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2026

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D-Index
96
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World Ranking
118
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9

Deborah Lupton publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Deborah Lupton sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 342 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Deborah Lupton D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Deborah Lupton sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Deborah Lupton is affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, and Health.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics:

  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Participatory Visual Research Methods
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Among recent papers authored by Deborah Lupton or closely associated researchers are:

  • The Lancet and Financial Times Commission on governing health futures 2030: growing up in a digital world (2021) published in The Lancet
  • Young People's Use of Digital Health Technologies in the Global North: Narrative Review (2020) published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • Enacting intimacy and sociality at a distance in the COVID-19 crisis: the sociomaterialities of home-based communication technologies (2020) published in Media International Australia
  • Towards more-than-human digital data studies: developing research-creation methods (2020) published in Qualitative Research
  • Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review (2024) published in Clinical Microbiology Reviews

The researcher frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Ash Watson
  • Clare Southerton
  • Sophie Lewis
  • Marianne Clark
  • Mike Michael

Deborah Lupton's work is published in a range of academic venues with multiple publications in each, such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
  • Online Information Review
  • Social & Cultural Geography

Best Publications

  • The Imperative of Health: Public Health and the Regulated Body

    Deborah Lupton

  • Food, the body, and the self

    Deborah Lupton

  • The new public health: Health and self in the age of risk

    Alan R. Petersen;Deborah Lupton

  • The Quantified Self

    Deborah Lupton

  • Risk and everyday life

    John Tulloch;Deborah Lupton

  • Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences

    Deborah Lupton;Lesley Barclay

  • Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body in Western Societies

    Deborah Lupton

  • Consumerism, reflexivity and the medical encounter.

    Deborah Lupton

  • Risk and sociocultural theory : new directions and perspectives

    Deborah Lupton

  • Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies

    Deborah Lupton

  • Risk as Moral Danger: The Social and Political Functions of Risk Discourse in Public Health:

    Deborah Lupton

  • The digitally engaged patient: Self-monitoring and self-care in the digital health era

    Deborah Lupton

  • Discourse analysis: a new methodology for understanding the ideologies of health and illness

    Deborah Lupton

  • M-health and health promotion: The digital cyborg and surveillance society

    Deborah Lupton

  • The datafied child: The dataveillance of children and implications for their rights:

    Deborah Lupton;Ben Williamson

  • 'Life would be pretty dull without risk': Voluntary risk-taking and its pleasures

    Deborah Lupton;John Tulloch

  • The experiences of new fatherhood: a socio‐cultural analysis

    Lesley Barclay;Deborah Lupton

  • Quantified sex: a critical analysis of sexual and reproductive self-tracking using apps.

    Deborah Lupton

  • Health promotion in the digital era: a critical commentary

    Deborah Lupton

  • `Risk is Part of Your Life': Risk Epistemologies Among a Group of Australians

    Deborah Lupton;John Tulloch

  • Medicine as Culture: Illness, Disease and the Body

    Deborah Lupton

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah Pink
Sarah Pink Monash University
Simon Chapman
Simon Chapman University of Sydney
Mike Michael
Mike Michael University of Exeter
Cam Donaldson
Cam Donaldson Glasgow Caledonian University
Lesley Barclay
Lesley Barclay University of Sydney
Alan Petersen
Alan Petersen Monash University
Pat Thomson
Pat Thomson University of Nottingham
Peter Aggleton
Peter Aggleton University of New South Wales
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
Florian 'Floyd' Mueller Monash University
Alan Radley
Alan Radley Loughborough University

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