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François Recanati

François Recanati

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
42
Citations
11619
World Ranking
4612
National Ranking
48

François Recanati publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where François Recanati sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 244 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

François Recanati D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where François Recanati sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

François Recanati is affiliated with the École Normale Supérieure in France and has a research profile spanning multiple fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Computer Science. Their work incorporates significant contributions to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their research covers a range of topics primarily focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics and Language Studies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, as well as Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation.

Recent notable publications include:

  • Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit, 2024, L'annuaire du Collège de France
  • Philosophie du langage et de l'esprit, 2023, L'annuaire du Collège de France
  • Memory-based modes of presentation, 2024, Synthese
  • Understanding force cancellation, 2022, Inquiry
  • IEM explained, 2024, Philosophical Psychology

Recanati has published in several frequent venues, including:

  • L'annuaire du Collège de France
  • Inquiry
  • Synthese
  • Philosophical Psychology
  • Revue de Synthèse

Collaborations have included co-authorship with Dag Haug, Katrin Axel-Tober, Werner Frey, Hans-Martin Gärtner, and Martín Haspelmath.

Their book publications are distributed across publishers such as Gunter Narr Verlag eBooks and Collège de France eBooks, featuring titles like Propositionale Argumente im Sprachvergleich / Propositional Arguments in Cross-Linguistic Research (2023) and Langage, discours, pensée (2020).

Recognition for Recanati's contributions includes election as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2019 and as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Direct Reference: From Language to Thought

    François Recanati

  • Truth-Conditional Pragmatics

    François Recanati

  • The Pragmatics of What is Said

    François Recanati

  • Perspectival Thought: A Plea for Moderate Relativism

    François Recanati

  • La transparence et l'énonciation : pour introduire à la pragmatique

    François Récanati

  • Direct Reference: From Language to Thought.

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  • Les énoncés performatifs : contribution à la pragmatique

    François Récanati

  • La logique des noms propres

    Pierre Jacob;Francois Recanati

  • The alleged priority of literal interpretation

    François Récanati

  • Embedded Implicatures

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  • Does Linguistic Communication Rest on Inference

    François Recanati

  • Oratio obliqua, oratio recta

    François Recanati;Peter Stockinger;Elisabeth de Pablo;Charles Biljetina

  • Unarticulated Constituents

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  • Oratio obliqua, oratio recta : an essay on metarepresentation

    Francois Recanati

  • On Defining Communicative Intentions

    François Recanati

  • Referential/attributive: A contextualist proposal

    Francois Recanati

  • Literalism and Contextualism: Some Varieties

    François Recanati

  • Domains of discourse

    François Recanati

  • Pragmatics and Semantics

    François Recanati

  • It is raining (somewhere)

    François Recanati

  • Meaning and force

    François Recanati

  • Can We Believe What We Do Not Understand

    François Recanati

  • Direct reference, meaning, and thought

    Francois Recanati

  • Contextualism and anti-contextualism in the philosophy of language

    François Recanati

  • Immunity to Error Through Misidentification : What It Is and Where It Comes From

    François Recanati

  • La polysémie contre le fixisme

    François Récanati

  • Mental Files in Flux

    François Recanati

  • Meaning and Force: The Pragmatics of Performative Utterances

    Cynthia Bernstein;François Recanati

  • Mental Files: Replies to my Critics

    François Recanati

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour Sciences Po
Ira A. Noveck
Ira A. Noveck Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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