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2025

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Psychology

D-Index
69
Citations
17323
World Ranking
2376
National Ranking
96

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Germany Leader Award
  • 2012 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Economics and Empirical Social Sciences

Overview

Wolfgang Lutz is affiliated with the University of Trier in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of social sciences and psychology. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary topics, incorporating elements of demography, health, and environmental studies.

The scientist's recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes" (2021) published in Science
  • "Population aging, migration, and productivity in Europe" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "China's low fertility may not hinder future prosperity" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Years of good life is a well-being indicator designed to serve research on sustainability" (2021) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Revisiting the causes of fertility decline in Bangladesh: the relative importance of female education and family planning programs" (2022) published in Asian Population Studies

Lutz collaborates frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Dilek Yıldız
  • Anne Goujon
  • Claudia Reiter
  • Saroja Adhikari
  • Guillaume Marois

Their scholarly work appears primarily in noteworthy publication venues, including:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
  • Population and Development Review
  • Finnish Yearbook of Population Research

Lutz's research interests cover major fields and subfields such as:

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Demography
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Sociology and Political Science

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Among their academic contributions, Wolfgang Lutz authored a book titled Advanced Introduction to Demography, published in 2021 by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis.

Lutz received recognition in 2012 from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for contributions to economics and empirical social sciences.

Best Publications

  • The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and their energy, land use, and greenhouse gas emissions implications: An overview

    Keywan Riahi;Detlef P. van Vuuren;Elmar Kriegler;Jae Edmonds

  • The coming acceleration of global population ageing

    Wolfgang Lutz;Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov;Sergei Scherbov

  • The human core of the shared socioeconomic pathways: Population scenarios by age, sex and level of education for all countries to 2100

    Samir Kc;Wolfgang Lutz

  • The end of world population growth

    Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

  • Evaluation of psychotherapy. Efficacy, effectiveness, and patient progress.

    Kenneth I. Howard;Karla Moras;Peter L. Brill;Zoran Martinovich

  • The emergence of Sub-Replacement Family Size Ideals in Europe

    Joshua Goldstein;Wolfgang Lutz;Maria Rita Testa

  • The Low Fertility Trap Hypothesis: Forces that May Lead to Further Postponement and Fewer Births in Europe

    Wolfgang Lutz;Vegard Skirbekk;Maria Rita Testa

  • Global Human Capital: Integrating Education and Population

    Wolfgang Lutz;Samir Kc

  • Dimensions of global population projections: what do we know about future population trends and structures?

    Wolfgang Lutz;Wolfgang Lutz;Wolfgang Lutz;Samir Kc

  • Enhancing outcome for potential treatment failures: Therapist–client feedback and clinical support tools

    S. Cory Harmon;Michael J. Lambert;David M. Smart;Eric Hawkins

  • World population and human capital in the twenty-first century

    Wolfgang Lutz;William P. Butz;Samir Kc

  • Is education a key to reducing vulnerability to natural disasters and hence unavoidable climate change

    Raya Muttarak;Wolfgang Lutz

  • Europe's population at a turning point

    Wolfgang Lutz;Brian C. O'Neill;Sergei Scherbov

  • Doubling of world population unlikely

    Wolfgang Lutz;Warren Sanderson;Sergei Scherbov

  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes

    Wim Thiery;Stefan Lange;Joeri Rogelj;Carl Friedrich Schleussner

  • Population and Climate Change

    Brian C. O'Neill;F. Landis MacKellar;Wolfgang Lutz

  • Therapist Effects in Outpatient Psychotherapy: A Three-Level Growth Curve Approach

    Wolfgang Lutz;Scott C. Leon;Zoran Martinovich;John S. Lyons

  • Reconstruction of populations by age, sex and level of educational attainment for 120 countries for 1970-2000

    Wolfgang Lutz;Anne Goujon;Warren Sanderson

  • Projection of Populations by Level of Educational Attainment, Age and Sex for 120 Countries for 2005-2050

    Samir Kc;Bilal Barakat;Anne Goujon;Vegard Skirbekk

  • The Future Population of the World: What Can We Assume Today?

    Wolfgang Lutz

  • The Demography of Educational Attainment and Economic Growth

    Wolfgang Lutz;Jesus Crespo Cuaresma;Warren Sanderson

  • Global Sustainable Development Report 2019: The Future is Now – Science for Achieving Sustainable Development

    Peter Messerli;Endah Murniningtyas;Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue;Ernest G. Foli

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian A. Rubel
Julian A. Rubel Osnabrück University
Sergei Scherbov
Sergei Scherbov International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Warren C. Sanderson
Warren C. Sanderson Stony Brook University
Steffen Moritz
Steffen Moritz University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Björn Meyer
Björn Meyer City, University of London
Johanna Schröder
Johanna Schröder Medical School Hamburg
Jaime Delgadillo
Jaime Delgadillo University of Sheffield
Fritz Hohagen
Fritz Hohagen University of Lübeck
Martin Hautzinger
Martin Hautzinger University of Tübingen
Matthias Rose
Matthias Rose Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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