ENCYCLOPAEDIST (from Old Greek "encyclopaedia" – "circle of sciences", "cycle of studies and education"), a person knowledgeable in many spheres of sciences and human activities. Franko is a real encyclopaedist as his academic interests included history and theory of literature, literary criticism, bibliography and bibliology, linguistics and translation studies, folklore studies and ethnology, art studies and culture studies, history and political science, economics and sociology, statistics and legal studies, pedagogy and psychology, philosophy and nature studies...

ECONOMIST, another facet of Franko as a scientist – he is the author of more than 200 papers on economics-related issues. He was interested in finances and banking, demography and statistics, agrarian and industrial relations. Franko understood the importance of economic factor for the society. He warned about excessive attention to primitive "gut [i.e. material] ideas" and stressed on the priority of national idea.

ETHNOGRAPHICAL EXPEDITIONS, academic trips to various corners of native land with the purpose of studying local traditions and rural life. Materials were later systematized and published in Ethnographic Collection – serial publication of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. Franko was the compiler of 9 books of the series, including Halychyna-Ruthenian Folk Proverbs and Sayings (in 3 volumes, 6 books).