John Backus

Active 1960–2005

Affiliations
IBM (United States)University of Southern CaliforniaDraper LaboratoryThis corpus build does not record the country of an author's affiliations, so none is shown here. It does not mean these institutions have no country.
18
Papers
4,236
Citations
17
h-index
17
i10-index

Self-citations are included in these numbers.

Citations per year

Citations

Citations per year for John Backus1961: 3 citations1962: 1 citations1963: 4 citations1964: 5 citations1965: 3 citations1966: 2 citations1967: 1 citations1968: 4 citations1969: 1 citations1971: 2 citations1972: 2 citations1973: 6 citations1974: 7 citations1975: 9 citations1976: 14 citations1977: 26 citations1978: 22 citations1979: 22 citations1980: 17 citations1981: 13 citations1982: 21 citations1983: 14 citations1984: 5 citations1985: 12 citations1986: 11 citations1987: 7 citations1988: 7 citations1989: 4 citations1990: 7 citations1991: 1 citations1992: 7 citations1993: 11 citations1994: 8 citations1995: 9 citations1996: 14 citations1997: 8 citations1998: 5 citations1999: 10 citations2000: 10 citations2001: 5 citations2002: 9 citations2003: 11 citations2004: 15 citations2005: 7 citations2006: 9 citations2007: 14 citations2008: 24 citations2009: 29 citations2010: 23 citations2011: 19 citations2012: 25 citations2013: 11 citations2014: 11 citations2015: 15 citations2016: 9 citations2017: 8 citations2018: 11 citations2019: 35 citations2020: 21 citations2021: 34 citations2022: 12 citations2023: 5 citations2024: 8 citations2025: 3 citations1970: no citations, so this year is not shown

Citation sources

Countries

This corpus build does not record which country the citing authors are in, so the country breakdown is not computed. The other breakdowns below are unaffected.

Fields

  • Computer Science61%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology19.2%
  • Medicine7.9%
  • Engineering4.4%
  • Neuroscience2%
  • Immunology and Microbiology1.2%
  • Other4.4%

Topics

  • Logic, programming, and type systems20.7%
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques9.4%
  • Music Technology and Sound Studies9.1%
  • Music and Audio Processing7.5%
  • Formal Methods in Verification7.1%
  • semigroups and automata theory6.4%
  • Other39.8%

Frequent coauthors

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