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Sweden
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
62
Citations
16684
World Ranking
1652
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Jan Backman is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with particular focus on various subfields including Ocean Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Aerospace Engineering, and Geophysics.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, notably:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Spacecraft and Cryogenic Technologies
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis

Jan Backman has contributed scholarly publications to several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Geology
  • RENDICONTI LINCEI

Some of the recent papers by Jan Backman are:

  • Calcareous nannofossils anchor chronologies for Arctic Ocean sediments back to 500 ka, 2020, Geology
  • Transient Shoaling, Over-Deepening and Settling of the Calcite Compensation Depth at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition, 2023, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • The role of calcareous nannofossils in building age models for Cenozoic marine sediments: a review, 2022, RENDICONTI LINCEI
  • The Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Biogenic Bloom in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: New Insights From Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Site U1335, 2022, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • IODP Expedition 362 Magnetic remanence (spinner), 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Collaborations with frequent co-authors include:

  • L.C. McNeill
  • Brandon Dugan
  • Katerina Petronotis
  • S. Bourlange
  • Farid Chemale

Best Publications

  • Oxygen isotope calibration of the onset of ice-rafting and history of glaciation in the North Atlantic region

    N.J. Shackleton;J. Backman;J. Backman;H. Zimmerman;D.V. Kent

  • Pleistocene evolution: Northern hemisphere ice sheets and North Atlantic Ocean

    W. F. Ruddiman;M. E. Raymo;D. G. Martinson;B. M. Clement

  • Rapid stepwise onset of Antarctic glaciation and deeper calcite compensation in the Pacific Ocean

    Helen Kathrine Coxall;Paul A. Wilson;Heiko Pälike;Caroline Helen Lear;Caroline Helen Lear

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • Late Pliocene variation in northern hemisphere ice sheets and North Atlantic deep water circulation

    M. E. Raymo;W. F. Ruddiman;J. Backman;B. M. Clement

  • The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.

    Kathryn Moran;Jan Backman;Henk Brinkhuis;Steven C. Clemens

  • A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years

    Isabella Raffi;Jan Backman;Eliana Fornaciari;Heiko Pälike

  • Quantitative biochronology of Pliocene and early Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils from the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans

    Jan Backman;Jan Backman;Nicholas J. Shackleton;Nicholas J. Shackleton

  • Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean

    Henk Brinkhuis;Stefan Schouten;Margaret E Collinson;Appy Sluijs

  • Biozonation and biochronology of Paleogene calcareous nannofossils from low and middle latitudes

    Claudia Agnini;Eliana Fornaciari;Isabella Raffi;Rita Catanzariti

  • A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

    Heiko Pälike;Mitchell W. Lyle;Hiroshi Nishi;Isabella Raffi

  • Biozonation and biochronology of Miocene through Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils from low and middle latitudes

    Jan Backman;Isabella Raffi;Domenico Rio;Eliana Fornaciari

  • Eocene bipolar glaciation associated with global carbon cycle changes

    Aradhna Tripati;Jan Backman;Henry Elderfield;Patrizia Ferretti

  • The early Miocene onset of a ventilated circulation regime in the Arctic Ocean

    Martin Jakobsson;Jan Backman;Bert Rudels;Jonas Nycander

  • Age model and core-seismic integration for the Cenozoic Arctic Coring Expedition sediments from the Lomonosov Ridge

    Jan Backman;Martin Jakobsson;Martin Frank;Francesca Sangiorgi

  • Manganese and color cycles in Arctic Ocean sediments constrain Pleistocene chronology

    Martin Jakobsson;Reidar Løvlie;Hakam Al-Hanbali;Eve Arnold

  • Is the central Arctic Ocean a sediment starved basin

    Jan Backman;Martin Jakobsson;Reidar Løvlie;Leonid Polyak

  • Pleistocene stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental variation from Lomonosov Ridge sediments, central Arctic Ocean

    Martin Jakobsson;Reidar Lövlie;Eve Arnold;Jan Backman

  • A shift in heavy and clay mineral provenance indicates a middle Miocene onset of a perennial sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean

    Alexey A. Krylov;Irina A. Andreeva;Christoph Vogt;Jan Backman

  • Evidence for an ice shelf covering the central Arctic Ocean during the penultimate glaciation

    Martin Jakobsson;Martin Jakobsson;Johan Nilsson;Leif G. Anderson;Jan Backman

  • An Arctic Ocean ice shelf during MIS 6 constrained by new geophysical and geological data

    Martin Jakobsson;Johan Nilsson;Matthew O'Regan;Jan Backman

  • Erratum: Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum (Nature (2006) 442 (671-675))

    Mark Pagani;Nikolai Pedentchouk;Matthew Huber;Appy Sluijs

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Jakobsson
Martin Jakobsson Stockholm University
Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen
Matt O'Regan
Matt O'Regan Stockholm University
Isabella Raffi
Isabella Raffi University of Chieti-Pescara
Domenico Rio
Domenico Rio University of Padua
Gerald R. Dickens
Gerald R. Dickens Trinity College Dublin
Theodore C. Moore
Theodore C. Moore University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Eliana Fornaciari
Eliana Fornaciari University of Padua
William F. Ruddiman
William F. Ruddiman University of Virginia
Maureen E. Raymo
Maureen E. Raymo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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