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Michael Backes

Also known as Michael Backes A (OpenAlex)

German computer scientist and mathematicianborn 1978

Wikidata names Birgit Pfitzmann and Harald Ganzinger as doctoral advisors and lists 9 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 8 other registers.

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How to read the markscited by a repository's recordstated by Wikidata or indexed by OpenAlexclaimed on an ORCID list, or inferred

Advisors on Wikidata2

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata9

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 9 people: 9 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

Coauthors in OpenAlex463

People who share works with them in OpenAlex, the most shared first: indexed, and never counted with the lineage.

  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Michael Backes A

    735 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Yang Zhang

    220 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Xinyue Shen

    71 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Yun Shen

    45 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Sven Bugiel

    38 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Xinlei He

    36 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Birgit Pfitzmann

    34 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Mathias Humbert

    33 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Michael Waidner

    31 shared works
  • indexed by OpenAlex

    Ahmed Salem

    30 shared works

OpenAlex lists 453 more people who share a work with them.