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Researcher · Tilburg University · Netherlands

Ad Backus

Ad Backus publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Developmental and Educational Psychology, on topics such as Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Multilingual Education and Policy and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity.

ORCID 0000-0001-8596-8915 OpenAlex
World rank
#350,846
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Netherlands
#8,854
of 107,149
Works
171
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
19.4
h-index
27
i10-index 58Top 2.4% in Language and Linguistics
Ad Backus

What does Ad Backus research?

Ad Backus's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (31%), Social Sciences (23%), Psychology (12%).

Social Sciences: 113 works · 65.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 53 works · 30.8% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 53 works · 30.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 40 works · 23.2% of their workLinguistics and Language: 40 works · 23.2% of their workPsychology: 20 works · 11.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 14 works · 8.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 40 works · 23.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 11 works · 6.7% of their workComputer Science: 11 works · 6.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 11 works · 6.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 3.8% of their workHealth Professions: 6 works · 3.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 6 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAd Backus171works
Physical Sciences7%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences66%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities5330.8%
    2. Social Sciences4023.2%
    3. Psychology2011.9%
  2. Everything else4023.6%
    1. Computer Science116.7%
    1. Health Professions63.8%
  1. 1Language and Linguistics31% of their works
  2. 2Linguistics and Language23% of their works
  3. 3Developmental and Educational Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence7% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ad Backus's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sociolinguistics, Language Policy, Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Language Change, Sociolinguistic Variation, Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy and Translanguaging.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Sociolinguistics832 topics
  2. Language Policy582 topics
  3. Multilingualism582 topics
  4. Bilingualism502 topics
  5. Language Change501 topic
  6. Sociolinguistic Variation501 topic
  7. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy461 topic
  8. Translanguaging461 topic
  9. Pragmatics452 topics
  10. Language Contact371 topic
  11. Linguistic Borrowing371 topic
  12. Social Interaction372 topics
  13. Conversation Analysis241 topic
  14. Interactional Linguistics241 topic
  15. Semantics211 topic
  16. Syntax211 topic
  17. Neural Machine Translation171 topic
  18. Statistical Machine Translation171 topic
  19. Language Development131 topic
  20. Speech and Language Disorder131 topic
  21. CLIL121 topic
  22. Content and Language Integrated Learning121 topic

Where does Ad Backus work?

Ad Backus's main affiliation in the publication record is Tilburg University, Netherlands.

How many publications and citations does Ad Backus have?

OpenAlex counts 171 works and 3,323 citations for Ad Backus, an h-index of 27, ranking #350,846 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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