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D-Index
101
Citations
86242
World Ranking
581
National Ranking
368

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science
  • 1994 - APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology, American Psychological Association

Overview

Frank L. Schmidt was affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States during their academic career. Their research contributed primarily to the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Education, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, General Health Professions, Applied Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The main topics explored in their work included Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, Employment and Welfare Studies, Higher Education Research Studies, School Choice and Performance, Parental Involvement in Education, and Workplace Health and Well-being.

They published research in a variety of venues, some of which were:

  • Human Performance
  • Educational Assessment
  • Work Aging and Retirement
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Personnel Psychology

Notable recent papers by Frank L. Schmidt included:

  • "Increased Business Value for Positive Job Attitudes during Economic Recessions: A Meta-Analysis and SEM Analysis," 2020, published in Human Performance
  • "The Road to Retention Passes through First Year Academic Performance: A Meta-Analytic Path Analysis of Academic Performance and Persistence," 2020, published in Educational Assessment
  • "Suggestions for Improvement in Psychometric Corrections in Meta-analysis and Implications for Research on Worker Age and Aging," 2021, published in Work Aging and Retirement
  • "Select on Intelligence," 2021, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "A Comparative Evaluation of Psychometric Meta-Analysis Methods in Management and Applied Psychology: Toward a Nuanced Understanding of Their Accuracy," 2025, published in Personnel Psychology

Throughout their career, Frank L. Schmidt frequently collaborated with other researchers. Some of their frequent co-authors included:

  • Huy Le
  • In-Sue Oh
  • James K. Harter
  • Sangeeta Agrawal
  • Stephanie K. Plowman

The scientist was recognized with awards such as the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2008 and the APA Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology from the American Psychological Association in 1994.

Best Publications

  • Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings

    John E. Hunter;Frank L. Schmidt

  • Corporate Social and Financial Performance: A Meta-Analysis

    Marc Orlitzky;Frank L. Schmidt;Sara L. Rynes

  • Business-unit-level relationship between employee satisfaction, employee engagement, and business outcomes: a meta-analysis.

    James K. Harter;Frank L. Schmidt;Theodore L. Hayes

  • The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings.

    Frank L. Schmidt;John E. Hunter

  • Linking "big" personality traits to anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders: a meta-analysis.

    Roman Kotov;Wakiza Gamez;Frank Schmidt;David Watson

  • Meta-Analysis: Cumulating Research Findings Across Studies

    John E. Hunter;Frank L. Schmidt;Gregg B. Jackson

  • Well-being in the workplace and its relationship to business outcomes: A review of the Gallup studies.

    James K. Harter;Frank L. Schmidt;Corey L. M. Keyes

  • General Mental Ability in the World of Work: Occupational Attainment and Job Performance.

    Frank L. Schmidt;John Hunter

  • Comprehensive meta-analysis of integrity test validities: Findings and implications for personnel selection and theories of job performance.

    Deniz S. Ones;Chockalingam Viswesvaran;Frank L. Schmidt

  • Methods of Meta-Analysis

    Frank L. Schmidt;John E. Hunter

  • Statistical Significance Testing and Cumulative Knowledge in Psychology: Implications for Training of Researchers

    Frank L. Schmidt

  • The validity of employment interviews: A comprehensive review and meta-analysis.

    Michael A. McDaniel;Deborah L. Whetzel;Frank L. Schmidt;Steven D. Maurer

  • Development of a general solution to the problem of validity generalization.

    Frank L. Schmidt;John E. Hunter

  • Impact of job experience and ability on job knowledge, work sample performance, and supervisory ratings of job performance

    Frank L. Schmidt;John E. Hunter;Alice N. Outerbridge

  • Comparative analysis of the reliability of job performance ratings

    Chockalingam Viswesvaran;Deniz S. Ones;Frank L. Schmidt

  • Fixed Effects vs. Random Effects Meta‐Analysis Models: Implications for Cumulative Research Knowledge

    John E. Hunter;Frank L. Schmidt

  • What do data really mean? Research findings, meta-analysis, and cumulative knowledge in psychology.

    Frank L. Schmidt

  • Fixed‐ versus random‐effects models in meta‐analysis: Model properties and an empirical comparison of differences in results

    Frank L. Schmidt;In-Sue Oh;Theodore L. Hayes

  • Measurement Error in Psychological Research: Lessons From 26 Research Scenarios

    Frank L. Schmidt;John E. Hunter

  • Impact of valid selection procedures on work-force productivity.

    Frank L. Schmidt;John E. Hunter;Robert C. McKenzie;Tressie W. Muldrow

  • Summarizing Evidence: Crusaders for Simplicity@@@Methods of Meta-Analysis: Correcting Error and Bias in Research Findings

    Stephen W. Raudenbush;John E. Hunter;Frank L. Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Hunter
John E. Hunter Michigan State University
In-Sue Oh
In-Sue Oh Temple University
Deniz S. Ones
Deniz S. Ones University of Minnesota
Chockalingam Viswesvaran
Chockalingam Viswesvaran Florida International University
Michael A. McDaniel
Michael A. McDaniel Virginia Commonwealth University
Kenneth S. Law
Kenneth S. Law Chinese University of Hong Kong
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Michael K. Mount
Michael K. Mount University of Iowa
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis
Konstantinos N. Fountoulakis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Sheldon Zedeck
Sheldon Zedeck University of California, Berkeley

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