George Backus

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
40 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

George Backus is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, George Backus has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Oceanography and 7 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in George Backus's work include Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (8 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (7 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (5 papers). George Backus is often cited by papers focused on Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (8 papers), Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (7 papers) and Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (5 papers). George Backus collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and France. George Backus's co-authors include Freeman Gilbert, Catherine Constable, Robert L. Parker, M. Rieutord, Jeffrey Park, Steven Fernandez, Thomas J. Wilbanks, Rae Zimmerman, Roger F. Naill and Drake Warren and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Astrophysical Journal and Reviews of Geophysics.

In The Last Decade

George Backus

35 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Resolving Power of Gross Earth Data

1968 1.1k citations George Backus, Freeman Gilbert Geophysical Journal International profile →
Uniqueness in the inversion of inaccurate gross Earth data

1970 999 citations George Backus, Freeman Gilbert Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Backus United States	19	2.0k	585	524	520	458	40	3.8k
George E. Backus United States	22	2.9k 1.5×	917 1.6×	453 0.9×	825 1.6×	713 1.6×	43	4.2k
Freeman Gilbert United States	39	5.4k 2.7×	417 0.7×	356 0.7×	1.4k 2.8×	913 2.0×	77	7.2k
M. Holschneider Germany	33	2.0k 1.0×	700 1.2×	273 0.5×	304 0.6×	662 1.4×	152	4.2k
Bernard Valette France	21	2.7k 1.3×	143 0.2×	741 1.4×	650 1.3×	283 0.6×	33	4.1k
K. G. Budden United Kingdom	22	1.0k 0.5×	261 0.4×	2.2k 4.1×	657 1.3×	281 0.6×	71	5.6k
James R. Wait United States	44	2.8k 1.4×	178 0.3×	2.2k 4.2×	2.3k 4.5×	464 1.0×	637	9.6k
Sydney Chapman United States	29	694 0.3×	925 1.6×	2.8k 5.4×	419 0.8×	547 1.2×	93	6.4k
Norman J. Zabusky United States	44	383 0.2×	265 0.5×	1.1k 2.1×	243 0.5×	1.0k 2.2×	133	8.3k
Robert D. Richtmyer United States	13	625 0.3×	114 0.2×	707 1.3×	453 0.9×	255 0.6×	28	7.8k
Russell J. Donnelly United States	36	257 0.1×	356 0.6×	993 1.9×	254 0.5×	141 0.3×	114	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by George Backus

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Backus

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Backus

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of George Backus. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of George Backus 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 George Backus. George Backus is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Backus, George, et al.. (2018). A Regional Model of Climate Change and Human Migration. International Journal of System Dynamics Applications. 8(1). 1–22. 7 indexed citations

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Backus, George & M. Rieutord. (2017). Completeness of inertial modes of an incompressible inviscid fluid in a corotating ellipsoid. Physical review. E. 95(5). 53116–53116. 21 indexed citations

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Backus, George, et al.. (2016). Using a Hybrid Cognitive-System Dynamics Model to Anticipate the Influence of Events and Actions on Human Behaviors.. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

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Wilbanks, Thomas J., et al.. (2014). "Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities.” Report to the U.S. Department of Energy in Support of the National Climate Assessment, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2012.. 22 indexed citations

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Backus, George, et al.. (2012). The near-term risk of climate uncertainty among the U.S. states. Climatic Change. 116(3-4). 495–522. 7 indexed citations

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Backus, George. (2012). Arctic 2030: What are the consequences of climate change?. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 68(4). 9–16. 5 indexed citations

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Backus, George, et al.. (1992). Excess: een milieu-economisch expertsysteem voor varkenshouders. Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling. 6(5). 2–5. 1 indexed citations

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Backus, George. (1986). Poloidal and toroidal fields in geomagnetic field modeling. Reviews of Geophysics. 24(1). 75–109. 131 indexed citations

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Naill, Roger F. & George Backus. (1977). Evaluating the national energy plan. Biochimie. 92(10). 1296–305. 5 indexed citations

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Backus, George, et al.. (1976). Moment tensors and other phenomenological descriptions of seismic sources--II. Discontinuous displacements. Geophysical Journal International. 47(2). 301–329. 110 indexed citations

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Backus, George. (1970). A geometrical picture of anisotropic elastic tensors. Reviews of Geophysics. 8(3). 633–671. 164 indexed citations

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Backus, George & Freeman Gilbert. (1970). Uniqueness in the inversion of inaccurate gross Earth data. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 266(1173). 123–192. 999 indexed citations breakdown →

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Backus, George. (1970). Inference from Inadequate and Inaccurate Data, II. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 65(2). 281–287. 56 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman & George Backus. (1968). A computational proplem encountered in a study of the earth's normal modes. 1273–1273. 1 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman & George Backus. (1965). The rotational splitting of the free oscillations of the Earth, 2. Reviews of Geophysics. 3(1). 1–9. 24 indexed citations

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Backus, George & Freeman Gilbert. (1961). THE ROTATIONAL SPLITTING OF THE FREE OSCILLATIONS OF THE EARTH. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 47(3). 362–371. 106 indexed citations

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Backus, George. (1960). Linearized Plasma Oscillations in Arbitrary Electron Velocity Distributions. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 1(3). 178–191. 63 indexed citations

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Backus, George. (1958). A class of self-sustaining dissipative spherical dynamos. Annals of Physics. 4(4). 372–447. 224 indexed citations

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Backus, George. (1957). The Axisymmetric Self-Exicited Fluid Dynamo.. The Astrophysical Journal. 125. 500–500. 21 indexed citations

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Backus, George. (1956). The External Electric Field of a Rotating Magnet.. The Astrophysical Journal. 123. 508–508. 16 indexed citations

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