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Kala M. Mehta

Kala M. Mehta

California Health and Human Services Agency

ORCID: 0000-0001-8281-5796

MedicineNursingSocial 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 1%percentile

43.7Author 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.

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The Lancet(2020)10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30925-9

Top 1%

12.2DataRank

Top 1%19451 citations

Stephen S Lim, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M Abbas, Mohammad Abbasi, Mitra Abbasifard +1014 more

Papers

Driven by 10 papers — median percentile 99. Top paper: “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019”.

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The Lancet(2020)10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30925-9

Top 1%

12.2DataRank

Top 1%19451 citations

Stephen S Lim, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M Abbas, Mohammad Abbasi, Mitra Abbasifard +1014 more

Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

The Lancet(2018)10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32203-7

Top 1%

10.7DataRank

Top 1%8706 citations

Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Solomon M Abay, Cristiana Abbafati, Nooshin Abbasi +1153 more

Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The Lancet(2020)10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30752-2

Top 1%

10.4DataRank

Top 1%9671 citations

Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, Cristiana Abbafati, Kaja M Abbas, Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari, Foad Abd-Allah +997 more

Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

The Lancet(2018)10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32279-7

Top 1%

10.4DataRank

Top 1%14117 citations

Degu Abate, Kalkidan Hassen Abate, Solomon M Abay, Cristiana Abbafati, Nooshin Abbasi +1094 more

Virtual BUILD Research Collaboratory: A biomedical data science training using innovative pedagogy to address structures of racism and inequitable stress for undergraduates of color

PLoS ONE(2024)10.1371/journal.pone.0294307

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Peter Lê, Jasmón Bailey, Sonthonax Vernard, Nichole Coleman, Y. Carrasco +10 more

Student-centered factors influencing inclusion in biomedical majors among first-year undergraduate students

PLoS ONE(2024)10.1371/journal.pone.0312862

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Selena T. Nguyen-Rodriguez, Gabriela Chavira, Jen Lindwall, Heather E. McCreath, Farron McIntee +5 more

Factors associated with applying to graduate/professional degrees for students engaged in undergraduate research experiences at minority serving institutions

Frontiers in Education(2025)10.3389/feduc.2025.1589105

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Kala M. Mehta, Karsten Hueffer, Gabriela Chavira, Jacob D. Kagey, Thomas E. Keller +6 more

Designing a biomedical coding program focused on inclusivity and agency

Nature Computational Science(2021)10.1038/s43588-021-00063-6

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Niquo Ceberio, Sonthonax Vernard, Y. Carrasco, Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, Tung T. Nguyen +8 more

Diné Navajo Resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic

PLoS ONE(2022)10.1371/journal.pone.0272089

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

15 citations

Zara K. Otto, Samantha Christie, Estrella Allen, Maria L. Cruz, Kassandra A. Potter +2 more

Investigating the Impacts of a Modified Mindfulness Practice on Minoritized College Students’ Chronic Stress

Integrative Medicine Reports(2024)10.1089/imr.2024.0009

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Maiya Evans, Rebecca Mendez, Jalena Zapanta, Anthony Tróchez, Kala M. Mehta +3 more