2026 Richard C. Anderson: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	88	1015	889	633	542	245	50683

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
1994 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
1979 - Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association
1974 - Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association

Overview

Richard C. Anderson is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States.

Their research spans broadly within the fields of physics and astronomy, with a total of 209 publications in this main domain. More specifically, their work focuses on subfields such as:

Astronomy and Astrophysics
Instrumentation
Computational Mechanics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Research topics covered across their publications include:

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Astro and Planetary Science
Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation
Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena

Richard C. Anderson has contributed frequently to journals and publication venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Astrophysical Journal
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The Astronomical Journal

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Anderson are:

Cosmology intertwined: A review of the particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology associated with the cosmological tensions and anomalies, 2022, Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna)
Cluster Cepheids with High Precision Gaia Parallaxes, Low Zero-point Uncertainties, and Hubble Space Telescope Photometry, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
GaiaData Release 3, 2023, Astronomy and Astrophysics
JWST Observations Reject Unrecognized Crowding of Cepheid Photometry as an Explanation for the Hubble Tension at 8σ Confidence, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics, 2025, Physics of the Dark Universe

Collaborations with other researchers are notable, with frequent co-authors including:

Adam G. Riess
Stefano Casertano
Louise Breuval
P. Kervella
Giordano Viviani

Throughout their career, Richard C. Anderson has received a number of awards from the American Educational Research Association, including the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award in both 1974 and 1979, the Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award in 1994, and recognition as a Fellow in 2008.

Best Publications

A schema-theoretic view of basic processes in reading comprehension

Richard C. Anderson;P. David Pearson

4097
Citations
Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading

Richard C. Anderson

3686
Citations
Learning Words from Context.

William E. Nagy;Patricia A. Herman;Richard C. Anderson

2578
Citations
Growth in Reading and How Children Spend Their Time Outside of School

Richard C. Anderson;Paul T. Wilson;Linda G. Fielding

2328
Citations
Recall of previously unrecallable information following a shift in perspective

Richard Chase Anderson;James W. Pichert

1884
Citations
How Many Words are There in Printed School English

William E. Nagy;Richard C. Anderson

1873
Citations
Frameworks for Comprehending Discourse

Richard C. Anderson;Ralph E. Reynolds;Diane L. Schallert;Ernest T. Goetz

1643
Citations
Learning Word Meanings From Context During Normal Reading

William E. Nagy;Richard C. Anderson;Patricia A. Herman

1517
Citations
Role of the Reader's Schema in Comprehension, Learning, and Memory

Richard C. Anderson

1173
Citations
The Notion of Schemata and the Educational Enterprise: General Discussion of the Conference

Richard C. Anderson

1166
Citations
Taking different perspectives on a story.

James W. Pichert;Richard Chase Anderson

1160
Citations
A cross-cultural perspective on reading comprehension

Margaret S. Steffensen;Chitra Joag-Dev;Richard C. Anderson

1124
Citations
Morphological Awareness and Learning to Read: A Cross-Language Perspective

Li Jen Kuo;Richard C Anderson

1039
Citations
Schemata as Scaffolding for the Representation of Information in Connected Discourse

Richard Chase Anderson;Rand J. Spiro;Mark C. Anderson

919
Citations
On asking people questions about what they are reading

Richard C. Anderson;W. Barry Biddle

874
Citations
Schooling and the Acquisition of Knowledge

Richard C. Anderson;Rand J. Spiro;William Edward Montague

836
Citations
Schooling and students′ epistemological beliefs about learning

Jihn Chang J. Jehng;Scott D. Johnson;Richard C. Anderson

788
Citations
How to Construct Achievement Tests to Assess Comprehension

Richard C. Anderson

727
Citations
On putting apples into bottles — A problem of polysemy

Richard C Anderson;Andrew Ortony

709
Citations
Schooling and the Acquisition of Knowledge

Sandra P. Marshall;John W. Cotton;Richard C. Anderson;Rand J. Spiro

47
Citations
Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school.

R. C. Anderson

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hua Shu Beijing Normal University

Raymond W. Kulhavy Arizona State University

Andrew Ortony Northwestern University

Diane L. Schallert The University of Texas at Austin

Mutsumi Imai Keio University

Michael Pressley Michigan State University

John E. Hummel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Robert Glaser University of Pittsburgh

External Links

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