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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 65 1047 910 200 177 250 13079

Abebaw Fekadu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Abebaw Fekadu between 1999 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Abebaw Fekadu published across 27 years, from 1999 to 2025, averaging 10.8 papers a year. Output peaked at 35 publications in 2021. 25 of the 292 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1999 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 35. Peak 35 publications in 2021. 1999: 1 publication 2000: 2 publications 2001: 1 publication 2002: 2 publications 2003: 2 publications 2004: 2 publications 2005: 3 publications 2006: 2 publications 2007: 3 publications 2008: 1 publication 2009: 5 publications 2010: 6 publications 2011: 7 publications 2012: 8 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 16 publications 2015: 11 publications 2016: 28 publications 2017: 19 publications 2018: 12 publications 2019: 27 publications 2020: 28 publications 2021: 35 publications 2022: 20 publications 2023: 20 publications 2024: 15 publications 2025: 10 publications
1999 2025

292 publications in total across all disciplines

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Abebaw Fekadu: publications per year, 1999 to 2025
Year Publications
1999 1
2000 2
2001 1
2002 2
2003 2
2004 2
2005 3
2006 2
2007 3
2008 1
2009 5
2010 6
2011 7
2012 8
2013 6
2014 16
2015 11
2016 28
2017 19
2018 12
2019 27
2020 28
2021 35
2022 20
2023 20
2024 15
2025 10
Total 292
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Abebaw Fekadu 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 Abebaw Fekadu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 244–253 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 250 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167 250
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Abebaw Fekadu 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 Abebaw Fekadu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 65 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 65 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59 65
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Overview

Abebaw Fekadu is affiliated with Brighton and Sussex Medical School in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple domains within medicine and psychology, with a particular focus on mental health treatment, infectious diseases, and health systems.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics including digital health technologies, infectious disease control, antibacterial properties of medicinal plants, genetic variation detection, and depression under detection in low and middle-income countries. Notable papers include:

  • The potential use of digital health technologies in the African context: a systematic review of evidence from Ethiopia, 2021, npj Digital Medicine
  • Containment of COVID-19 in Ethiopia and implications for tuberculosis care and research, 2020, Infectious Diseases of Poverty
  • Antibacterial activity of methanol extracts of the leaves of three medicinal plants against selected bacteria isolated from wounds of lymphoedema patients, 2021, BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
  • Low-coverage sequencing cost-effectively detects known and novel variation in underrepresented populations, 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
  • Under detection of depression in primary care settings in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis, 2022, Systematic Reviews

The scientist's frequent collaborators include Charlotte Hanlon, Girmay Medhin, Gail Davey, Tsegahun Manyazewal, and Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel. These coauthors have contributed to wide-ranging studies in related themes.

Frequent publication venues where Abebaw Fekadu's work appears are:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • BMJ Open
  • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
  • BMC Psychiatry

Within the fields of study, the scientist's main areas are Medicine with 106 publications and Psychology with 71 publications. Subfields explored include:

  • General Health Professions
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Social Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Research topics covered extensively by Abebaw Fekadu include:

  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Family Caregiving in Mental Illness
  • Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Schizophrenia Research and Treatment
  • Parasites and Host Interactions
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Best Publications

  • PRIME: A Programme to Reduce the Treatment Gap for Mental Disorders in Five Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Crick Lund;Mark Tomlinson;Mark Tomlinson;Mary De Silva;Abebaw Fekadu

  • Perception of stigma among family members of individuals with schizophrenia and major affective disorders in rural Ethiopia.

    Teshome Shibre;Alemayehu Negash;Gunnar Kullgren;D Kebede

  • Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.

    Emily Mendenhall;Mary J. De Silva;Charlotte Hanlon;Inge Petersen

  • What happens to patients with treatment-resistant depression? A systematic review of medium to long term outcome studies

    Abebaw Fekadu;Sarah C. Wooderson;Kalypso Markopoulo;Catherine Donaldson

  • Challenges and opportunities for implementing integrated mental health care: a district level situation analysis from five low- and middle-income countries.

