Ebba Abate

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Ebba Abate is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ebba Abate has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Infectious Diseases, 36 papers in Epidemiology and 16 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Ebba Abate's work include Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (24 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (15 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (11 papers). Ebba Abate is often cited by papers focused on Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology (24 papers), Parasites and Host Interactions (15 papers) and Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment (11 papers). Ebba Abate collaborates with scholars based in Ethiopia, Sweden and United States. Ebba Abate's co-authors include Thomas Schön, Abraham Aseffa, Olle Stendahl, Afework Kassu, Biruk Yeshitela, Feleke Moges, Natalie Mayet, Fusao Ota, Chikwe Ihekweazu and John N. Nkengasong and has published in prestigious journals such as The Lancet, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ebba Abate

74 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: a cross-sectional study

2021 221 citations Chikwe Ihekweazu, Natalie Mayet et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ebba Abate Ethiopia	22	733	467	409	357	143	80	1.6k
Kinley Wangdi Australia	24	598 0.8×	242 0.5×	900 2.2×	219 0.6×	256 1.8×	119	1.8k
Eveline Klinkenberg Netherlands	24	941 1.3×	593 1.3×	704 1.7×	106 0.3×	59 0.4×	73	1.9k
Shantanu Kumar Kar India	20	362 0.5×	288 0.6×	328 0.8×	125 0.4×	48 0.3×	81	1.4k
Olivier Bouchaud France	28	955 1.3×	517 1.1×	1.0k 2.6×	328 0.9×	28 0.2×	183	2.6k
Benno Kreuels Germany	18	401 0.5×	568 1.2×	443 1.1×	103 0.3×	89 0.6×	79	1.6k
Lukas Fenner Switzerland	27	1.4k 1.9×	1.0k 2.2×	167 0.4×	103 0.3×	87 0.6×	88	2.0k
Lasse S Vestergaard Denmark	26	314 0.4×	186 0.4×	819 2.0×	257 0.7×	59 0.4×	56	1.5k
Gemeda Abebe Ethiopia	24	1.1k 1.5×	813 1.7×	293 0.7×	190 0.5×	26 0.2×	75	1.8k
Sergi Sanz Spain	29	387 0.5×	849 1.8×	1.2k 3.1×	351 1.0×	34 0.2×	74	2.6k
Jean‐Paul Guthmann France	29	600 0.8×	657 1.4×	1.4k 3.3×	278 0.8×	128 0.9×	81	2.6k

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Legesse, Mengistu, Andargachew Mulu, Girmay Medhin, et al.. (2025). SARS-CoV-2 Genetic Variants Identified in Selected Regions of Ethiopia Through Whole Genome Sequencing: Insights from the Fifth Wave of COVID-19. Genes. 16(3). 351–351.

Fentaw, Surafel, et al.. (2024). CARD8 polymorphisms among bacterial meningitis patients in North-West Ethiopia. BMC Infectious Diseases. 24(1). 1084–1084. 1 indexed citations

Alemu, Kassahun, Clara Pons‐Duran, Bezawit Mesfin Hunegnaw, et al.. (2024). Building capacity for maternal, newborn and child health research in low-income country settings: A research fellowship experience in Ethiopia. Journal of Global Health. 14. 4198–4198.

Berhe, Nega, Wondwossen Amogne, Ebba Abate, et al.. (2023). The Burden of Epstein–Barr Virus (EBV) and Its Determinants among Adult HIV-Positive Individuals in Ethiopia. Viruses. 15(8). 1743–1743. 5 indexed citations

Gelibo, Terefe, Sileshi Lulseged, Saro Abdella, et al.. (2022). Spatial distribution and determinants of HIV prevalence among adults in urban Ethiopia: Findings from the Ethiopia Population-based HIV Impact Assessment Survey (2017–2018). PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0271221–e0271221. 10 indexed citations

Tasew, Geremew, Beyene Moges, Ebba Abate, et al.. (2022). First PCR Confirmed anthrax outbreaks in Ethiopia—Amhara region, 2018–2019. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(2). e0010181–e0010181. 11 indexed citations

Feleke, Sindew Mekasha, Emily Reichert, Hussein Mohammed, et al.. (2021). Plasmodium falciparum is evolving to escape malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Ethiopia. Nature Microbiology. 6(10). 1289–1299. 82 indexed citations

Deressa, Asefa, Mǎng Shī, Manuel Jara, et al.. (2021). Use of partial N-gene sequences as a tool to monitor progress on rabies control and elimination efforts in Ethiopia. Acta Tropica. 221. 106022–106022. 3 indexed citations

Binder, Sue, Alex Riolexus Ario, Hervé Hien, et al.. (2021). African National Public Health Institutes Responses to COVID-19: Innovations, Systems Changes, and Challenges. Health Security. 19(5). 498–507. 14 indexed citations

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Meier‐Stephenson, Vanessa, Debasu Damtie, Ebba Abate, et al.. (2020). Prevalence and genetic variability of occult hepatitis B virus in a human immunodeficiency virus positive patient cohort in Gondar, Ethiopia. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0242577–e0242577. 16 indexed citations

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Abate, Ebba & John C. Reeder. (2020). Neglected Tropical Diseases: responding to calls for action from the front lines in Ethiopia. The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. 14(06.1). 1S–2S. 2 indexed citations

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Aseffa, Abraham, Ebba Abate, Berhanu Seyoum, et al.. (2019). INVESTIGATIONS ON ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE: CONTRIBUTIONS OF A CLINICAL RESEARCH NETWORK. 1 indexed citations

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Assefa, Abate, Anteneh Amsalu, Adane Mihret, et al.. (2019). Immune protection of hepatitis B vaccine among children living in Gondar, northwest Ethiopia. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 57(2). 137–144. 1 indexed citations

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Abate, Ebba, Robert Blomgran, Deepti Verma, et al.. (2019). Polymorphisms in CARD8 and NLRP3 are associated with extrapulmonary TB and poor clinical outcome in active TB in Ethiopia. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3126–3126. 21 indexed citations

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Bekele, Abebe, et al.. (2017). NCD Risk Factors on the Rise in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of Health Development. 31(1).

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Adem, Emebet, Ermias Diro, Asrat Hailu, et al.. (2016). Successful Treatment of Human Visceral Leishmaniasis Restores Antigen-Specific IFN-γ, but not IL-10 Production. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 10(3). e0004468–e0004468. 22 indexed citations

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Abate, Ebba, Ermias Diro, Daniel Eliáš, et al.. (2015). Asymptomatic Helminth Infection in Active Tuberculosis Is Associated with Increased Regulatory and Th-2 Responses and a Lower Sputum Smear Positivity. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 9(8). e0003994–e0003994. 46 indexed citations

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Gelaw, Aschalew, et al.. (2012). Plasma IgE level and Eosinophil count in smear positive tuberculosis patientswith and without helminthic infections at Gondar University Hospital,Northwest Ethiopia. European Journal of Experimental Biology. 2(6). 3 indexed citations

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Abate, Ebba, Abraham Aseffa, Ibrahim M. Elhassan, et al.. (2012). Genotyping of human papillomavirus in paraffin embedded cervical tissue samples from women in ethiopia and the Sudan. Journal of Medical Virology. 85(2). 282–287. 31 indexed citations

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Kassu, Afework, et al.. (2004). Intestinal Parasitic Infections in HIV/AIDS and HIV Seronegative Individuals in a Teaching Hospital, Ethiopia. Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases. 57(2). 41–43. 101 indexed citations

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