Mengesha Birkie

537 total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 358 citations indexed

About

Mengesha Birkie is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology and Neurology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mengesha Birkie has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 358 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Clinical Psychology, 5 papers in Social Psychology and 3 papers in Neurology. Recurrent topics in Mengesha Birkie's work include Mental Health Treatment and Access (5 papers), COVID-19 and Mental Health (4 papers) and Family Caregiving in Mental Illness (3 papers). Mengesha Birkie is often cited by papers focused on Mental Health Treatment and Access (5 papers), COVID-19 and Mental Health (4 papers) and Family Caregiving in Mental Illness (3 papers). Mengesha Birkie collaborates with scholars based in Ethiopia. Mengesha Birkie's co-authors include Mogesie Necho, Mekonnen Tsehay, Erkihun Tadesse Amsalu, Asmare Belete, Baye Akele, Yosef Zenebe, Tamrat Anbesaw, Alemayehu Negash, Sintayehu Asnakew and Gebeyaw Biset and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology and BMC Psychiatry.

In The Last Decade

Mengesha Birkie

13 papers receiving 344 citations

Hit Papers

Prevalence of anxiety, depression, and psychological dist... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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.

  1. Prevalence of anxiety, depression, and psychological distress among the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis
    2021 187 citations Mogesie Necho, Mekonnen Tsehay et al. International Journal of Social Psychiatry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mengesha Birkie Ethiopia 8 235 82 73 52 51 14 358
Victoria M. E. Bridgland Australia 7 271 1.2× 37 0.5× 95 1.3× 66 1.3× 77 1.5× 15 423
Huinan Liu Hong Kong 11 309 1.3× 77 0.9× 95 1.3× 121 2.3× 56 1.1× 27 431
T.Y. Marinova Russia 5 232 1.0× 45 0.5× 66 0.9× 59 1.1× 48 0.9× 13 302
Zainab Pervaiz Pakistan 3 264 1.1× 66 0.8× 74 1.0× 44 0.8× 24 0.5× 4 363
Adrienne Shum United Kingdom 7 326 1.4× 90 1.1× 53 0.7× 38 0.7× 35 0.7× 12 397
Hernán López‐Morales Argentina 7 296 1.3× 45 0.5× 120 1.6× 31 0.6× 74 1.5× 16 439
Deanne M. Green Australia 4 277 1.2× 28 0.3× 75 1.0× 65 1.3× 63 1.2× 5 380
Mohammedhamid Osman Kelifa China 10 324 1.4× 90 1.1× 74 1.0× 130 2.5× 45 0.9× 16 449
Piya Majumdar India 3 210 0.9× 57 0.7× 85 1.2× 64 1.2× 73 1.4× 9 362
Hannah Rettie United Kingdom 6 276 1.2× 65 0.8× 133 1.8× 73 1.4× 105 2.1× 10 430

Countries citing papers authored by Mengesha Birkie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mengesha Birkie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mengesha Birkie. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mengesha Birkie. The network helps show where Mengesha Birkie may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mengesha Birkie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mengesha Birkie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mengesha Birkie 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 Mengesha Birkie. Mengesha Birkie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Asnakew, Sintayehu, Getasew Legas, Amsalu Belete, et al.. (2022). Epileptic seizure first aid practices of publics in Northwest Ethiopia 2021: Unsafe practices of nearly three-fourths of the community. Frontiers in Neurology. 13. 1032479–1032479. 5 indexed citations
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Birkie, Mengesha, Mogesie Necho, Mekonnen Tsehay, et al.. (2022). Depressive, Anxiety Symptom Frequency and Related Factors Among Prisoners During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Northeastern Ethiopia, a Cross-Sectional Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 820015–820015. 4 indexed citations
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Birkie, Mengesha & Tamrat Anbesaw. (2021). Knowledge, attitude, and associated factors towards mental illness among residents of Dessie town, northeast, Ethiopia, a cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry. 21(1). 614–614. 8 indexed citations
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Birkie, Mengesha, et al.. (2021). Determinants of migraine headache among regular undergraduate students, of Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia: cross–sectional study. BMC Neurology. 21(1). 443–443. 11 indexed citations
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Necho, Mogesie, et al.. (2021). Prevalence of anxiety, depression, and psychological distress among the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review and meta-analysis. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 67(7). 892–906. 187 indexed citations breakdown →
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Birkie, Mengesha, et al.. (2020). Risk Factors for Gender-Based Violence among Female Students of Gonder Teacher’ Training College, Gonder, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study. The Open Public Health Journal. 13(1). 634–642. 4 indexed citations
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Belete, Asmare, Alemayehu Negash, & Mengesha Birkie. (2019). Help-seeking behaviour for depressive disorders among adult cardiovascular outpatient cardiac clinic Jimma University Teaching Hospital, Jimma, South-West Ethiopia: crosssectional study. International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 13(1). 7–7. 5 indexed citations

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