2026 Lisa F. Berkman: Medicine Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Female Scientists	143	201	188	126	118	468	107070
Medicine	144	1409	1302	823	748	444	110219

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
2008 - Member of Academia Europaea
2000 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Lisa F. Berkman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine and social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including general health professions, health, psychiatry and mental health, sociology, political science, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research covers multiple main topics, such as health disparities and outcomes, dementia and cognitive impairment research, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, workplace health and well-being, employment and welfare studies, global health care issues, and retirement, disability, and employment.

Some of the prominent recent papers include:

The path to healthy ageing in China: a Peking University-Lancet Commission, 2022, The Lancet
Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Incident Cardiovascular Diseases, 2020, JAMA
Organisational- and group-level workplace interventions and their effect on multiple domains of worker well-being: A systematic review, 2021, Work & Stress
Work Redesign for the 21st Century: Promising Strategies for Enhancing Worker Well-Being, 2021, American Journal of Public Health
Association of Social Support With Brain Volume and Cognition, 2021, JAMA Network Open

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Stephen Tollman
Meagan T. Farrell
Ryan G. Wagner
Lindsay C. Kobayashi
Darina T. Bassil

Berkman has published regularly in several venues, notably:

Alzheimer's & Dementia
SSRN Electronic Journal
SSM - Population Health
Social Science & Medicine
International Journal of Epidemiology

The scientist holds memberships in prestigious organizations, including the National Academy of Medicine since 2000 and the Academia Europaea since 2008.

Best Publications

A short physical performance battery assessing lower extremity function: association with self-reported disability and prediction of mortality and nursing home admission.

Jack M. Guralnik;Eleanor M. Simonsick;Luigi Ferrucci;Robert J. Glynn

9873
Citations
Social networks, host resistance, and mortality: a nine-year follow-up study of Alameda County residents

Berkman Lf;Syme Sl

8766
Citations
From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium.

Lisa F. Berkman;Thomas Glass;Ian Brissette;Teresa E. Seeman

6018
Citations
Social ties and mental health.

Ichiro Kawachi;Lisa F. Berkman

4281
Citations
Lower Extremity Function and Subsequent Disability Consistency Across Studies, Predictive Models, and Value of Gait Speed Alone Compared With the Short Physical Performance Battery

Jack M. Guralnik;Luigi Ferrucci;Carl F. Pieper;Suzanne G. Leveille

3902
Citations
Two Shorter Forms of the CES-D Depression Symptoms Index:

Frank J. Kohout;Lisa F. Berkman;Denis A. Evans;Joan Cornoni-Huntley

3074
Citations
Effects of treating depression and low perceived social support on clinical events after myocardial infarction: the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease Patients (ENRICHD) Randomized Trial.

Lisa F Berkman;James Blumenthal;Matthew Burg;Robert M Carney

2620
Citations
Neighborhoods and health

Ichiro Kawachi;Lisa F. Berkman

1720
Citations
THE ROLE OF SOCIAL RELATIONS IN HEALTH PROMOTION

Lisa F. Berkman

1706
Citations
Genetic Susceptibility to Death from Coronary Heart Disease in a Study of Twins

M E Marenberg;N Risch;L F Berkman;B Floderus

1601
Citations
Social Disengagement and Incident Cognitive Decline in Community-Dwelling Elderly Persons

Shari S. Bassuk;Thomas A. Glass;Lisa F. Berkman

1450
Citations
Emotional support and survival after myocardial infarction. A prospective, population-based study of the elderly.

Lisa F. Berkman;Linda Leo-Summers;Ralph I. Horwitz

1357
Citations
Population based study of social and productive activities as predictors of survival among elderly Americans

Thomas A Glass;Carlos Mendes de Leon;Richard A Marottoli;Lisa F Berkman

1329
Citations
Depression, Heart Rate Variability, and Acute Myocardial Infarction

Robert M. Carney;James A. Blumenthal;Phyllis K. Stein;Lana Watkins

1179
Citations
DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN RELATION TO PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FUNCTIONING IN THE ELDERLY

Lisa F. Berkman;Cathy S. Berkman;Stanislav Kasl;Daniel H. Freeman

1168
Citations
Measuring sleep: accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of wrist actigraphy compared to polysomnography.

Miguel Marino;Miguel Marino;Yi Li;Michael N. Rueschman;J. W. Winkelman

1132
Citations
World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

Stephen Kaptoge;Lisa Pennells;Dirk De Bacquer;Marie Therese Cooney

1124
Citations
Social relationships, social support, and patterns of cognitive aging in healthy, high-functioning older adults: MacArthur studies of successful aging.

Teresa E. Seeman;Tina M. Lusignolo;Marilyn Albert;Lisa Berkman

1120
Citations
Differences in life expectancy due to race and educational differences are widening, and many may not catch up.

S. Jay Olshansky;Toni C. Antonucci;Lisa F. Berkman;Robert H. Binstock

937
Citations
CONSEQUENCES OF DRIVING CESSATION: DECREASED OUT-OF-HOME ACTIVITY LEVELS

R A Marottoli;Cfm de Leon;T A Glass;C S Williams

920
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ichiro Kawachi Harvard University

Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles

M. Maria Glymour Boston University

Kathleen Kahn University of the Witwatersrand

Stephen Tollman University of the Witwatersrand

Orfeu M. Buxton Pennsylvania State University

Mauricio Avendano King's College London

Marcel Goldberg Inserm

Stanislav V. Kasl Yale University

Carlos F. Mendes de Leon Georgetown University

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