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Wilfried De Backer

Wilfried De Backer publishes mostly in Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Physiology and Epidemiology, on topics such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research, Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research and Inhalation and Respiratory Drug Delivery.

World rank
#502,405
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#5,868
of 18,604
Works
64
Citations
76
Citations per work
1.2

What does Wilfried De Backer research?

Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 48.5%Physiology: 18.2%Epidemiology: 4.5%Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine: 3.0%other fields: 25.8%48%top field
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine48.5%Physiology18.2%Epidemiology4.5%Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine3.0%other fields25.8%

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

  1. 1Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine48% of their works
  2. 2Physiology18% of their works
  3. 3Epidemiology4% of their works
  4. 4Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine3% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science3% of their works
  6. 6Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wilfried De Backer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Epidemiology, COPD, spirometry, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Mechanical Ventilation, Inhaler Devices and Pulmonary Drug Delivery.

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. Epidemiology122 topics
  2. COPD111 topic
  3. spirometry111 topic
  4. Obstructive Sleep Apnea91 topic
  5. Sleep-Disordered Breathing91 topic
  6. Mechanical Ventilation82 topics
  7. Inhaler Devices51 topic
  8. Pulmonary Drug Delivery51 topic
  9. Acute Lung Injury41 topic
  10. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome41 topic
  11. Airway Stenosis41 topic
  12. Tracheostomy41 topic
  13. Allergic Diseases31 topic
  14. Asthma31 topic
  15. Difficult Airway Society21 topic
  16. Fibrosis21 topic
  17. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis21 topic
  18. Tracheal Intubation21 topic

Where does Wilfried De Backer work?

Wilfried De Backer's main affiliation in the publication record is Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Wilfried De Backer have?

Science Explorer counts 64 works and 76 citations for Wilfried De Backer, ranking #502,405 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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