Richard W. Backs

1.7k total citations
43 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Richard W. Backs is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard W. Backs has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Social Psychology, 21 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 17 papers in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine. Recurrent topics in Richard W. Backs's work include Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (24 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (17 papers) and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (16 papers). Richard W. Backs is often cited by papers focused on Human-Automation Interaction and Safety (24 papers), Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (17 papers) and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (16 papers). Richard W. Backs collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Austria. Richard W. Backs's co-authors include John Lenneman, Larry C. Walrath, Kyunghee Han, Nicholas D. Cassavaugh, Joel T. Nigg, Joshua Domeyer, Erica D. Musser, Jennifer C. Ablow, Anne M. Schell and James H. Satterfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychophysiology, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology and Accident Analysis & Prevention.

In The Last Decade

Richard W. Backs

42 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard W. Backs United States 19 508 462 294 269 191 43 1.2k
Carolina Díaz-Piedra Spain 23 350 0.7× 336 0.7× 401 1.4× 134 0.5× 267 1.4× 42 1.2k
Alan Pope United States 13 489 1.0× 473 1.0× 157 0.5× 116 0.4× 50 0.3× 44 1.2k
Kirby Gilliland United States 20 479 0.9× 562 1.2× 546 1.9× 89 0.3× 123 0.6× 39 1.8k
Jarek Krajewski Germany 20 573 1.1× 368 0.8× 1.3k 4.4× 188 0.7× 85 0.4× 71 2.2k
P.R. Davidson New Zealand 19 272 0.5× 714 1.5× 332 1.1× 99 0.4× 163 0.9× 39 1.7k
Paul N. Russell New Zealand 22 547 1.1× 942 2.0× 369 1.3× 100 0.4× 143 0.7× 66 1.5k
Michael Ingre Sweden 24 595 1.2× 391 0.8× 1.3k 4.5× 81 0.3× 82 0.4× 63 2.0k
Joan N. Vickers Canada 27 852 1.7× 1.4k 3.0× 270 0.9× 71 0.3× 245 1.3× 59 3.5k
Karl F. Van Orden United States 11 270 0.5× 249 0.5× 214 0.7× 47 0.2× 101 0.5× 15 683
Roberto La Marca Switzerland 25 788 1.6× 527 1.1× 683 2.3× 447 1.7× 173 0.9× 65 2.4k

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All Works

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Oliver, Michele, et al.. (2015). The relationship between ADHD symptoms and driving behavior in college students: The mediating effects of negative emotions and emotion control. Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. 30. 14–21. 18 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W., et al.. (2015). Cardiac Response During Auditory Selective Attention to Tones and Affective Sounds. Psychophysiology. 52(8). 1099–1105. 3 indexed citations
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Domeyer, Joshua, Nicholas D. Cassavaugh, & Richard W. Backs. (2013). The use of adaptation to reduce simulator sickness in driving assessment and research. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 53. 127–132. 72 indexed citations
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Musser, Erica D., et al.. (2011). Emotion Regulation via the Autonomic Nervous System in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology. 39(6). 841–852. 128 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W., et al.. (2008). Effects of obstructive sleep apnea on autonomic cardiac control during sleep. Sleep And Breathing. 13(2). 147–156. 20 indexed citations
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Quigley, Karen S., et al.. (2006). Cardiovascular Measures of Attention to Illusory and Nonillusory Visual Stimuli. Journal of Psychophysiology. 20(4). 276–285. 18 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W., et al.. (2003). Cardiac Measures of Driver Workload during Simulated Driving with and without Visual Occlusion. Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. 45(4). 525–538. 54 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W.. (2000). Application of Psychophysiological Models to Mental Workload. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 44(21). 3–464. 3 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W., et al.. (1999). THE USE OF AUTONOMIC COMPONENTS TO IMPROVE CARDIOVASCULAR ASSESSMENT OF MENTAL WORKLOAD IN FLIGHT SIMULATION. International Journal of Aviation Psychology. 9(1). 16 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W.. (1997). Psychophysiological aspects of selective and divided attention during continuous manual tracking. Acta Psychologica. 96(3). 167–191. 13 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W.. (1995). Going Beyond Heart Rate: Autonomic Space and Cardiovascular Assessment of Mental Workload. International Journal of Aviation Psychology. 5(1). 25–48. 41 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W. & Larry C. Walrath. (1995). Ocular measures of redundancy gain during visual search of colour symbolic displays. Ergonomics. 38(9). 1831–1840. 12 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W., et al.. (1995). Topographic EEG Changes across Single-To-Dual Task Performance of Mental Arithmetic and Tracking. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 39(14). 953–953. 3 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W., et al.. (1994). Metabolic and cardiorespiratory measures of mental effort: the effects of level of difficulty in a working memory task. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 16(1). 57–68. 157 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W. & Larry C. Walrath. (1992). Eye movement and pupillary response indices of mental workload during visual search of symbolic displays. Applied Ergonomics. 23(4). 243–254. 93 indexed citations
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Satterfield, James H., Anne M. Schell, Thomas Nicholas, & Richard W. Backs. (1988). Topographic Study of Auditory Event‐Related Potentials in Normal Boys and Boys with Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity. Psychophysiology. 25(5). 591–606. 63 indexed citations
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Satterfield, James H., Anne M. Schell, & Richard W. Backs. (1987). Longitudinal study of AERPs in hyperactive and normal children: relationship to antisocial behavior. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. 67(6). 531–536. 9 indexed citations
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Backs, Richard W. & William W. Grings. (1985). Effects of UCS Probability on the Contingent Negative Variation and Electrodermal Response During Long ISI Conditioning. Psychophysiology. 22(3). 268–275. 7 indexed citations

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