    Charlotte Hanlon;Nagendra P. Luitel;Tasneem Kathree;Vaibhav Murhar

  • A multidimensional tool to quantify treatment resistance in depression: the Maudsley staging method.

    Abebaw Fekadu;Sarah Wooderson;Catherine Donaldson;Kalypso Markopoulou

  • The path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans by 2030: the Lancet Commission on the future of health in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Irene Akua Agyepong;Nelson Sewankambo;Agnes Binagwaho;Awa Marie Coll-Seck

  • Stigma, explanatory models and unmet needs of caregivers of children with developmental disorders in a low-income African country: a cross-sectional facility-based survey.

    Dejene Tilahun;Dejene Tilahun;Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;Abebaw Fekadu;Abebaw Fekadu;Bethlehem Tekola

  • The impact of childhood adversity on suicidality and clinical course in treatment-resistant depression

    Catherine Tunnard;Catherine Tunnard;Lena J. Rane;Lena J. Rane;Sarah C. Wooderson;Sarah C. Wooderson;Kalypso Markopoulou;Kalypso Markopoulou

  • Validity of brief screening questionnaires to detect depression in primary care in Ethiopia.

    Charlotte Hanlon;Charlotte Hanlon;Girmay Medhin;Medhin Selamu;Erica Breuer

  • Excess mortality in severe mental illness: 10-year population-based cohort study in rural Ethiopia.

    Abebaw Fekadu;Girmay Medhin;Derege Kebede;Atalay Alem

  • Internalized stigma among patients with schizophrenia in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional facility-based study.

    Dereje Assefa;Teshome Shibre;Laura Asher;Abebaw Fekadu;Abebaw Fekadu

  • Toxoplasmosis as a cause for behaviour disorders--overview of evidence and mechanisms.

    Abebaw Fekadu;Teshome Shibre;Anthony J. Cleare

  • Clinical Course and Outcome of Schizophrenia in a Predominantly Treatment-Naive Cohort in Rural Ethiopia

    Atalay Alem;Derege Kebede;Abebaw Fekadu;Teshome Shibre

  • Development of a scalable mental healthcare plan for a rural district in Ethiopia

    Abebaw Fekadu;Charlotte Hanlon;Girmay Medhin;Atalay Alem

  • Onset and clinical course of schizophrenia in Butajira-Ethiopia--a community-based study.

    D. Kebede;A. Alem;T. Shibre;A. Negash

  • Population level mental distress in rural Ethiopia

    Abebaw Fekadu;Abebaw Fekadu;Girmay Medhin;Medhin Selamu;Maji Hailemariam

  • The potential use of digital health technologies in the African context: a systematic review of evidence from Ethiopia.

    Tsegahun Manyazewal;Yimtubezinash Woldeamanuel;Henry M Blumberg;Abebaw Fekadu

  • Schizophrenia: illness impact on family members in a traditional society – rural Ethiopia

    T. Shibre;D. Kebede;A. Alem;A. Negash

  • Generating evidence to narrow the treatment gap for mental disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: Rationale, overview and methods of AFFIRM

    C. Lund;A. Alem;M. Schneider;Charlotte Hanlon

  • Suicidal ideation and behaviour among community and health care seeking populations in five low- and middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study.

    M. Jordans;S. Rathod;A. Fekadu;G. Medhin

  • The Maudsley Staging Method for treatment-resistant depression: prediction of longer-term outcome and persistence of symptoms.

    Abebaw Fekadu;Sarah C. Wooderson;Kalypso Markopoulou;Anthony J. Cleare

Frequent Co-Authors

Charlotte Hanlon
Charlotte Hanlon King's College London
Crick Lund
Crick Lund University of Cape Town
Martin Prince
Martin Prince King's College London
Anthony J. Cleare
Anthony J. Cleare King's College London
Vikram Patel
Vikram Patel Harvard University
Graham Thornicroft
Graham Thornicroft King's College London
Inge Petersen
Inge Petersen University of KwaZulu-Natal
Mark J. D. Jordans
Mark J. D. Jordans University of Amsterdam
Mark Tomlinson
Mark Tomlinson Queen's University Belfast
Mario Francisco Juruena
Mario Francisco Juruena King's College London

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