2026 Robert A. Bjork: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	82	1301	1154	784	677	187	39588

Overview

Robert A. Bjork is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on psychology, with a primary concentration in developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including memory processes and influences, visual and cognitive learning processes, intelligent tutoring systems and adaptive learning, innovative teaching and learning methods, educational strategies and epistemologies, domain adaptation and few-shot learning, and clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills.

Frequent coauthors in Robert A. Bjork's research include Elizabeth Ligon Bjork, Steven C. Pan, Dillon H. Murphy, Jordan Andrew Brabec, and Courtney M. Clark.

The venues where Robert A. Bjork has published multiple works include Character Lab Tips, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, Educational Psychology Review, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, and British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert A. Bjork are as follows:

Desirable difficulties in theory and practice., 2020, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
Does Spelling Still Matter-and If So, How Should It Be Taught? Perspectives from Contemporary and Historical Research, 2021, Educational Psychology Review
Learning from errors versus explicit instruction in preparation for a test that counts, 2024, British Journal of Educational Psychology
Improving conceptual learning via pretests., 2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
Where and how to learn: The interactive benefits of contextual variation, restudying, and retrieval practice for learning, 2020, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Best Publications

Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence

Harold Pashler;Mark McDaniel;Doug Rohrer;Robert Bjork

3549
Citations
New Conceptualizations of Practice: Common Principles in Three Paradigms Suggest New Concepts for Training

Richard A. Schmidt;Robert A. Bjork

2361
Citations
Remembering can cause forgetting: retrieval dynamics in long-term memory

Michael C. Anderson;Robert A. Bjork;Elizabeth L. Bjork

2131
Citations
Self-regulated learning: beliefs, techniques, and illusions.

Robert A. Bjork;John Dunlosky;Nate Kornell

1793
Citations
Measures of Memory

Alan Richardson-Klavehn;Robert A. Bjork

1611
Citations
Making things hard on yourself, but in a good way: Creating desirable difficulties to enhance learning.

Elizabeth Ligon Bjork;Robert A. Bjork

1203
Citations
Retrieval inhibition as an adaptive mechanism in human memory.

Robert A. Bjork

1026
Citations
Environmental context and human memory

Steven M. Smith;Arthur Glenberg;Robert A. Bjork

1026
Citations
Optimum rehearsal patterns and name learning

T. K. Landauer;R. A. Bjork

896
Citations
Recency-sensitive retrieval processes in long-term free recall☆

Robert A. Bjork;William B. Whitten

885
Citations
A new theory of disuse and an old theory of stimulus fluctuation

RA Bjork;EL Bjork;E. Björk;L Björk

878
Citations
Learning Concepts and Categories Is Spacing the “Enemy of Induction”?

Nate Kornell;Robert A. Bjork

862
Citations
Memory and Metamemory Considerations in the Training of Human Beings

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793
Citations
THE MISMEASURE OF MEMORY : WHEN RETRIEVAL FLUENCY IS MISLEADING AS A METAMNEMONIC INDEX

Aaron S. Benjamin;Robert A. Bjork;Bennett L. Schwartz

782
Citations
The promise and perils of self-regulated study.

Nate Kornell;Robert A. Bjork

758
Citations
Learning versus performance: an integrative review.

Nicholas C. Soderstrom;Robert A. Bjork

743
Citations
Unsuccessful retrieval attempts enhance subsequent learning.

Nate Kornell;Matthew Jensen Hays;Robert A. Bjork

670
Citations
Retrieval-induced forgetting: evidence for a recall-specific mechanism.

Michael C. Anderson;Elizabeth L. Bjork;Robert A. Bjork

589
Citations
Prefrontal Contributions to Executive Control: fMRI Evidence for Functional Distinctions within Lateral Prefrontal Cortex

Anthony D. Wagner;Anat Maril;Robert A. Bjork;Daniel L. Schacter

583
Citations
Illusions of Competence in Monitoring One's Knowledge During Study.

Asher Koriat;Robert A. Bjork

523
Citations
In the Mind's Eye; Enhancing Human Performance

Daniel Druckman;Robert A. Bjork

510
Citations
Learning, Remembering, Believing. Enhancing Human Performance.

Daniel Druckman;Robert A. Bjork

502
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Ligon Bjork University of California, Los Angeles

Nate Kornell Williams College

Aaron S. Benjamin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Asher Koriat University of Haifa

John Dunlosky Kent State University

Michael C. Anderson University of Cambridge

Elizabeth J. Marsh Duke University

Alan D. Castel University of California, Los Angeles

Doug Rohrer University of South Florida

Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles

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