George E. Backus

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

George E. Backus is a scholar working on Geophysics, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, George E. Backus has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Geophysics, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in George E. Backus's work include Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (15 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers) and Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (10 papers). George E. Backus is often cited by papers focused on Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (15 papers), Geophysics and Gravity Measurements (12 papers) and Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods (10 papers). George E. Backus collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Czechia. George E. Backus's co-authors include Jock Gilbert, Freeman Gilbert, Robert L. Parker, Loren Shure, Jean‐Louis Le Mouël, Coerte V. Voorhies, S. Chandrasekhar, D. S. Chinn, R. H. Estes and R. A. Langel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

George E. Backus

42 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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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.

Long-wave elastic anisotropy produced by horizontal layering

1962 1.2k citations George E. Backus Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres profile →
Numerical Applications of a Formalism for Geophysical Inverse Problems

1967 659 citations George E. Backus, Jock Gilbert Geophysical Journal International profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
George E. Backus United States	22	2.9k	917	825	713	526	43	4.2k
Freeman Gilbert United States	39	5.4k 1.8×	417 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	913 1.3×	501 1.0×	77	7.2k
George Backus United States	19	2.0k 0.7×	585 0.6×	520 0.6×	458 0.6×	247 0.5×	40	3.8k
F. A. Dahlen United States	49	11.6k 3.9×	551 0.6×	1.4k 1.7×	1.1k 1.5×	577 1.1×	125	13.0k
William Menke United States	34	5.0k 1.7×	177 0.2×	1.0k 1.2×	401 0.6×	270 0.5×	125	6.2k
Alan D. Chave United States	43	4.7k 1.6×	727 0.8×	1.9k 2.4×	1.0k 1.4×	483 0.9×	145	6.4k
Bernard Valette France	21	2.7k 0.9×	143 0.2×	650 0.8×	283 0.4×	259 0.5×	33	4.1k
Douglas W. Oldenburg Canada	51	10.2k 3.5×	941 1.0×	6.5k 7.9×	1.2k 1.7×	384 0.7×	290	11.4k
Jeroen Tromp United States	59	12.8k 4.3×	313 0.3×	2.8k 3.4×	842 1.2×	970 1.8×	241	14.7k
Steven Constable United States	46	8.7k 3.0×	532 0.6×	5.0k 6.0×	1.1k 1.6×	365 0.7×	164	9.6k
B. L. N. Kennett Australia	65	18.9k 6.4×	192 0.2×	1.9k 2.4×	456 0.6×	607 1.2×	386	19.9k

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Backus, George E.. (1989). Confidence Set Inference with a Prior Quadratic Bound. Geophysical Journal International. 97(1). 119–150. 21 indexed citations

Backus, George E.. (1988). Bayesian inference in geomagnetism. Geophysical Journal International. 92(1). 125–142. 135 indexed citations

Backus, George E.. (1988). Comparing hard and soft prior bounds in geophysical inverse problems. Geophysical Journal International. 94(2). 249–261. 51 indexed citations

Backus, George E. & Jean‐Louis Le Mouël. (1987). The region on the core--mantle boundary where a geostrophic velocity field can be determined from frozen-flux magnetic data. Geophysical Journal International. 88(1). 321–322. 7 indexed citations

Backus, George E., R. H. Estes, D. S. Chinn, & R. A. Langel. (1987). Comparing the jerk with other global models of the geomagnetic field from 1960 to 1978. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 92(B5). 3615–3622. 9 indexed citations

Backus, George E. & Jean‐Louis Le Mouël. (1986). The region on the core--mantle boundary where a geostrophic velocity field can be determined from frozen-flux magnetic data. Geophysical Journal International. 85(3). 617–628. 93 indexed citations

Backus, George E.. (1982). Reply: Limits of validity of first‐order perturbation theory for quasi‐P velocity in weakly anisotropic media. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 87(B6). 4641–4644. 8 indexed citations

Backus, George E.. (1982). The electric field produced in the mantle by the dynamo in the core. Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors. 28(3). 191–214. 30 indexed citations

Backus, George E.. (1979). An L ² form of Bernstein's inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 76(7). 3061–3064. 2 indexed citations

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Backus, George E.. (1977). Seismic sources with observable glut moments of spatial degree two. Geophysical Journal International. 51(1). 27–45. 48 indexed citations

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Backus, George E.. (1974). Determination of the external geomagnetic field from intensity measurements. Geophysical Research Letters. 1(1). 21–21. 13 indexed citations

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Backus, George E.. (1969). Critique of “the resonant structure of the solar system” by A.M. Molchanov. Icarus. 11(1). 88–92. 4 indexed citations

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Miles, John W. & George E. Backus. (1968). A note on the potential flow past a lemniscate and a general method of Milne-Thomson. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 26(3). 441–442. 2 indexed citations

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Backus, George E. & Jock Gilbert. (1967). Numerical Applications of a Formalism for Geophysical Inverse Problems. Geophysical Journal International. 13(1-3). 247–276. 659 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gilbert, Freeman & George E. Backus. (1966). Propagation matrices in elastic wave and vibration problems. Geophysics. 31(2). 326–332. 443 indexed citations

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Isaacs, John D., et al.. (1966). Response : Sky-Hook. Science. 152(3723). 800–800. 1 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Freeman & George E. Backus. (1966). Propagator matrices in elastic wave and vibration problems. Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica. 10(3). 271–271. 3 indexed citations

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Backus, George E.. (1962). The effect of the earth's rotation on the propagation of ocean waves over long distances. Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts. 9(5-6). 185–197. 11 indexed citations

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Backus, George E.. (1962). The propagation of short elastic surface waves on a slowly rotating earth. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 52(4). 823–846. 21 indexed citations

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Backus, George E.. (1960). Linearized Plasma Oscillations in Arbitrary Electron Distributions. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 1(6). 559–559. 3 indexed citations

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