John S. Brownstein

Also affiliated with Harvard University, Boston Children's Museum, University of Ngaoundéré

MedicineMathematicsSocial 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 2%percentile

3.4Author DataRank

Indexed papers

3in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

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An author's DataRank is the sum of the DataRanks of all 3 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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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

The COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) Consortium: A Call to Action

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention(2020)10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-0606

Top 9%

2.4DataRank

Top 9%43 citations

David A. Drew, Long H. Nguyen, Amit D. Joshi, Wenjie Ma, Chuan‐Guo Guo +55 more

Papers

Driven by 31 papers — median percentile 77. Top paper: “Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study”.

Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study

The Lancet Public Health(2020)10.1016/s2468-2667(20)30164-x

N/A

12.8DataRank · unranked

2303 citations

David A. Drew, Mark S. Graham, Amit D. Joshi, Chuan‐Guo Guo, Wenjie Ma +76 more

The COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) Consortium: A Call to Action

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention(2020)10.1158/1055-9965.epi-20-0606

Top 9%

2.4DataRank

Top 9%43 citations

David A. Drew, Long H. Nguyen, Amit D. Joshi, Wenjie Ma, Chuan‐Guo Guo +55 more

Investigation of Geographic and Macrolevel Variations in LGBTQ Patient Experiences: Longitudinal Social Media Analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research(2020)10.2196/17087

Top 23%

0.895DataRank

Top 23%16 citations

Amanda Zhang, Kara Sewalk, Gaurav Tuli, John S. Brownstein, Jared B. Hawkins +1 more

Privacy-first health research with federated learning

npj Digital Medicine(2021)10.1038/s41746-021-00489-2

N/A

0.789DataRank · unranked

192 citations

Luyang Liu, Dung T. Nguyen, Methun Kamruzzaman, Stylianos Serghiou, Benjamin Rader +13 more

Privacy-first health research with federated learning

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.12.22.20245407

N/A

0.483DataRank · unranked

24 citations

Luyang Liu, Dung T. Nguyen, Methun Kamruzzaman, Benjamin Rader, Alex Ingerman +11 more

The relationship between Jim Crow laws and social capital from 1997–2014: A 3-level multilevel hierarchical analysis across time, county and state

Social Science & Medicine(2020)10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113142

N/A

0.470DataRank · unranked

22 citations

Qiuyuan Qin, David R. Williams, Kasisomayajula Viswanath, John S. Brownstein, S. V. Subramanian +1 more

Development of self-phenotyping tools to empower patients and improve diagnostics

EBioMedicine(2025)10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.105965

Top 71%

0.124DataRank

Top 71%1 citations

Sonja I. Ziniel, Julie A. McMurry, Catherine A. Brownstein, John S. Brownstein, Erin Rooney Riggs +10 more

Evaluation of Volume of News Reporting and Opioid-Related Deaths in the United States: Comparative Analysis Study of Geographic and Socioeconomic Differences

Journal of Medical Internet Research(2020)10.2196/17693

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

28 citations

Amanda Zhang, Clark C. Freifeld, John S. Brownstein, Yulin Hswen

Lymelight: forecasting Lyme disease risk using web search data

npj Digital Medicine(2020)10.1038/s41746-020-0222-x

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

27 citations

Yulin Hswen, Shailesh Bavadekar, Tomer Shekel, John S. Brownstein, Evgeniy Gabrilovich +1 more

Tuberculosis and foreign-born populations in the United States: A mixed methods pilot study of media reporting and political identification

PLoS ONE(2020)10.1371/journal.pone.0230967

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Shravanthi M. Seshasayee, Maimuna S. Majumder, Britta Lassmann, Lawrence C. Madoff, Emily Cohn +2 more

Crowding and the epidemic intensity of COVID-19 transmission

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.04.15.20064980

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

44 citations

Anjalika Nande, Ben Adlam, Alison L. Hill, Robert C. Reiner, David M. Pigott +9 more

Mask Wearing and Control of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in the United States

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.08.23.20078964

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

32 citations

Laura F. White, Michael R. Burns, Jack Chen, Joe Brilliant, Jon Cohen +7 more

Anosmia and other SARS-CoV-2 positive test-associated symptoms, across three national, digital surveillance platforms as the COVID-19 pandemic and response unfolded: an observation study

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.12.15.20248096

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

24 citations

Ayya Keshet, Mark S. Graham, Amit D. Joshi, Smadar Shilo, Hagai Rossman +18 more

Breaking the News or Fueling the Epidemic? Temporal Association between News Media Report Volume and Opioid-Related Mortality

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/rqna-6q55

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Kenneth D. Mandl, John S. Brownstein, Nabarun Dasgupta

Geographic access to United States SARS-CoV-2 testing sites highlights healthcare disparities and may bias transmission estimates

