🏆 Finalist — NIH Data Sharing Index (“S-Index”) Challenge

Samantha A. Spencer

Pennsylvania State University

ORCID: 0000-0001-5048-1736

Also affiliated with Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Pilot corpus only

This score is computed over theSindex pilot corpus and does not cover the full scientific literature. Scores are relative to papers we have ingested — papers, authors, and institutions outside the pilot are not represented. Methodology.

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Indexed papers

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datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

Papers

Driven by 4 papers. Top paper: “Mitf-family transcription factor function is required within cranial neural crest cells to promote choroid fissure closure”.

Mitf-family transcription factor function is required within cranial neural crest cells to promote choroid fissure closure

Development(2020)10.1242/dev.187047

N/A

0.406DataRank · unranked

14 citations

Alessandra M. Larimer-Picciani, Stephanie M. George, Samantha A. Spencer, James Lister, Jeffrey M. Gross +1 more

The MITF paralog tfec is required in neural crest development for fate specification of the iridophore lineage from a multipotent pigment cell progenitor

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0244794

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

58 citations

Samantha A. Spencer, Robert N. Kelsh, James Lister, Kleio Petratou

CXCR4 and CXCR6 dually limit T cell entry into the polyomavirus-infected brain

Journal of Neuroinflammation(2025)10.1186/s12974-025-03496-2

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Elia Afanasiev, Arrienne B. Butic, Ge Jin, Mofida Abdelmageed, Anirban Paul +4 more

PD-1 regulates CD4 + T cell-mediated CD8 + T cell responses in the brain to balance viral control and neuroinflammation

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.11.26.690770

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Elia Afanasiev, Samantha A. Spencer, Mofida Abdelmageed, Anirban Paul, Kalynn M Alexander +10 more