Michael C. Frank

16.7k citations

243 papers · 7.8k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Developmental and Educational Psychology top 0.1%
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Reading and Literacy Development
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology top 0.5%
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Categorization, perception, and language

Papers in

Developmental and Educational Psychology 153
- Language Development and Disorders 97
- Child and Animal Learning Development 85
- Reading and Literacy Development 48
Cultural Studies 35
- Language and cultural evolution 35

Co-authors: Noah D. Goodman Daniel Yurovsky Mika Braginsky Joshua B. Tenenbaum Virginia A. Marchman Scott P. Johnson Edward Vul Rebecca Saxe
Journals: Cognitive Science (53 papers)Cognition (11 papers)Child Development (9 papers)Developmental Science (8 papers)Open Mind (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

Michael C. Frank

232 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Variability and Consistency in Early Language Learning 2021 · 121 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2021 The MIT Press eBooks
2017 Infancy
2016 Trends in Cognitive Sciences
2016 Journal of Child Language
2012 Science
2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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All Works

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#	Work
1	Cognitive Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Annual Review of Psychology ·Michael C. Frank, Noah D. Goodman	2025	0
2	A Meta-Analysis of the Impact and Heterogeneity of Explicit Demand Characteristics Collabra Psychology ·Nicholas A. Coles, M. B. Wyatt, Michael C. Frank	2025	1
3	The role of translation equivalents in bilingual word learning Developmental Science ·S Neyzen, Virginia A. Marchman, Michael C. Frank	2024	3
4	Evidence for Infant-directed Speech Preference Is Consistent Across Large-scale, Multi-site Replication and Meta-analysis Open Mind ·Martin Zettersten, Christopher Martin Mikkelsen Cox, Christina Bergmann, Angeline Tsui, Mélanie Söderström, Julien Mayor, Rebecca A. Lundwall, Molly Lewis, Jessica Elizabeth Kosie, Natalia Kartushina, Riccardo Fusaroli, Michael C. Frank, Krista Byers‐Heinlein, Alexis K. Black, Maya B. Mathur	2024	3
5	Eleven years of student replication projects provide evidence on the correlates of replicability in psychology Royal Society Open Science ·Sri Wahyuni Hasibuan, Maya B. Mathur, Michael C. Frank	2023	5
6	Angry, Sad, or Scared? Within-valence Mapping of Emotion Words to Facial and Body Cues in 2 to 4-Year-Old Children Collabra Psychology ·Yang Wu, R. Meijerhof, Diksha Patil, Michael C. Frank	2023	1
7	Meta-analysis suggests that the effects of demand characteristics can be consequential, unreliable, and difficult to explain PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints) ·E. S. Joel, M. B. Wyatt, Michael C. Frank	2023	11
8	Analytic reproducibility in articles receiving open data badges at the journal Psychological Science : an observational study Royal Society Open Science ·Tom E Hardwicke, Manuel Bohn, Kyle MacDonald, Emily Hembacher, Michèle B. Nuijten, Nikolaj Trautner, Maria Kefalogianni, Bria Long, Erica J. Yoon, Michael C. Frank	2021	48
9	Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning Current Directions in Psychological Science ·Yang Wu, Laura Schulz, Michael C. Frank, Hyowon Gweon	2021	34
10	Unsupervised neural network models of the ventral visual stream Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Chengxu Zhuang, Siming Yan, Aran Nayebi, Martin Schrimpf, Michael C. Frank, James J. DiCarlo, Daniel Yamins	2021	169
11	Peekbank: Exploring children's word recognition through an open, large-scale repository for developmental eye-tracking data eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Martin Zettersten, Xuejiao Tang, Ryan Gp, Sri Wahyuni Hasibuan, Mika Braginsky, Christopher A. Whytock, Maria Kefalogianni, George Kachergis, Molly Lewis, Bria Long, Kyle MacDonald, Todd Dobbs, Stephan C. Meylan, Shane R. McNew, Rose M. Schneider, Angeline Tsui, G. Meynen, П П Павлов, Daniel Yurovsky, Michael C. Frank	2021	6
12	What counts as an exemplar model, anyway? A commentary on Ambridge (2020) First Language ·Kyle Mahowald, George Kachergis, Michael C. Frank	2020	4
13	Should Psychology Journals Adopt Specialized Statistical Review? Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science ·Tom E Hardwicke, Michael C. Frank, Simine Vazire, Steven N. Goodman	2019	13
14	The Pervasive Role of Pragmatics in Early Language Manuel Bohn, Michael C. Frank	2019	44
15	The Role of Design and Training in Artifact Expertise: The Case of the Abacus and Visual Attention Cognitive Science ·Mahesh Srinivasan, Katie Wagner, Michael C. Frank, David Barner	2018	6
16	Data availability, reusability, and analytic reproducibility: evaluating the impact of a mandatory open data policy at the journal Cognition Royal Society Open Science ·Tom E Hardwicke, Maya B. Mathur, Kyle MacDonald, Gustav Nilsonne, George C. Banks, Mallory C. Kidwell, Alicia Hofelich Mohr, Elizabeth Clayton, Erica J. Yoon, Michael Tessler, Richie L. Lenne, Sonia Regina Loureir, Bria Long, Michael C. Frank	2018	183
17	Improving the Replicability of Psychological Science Through Pedagogy Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science ·Robert D. Hawkins, Eric Smith, Nehal Shokry, G. Kang, Pradeep Thevanoor, Ana María Méndez Rodríguez, Vojtech Knyttl, Andrew K. Lampinen, Xi Luo, Jesse Reynolds, Shima Salehi, O. Penalba, Katsuyuki FUJINAWA, Michael C. Frank	2018	27
18	ManyBabies 2: Infant Theory of Mind OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) ·Michael C. Frank	2017	1
19	The Emergence of an Abstract Grammatical Category in Children’s Early Speech Psychological Science ·Stephan C. Meylan, Michael C. Frank, Brandon Roy, Roger Lévy	2017	22
20	Teaching Replication Perspectives on Psychological Science ·Michael C. Frank, Rebecca Saxe	2012	91

About Michael C. Frank

Michael C. Frank is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cultural Studies, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience, having authored 243 papers that have together received 7.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Language Development and Disorders (97 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (85 papers), Speech and dialogue systems (50 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (48 papers), Language and cultural evolution (35 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (28 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (18 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (3.7k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (1.9k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (2.2k citations), Cultural Studies (649 citations) and Language and Linguistics (811 citations). Michael C. Frank has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Noah D. Goodman, Daniel Yurovsky, Mika Braginsky, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Virginia A. Marchman, Scott P. Johnson, Edward Vul, Rebecca Saxe, Edward Gibson and Lera Boroditsky. Their work appears in journals such as Cognitive Science, Cognition, Child Development, Developmental Science and Open Mind.

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