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

Merrilee Needham

University of Notre Dame

ORCID: 0000-0001-6591-1444

Also affiliated with Murdoch University, Fiona Stanley Hospital, North Metropolitan Health Service, Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The University of Notre Dame Australia

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 7%percentile
0.104Author 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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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.

Item selection for the development and validation of a revised classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: MyoROC project

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism(2025)10.1016/j.semarthrit.2025.152822
Top 78%
0.104DataRank
Top 78%1 citations

Rachel Zeng, Stefanie Glaubitz, Matteo Bottai, Anthony A. Amato, Lorenzo Cavagna +19 more

Papers

Driven by 10 papers — median percentile 22. Top paper: “Meta-analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation identifies shared associations across neurodegenerative disorders”.

Meta-analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation identifies shared associations across neurodegenerative disorders

Genome biology(2021)10.1186/s13059-021-02275-5
N/A
2.0DataRank · unranked
108 citations

Marta F. Nabais, the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Simon M. Laws, Tian Lin, Costanza L. Vallerga +67 more

Functional characterisation of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis risk locus GPX3/TNIP1

Genome Medicine(2022)10.1186/s13073-021-01006-6
N/A
1.0DataRank · unranked
40 citations

Frederik J. Steyn, Edor Kabashi, Shyuan T. Ngo, Feifei Cheng, Marta F. Nabais +25 more

Assessing the content validity of patient-reported outcome measures in adult myositis: A report from the OMERACT myositis working group

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism(2020)10.1016/j.semarthrit.2020.06.006
N/A
0.650DataRank · unranked
20 citations

Jin Kyun Park, Helene Alexanderson, Malin Regardt, Merrilee Needham, Ingrid de Groot +9 more

Performance of the 2017 EULAR/ACR Classification Criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies and their major subgroups: a scoping review

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology(2023)10.55563/clinexprheumatol/vuc5py
N/A
0.425DataRank · unranked
16 citations

Stefanie Glaubitz, Rachel Zeng, Matteo Bottai, Marianne de Visser, Mazen M. Dimachkie +14 more

Item selection for the development and validation of a revised classification criteria for adult and juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: MyoROC project

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism(2025)10.1016/j.semarthrit.2025.152822
Top 78%
0.104DataRank
Top 78%1 citations

Rachel Zeng, Stefanie Glaubitz, Matteo Bottai, Anthony A. Amato, Lorenzo Cavagna +19 more

Development of a standard of care for patients with valosin-containing protein associated multisystem proteinopathy

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases(2022)10.1186/s13023-022-02172-5
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
36 citations

Allison Peck, Lindsay N. Alfano, Kenneth I. Berger, M. James, Nupur Ghoshal +50 more

International Guideline for Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathy-Associated Cancer Screening: an International Myositis Assessment and Clinical Studies Group (IMACS) initiative

Nature Reviews Rheumatology(2023)10.1038/s41584-023-01045-w
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
142 citations

Jeffrey P. Callen, Hector Chinoy, Leland W.K. Chung, David Fiorentino, Patrick Gordon +74 more

Reliability and validity of PROMIS physical function, pain interference, and fatigue as patient reported outcome measures in adult idiopathic inflammatory myopathies: International study from the OMERACT myositis working group

Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism(2022)10.1016/j.semarthrit.2022.152111
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
37 citations

Didem Saygın, Ingrid de Groot, Clifton O. Bingham, Ingrid E. Lundberg, Merrilee Needham +11 more

Provisional practice recommendation for the management of myopathy in VCP‐associated multisystem proteinopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology(2023)10.1002/acn3.51760
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Allison Peck, Teresinha Evangelista, Gerald Pfeffer, Leo Wang, Jordi Díaz‐Manera +15 more

Efficacy and Safety of Bimagrumab in Sporadic Inclusion Body Myositis

Neurology(2021)10.1212/wnl.0000000000011626
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
37 citations

Michael G. Hanna, Pedro Machado, Umesh A. Badrising, Hector Chinoy, Olivier Benvéniste +93 more