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

Melissa J. Spencer

University of California, Los Angeles

ORCID: 0000-0001-7104-544X
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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 6%percentile
0.252Author 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.

Expert panel curation of 31 genes in relation to limb girdle muscular dystrophy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology(2024)10.1002/acn3.52127
Top 60%
0.252DataRank
Top 60%4 citations

Shannon McNulty, Courtney L Thaxton, Marwa Elnagheeb, Emma Owens, May Flowers +25 more

Papers

Driven by 14 papers — median percentile 40. Top paper: “Macrophage-derived Spp1 promotes intramuscular fat in dystrophic muscle”.

Macrophage-derived Spp1 promotes intramuscular fat in dystrophic muscle

JCI Insight(2025)10.1172/jci.insight.181946
N/A
0.396DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Chino Kumagai-Cresse, Raquel Aragón, Feiyang Ma, Justin K Amakor, Alejandro Espinoza +15 more

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics identify a macrophage population associated with skeletal muscle fibrosis

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.04.18.537253
N/A
0.345DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Diego Jaime, Christian F. Guerrero-Juarez, Jenna M. Kastenschmidt, Philip K. Farahat, Quy Nguyen +29 more

Expert panel curation of 31 genes in relation to limb girdle muscular dystrophy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology(2024)10.1002/acn3.52127
Top 60%
0.252DataRank
Top 60%4 citations

Shannon McNulty, Courtney L Thaxton, Marwa Elnagheeb, Emma Owens, May Flowers +25 more

The super-healing MRL strain promotes muscle growth in muscular dystrophy through a regenerative extracellular matrix

JCI Insight(2024)10.1172/jci.insight.173246
N/A
0.245DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Alexander B. Willis, Ashlee M. Long, Jason M. Kwon, GaHyun Lee, Frank Li +8 more

Successes and challenges in clinical gene therapy

Gene Therapy(2023)10.1038/s41434-023-00390-5
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
164 citations

Yvonne Y. Chen, Melissa J. Spencer, Donald B. Kohn

Innate and adaptive AAV-mediated immune responses in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development(2023)10.1016/j.omtm.2023.06.002
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
21 citations

Alejandro Espinoza, Courtney S. Young, Feiyang Ma, Philip K. Farahat, Philip L. Felgner +7 more

Nanoparticles systemically biodistribute to regenerating skeletal muscle in DMD

Journal of Nanobiotechnology(2023)10.1186/s12951-023-01994-0
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
17 citations

Xiangsheng Liu, Courtney S. Young, Kholoud K. Saleh, Ying Ji, Jinhong Jiang +6 more

Single cell and TCR analysis of immune cells from AAV gene therapy-dosed Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients

Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development(2024)10.1016/j.omtm.2024.101349
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Mark A. Brimble, Alejandro Espinoza, Jane Owens, Laurence O. Whiteley, Sandra Casinghino +10 more

Expert Panel Curation of 31 Genes in Relation to Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.05.03.592369
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Shannon McNulty, Courtney L Thaxton, Marwa Elnagheeb, Emma Owens, May Flowers +25 more

A Human Skeletal Muscle Atlas Identifies the Trajectories of Stem and Progenitor Cells across Development and from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Cell stem cell(2020)10.1016/j.stem.2020.04.017
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
174 citations

Justin Langerman, Shan Sabri, Peggie Chien, Courtney S. Young, Shahab Younesi +12 more

Advancing adeno-associated virus for Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment: Moving beyond rodent models

Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development(2025)10.1016/j.omtm.2025.101465
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Elizabeth M. McNally, Melissa J. Spencer, Oluwatayo Ikotun

Myostatin inhibition promotes fast fibre hypertrophy but causes loss of AMP‐activated protein kinase signalling and poor exercise tolerance in a model of limb‐girdle muscular dystrophy R1/2A

The Journal of Physiology(2020)10.1113/jp279943
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Masha Marinov, Jane Owens, Se‐Jin Lee, Diana Becerra, Melissa J. Spencer +1 more

A Small-Molecule Approach to Restore a Slow-Oxidative Phenotype and Defective CaMKIIβ Signaling in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy

Cell Reports Medicine(2020)10.1016/j.xcrm.2020.100122
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

Jesus Campagna, Varghese John, Robert Damoiseaux, Ekaterina Mokhonova, Diana Becerra +6 more

Single cell sequencing maps skeletal muscle cellular diversity as disease severity increases in dystrophic mouse models

iScience(2022)10.1016/j.isci.2022.105415
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
58 citations

Haibin Xi, Corey Switzler, Emily Skuratovsky, Matthew A. Romero, Peggie Chien +6 more