Michael Backes

2.2k total citations
54 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Backes is a scholar working on Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Backes has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Information Systems, 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 20 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Michael Backes's work include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (20 papers), Security and Verification in Computing (9 papers) and Spam and Phishing Detection (8 papers). Michael Backes is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (20 papers), Security and Verification in Computing (9 papers) and Spam and Phishing Detection (8 papers). Michael Backes collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Spain. Michael Backes's co-authors include Ben Stock, Sven Bugiel, Sascha Fahl, Yasemin Acar, Doowon Kim, Christian Stransky, Michelle L. Mazurek, Erik Derr, Xinyue Shen and Günter Karjoth and has published in prestigious journals such as Advanced Science, Lecture notes in computer science and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

In The Last Decade

Michael Backes

46 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Backes Germany 19 684 493 483 243 201 54 1.1k
Alexandros Kapravelos United States 15 831 1.2× 665 1.3× 530 1.1× 251 1.0× 210 1.0× 30 1.0k
Leo A. Meyerovich United States 12 513 0.8× 163 0.3× 568 1.2× 316 1.3× 278 1.4× 19 1.0k
Stuart G. Stubblebine United States 16 665 1.0× 201 0.4× 735 1.5× 546 2.2× 296 1.5× 38 1.2k
Panagiotis Andriotis United Kingdom 12 303 0.4× 387 0.8× 169 0.3× 284 1.2× 59 0.3× 18 683
Luca Invernizzi United States 13 874 1.3× 1.0k 2.1× 796 1.6× 951 3.9× 139 0.7× 18 1.7k
Nobukazu Yoshioka Japan 15 619 0.9× 215 0.4× 292 0.6× 301 1.2× 98 0.5× 140 874
Sven Bugiel Germany 20 1.1k 1.7× 1.4k 2.8× 736 1.5× 513 2.1× 161 0.8× 47 1.7k
Sebastian Schrittwieser Austria 13 580 0.8× 445 0.9× 296 0.6× 299 1.2× 85 0.4× 65 832
Nick Nikiforakis United States 22 1.4k 2.1× 1.1k 2.3× 1.2k 2.4× 507 2.1× 396 2.0× 72 2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Backes

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Backes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Backes

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All Works

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Zhang, Zhikun, et al.. (2025). Revealing the Risk of Hyper-Parameter Leakage in Deep Reinforcement Learning Models. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 23(1). 1514–1527.
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Shen, Xinyue, et al.. (2024). MGTBench: Benchmarking Machine-Generated Text Detection. 2251–2265. 11 indexed citations
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Ma, Peihua, Yixin Wu, Ning Yu, et al.. (2024). Integrating Vision‐Language Models for Accelerated High‐Throughput Nutrition Screening. Advanced Science. 11(34). e2403578–e2403578. 7 indexed citations
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Shen, Xinyue, et al.. (2023). Unsafe Diffusion: On the Generation of Unsafe Images and Hateful Memes From Text-To-Image Models. 3403–3417. 20 indexed citations
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Backes, Michael, et al.. (2022). Pareto-optimal Defenses for the Web Infrastructure: Theory and Practice. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security. 26(2). 1–36. 2 indexed citations
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Calzavara, Stefano, et al.. (2020). A Tale of Two Headers: A Formal Analysis of Inconsistent Click-Jacking Protection on the Web. Figshare. 683–697. 9 indexed citations
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Backes, Michael, et al.. (2020). Assessing the Impact of Script Gadgets on CSP at Scale. Figshare. 420–431. 7 indexed citations
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Fahl, Sascha, et al.. (2018). Better managed than memorized? Studying the Impact of Managers on Password Strength and Reuse. Figshare. 203–220. 22 indexed citations
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Stransky, Christian, Yasemin Acar, Duc Cuong Nguyen, et al.. (2017). Lessons Learned from Using an Online Platform to Conduct Large-Scale, Online Controlled Security Experiments with Software Developers. USENIX Security Symposium. 5 indexed citations
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Backes, Michael, et al.. (2016). On Demystifying the Android Application Framework: Re-Visiting Android Permission Specification Analysis. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 1101–1118. 68 indexed citations
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Backes, Michael, Goran Doychev, & Boris Köpf. (2013). Preventing Side-Channel Leaks in Web Traffic: A Formal Approach.. 27 Suppl 2. S4–9. 16 indexed citations
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Backes, Michael & Peng Ning. (2009). Computer Security ESORICS 2009 : 14th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Saint-Malo, France, September 21-23, 2009. Proceedings. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 9 indexed citations
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Katsikas, Sokratis, Javier López, Michael Backes, Stefanos Gritzalis, & Bart Preneel. (2006). Information security : 9th International Conference, ISC 2006, Samos Island, Greece, August 30- September 2, 2006 : proceedings. Springer eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Katsikas, Sokratis, et al.. (2006). Information Security: 9th International Conference; ISC 2006, Samos Island, Greece, August 30 - September 2, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Backes, Michael & Lutz Plümer. (2005). Describing weed patches by shape parameters. 163–168. 1 indexed citations
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Backes, Michael, Dietmar Schumacher, & Lutz Plümer. (2005). The sampling problem in weed control - are currently applied sampling strategies adequate for site-specific weed control?. 155–161. 5 indexed citations
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Backes, Michael, David Basin, & Michael Waidner. (2003). 10th ACM conference on Computer and communications security (CCS 2003). 34 indexed citations

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