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2026

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D-Index
85
Citations
45668
World Ranking
265
National Ranking
12

Frank Fischer 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 Frank Fischer sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 522 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frank Fischer 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 Frank Fischer 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: 85 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% 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

  • 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

  • The argumentative turn in policy analysis and planning

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

  • Reframing Public Policy: Discursive Politics and Deliberative Practices

    Frank Fischer

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

    Frank Fischer

  • Reframing Public Policy

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

    Armin Weinberger;Frank Fischer

  • Simulation-Based Learning in Higher Education: A Meta-Analysis:

    Olga Chernikova;Nicole Heitzmann;Matthias Stadler;Doris Holzberger

  • Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise.

    Wolf Heydebrand;Frank Fischer

  • Help Seeking and Help Design in Interactive Learning Environments

    Vincent Aleven;Elmar Stahl;Silke Schworm;Frank Fischer

  • Collaboration Scripts--A Conceptual Analysis.

    Ingo Kollar;Frank Fischer;Friedrich W. Hesse

  • Fostering collaborative knowledge construction with visualization tools

    Frank Fischer;Johannes Bruhn;Cornelia Gräsel;Heinz Mandl

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

    Frank Fischer;Ingo Kollar;Karsten Stegmann;Christof Wecker

  • Epistemic and Social Scripts in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning.

    Armin Weinberger;Bernhard Ertl;Frank Fischer;Heinz Mandl

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

    Frank Fischer

  • Evaluating Public Policy

    Frank Fischer

  • Specifying Computer-Supported Collaboration Scripts

    Lars Kobbe;Armin Weinberger;Pierre Dillenbourg;Andreas Harrer

  • Democracy and Expertise

    Frank Fischer

  • 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

  • Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry

    Frank Fischer

  • Handbook of Public Policy Analysis Theory, Politics, and Methods

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

  • Technocracy and the Politics of Expertise

    Peter Deleon;Frank Fischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Armin Weinberger
Armin Weinberger Saarland University
Heinz Mandl
Heinz Mandl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Martin R. Fischer
Martin R. Fischer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Iryna Gurevych
Iryna Gurevych Technical University of Darmstadt
Pierre Dillenbourg
Pierre Dillenbourg École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Carolyn Penstein Rosé
Carolyn Penstein Rosé Carnegie Mellon University
Tina Seidel
Tina Seidel Technical University of Munich
Clark A. Chinn
Clark A. Chinn Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jan-Willem Strijbos
Jan-Willem Strijbos University of Groningen
Markus Bühner
Markus Bühner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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