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3466
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Michael C. Frank 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 Michael C. Frank sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 296 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael C. Frank 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 Michael C. Frank sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% 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

  • 2020 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his work revolutionizing our understanding of language acquisition by placing it in its social context.
  • 2011 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Michael C. Frank is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and works primarily in the field of psychology. Their research spans subfields such as developmental and educational psychology, artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and education.

Their main research topics include:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Language and Cultural Evolution
  • Speech and Dialogue Systems
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Michael C. Frank include:

  • Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference, 2020, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Unsupervised neural network models of the ventral visual stream, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact, 2020, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • SAYCam: A Large, Longitudinal Audiovisual Dataset Recorded From the Infant's Perspective, 2021, Open Mind
  • Analytic reproducibility in articles receiving open data badges at the journal Psychological Science: an observational study, 2021, Royal Society Open Science

The scientist has frequently published in venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Developmental Science
  • Open Mind
  • Collabra Psychology
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Mélanie Söderström
  • J. Kiley Hamlin
  • Casey Lew-Williams
  • George Kachergis
  • Christina Bergmann

Michael C. Frank has also authored books published by The MIT Press and Nomos. Titles include:

  • Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning (2021)
  • Experimentology (2025)
  • Betriebsübergreifende Zusammenarbeit von Betriebsräten (2023)

Awards received include the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2020, granted for work on language acquisition within its social context, and the Hellman Fellow award in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

    Alexander A. Aarts;Joanna E. Anderson;Christopher J. Anderson;Peter R. Attridge;Peter R. Attridge

  • Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination

    Jonathan Winawer;Nathan Witthoft;Nathan Witthoft;Michael C. Frank;Lisa Wu

  • Predicting pragmatic reasoning in language games.

    Michael C. Frank;Noah D. Goodman

  • Number as a cognitive technology: evidence from Pirahã language and cognition.

    Michael C. Frank;Daniel L. Everett;Evelina Fedorenko;Edward Gibson

  • Wordbank: an open repository for developmental vocabulary data.

    Michael C Frank;Mika Braginsky;Daniel Yurovsky;Virginia A Marchman

  • Pragmatic Language Interpretation as Probabilistic Inference

    Noah D. Goodman;Michael C. Frank

  • Using Speakers' Referential Intentions to Model Early Cross-Situational Word Learning

    Michael C. Frank;Noah D. Goodman;Joshua B. Tenenbaum

  • Development of Infants' Attention to Faces during the First Year.

    Michael C. Frank;Edward Vul;Scott P. Johnson

  • Eye-movements reveal attention to social information in autism spectrum disorder

    S. Fletcher-Watson;S.R. Leekam;Valerie Benson;M.C. Frank

  • Unsupervised neural network models of the ventral visual stream

    Chengxu Zhuang;Siming Yan;Aran Nayebi;Martin Schrimpf

  • A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research : Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building

    Michael C. Frank;Elika Bergelson;Christina Bergmann;Alejandrina Cristia

  • Data availability, reusability, and analytic reproducibility: evaluating the impact of a mandatory open data policy at the journal Cognition

    Tom E. Hardwicke;Maya B. Mathur;Maya B. Mathur;Kyle MacDonald;Gustav Nilsonne;Gustav Nilsonne;Gustav Nilsonne

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • Predicting the birth of a spoken word

    Brandon C. Roy;Brandon C. Roy;Michael C. Frank;Philip DeCamp;Matthew Miller

  • A practical guide for transparency in psychological science

    Olivier Klein;Tom E. Hardwicke;Frederik Aust;Johannes Breuer

  • Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation

    Michael C. Frank;Sharon Goldwater;Thomas L. Griffiths;Joshua B. Tenenbaum

  • Measuring the Development of Social Attention Using Free-Viewing.

    Michael C. Frank;Edward Vul;Rebecca Saxe

  • Ad-Hoc Implicature in Preschool Children.

    Alex J. Stiller;Noah D. Goodman;Michael C. Frank

  • A rose in any other font would not smell as sweet: Effects of perceptual fluency on categorization

    Daniel M. Oppenheimer;Michael C. Frank

  • Learning From Others The Consequences of Psychological Reasoning for Human Learning

    Patrick Shafto;Noah D. Goodman;Michael C. Frank

  • The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought

    Lera Boroditsky;Michael Ramscar;Michael C. Frank

Frequent Co-Authors

Noah D. Goodman
Noah D. Goodman Stanford University
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Krista Byers-Heinlein Concordia University
Virginia A. Marchman
Virginia A. Marchman Stanford University
David Barner
David Barner University of California, San Diego
Alejandrina Cristia
Alejandrina Cristia École Normale Supérieure
Casey Lew-Williams
Casey Lew-Williams Princeton University
Scott P. Johnson
Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles

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