2026 Michael C. Frank: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	60	3468	3200	1949	1758	296	25203

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

8957
Citations
Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination

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

1285
Citations
Predicting pragmatic reasoning in language games.

Michael C. Frank;Noah D. Goodman

1067
Citations
Number as a cognitive technology: evidence from Pirahã language and cognition.

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

775
Citations
Wordbank: an open repository for developmental vocabulary data.

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

734
Citations
Pragmatic Language Interpretation as Probabilistic Inference

Noah D. Goodman;Michael C. Frank

650
Citations
Using Speakers' Referential Intentions to Model Early Cross-Situational Word Learning

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

499
Citations
Development of Infants' Attention to Faces during the First Year.

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

458
Citations
Eye-movements reveal attention to social information in autism spectrum disorder

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

393
Citations
Unsupervised neural network models of the ventral visual stream

Chengxu Zhuang;Siming Yan;Aran Nayebi;Martin Schrimpf

347
Citations
A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research : Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building

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

337
Citations
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

332
Citations
Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

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

315
Citations
Predicting the birth of a spoken word

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

296
Citations
A practical guide for transparency in psychological science

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

241
Citations
Modeling human performance in statistical word segmentation

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

235
Citations
Measuring the Development of Social Attention Using Free-Viewing.

Michael C. Frank;Edward Vul;Rebecca Saxe

231
Citations
Ad-Hoc Implicature in Preschool Children.

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

229
Citations
A rose in any other font would not smell as sweet: Effects of perceptual fluency on categorization

Daniel M. Oppenheimer;Michael C. Frank

202
Citations
Learning From Others The Consequences of Psychological Reasoning for Human Learning

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

199
Citations
The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought

Lera Boroditsky;Michael Ramscar;Michael C. Frank

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Krista Byers-Heinlein Concordia University

Virginia A. Marchman Stanford University

Scott P. Johnson University of California, Los Angeles

Rebecca Saxe MIT

Lera Boroditsky University of California, San Diego

Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science

J. Kiley Hamlin University of British Columbia

Leher Singh University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Edward Vul University of California, San Diego

Li Fei-Fei Stanford University

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