2026 Frank Fischer: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	85	265	224	12	8	522	45668

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Frank Fischer is affiliated with the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, psychology, and medicine, with a notable focus on education and developmental and educational psychology.

Their work covers several subfields and main topics, including:

Education
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Artificial Intelligence
Family Practice
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
Online and Blended Learning
Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes

Fischer has contributed frequently to several publication venues, including:

Computer-supported collaborative learning/'The 'Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference (9 publications)
International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (5 publications)
Learning and Instruction (5 publications)
Computers in Human Behavior (4 publications)
Zeitschrift für Pädagogische Psychologie (4 publications)

Notable recent papers by Fischer and collaborators include:

ChatGPT for good? On opportunities and challenges of large language models for education, 2023, Learning and Individual Differences
Simulation-Based Learning in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis, 2020, Review of Educational Research
Contextual facilitators for learning activities involving technology in higher education: The C-model, 2021, Computers in Human Behavior
Digital learning in schools: What does it take beyond digital technology?, 2021, Teaching and Teacher Education
Knowledge as a formative construct: A good alpha is not always better, 2020, New Ideas in Psychology

Frequent collaborators in Fischer's research include Matthias Stadler, Martin R. Fischer, Michael Sailer, Olga Chernikova, and Ralf Schmidmaier.

In addition to research articles, Fischer has contributed to book publications, including the title Truth and Post-Truth in Public Policy, published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Best Publications

The Evolution of Research on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Pierre Dillenbourg;Sanna Järvelä;Frank Fischer

3655
Citations
The argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning

Frank Fischer;John Forester;Maarten A. Hajer;Robert Hoppe

3294
Citations
Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices

Frank Fischer

2785
Citations
Citizens, Experts and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge

Frank Fischer

2280
Citations
Reframing Public Policy

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1482
Citations
A framework to analyze argumentative knowledge construction in computer-supported collaborative learning

Armin Weinberger;Frank Fischer

1225
Citations
Simulation-Based Learning in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis:

Olga Chernikova;Nicole Heitzmann;Matthias Stadler;Doris Holzberger

863
Citations
Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise.

Wolf Heydebrand;Frank Fischer

856
Citations
Help Seeking and Help Design in Interactive Learning Environments

Vincent Aleven;Elmar Stahl;Silke Schworm;Frank Fischer

846
Citations
Collaboration Scripts--A Conceptual Analysis.

Ingo Kollar;Frank Fischer;Friedrich W. Hesse

760
Citations
Fostering collaborative knowledge construction with visualization tools

Frank Fischer;Johannes Bruhn;Cornelia Gräsel;Heinz Mandl

672
Citations
Toward a Script Theory of Guidance in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Frank Fischer;Ingo Kollar;Karsten Stegmann;Christof Wecker

658
Citations
Epistemic and Social Scripts in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

Armin Weinberger;Bernhard Ertl;Frank Fischer;Heinz Mandl

641
Citations
Citizen participation and the democratization of policy expertise: From theoretical inquiry to practical cases

Frank Fischer

633
Citations
Evaluating Public Policy

Frank Fischer

601
Citations
Specifying Computer-Supported Collaboration Scripts

Lars Kobbe;Armin Weinberger;Pierre Dillenbourg;Andreas Harrer

596
Citations
Democracy and Expertise

Frank Fischer

510
Citations
Analyzing collaborative learning processes automatically: Exploiting the advances of computational linguistics in computer-supported collaborative learning

Carolyn Penstein Rosé;Yi-Chia Wang;Yue Cui;Jaime Arguello

501
Citations
Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry

Frank Fischer

455
Citations
Handbook of Public Policy Analysis Theory, Politics, and Methods

Frank Fischer;Gerald J. Miller;Mara S. Sidney

403
Citations
Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise

Peter Deleon;Frank Fischer

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Armin Weinberger Saarland University

Heinz Mandl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Martin R. Fischer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Tina Seidel Technical University of Munich

Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver Indiana University

Clark A. Chinn Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Jan-Willem Strijbos University of Groningen

Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Sanna Järvelä University of Oulu

Ulrike Cress Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology

External Links

Personal website of Frank Fischer Google Scholar page

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