Howard Backer

64 total papers · 973 total citations
31 papers, 611 citations indexed

About

Howard Backer is a scholar working on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Howard Backer has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 611 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, 6 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Howard Backer’s work include Travel-related health issues (8 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (5 papers) and High Altitude and Hypoxia (5 papers). Howard Backer is often cited by papers focused on Travel-related health issues (8 papers), Climate Change and Health Impacts (5 papers) and High Altitude and Hypoxia (5 papers). Howard Backer collaborates with scholars based in United States and Ireland. Howard Backer's co-authors include Joseph G. Hollowell, Lynn Ackerson, Howard Barkan, D U Himmelstein, Stephanie Woolhandler, Martha Harnly, Duc J. Vugia, Jeffery A. Goad, Stephen M. Collins and Somayeh Honarmand and has published in prestigious journals such as JAMA, PEDIATRICS and American Journal of Public Health.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Howard Backer

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

Howard Backer

30 papers receiving 560 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Howard Backer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Howard Backer. 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 Howard Backer. The network helps show where Howard Backer may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Howard Backer

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Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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