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Marc Brysbaert

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Psychology
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
95
Citations
42006
World Ranking
761
National Ranking
10

Marc Brysbaert publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marc Brysbaert sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 339 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Marc Brysbaert D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Marc Brysbaert sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Marc Brysbaert is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium, specializing in research spanning computer science and psychology. Their work covers multiple subfields including artificial intelligence, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language and linguistics, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their main research topics focus on:

  • Text Readability and Simplification
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Topic Modeling
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Brysbaert has published frequently in several venues, including:

  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Journal of Cognition

Some recent publications include:

  • "Expanding horizons of cross-linguistic research on reading: The Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO)", 2022, Behavior Research Methods
  • "Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus", 2022, Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • "Power considerations in bilingualism research: Time to step up our game", 2020, Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • "LexITA: A Quick and Reliable Assessment Tool for Italian L2 Receptive Vocabulary Size", 2020, Applied Linguistics
  • "What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary", 2024, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Brysbaert has collaborated regularly with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marco Marelli
  • Victor Kuperman
  • Emmanuel Keuleers
  • Simona Amenta
  • Javier Conde

In addition to journal articles, Marc Brysbaert has contributed to book publications, including the work titled "Slagen met dyscalculie in het hoger onderwijs" published by Ghent University in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Moving beyond Kučera and Francis: A critical evaluation of current word frequency norms and the introduction of a new and improved word frequency measure for American English

    Marc Brysbaert;Boris New

  • Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas

    Amy Beth Warriner;Victor Kuperman;Marc Brysbaert

  • Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas

    Marc Brysbaert;Amy Beth Warriner;Victor Kuperman

  • SUBTLEX-UK: A new and improved word frequency database for British English

    Walter J.B. van Heuven;Pawel Mandera;Emmanuel Keuleers;Marc Brysbaert

  • Age-of-acquisition ratings for 30,000 English words

    Victor Kuperman;Hans Stadthagen-Gonzalez;Marc Brysbaert

  • Power Analysis and Effect Size in Mixed Effects Models: A Tutorial

    Marc Brysbaert;Michaël Stevens

  • Lexique 2: a new French lexical database.

    Boris New;Christophe Pallier;Marc Brysbaert;Ludovic Ferrand

  • How Many Participants Do We Have to Include in Properly Powered Experiments? A Tutorial of Power Analysis with Reference Tables.

    Marc Brysbaert

  • Wuggy: a multilingual pseudoword generator.

    Emmanuel Keuleers;Marc Brysbaert

  • SUBTLEX-CH: Chinese Word and Character Frequencies Based on Film Subtitles

    Qing Cai;Marc Brysbaert

  • Combining speed and accuracy in cognitive psychology: Is the inverse efficiency score (IES) a better dependent variable than the mean reaction time (RT) and the percentage of errors (PE)?

    Raymond Bruyer;Marc Brysbaert

  • SUBTLEX-NL: a new measure for Dutch word frequency based on film subtitles.

    Emmanuel Keuleers;Marc Brysbaert;Boris New

  • The Word Frequency Effect A Review of Recent Developments and Implications for the Choice of Frequency Estimates in German

    Marc Brysbaert;Matthias Buchmeier;Markus Conrad;Arthur M. Jacobs

  • Word skipping: implications for theories of eye movement control in reading

    Marc Brysbaert;Francoise Vitu

  • How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate

    Marc Brysbaert

  • Exploring the relations between word frequency, language exposure, and bilingualism in a computational model of reading

    Padraic John Monaghan;Padraic John Monaghan;Ya-Ning Chang;Stephen Welbourne;Marc Brysbaert

  • Emotion and language: valence and arousal affect word recognition.

    Victor Kuperman;Zachary Estes;Marc Brysbaert;Amy Beth Warriner

  • Reexamining the word length effect in visual word recognition: New evidence from the English Lexicon Project

    Boris New;Ludovic ferrand;Christophe pallier;Marc brysbaert

  • The British Lexicon Project: lexical decision data for 28,730 monosyllabic and disyllabic English words

    Emmanuel Keuleers;Paula Lacey;Kathleen Rastle;Marc Brysbaert

  • WordGen: a tool for word selection and nonword generation in Dutch, English, German, and French.

    Wouter Duyck;Timothy Desmet;Lieven P. C. Verbeke;Marc Brysbaert

  • How Many Words Do We Know? Practical Estimates of Vocabulary Size Dependent on Word Definition, the Degree of Language Input and the Participant’s Age

    Marc Brysbaert;Michaël Stevens;Paweł Mandera;Emmanuel Keuleers

  • Exposure-based models of human parsing: Evidence for the use of coarse-grained (nonlexical) statistical records

    Don C. Mitchell;Fernando Cuetos;Martin M. B. Corley;Marc Brysbaert

  • Explaining human performance in psycholinguistic tasks with models of semantic similarity based on prediction and counting : A review and empirical validation

    Paweł Mandera;Emmanuel Keuleers;Marc Brysbaert

Frequent Co-Authors

Wouter Duyck
Wouter Duyck Ghent University
Denis Drieghe
Denis Drieghe University of Southampton
Bert Reynvoet
Bert Reynvoet KU Leuven
Ludovic Ferrand
Ludovic Ferrand University of Clermont Auvergne
Victor Kuperman
Victor Kuperman McMaster University
Wim Fias
Wim Fias Ghent University
Kathleen Rastle
Kathleen Rastle Royal Holloway University of London
Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Nebrija University

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