Ad Backus

84 papers and 865 indexed citations
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About

Ad Backus is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ad Backus has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 865 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Language and Linguistics, 44 papers in Linguistics and Language and 20 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ad Backus’s work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (30 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (28 papers) and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (17 papers). Ad Backus is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (30 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (28 papers) and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (17 papers). Ad Backus collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Ad Backus's co-authors include Jan Blommaert, A. Seza Doğruöz, Yeşim Sevinç, Suzanne Aalberse, Pieter Muysken, Aslı Özyürek, Elena Lieven, Afra Alishahi, Bernd Heine and Aslı Özyürek and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognitive Science, Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education and Journal of Pragmatics.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ad Backus

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ad Backus. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ad Backus based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ad Backus. Ad Backus is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Ad Backus

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Life SciencesSocial SciencesPhysical SciencesHealth Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Ad Backus. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Ad Backus. The network helps show where Ad Backus may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Ad Backus

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