.6×	169 0.7×	177 0.7×	43	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Backlund

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eric Backlund

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Backlund

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Blake, Kelly D., David B. Portnoy, Annette R. Kaufman, et al.. (2016). Rationale, Procedures, and Response Rates for the 2015 Administration of NCI’s Health Information National Trends Survey: HINTS-FDA 2015. Journal of Health Communication. 21(12). 1269–1275. 38 indexed citations

Arias, Elizabeth, et al.. (2009). The Hispanic Mortality Advantage and Ethnic Misclassification on US Death Certificates. American Journal of Public Health. 100(S1). S171–S177. 116 indexed citations

Backlund, Eric, Geoffrey M. Rowe, John Lynch, et al.. (2007). Income inequality and mortality: a multilevel prospective study of 521 248 individuals in 50 US states. International Journal of Epidemiology. 36(3). 590–596. 80 indexed citations

Johnson, Norman J., et al.. (2000). Marital Status and Mortality. Annals of Epidemiology. 10(4). 224–238. 444 indexed citations

Wolfson, Michael, G. A. Kaplan, John Lynch, et al.. (1999). Relation between income inequality and mortality: empirical demonstration Diminishing returns to aggregate level studies Two pathways, but how much do they diverge?. BMJ. 319(7215). 953–957. 125 indexed citations

Backlund, Eric, Paul D. Sorlie, & Norman J. Johnson. (1999). A comparison of the relationships of education and income with mortality: the national longitudinal mortality study. Social Science & Medicine. 49(10). 1373–1384. 205 indexed citations

Johnson, Norman J., Paul D. Sorlie, & Eric Backlund. (1999). The impact of specific occupation on mortality in the U.S. National Longitudinal Mortality Study. Demography. 36(3). 355–367. 60 indexed citations

Anderson, Roger T., Paul D. Sorlie, Eric Backlund, Norman F. Johnson, & George A. Kaplan. (1997). Mortality Effects of Community Socioeconomic Status. Epidemiology. 8(1). 42–47. 298 indexed citations

Backlund, Eric, Paul D. Sorlie, & Norman J. Johnson. (1996). The shape of the relationship between income and mortality in the United States. Annals of Epidemiology. 6(1). 12–20. 247 indexed citations

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Sorlie, Paul D., Eric Backlund, & Jacob B. Keller. (1995). US mortality by economic, demographic, and social characteristics: the National Longitudinal Mortality Study.. American Journal of Public Health. 85(7). 949–956. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rogot, Eugene, Paul D. Sorlie, & Eric Backlund. (1995). THE AUTHORS REPLY. American Journal of Epidemiology. 142(1). 99–99. 1 indexed citations

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Howard, George, Robert N. Anderson, Paul D. Sorlie, et al.. (1994). Ethnic differences in stroke mortality between non-Hispanic whites, Hispanic whites, and blacks. The National Longitudinal Mortality Study.. Stroke. 25(11). 2120–2125. 128 indexed citations

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Sorlie, Paul D., Eugene Rogot, Roger T. Anderson, Norman J. Johnson, & Eric Backlund. (1992). Black-white mortality differences by family income. The Lancet. 340(8815). 346–350. 137 indexed citations

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Rogot, Eugene, Paul D. Sorlie, & Eric Backlund. (1992). Air-conditioning and Mortality in Hot Weather. American Journal of Epidemiology. 136(1). 106–116. 106 indexed citations

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