Journal of Travel Medicine(2020)10.1093/jtm/taaa076

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

166 citations

Christina M. Astley, Karla Therese L. Sy, Kara Sewalk, Yulin Hswen, John S. Brownstein +2 more

Anosmia, ageusia, and other COVID-19-like symptoms in association with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, across six national digital surveillance platforms: an observational study

The Lancet Digital Health(2021)10.1016/s2589-7500(21)00115-1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

75 citations

Ayya Keshet, Mark S. Graham, Amit D. Joshi, Smadar Shilo, Hagai Rossman +20 more

Exploring discussions of health and risk and public sentiment in Massachusetts during COVID-19 pandemic mandate implementation: A Twitter analysis

SSM - Population Health(2021)10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100851

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Jared B. Hawkins, John S. Brownstein, Yulin Hswen, Danyellé Thorpe Huerta

Influenza forecasting for French regions combining EHR, web and climatic data sources with a machine learning ensemble approach

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0250890

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

18 citations

Yulin Hswen, Guillaume Bouzillé, Marc Cuggia, Audrey Lavenu, John S. Brownstein +3 more

Underrepresentation of Phenotypic Variability of 16p13.11 Microduplication Syndrome Assessed With an Online Self-Phenotyping Tool (Phenotypr): Cohort Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research(2021)10.2196/21023

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Margaret A. Hojlo, Sampath Chennuri, Nitin Gujral, Heather Paterson, Kent A Shefchek +14 more

Estimating the incidence of cocaine use and mortality with music lyrics about cocaine

npj Digital Medicine(2021)10.1038/s41746-021-00448-x

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Amanda Zhang, John S. Brownstein, Yulin Hswen

EDITORIAL: Hydration for Clean Air Today

Molecular Frontiers Journal(2021)10.1142/s252973252101001x

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Bengt Nordén, Lorie Karnath, Omar M. Yaghi, Chad J. Roy, Donald C. Johanson +6 more

Use of At-Home COVID-19 Tests — United States, August 23, 2021–March 12, 2022

MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report(2022)10.15585/mmwr.mm7113e1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

246 citations

Autumn Gertz, A. Danielle Iuliano, Matthew Gilmer, Laura Wronski, Christina M. Astley +8 more

Parental Preferences and Reasons for COVID-19 Vaccination Among Their Children

medRxiv(2022)10.1101/2022.10.20.22281313

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Benjamin Rader, Autumn Gertz, Christina M. Astley, John S. Brownstein, Neil K. R. Sehgal

Parental compliance and reasons for COVID-19 Vaccination among American children

PLOS Digital Health(2023)10.1371/journal.pdig.0000147

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

17 citations

Benjamin Rader, Autumn Gertz, Christina M. Astley, John S. Brownstein, Neil K. R. Sehgal

US COVID-19 clinical trial leadership gender disparities

The Lancet Digital Health(2023)10.1016/s2589-7500(23)00017-1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

John S. Brownstein, Maimuna S. Majumder, Gaurav Tuli, Neil K. R. Sehgal

The impact of the federal menu labeling law on the sentiment of Twitter discussions about restaurants and food retailers: An interrupted time series analysis

Preventive Medicine Reports(2023)10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102478

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Alyssa J. Moran, Tayla von Ash, Siona Prasad, Tarun Martheswaran, Denise Simon +4 more

Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic

PLOS Digital Health(2024)10.1371/journal.pdig.0000430

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

13 citations

Timothy LaRock, Stefan McCabe, Leo Torres, Lisa Friedland, Maciej Kos +11 more

Vaccine effectiveness against emerging COVID-19 variants using digital health data

Communications Medicine(2024)10.1038/s43856-024-00508-9

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Benjamin Rader, Christopher Remmel, Gaurav Tuli, Aimee Han, Christina M. Astley +2 more

Heterogeneous impact of mask mandates on U.S. masking behavior: an interrupted time series study

American Journal of Epidemiology(2025)10.1093/aje/kwaf236

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Christina M. Astley, Laura F. White, John S. Brownstein, Matthew P. Fox, Benjamin Rader

Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics

Nature Medicine(2020)10.1038/s41591-020-1104-0

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

302 citations

Samuel V. Scarpino, Anjalika Nande, Alison L. Hill, Ben Adlam, Robert C. Reiner +11 more

Healthcare-Seeking Behavior for Respiratory Illness Among Flu Near You Participants in the United States During the 2015–2016 Through 2018–2019 Influenza Seasons

The Journal of Infectious Diseases(2020)10.1093/infdis/jiaa465

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

32 citations

Carrie Reed, Kara Sewalk, John S. Brownstein, Adam W. Crawley, Matthew Biggerstaff +1 more

John S. Brownstein

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