Ralph‐Johan Back

1.5k total citations
37 papers, 575 citations indexed

About

Ralph‐Johan Back is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph‐Johan Back has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 575 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 22 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 9 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Ralph‐Johan Back's work include Logic, programming, and type systems (19 papers), Formal Methods in Verification (18 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (8 papers). Ralph‐Johan Back is often cited by papers focused on Logic, programming, and type systems (19 papers), Formal Methods in Verification (18 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (8 papers). Ralph‐Johan Back collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Italy and United Kingdom. Ralph‐Johan Back's co-authors include Joakim Wright, Kaisa Sere, Tapio Salakoski, Ion Petre, Iván Porres, Corrado Priami, Lea Sistonen, Linda Mannila, John Eriksson and Michael Butler and has published in prestigious journals such as Lecture notes in computer science, Networks and Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory.

In The Last Decade

Ralph‐Johan Back

34 papers receiving 530 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralph‐Johan Back Finland 12 326 293 148 89 81 37 575
Loris D’Antoni United States 15 341 1.0× 131 0.4× 197 1.3× 222 2.5× 115 1.4× 56 679
Anne Brüggemann-Klein Germany 9 383 1.2× 191 0.7× 54 0.4× 71 0.8× 30 0.4× 43 487
Kathleen Jensen United States 5 342 1.0× 152 0.5× 108 0.7× 104 1.2× 174 2.1× 7 571
Roland Backhouse United Kingdom 15 511 1.6× 402 1.4× 106 0.7× 85 1.0× 84 1.0× 52 676
Michael Kohlhase Germany 15 569 1.7× 427 1.5× 52 0.4× 68 0.8× 19 0.2× 118 792
Richard Rasala United States 15 170 0.5× 76 0.3× 108 0.7× 148 1.7× 52 0.6× 54 582
Corrado Böhm Italy 7 391 1.2× 250 0.9× 117 0.8× 161 1.8× 115 1.4× 25 636
Timothy A. Budd United States 15 224 0.7× 99 0.3× 595 4.0× 387 4.3× 190 2.3× 45 943
Lee Naish Australia 15 399 1.2× 210 0.7× 576 3.9× 469 5.3× 54 0.7× 54 974
Saul Schleimer United States 11 325 1.0× 65 0.2× 141 1.0× 408 4.6× 22 0.3× 38 986

Countries citing papers authored by Ralph‐Johan Back

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralph‐Johan Back

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralph‐Johan Back

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2013). Verification and code generation for invariant diagrams in Isabelle. Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming. 84(1). 19–36. 1 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2010). ‘It takes me longer, but I understand better’ – student feedback on structured derivations. International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 41(5). 575–593. 3 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2010). Semantics and Data Refinement of Invariant Based Programs.. 2010. 2 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2010). Verification of the Deutsch-Schorr-Waite Graph Marking Algorithm using Data Refinement.. 2010. 3 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2010). STUDENT JUSTIFICATIONS IN HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS. 8 indexed citations
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Priami, Corrado, Ion Petre, & Ralph‐Johan Back. (2009). Transactions on Computational Systems Biology XI. Lecture notes in computer science. 16 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan. (2008). Refinement calculus as a theory of contracts. 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2006). Why complicate things?: introducing programming in high school using Python. Australasian Computing Education Conference. 71–80. 72 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2006). Verifying Invariant Based Programs in the SOCOS Environment. Electronic workshops in computing. 6 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2003). Reasoning about recursive procedures with parameters. 1–7. 2 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan. (2002). Compositional Action System Refinement.. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. 70. 3. 1 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2001). Continuous action systems as a model for hybrid systems. Nordic journal of computing. 8(1). 2–21. 12 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2000). Modeling and Verifying a Temperature Control System using Continuous Action Systems. 265–286. 4 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (2000). Class Refinement as Semantics of Correct Object Substitutability. Formal Aspects of Computing. 12(1). 18–40. 12 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan & Joakim Wright. (2000). Encoding, Decoding and Data Refinement. Formal Aspects of Computing. 12(5). 313–349. 8 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan, et al.. (1999). Analysing UML use cases as contracts. Lecture notes in computer science. 518–533. 13 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan & Joakim Wright. (1998). Refinement Calculus. 146 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan & Kaisa Sere. (1994). Action Systems with Synchronous Communication. 107–126. 13 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan. (1990). Refinement Concepts Formalized in Higher Order Logic.. 179–200. 6 indexed citations
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Back, Ralph‐Johan & Kaisa Sere. (1989). Stepwise refinement of action systems. Lecture notes in computer science. 12. 115–138. 42 indexed citations

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