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Researcher · La Jolla Alcohol Research · United States

Frank G. Back

Frank G. Back publishes mostly in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, on topics such as Advanced optical system design, Optical measurement and interference techniques and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,694,460
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,546,518
of 1,627,098
Works
22
Citations
62
Citations per work
2.8
h-index
5
i10-index 1Top 93% in Biomedical Engineering
Frank G. Back

What does Frank G. Back research?

Frank G. Back's work is mostly in Engineering (47%), Computer Science (14%), Physics and Astronomy (10%).

Physical Sciences: 16 works · 70.5% of their workEngineering: 10 works · 47.0% of their workBiomedical Engineering: 4 works · 17.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 15.7% of their workMedia Technology: 2 works · 7.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 1 works · 5.9% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 13.7% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 works · 13.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 2 works · 9.8% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 2 works · 9.8% of their workEverything else: 6 works · 29.5% of their workTHEIR WORKFrank G. Back22works
Physical Sciences70%

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. Engineering1047.0%
    2. Computer Science313.7%
    3. Physics and Astronomy29.8%
  2. Everything else629.5%
  1. 1Biomedical Engineering18% of their works
  2. 2Electrical and Electronic Engineering16% of their works
  3. 3Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition14% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics10% of their works
  5. 5Media Technology8% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frank G. Back's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Compound Eyes, Freeform Optics, Depth Estimation, Machine Vision, Adaptive Optics, Camera Calibration, Structured Light and Wavefront Sensing.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Compound Eyes81 topic
  2. Freeform Optics81 topic
  3. Depth Estimation52 topics
  4. Machine Vision52 topics
  5. Adaptive Optics41 topic
  6. Camera Calibration41 topic
  7. Structured Light41 topic
  8. Wavefront Sensing41 topic
  9. Autofocusing31 topic
  10. Dimensional Metrology31 topic
  11. Error Compensation31 topic
  12. Microscopy31 topic
  13. Optical Modulators31 topic
  14. Silicon Photonics31 topic
  15. Optical Flow21 topic
  16. Roughness Measurement21 topic
  17. Stereo Vision21 topic
  18. Surface Characterization21 topic

Where does Frank G. Back work?

Frank G. Back's main affiliation in the publication record is La Jolla Alcohol Research, United States.

How many publications and citations does Frank G. Back have?

OpenAlex counts 22 works and 62 citations for Frank G. Back, an h-index of 5, ranking #6,694,460 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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