Melanie Lowe

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Melanie Lowe is a scholar working on Transportation, Health and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Melanie Lowe has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Transportation, 17 papers in Health and 12 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management. Recurrent topics in Melanie Lowe's work include Urban Transport and Accessibility (23 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (17 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (12 papers). Melanie Lowe is often cited by papers focused on Urban Transport and Accessibility (23 papers), Health disparities and outcomes (17 papers) and Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology (12 papers). Melanie Lowe collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Spain. Melanie Lowe's co-authors include Billie Giles‐Corti, Hannah Badland, James F. Sallis, Neville Owen, Sarah Foster, Gavin Turrell, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, Anne Vernez-Moudon, Andrew L. Dannenberg and Mark Stevenson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Melanie Lowe

34 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

City planning and population health: a global challenge

2016 865 citations Billie Giles‐Corti, Anne Vernez-Moudon et al. The Lancet profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melanie Lowe Australia	14	899	656	346	259	253	39	1.8k
Hugh Barton United Kingdom	19	507 0.6×	516 0.8×	288 0.8×	158 0.6×	90 0.4×	34	1.4k
Paula Hooper Australia	29	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	352 1.0×	407 1.6×	410 1.6×	108	2.8k
Rob Donovan Australia	10	1.0k 1.1×	516 0.8×	174 0.5×	261 1.0×	349 1.4×	12	1.6k
Rebecca Miles United States	15	806 0.9×	409 0.6×	243 0.7×	191 0.7×	448 1.8×	26	1.4k
Neil T. Coffee Australia	22	1.9k 2.1×	1.1k 1.6×	503 1.5×	462 1.8×	682 2.7×	74	2.8k
Philippe Apparicio Canada	29	1.4k 1.5×	894 1.4×	317 0.9×	386 1.5×	366 1.4×	140	3.2k
PC Lai Hong Kong	25	650 0.7×	902 1.4×	231 0.7×	230 0.9×	223 0.9×	87	1.9k
Lucy Gunn Australia	18	787 0.9×	408 0.6×	180 0.5×	181 0.7×	154 0.6×	53	1.2k
Tom Schmid United States	13	965 1.1×	339 0.5×	217 0.6×	195 0.8×	582 2.3×	19	1.5k
Amy Zlot United States	16	802 0.9×	294 0.4×	264 0.8×	173 0.7×	528 2.1×	26	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Melanie Lowe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melanie Lowe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melanie Lowe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Melanie Lowe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Melanie Lowe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Melanie Lowe. Melanie Lowe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Higgs, Carl, et al.. (2025). Determinants and indicators of healthy, climate resilient cities: a scoping review. Cities & Health. 9(5). 937–956.

Lowe, Melanie, et al.. (2025). Spatial and policy analysis of livability in the city of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Cities & Health. 9(4). 596–606.

Hino, Kimihiro, K Fukushima, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, et al.. (2024). Planning strategies and infrastructure development supporting physical activity: analyzing municipal compact city plans in Japan. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1).

Lowe, Melanie, et al.. (2024). Engaging under‐represented oldest old in research: An approach for inclusive recruitment. Australasian Journal on Ageing. 43(4). 844–851. 2 indexed citations

Lowe, Melanie, et al.. (2024). Building back healthier? The transformative potential and reality of city planning responses to COVID-19 in Melbourne, Australia. Cities. 155. 105479–105479. 3 indexed citations

Higgs, Carl, Melanie Lowe, Paula Hooper, et al.. (2023). Policy relevant health related liveability indicator datasets for addresses in Australia’s 21 largest cities. Scientific Data. 10(1). 6 indexed citations

Giles‐Corti, Billie, et al.. (2023). What are the lessons from COVID-19 for creating healthy, sustainable, resilient future cities?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 29–29. 29 indexed citations

Giles‐Corti, Billie, Anne Vernez Moudon, Melanie Lowe, et al.. (2022). What next? Expanding our view of city planning and global health, and implementing and monitoring evidence-informed policy. The Lancet Global Health. 10(6). e919–e926. 77 indexed citations

Lowe, Melanie, James F. Sallis, Deborah Salvo, et al.. (2022). A Pathway to Prioritizing and Delivering Healthy and Sustainable Cities. Tuwhera (Auckland University of Technology). 1(1). 111–123. 2 indexed citations

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Giles‐Corti, Billie, Tayebeh Saghapour, Gavin Turrell, et al.. (2022). Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia’s 21 largest cities: Does city size matter?. Health & Place. 78. 102899–102899. 16 indexed citations

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Lowe, Melanie, Jonathan Arundel, Paula Hooper, et al.. (2019). Liveability aspirations and realities: Implementation of urban policies designed to create healthy cities in Australia. Social Science & Medicine. 245. 112713–112713. 37 indexed citations

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Lowe, Melanie, Paula Hooper, Helen Jordan, et al.. (2019). Evidence-Informed Planning for Healthy Liveable Cities: How Can Policy Frameworks Be Used to Strengthen Research Translation?. Current Environmental Health Reports. 6(3). 127–136. 17 indexed citations

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Giles‐Corti, Billie, Melanie Lowe, & Jonathan Arundel. (2019). Achieving the SDGs: Evaluating indicators to be used to benchmark and monitor progress towards creating healthy and sustainable cities. Health Policy. 124(6). 581–590. 129 indexed citations

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Gunn, Lucy, Paula Hooper, Melanie Lowe, et al.. (2018). Creating liveable cities in Australia: a scorecard and priority recommendations for Melbourne. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 3 indexed citations

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Giles‐Corti, Billie, Anne Vernez-Moudon, Rodrigo Siqueira Reis, et al.. (2016). City planning and population health: a global challenge: urban design, transport, and health 1. The Lancet. 1 indexed citations

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Giles‐Corti, Billie, James F. Sallis, Takemi Sugiyama, et al.. (2015). Translating active living research into policy and practice: One important pathway to chronic disease prevention. Journal of Public Health Policy. 36(2). 231–243. 121 indexed citations

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Lowe, Melanie, Carolyn Whitzman, & Billie Giles‐Corti. (2015). Improving integrated planning in Melbourne: Exploring barriers and enablers of health-promoting policy integration. Research Bank (Australian Catholic University). 1–11. 2 indexed citations

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Lowe, Melanie. (2014). Obesity and climate change mitigation in Australia: overview and analysis of policies with co‐benefits. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 38(1). 19–24. 20 indexed citations

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Badland, Hannah, Carolyn Whitzman, Melanie Lowe, et al.. (2014). Urban liveability: Emerging lessons from Australia for exploring the potential for indicators to measure the social determinants of health. Social Science & Medicine. 111. 64–73. 223 indexed citations

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Lowe, Melanie, Claire Boulangé, & Billie Giles‐Corti. (2014). Urban design and health: progress to date and future challenges. Health Promotion Journal of Australia. 25(1). 14–18. 32 indexed citations

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