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

Joshua A. Steele

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

ORCID: 0000-0001-8023-8956
Environmental ScienceMedicineEngineeringEarth and Planetary Sciences

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
0.165Author 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.

Deep metatranscriptomic sequencing data of wastewater from Los Angeles, USA, 2023–2024

Scientific Data(2025)10.1038/s41597-025-06475-7
Top 70%
0.165DataRank
Top 70%2 citations

Jason A. Rothman, William J. Bradshaw, Kylie Langlois, Joshua A. Steele, John F. Griffith +3 more

Papers

Driven by 10 papers — median percentile 30. Top paper: “SARS-CoV-2 RNA is enriched by orders of magnitude in solid relative to liquid wastewater at publicly owned treatment works”.

SARS-CoV-2 RNA is enriched by orders of magnitude in solid relative to liquid wastewater at publicly owned treatment works

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.11.10.21266138
N/A
0.396DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Lauren C. Kennedy, Marlene K. Wolfe, Craig S. Criddle, Dorothea Duong, Aaron Topol +14 more

Deep metatranscriptomic sequencing data of wastewater from Los Angeles, USA, 2023–2024

Scientific Data(2025)10.1038/s41597-025-06475-7
Top 70%
0.165DataRank
Top 70%2 citations

Jason A. Rothman, William J. Bradshaw, Kylie Langlois, Joshua A. Steele, John F. Griffith +3 more

Pathogenic Vibrio Species Are Associated with Distinct Environmental Niches and Planktonic Taxa in Southern California (USA) Aquatic Microbiomes

mSystems(2021)10.1128/msystems.00571-21
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
35 citations

Drishti Kaul, Ariel Rabines, Hong Zheng, Joshua A. Steele, John F. Griffith +2 more

RNA viromics of Southern California wastewater and detection of SARS-CoV-2 single nucleotide variants

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.07.19.21260815
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Theresa B. Loveless, Joseph Kapcia, Eric D. Adams, Joshua A. Steele, Amity G. Zimmer-Faust +8 more

Coastal Microbiomes Reveal Associations between Pathogenic Vibrio Species, Environmental Factors, and Planktonic Communities

(2020)10.21203/rs.3.rs-100087/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Drishti Kaul, Ariel Rabines, Hong Zheng, Joshua A. Steele, John F. Griffith +2 more

Longitudinal metatranscriptomic sequencing of Southern California wastewater representing 16 million people from August 2020-21 reveals widespread transcription of antibiotic resistance genes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.08.02.502560
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Andrew Saghir, Seung-Ah Chung, Nicholas Boyajian, Thao Dinh, Jinwoo Kim +9 more

Longitudinal sequencing and variant detection of SARS-CoV-2 across Southern California wastewater from April 2020 – August 2021

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.04.14.23288559
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Andrew Saghir, Amity G. Zimmer-Faust, Kylie Langlois, Joshua A. Steele, John F. Griffith +2 more

Longitudinal Sequencing and Variant Detection of SARS-CoV-2 across Southern California Wastewater

Applied Microbiology(2024)10.3390/applmicrobiol4020044
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Andrew Saghir, Amity G. Zimmer-Faust, Kylie Langlois, Kayla Raygoza, Joshua A. Steele +3 more

SARS-CoV-2 RNA is enriched by orders of magnitude in primary settled solids relative to liquid wastewater at publicly owned treatment works

Environmental Science Water Research & Technology(2022)10.1039/d1ew00826a
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
85 citations

Lauren C. Kennedy, Marlene K. Wolfe, Craig S. Criddle, Dorothea Duong, Aaron Topol +14 more

RNA Viromics of Southern California Wastewater and Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Single-Nucleotide Variants

Applied and Environmental Microbiology(2021)10.1128/aem.01448-21
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
73 citations

Theresa B. Loveless, Joseph Kapcia, Eric D. Adams, Joshua A. Steele, Amity G. Zimmer-Faust +8 more