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Melanie Luppa

Melanie Luppa

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
60
Citations
14005
World Ranking
1465
National Ranking
46

Melanie Luppa 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 Melanie Luppa sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 239 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Melanie Luppa 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 Melanie Luppa sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Melanie Luppa is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, health professions, and psychology. Their work spans various subfields including general health professions, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics of research addressed by Luppa include dementia and cognitive impairment research, health disparities and outcomes, COVID-19 and mental health, workplace health and well-being, geriatric care and nursing homes, healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, and health, psychology, and well-being.

Frequent publication venues where Luppa's research appears include Das Gesundheitswesen, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Alzheimer's & Dementia, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, and Journal of Affective Disorders.

Key recent papers authored or coauthored by Melanie Luppa include:

  • Risk factors and protective factors of depression in older people 65+. A systematic review (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • Internet Use in Old Age: Results of a German Population-Representative Survey (2020), published in Journal of Medical Internet Research
  • A multidomain intervention against cognitive decline in an at-risk-population in Germany: Results from the cluster-randomized AgeWell.de trial (2023), published in Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Effectiveness and Feasibility of Internet-Based Interventions for Grief After Bereavement: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2021), published in JMIR Mental Health
  • Attitudes and treatment practice of general practitioners towards patients with obesity in primary care (2020), published in BMC Family Practice

Luppa's research collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Alexander Pabst, Birgitt Wiese, Hans-Helmut König, and Margrit Löbner, reflecting a network of colleagues engaged in related fields.

Best Publications

  • Prediction of Institutionalization in the Elderly. A Systematic Review

    Melanie Luppa;Tobias Luck;Siegfried Weyerer;Hans-Helmut König

  • Age- and gender-specific prevalence of depression in latest-life – Systematic review and meta-analysis

    M. Luppa;C. Sikorski;T. Luck;L. Ehreke

  • Review: health care utilization and costs of elderly persons with multiple chronic conditions.

    Thomas Lehnert;Dirk Heider;Hanna Leicht;Sven Heinrich

  • Cost-of-illness studies of depression: a systematic review.

    Melanie Luppa;Sven Heinrich;Matthias C. Angermeyer;Hans-Helmut König

  • Prediction of institutionalisation in dementia. A systematic review.

    Melanie Luppa;Tobias Luck;Elmar Brähler;Hans-Helmut König

  • Social relations and depression in late life - A systematic review

    Michaela Schwarzbach;Melanie Luppa;Simon Forstmeier;Hans-Helmut König

  • Risk factors and protective factors of depression in older people 65+. A systematic review.

    Alexander Maier;Steffi G. Riedel-Heller;Alexander Pabst;Melanie Luppa

  • Risk of dementia in elderly patients with the use of proton pump inhibitors

    Britta Haenisch;Britta Haenisch;Britta Haenisch;Klaus von Holt;Birgitt Wiese;Jana Prokein

  • The stigma of obesity in the general public and its implications for public health - a systematic review.

    Claudia Sikorski;Melanie Luppa;Marie Kaiser;Heide Glaesmer

  • Incidence of mild cognitive impairment - a systematic review

    T Luck;M Luppa;S Briel;SG Riedel-Heller

  • Prevalence and risk factors for depression in non-demented primary care attenders aged 75 years and older.

    Siegfried Weyerer;Sandra Eifflaender-Gorfer;Leonore Köhler;Frank Jessen

  • Economics of medically unexplained symptoms: a systematic review of the literature.

    Alexander Konnopka;Rainer Schaefert;Sven Heinrich;Claudia Kaufmann

  • Cognitive performance before and after the onset of subjective cognitive decline in old age

    Alexander Koppara;Michael Wagner;Michael Wagner;Carolin Lange;Annette Ernst

  • Cost-of-illness studies of dementia: a systematic review focusing on stage dependency of costs

    W. Quentin;S. G. Riedel‐Heller;M. Luppa;A. Rudolph

  • Incidence of late-life depression: A systematic review

    Dorothea Büchtemann;Melanie Luppa;Anke Bramesfeld;Anke Bramesfeld;Steffi Riedel-Heller

  • Relative Impact of Multimorbid Chronic Conditions on Health-Related Quality of Life – Results from the MultiCare Cohort Study

    Christian Brettschneider;Hanna Leicht;Horst Bickel;Anne Dahlhaus

  • Age- and gender-specific prevalence and risk factors for depressive symptoms in the elderly: a population-based study.

    H. Glaesmer;S. Riedel-Heller;E. Braehler;L. Spangenberg

  • Systematic review of the effect of the psychosocial working environment on cognition and dementia

    Francisca S Then;Tobias Luck;Tobias Luck;Melanie Luppa;Marleen Thinschmidt

  • Impact of Depression on Health Care Utilization and Costs among Multimorbid Patients – Results from the MultiCare Cohort Study

    Jens-Oliver Bock;Melanie Luppa;Christian Brettschneider;Steffi Gerlinde Riedel-Heller

  • Net costs of dementia by disease stage

    H. Leicht;S. Heinrich;D. Heider;D. Heider;C. Bachmann

  • Current alcohol consumption and its relationship to incident dementia: results from a 3-year follow-up study among primary care attenders aged 75 years and older

    Siegfried Weyerer;Martina Schäufele;Birgitt Wiese;Wolfgang Maier

Frequent Co-Authors

Steffi G. Riedel-Heller
Steffi G. Riedel-Heller Leipzig University
Hans-Helmut König
Hans-Helmut König Universität Hamburg
Siegfried Weyerer
Siegfried Weyerer Heidelberg University
Wolfgang Maier
Wolfgang Maier University of Bonn
Tobias Luck
Tobias Luck Leipzig University
Birgitt Wiese
Birgitt Wiese Hannover Medical School
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner TU Dresden
Frank Jessen
Frank Jessen University of Cologne
Matthias C. Angermeyer
Matthias C. Angermeyer Leipzig University
Arno Villringer
Arno Villringer Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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