Irena Backus

181 total papers · 916 total citations
31 papers, 46 citations indexed

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Irena Backus is a scholar working on History, Classics and Religious studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Irena Backus has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 46 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in History, 7 papers in Classics and 7 papers in Religious studies. Recurrent topics in Irena Backus’s work include Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (18 papers), Theology and Canon Law Studies (5 papers) and Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 papers). Irena Backus is often cited by papers focused on Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (18 papers), Theology and Canon Law Studies (5 papers) and Historical and Linguistic Studies (4 papers). Irena Backus collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland and Netherlands. Irena Backus's co-authors include Randall C. Zachman, Robert M. Kingdon, Kim Js, Bernard Roussel, Elsie Anne McKee, Christoph Burger, Francis Higman and Jeffrey R. Watt and has published in prestigious journals such as Sixteenth Century Journal, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie and Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irena Backus

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

Irena Backus

17 papers receiving 34 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Irena Backus

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Irena Backus

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