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

Nicki Tiffin

University of the Western Cape

ORCID: 0000-0001-5083-2735
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.

Top 2%percentile
1.8Author DataRank

Indexed papers

4in pilot corpus
datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology
Why this DataRank?

An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 4 indexed papers attributed to them. A prolific author with many moderate-impact papers can outrank one with a single high-impact paper.

Author scores recompute whenever paper DataRanks are refreshed, so this number lags the underlying paper scores by at most one batch run.

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Top data-sharing exemplar

The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalisation and death in people living with diabetes: A virtual cohort study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice(2021)10.1016/j.diabres.2021.108925
Top 17%
1.2DataRank
Top 17%30 citations

Tsaone Tamuhla, Nicki Tiffin, Naomi Levitt, Ian Louis Ross, William Toet +5 more

Papers

Driven by 22 papers — median percentile 44. Top paper: “Risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalisation and death in people living with diabetes: A virtual cohort study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa”.

Risk factors for COVID-19 hospitalisation and death in people living with diabetes: A virtual cohort study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice(2021)10.1016/j.diabres.2021.108925
Top 17%
1.2DataRank
Top 17%30 citations

Tsaone Tamuhla, Nicki Tiffin, Naomi Levitt, Ian Louis Ross, William Toet +5 more

Risk Factors for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Death in a Population Cohort Study from the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Clinical Infectious Diseases(2020)10.1093/cid/ciaa1198
N/A
0.959DataRank · unranked
598 citations

Mary‐Ann Davies, Hannah Hussey, Muzzammil Ismail, Erna Morden, Ziyanda Vundle +95 more

TBDBT: A TB DataBase Template for collection of harmonized TB clinical research data in REDCap, facilitating data standardisation for inter-study comparison and meta-analyses

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0249165
Top 51%
0.343DataRank
Top 51%8 citations

Amanda Jackson, Jon Ambler, Katherine Johnston, Elsa Du Bruyn, Charlotte Schultz +7 more

Accessing HIV care may lead to earlier ascertainment of comorbidities in health care clients in Khayelitsha, Cape Town

PLOS Global Public Health(2021)10.1371/journal.pgph.0000031
Top 61%
0.241DataRank
Top 61%4 citations

Tsaone Tamuhla, Olina Ngwenya, Nicki Tiffin, Richard Osei‐Yeboah

Referee report. For: ClinEpiDB: an open-access clinical epidemiology database resource encouraging online exploration of complex studies [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd(2020)10.21956/gatesopenres.14285.r28746
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Nicki Tiffin

Diabetes in a TB and HIV-endemic South African population: Analysis of a virtual cohort using routine health data

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0251303
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Joel A. Dave, Peter Raubenheimer, Nicki Tiffin, Tsaone Tamuhla

Association of body composition with odds of breast cancer by molecular subtype: analysis of the Mechanisms for Established and Novel Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Nigerian Women (MEND) study

BMC Cancer(2021)10.1186/s12885-021-08775-8
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Kelley A. Jones, Anjali Gupta, Taofik Oyekunle, Veeral Saraiya, April Deveaux +92 more

A framework for the promotion of ethical benefit sharing in health research

BMJ Global Health(2022)10.1136/bmjgh-2021-008096
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
53 citations

Michelle Nichols, Taryn Allie, Tsaone Tamuhla, Peter Van Heusden, Olorunyomi Olorunsogbon +2 more

A View on Genomic Medicine Activities in Africa: Implications for Policy

Frontiers in Genetics(2022)10.3389/fgene.2022.769919
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
32 citations

Maritha J. Kotze, Archana Bhaw‐Luximon, Faisal M. Fadlelmola, Yasmina Jaufeerally Fakim, Yosr Hamdi +7 more

An e-consent framework for tiered informed consent for human genomic research in the global south, implemented as a REDCap template

BMC Medical Ethics(2022)10.1186/s12910-022-00860-2
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
19 citations

Nicki Tiffin, Taryn Allie, Tsaone Tamuhla

Association of lipid profile biomarkers with breast cancer by molecular subtype: analysis of the MEND study

Scientific Reports(2022)10.1038/s41598-022-13740-x
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Veeral Saraiya, April Deveaux, Taofik Oyekunle, Klarissa D. Jackson, Omolola Salako +94 more

Precision medicine for developmental and epileptic encephalopathies in Africa—strategies for a resource-limited setting

Genetics in Medicine(2022)10.1016/j.gim.2022.11.002
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Nicki Tiffin, Gillian Riordan, Marie Wessels, Richard J. Burman, Miriam C. Aziz +49 more

Precision medicine for developmental and epileptic encephalopathies in Africa – strategies for a resource-limited setting

medRxiv(2022)10.1101/2022.08.17.22278768
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Nicki Tiffin, Gillian Riordan, Marie Wessels, Richard J. Burman, Miriam C. Aziz +11 more

Polygenic risk scores for disease risk prediction in Africa: current challenges and future directions

Genome Medicine(2023)10.1186/s13073-023-01245-9
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
34 citations

Dassen Sathan, Chaimae Samtal, Itunuoluwa Isewon, Tsaone Tamuhla, Chisom Soremekun +5 more

Record linkage for Routinely Collected Health Data in an African Health Information Exchange

International Journal for Population Data Science(2023)10.23889/ijpds.v8i1.1771
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Alexa Heekes, Mariette Smith, Andrew Boulle, Nicki Tiffin, Themba Mutemaringa

Developing Clinical Phenotype Data Collection Standards for Research in Africa

Global Health(2023)10.1155/2023/6693323
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Katherine Johnston, Alia Benkahla, Melek Chaouch, Judit Kumuthini, Fouzia Radouani +16 more

Routine health data describe adherence and persistence patterns for oral diabetes medication for a virtual cohort in the Khayelitsha sub-district of Cape Town, South Africa

PLOS Global Public Health(2023)10.1371/journal.pgph.0002730
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Peter Raubenheimer, Joel A. Dave, Nicki Tiffin, Tsaone Tamuhla

Diagnostic Prediction Model for Tuberculous Meningitis: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene(2024)10.4269/ajtmh.23-0789
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Nicki Tiffin, Jayne Ellis, Fiona V. Creswell, Kenneth Ssebambulidde, Edwin Nuwagira +31 more

Implementation of a genotyped African population cohort, with virtual follow-up: A feasibility study in the Western Cape Province, South Africa

Wellcome Open Research(2025)10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23009.2
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Anna K. Coussens, Maleeka Abrahams, Melissa J. Blumenthal, Francisco Lakay, Robert J. Wilkinson +5 more

Including Digital Sequence Data in the Nagoya Protocol Can Promote Data Sharing

Trends in biotechnology(2020)10.1016/j.tibtech.2020.06.009
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
63 citations

Alpha Ahmadou Diallo, Peter K. Dearden, Phil Wilcox, Māui Hudson, Nicki Tiffin +1 more

Does having a mobile phone matter? Linking phone access among women to health in India: An exploratory analysis of the National Family Health Survey

PLoS ONE(2020)10.1371/journal.pone.0236078
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
63 citations

Jean Juste Harrisson Bashingwa, Nicki Tiffin, Diva Dhar, Nicola Mulder, Asha George +2 more

Patient-centric research in the time of COVID-19: conducting ethical COVID-19 research in Africa

BMJ Global Health(2020)10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003035
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
30 citations

Nchangwi Syntia Munung, Alice Matimba, Nicki Tiffin, Victoria Nembaware