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Ellen H. G. Backus

Ellen H. G. Backus

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
50
Citations
7905
World Ranking
14503
National Ranking
95

Ellen H. G. Backus publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ellen H. G. Backus sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 154 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Ellen H. G. Backus D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ellen H. G. Backus sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ellen H. G. Backus is a researcher affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria, with a focus on physics and chemistry disciplines. Their work extensively covers areas in atomic and molecular physics, optics, atmospheric science, physical and theoretical chemistry, biomaterials, and spectroscopy.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Chemistry

Subfields where their research is concentrated involve:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
  • Biomaterials
  • Spectroscopy

The main research topics associated with their work are:

  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Electrostatics and Colloid Interactions
  • Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
  • Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
  • Nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Langmuir
  • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Faraday Discussions

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Ellen H. G. Backus are:

  • "Water at charged interfaces," 2021, Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • "Molecular Structure and Modeling of Water-Air and Ice-Air Interfaces Monitored by Sum-Frequency Generation," 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • "Dynamic Surface Tension of Surfactants in the Presence of High Salt Concentrations," 2020, Langmuir
  • "Probing the Mineral-Water Interface with Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Nature of Cations Critically Affects Water at the Negatively Charged Silica Interface," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent collaborators working with Ellen H. G. Backus include:

  • Mischa Bonn
  • Yuki Nagata
  • Patrick Ober
  • Moritz Zelenka
  • Shumei Sun

Best Publications

  • Water at charged interfaces

    Grazia Gonella;Grazia Gonella;Ellen H. G. Backus;Ellen H. G. Backus;Yuki Nagata;Douwe J. Bonthuis

  • Ice-nucleating bacteria control the order and dynamics of interfacial water

    Ravindra Pandey;Kota Usui;Ruth A. Livingstone;Sean A. Fischer

  • Liquid flow along a solid surface reversibly alters interfacial chemistry

    Dan Lis;Ellen H. G. Backus;Johannes Hunger;Sapun H. Parekh

  • Energy transport in peptide helices

    Virgiliu Botan;Ellen H. G. Backus;Rolf Pfister;Alessandro Moretto

  • Real-Time Observation of Molecular Motion on a Surface

    Ellen H. G. Backus;Andreas Eichler;Aart W. Kleyn;Mischa Bonn

  • Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Water at the Water–Air Interface Studied with Surface‐Specific Vibrational Spectroscopy

    Mischa Bonn;Yuki Nagata;Ellen H. G. Backus

  • Experimental and theoretical evidence for bilayer-by-bilayer surface melting of crystalline ice

    M. Alejandra Sánchez;Tanja Kling;Tatsuya Ishiyama;Marc Jan Van Zadel

  • Molecular Structure and Modeling of Water-Air and Ice-Air Interfaces Monitored by Sum-Frequency Generation.

    Fujie Tang;Fujie Tang;Tatsuhiko Ohto;Shumei Sun;Shumei Sun;Jérémy R. Rouxel

  • Enhanced ordering of water at hydrophobic surfaces

    Simona Strazdaite;Jan Versluis;Ellen H. G. Backus;Huib J. Bakker

  • Dynamic Surface Tension of Surfactants in the Presence of High Salt Concentrations.

    Mohsin J Qazi;Simon J Schlegel;Ellen H G Backus;Ellen H G Backus;Mischa Bonn

  • Molecular hydrophobicity at a macroscopically hydrophilic surface.

    Jenée Cyran;Michael Anthony Donovan;Doris Vollmer;Flavio Siro Brigiano

  • Extreme surface propensity of halide ions in water

    Lukasz Piatkowski;Zhen Zhang;Ellen H. G. Backus;Huib J. Bakker

  • Both Inter- and Intramolecular Coupling of O-H Groups Determine the Vibrational Response of the Water/Air Interface.

    Jan Schaefer;Ellen H. G. Backus;Yuki Nagata;Mischa Bonn

  • Chemisorbed and Physisorbed Water at the TiO2/Water Interface

    Saman Hosseinpour;Fujie Tang;Fenglong Wang;Ruth A. Livingstone

  • Aqueous Heterogeneity at the Air/Water Interface Revealed by 2D-HD-SFG Spectroscopy

    Cho-Shuen Hsieh;Masanari Okuno;Johannes Hunger;Ellen H. G. Backus

  • α-Helix folding in the presence of structural constraints

    Janne A. Ihalainen;Beatrice Paoli;Stefanie Muff;Ellen H. G. Backus

  • Water Bending Mode at the Water–Vapor Interface Probed by Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy: A Combined Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Experimental Study

    Yuki Nagata;Cho-Shuen Hsieh;Taisuke Hasegawa;Judith Voll

  • Surface-specific vibrational spectroscopy of the water/silica interface: screening and interference

    Jan Schaefer;Grazia Gonella;Mischa Bonn;Ellen H. G. Backus

  • Energy transport in peptide helices: a comparison between high- and low-energy excitations.

    Ellen H. G. Backus;Phuong H. Nguyen;Virgiliu Botan;Rolf Pfister

  • Nuclear Quantum Effects Affect Bond Orientation of Water at the Water-Vapor Interface

    Yuki Nagata;Ruben E. Pool;Ellen H. G. Backus;Mischa Bonn

Frequent Co-Authors

Mischa Bonn
Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Aart W. Kleyn
Aart W. Kleyn Leiden University
Huib J. Bakker
Huib J. Bakker Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
Peter Hamm
Peter Hamm University of Zurich
Daniel Bonn
Daniel Bonn University of Amsterdam
Johannes Hunger
Johannes Hunger Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Claudio Toniolo
Claudio Toniolo University of Padua
Marco Crisma
Marco Crisma University of Padua
Ulrich Pöschl
Ulrich Pöschl Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Tobias Weidner
Tobias Weidner Aarhus University

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