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Researcher · Royal Ontario Museum · Canada

Malcolm E. Back

Malcolm E. Back publishes mostly in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Geophysics and Geochemistry and Petrology, on topics such as Crystal Structures and Properties, Mineralogy and Gemology Studies and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

ORCID 0000-0003-4088-2653 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,506,525
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#37,207
of 38,960
Works
15
Citations
21
Citations per work
1.4

What does Malcolm E. Back research?

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 17.6%Geophysics: 11.8%Geochemistry and Petrology: 11.8%Inorganic Chemistry: 11.8%other fields: 47.0%18%top field
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials17.6%Geophysics11.8%Geochemistry and Petrology11.8%Inorganic Chemistry11.8%other fields47.0%

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

  1. 1Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials18% of their works
  2. 2Geophysics12% of their works
  3. 3Geochemistry and Petrology12% of their works
  4. 4Inorganic Chemistry12% of their works
  5. 5Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering12% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry12% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Malcolm E. Back's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Crystal Growth, Crystallographic Computing, Nonlinear Optical Materials, Cesium Removal, Crystallography, Gemstones, Geochemistry and Geochronology.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Crystal Growth42 topics
  2. Crystallographic Computing31 topic
  3. Nonlinear Optical Materials31 topic
  4. Cesium Removal21 topic
  5. Crystallography21 topic
  6. Gemstones21 topic
  7. Geochemistry21 topic
  8. Geochronology21 topic
  9. Ion Exchange21 topic
  10. Powder Diffraction21 topic
  11. Zircon21 topic
  12. Catalysis11 topic
  13. Crystal Structure Refinement11 topic
  14. Hirshfeld Surface Analysis11 topic
  15. Machine Learning11 topic
  16. Mineral Prospectivity11 topic
  17. Zeolites11 topic

Where does Malcolm E. Back work?

Malcolm E. Back's main affiliation in the publication record is Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Malcolm E. Back have?

Science Explorer counts 15 works and 21 citations for Malcolm E. Back, ranking #1,506,525 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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