Home › Researcher directory › Demelash B. Areda

Demelash B. Areda

Affiliation : Ottawa University

• 5Publications (affiliation in the United States)
• 24Total publications
• 1510Citations
• 12h-index

ORCIDOpenAlex

Research profile

Demelash B. Areda has 5 indexed publications (2024–2025). Their work appears mainly in “Eye”, “Nature Medicine” and “The Lancet”. Their most cited article, “Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020” (2024), has been cited 149 times. Their work is co-authored with at least 12 researchers, including institutions in Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, France.

Is this you? Get your research seen

Create your free DzCademia profile and add your articles: they will show up more easily on Google and in AI assistants like ChatGPT, so more people can read and cite your work.

Create my free profile Add my publications

Research areas

• Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
• Global Health and Epidemiology
• Glaucoma and retinal disorders
• Ophthalmology and Visual Impairment Studies
• Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology

Publications (5)

• Global, regional and national burden of dietary iron deficiency from 1990 to 2021: a Global Burden of Disease study
  2025 · Nature Medicine · cited 54 times
• Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020
  2024 · Eye · cited 149 times
• Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by glaucoma: A meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020
  2024 · Eye · cited 139 times
• Burden of disease scenarios by state in the USA, 2022–50: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
  2024 · The Lancet · cited 63 times
• Publisher Correction: Global estimates on the number of people blind or visually impaired by cataract: a meta-analysis from 2000 to 2020
  2024 · Eye · cited 10 times

Publication venues

• Eye × 3
• Nature Medicine × 1
• The Lancet × 1

Publications per year

• 20251
• 20244

Collaborations

Partner institutions : University of Washington · Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation · Harvard University · University of Michigan · Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Co-authors’ countries : Germany · United Kingdom · Australia · France

Co-authors

• Paul Svitil Briant
• Rohit Khanna
• David Steven Friedman
• Janet L Leasher
• Nicolas Leveziel
• M. Elizabeth Hartnett
• Tünde Pető
• Monte A. Del Monte
• Van Charles Lansingh
• Joshua R. Ehrlich
• Theo Vos
• Leon B. Ellwein

Bibliographic data from OpenAlex (open database).