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

Alexander I. Young

University of California, Los Angeles

ORCID: 0000-0001-9930-989X
Biochemistry, 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 2%percentile
3.6Author 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.

Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository

Nature Human Behaviour(2021)10.1038/s41562-021-01119-3
Top 7%
3.0DataRank
Top 7%184 citations

Casper A.P. Burik, Grant Goldman, Nancy Wang, Hariharan Jayashankar, Michael Bennett +60 more

Papers

Driven by 13 papers — median percentile 44. Top paper: “Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository”.

Resource profile and user guide of the Polygenic Index Repository

Nature Human Behaviour(2021)10.1038/s41562-021-01119-3
Top 7%
3.0DataRank
Top 7%184 citations

Casper A.P. Burik, Grant Goldman, Nancy Wang, Hariharan Jayashankar, Michael Bennett +60 more

Cross-trait assortative mating is widespread and inflates genetic correlation estimates

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abo2059
N/A
0.762DataRank · unranked
160 citations

Georgios Athanasiadis, Alfonso Buil, Andrew J. Schork, Na Cai, Alexander I. Young +7 more

Multiple novel gene-by-environment interactions modify the effect of FTO variants on body mass index

Nature Communications(2016)10.1038/ncomms12724
N/A
0.743DataRank · unranked
141 citations

Fabian Wauthier, Peter Donnelly, Fabian L. Wauthier, Alexander I. Young

Family-GWAS reveals effects of environment and mating on genetic associations

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.10.01.24314703
N/A
0.553DataRank · unranked
39 citations

Hariharan Jayashankar, Junming Guan, Seyed Moeen Nehzati, Mahdi Mir, Michael Bennett +60 more

Estimation of indirect genetic effects and heritability under assortative mating

CORROSION(2023)10.1101/2023.07.10.548458
N/A
0.524DataRank · unranked
32 citations

Alexander I. Young

Resource Profile and User Guide of the Polygenic Index Repository

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.05.08.443158
Top 52%
0.336DataRank
Top 52%5 citations

Casper A.P. Burik, Grant Goldman, Nancy Wang, Hariharan Jayashankar, Michael Bennett +37 more

An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.05.14.653986
Top 60%
0.253DataRank
Top 60%4 citations

Anastasia Terskaya, Matthew D. Howell, Junming Guan, Harry Sands, Aaron Kleinman +45 more

Genome-wide association studies have problems due to confounding: Are family-based designs the answer?

PLoS Biology(2024)10.1371/journal.pbio.3002568
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Alexander I. Young

Mendelian imputation of parental genotypes for genome-wide estimation of direct and indirect genetic effects

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.07.02.185199
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
38 citations

Seyed Moeen Nehzati, Chan Wook Lee, Stefania Benónísdóttir, David Cesarini, Daniel J. Benjamin +3 more

Family-based genome-wide association study designs for increased power and robustness

Nature Genetics(2025)10.1038/s41588-025-02118-0
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
11 citations

Tammy Tan, Seyed Moeen Nehzati, Michael Bennett, Patrick Turley, Daniel J. Benjamin +2 more

Mendelian imputation of parental genotypes improves estimates of direct genetic effects

Nature Genetics(2022)10.1038/s41588-022-01085-0
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
122 citations

Seyed Moeen Nehzati, Stefania Benónísdóttir, Aysu Okbay, Hariharan Jayashankar, Chan Wook Lee +5 more

An Updated Polygenic Index Repository: Expanded Phenotypes, New Cohorts, and Improved Causal Inference

Research Square(2025)10.21203/rs.3.rs-7828579/v1
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Robel Alemu, Anastasia Terskaya, Matthew Howell, Junming Guan, Harry Sands +45 more

The importance of family-based sampling for biobanks

Nature(2024)10.1038/s41586-024-07721-5
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
24 citations

Gibran Hemani, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Hilary C. Martin, Melinda Mills, Peter M. Visscher +4 more