John Backus

729 citations
30 papers · 422 indexed · h-index 11
Topics
Music Technology and Sound Studies (24 papers)Music and Audio Processing (14 papers)Diverse Musicological Studies (11 papers)
Partner nations
United States

In The Last Decade

John Backus

28 papers receiving 352 citations

Peers

John Backus
Comparison fields: 5 of 76
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 271
  • Signal Processing 208
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 114
  • Biomedical Engineering 67
  • Music 57
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Countries citing papers authored by John Backus

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Backus

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Backus

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

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About John Backus

John Backus is a scholar working on Music, Signal Processing and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, having authored 30 papers that have together received 422 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Music Technology and Sound Studies (24 papers), Music and Audio Processing (14 papers) and Diverse Musicological Studies (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Signal Processing (208 citations), Music (57 citations) and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (271 citations). John Backus has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Wayne Slawson, M. V. Mathews, John W. Coltman and Thomas D. Rossing. Their work appears in journals such as Physics Today, Communications of the ACM and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

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