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

Lesley Scott

University of the Witwatersrand

ORCID: 0000-0001-6573-9525

MedicineImmunology and Microbiology

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 5%percentile

0.476Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in 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 1 indexed paper 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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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

Tuberculosis testing patterns in South Africa to identify groups that would benefit from increased investigation

Scientific Reports(2023)10.1038/s41598-023-47148-y

Top 40%

0.476DataRank

Top 40%8 citations

Lesley Scott, Harry Moultrie, Karen R. Jacobson, Jacob Bor, Abdou Moutalab Fofana +7 more

Papers

Driven by 14 papers — median percentile 60. Top paper: “Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa”.

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa

Nature Medicine(2022)10.1038/s41591-022-01911-2

N/A

14.5DataRank · unranked

697 citations

Monika Moir, Josie Everatt, Marta Giovanetti, Cathrine Scheepers, Eduan Wilkinson +90 more

Tuberculosis testing patterns in South Africa to identify groups that would benefit from increased investigation

Scientific Reports(2023)10.1038/s41598-023-47148-y

Top 40%

0.476DataRank

Top 40%8 citations

Lesley Scott, Harry Moultrie, Karen R. Jacobson, Jacob Bor, Abdou Moutalab Fofana +7 more

Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra testing from tongue swabs – Diluted SR method v1

(2024)10.17504/protocols.io.14egn69nyl5d/v1

N/A

0.292DataRank · unranked

6 citations

Anura David, Gayatri Shankar Chilambi, Adithya Cattamanchi, Margaretha de Vos, Kelsey Heard +7 more

Ten-year health impact, economic impact and return on investment of the South African molecular diagnostics programme for HIV, tuberculosis and SARS-CoV-2

BMJ Global Health(2024)10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015830

N/A

0.269DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Alexandra de Nooy, Naseem Cassim, Lucia Hans, Manuel Pedro da Silva, Kamy Chetty +7 more

Estimating the effect of a rifampicin resistant tuberculosis diagnosis by the Xpert MTB/RIF assay on two-year mortality

PLOS Global Public Health(2023)10.1371/journal.pgph.0001989

N/A

0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Daniel Westreich, Lesley Scott, Yara Voss De Lima, Wendy Stevens, Cindy Hayes +3 more

Not so simple: Implementing a sputum jar to enhance TB diagnostic yield

South African Medical Journal(2025)10.7196/samj.2025.v115i5.3310

N/A

0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Puleng Marokane, Lalit Singh, Jason E. Farley, P Da Silva, Wendy Stevens +2 more

How South Africa Used National Cycle Threshold (Ct) Values to Continuously Monitor SARS-CoV-2 Laboratory Test Quality

Diagnostics(2023)10.3390/diagnostics13152554

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Marvin Hsiao, Graeme Dor, Lucia Hans, Puleng Marokane, Pedro Da Silva +6 more

Estimating the effect of a rifampicin resistant tuberculosis diagnosis by the Xpert MTB/RIF assay on two-year mortality

UNC Libraries(2023)10.17615/c34x-tk65

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Elise De Vos, Wendy Stevens, Lesley Scott, Pedro Da Silva, Cindy Hayes +3 more

Cross-municipality migration and spread of tuberculosis in South Africa

Scientific Reports(2023)10.1038/s41598-023-29804-5

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Harry Moultrie, Lesley Scott, Karen R. Jacobson, Anne N. Shapiro, Graeme Dor +6 more

Time to Treatment and Patient Outcomes among TB Suspects Screened by a Single Point-of-Care Xpert MTB/RIF at a Primary Care Clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/fgt1-q971

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Colleen F. Hanrahan, Heather Dansey, Wendy Stevens, Ian Sanne, Lesley Scott +5 more

Xpert MTB/RIF as a Measure of Sputum Bacillary Burden. Variation by HIV Status and Immunosuppression

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/czs8-0m91

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Ian Sanne, Jean Bassett, Colleen F. Hanrahan, Wendy Stevens, Keertan Dheda +3 more

Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04411-y

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1910 citations

Sikhulile Moyo, Daniel G. Amoako, Houriiyah Tegally, Cathrine Scheepers, Christian L. Althaus +94 more

Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa

Nature(2022)10.1038/d41586-021-03832-5

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

73 citations

Sikhulile Moyo, Daniel G. Amoako, Houriiyah Tegally, Cathrine Scheepers, Christian L. Althaus +94 more

A Clinical Prediction Score Including Trial of Antibiotics and C-Reactive Protein to Improve the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Ambulatory People With HIV

Open Forum Infectious Diseases(2020)10.1093/ofid/ofz543

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

30 citations

Matilda Nduna, Thalitha Pitsi, Lesley Scott, Matthew P. Fox, Gary Maartens +1 more