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Researcher · Franklin & Marshall College · United States

D. E. Backman

D. E. Backman publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Aerospace Engineering, on topics such as Astro and Planetary Science, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

OpenAlex
World rank
#367,113
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#132,439
of 358,040
Works
50
Citations
192
Citations per work
3.8

What does D. E. Backman research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 65.2%Instrumentation: 13.6%Aerospace Engineering: 7.6%Geophysics: 3.0%other fields: 10.6%65%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics65.2%Instrumentation13.6%Aerospace Engineering7.6%Geophysics3.0%other fields10.6%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics65% of their works
  2. 2Instrumentation14% of their works
  3. 3Aerospace Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Geophysics3% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics3% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe D. E. Backman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Solar System Abundances, Terrestrial Planets, Exoplanets, Stellar Astrophysics, Astronomical Instrumentation, Spectrograph, Molecular Clouds and Star Formation.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Solar System Abundances151 topic
  2. Terrestrial Planets151 topic
  3. Exoplanets131 topic
  4. Stellar Astrophysics131 topic
  5. Astronomical Instrumentation91 topic
  6. Spectrograph91 topic
  7. Molecular Clouds61 topic
  8. Star Formation61 topic
  9. Extravehicular Activity41 topic
  10. Space Suit41 topic
  11. Gamma-Ray Bursts31 topic
  12. Mars31 topic
  13. Martian Surface31 topic
  14. Supernovae31 topic
  15. Optical 3D Laser Measurement21 topic
  16. Position-Sensitive Detector21 topic

Where does D. E. Backman work?

D. E. Backman's main affiliation in the publication record is Franklin & Marshall College, United States.

How many publications and citations does D. E. Backman have?

Science Explorer counts 50 works and 192 citations for D. E. Backman, ranking #367,113 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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