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

Robert W. Simms

Boston University

ORCID: 0000-0002-0101-1807

Also affiliated with Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center

Medicine

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 5%percentile
0.526Author 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.

Clinical and Molecular Findings After Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation or Cyclophosphamide for Scleroderma: Handling Missing Longitudinal Data

Arthritis Care & Research(2021)10.1002/acr.24785
Top 37%
0.526DataRank
Top 37%11 citations

Ashley Pinckney, Ellen Goldmuntz, Beverly Welch, Jennifer M. Franks, Viktor Martyanov +14 more

Papers

Driven by 5 papers — median percentile 63. Top paper: “Safety and efficacy of abatacept in early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (ASSET): open-label extension of a phase 2, double-blind randomised trial”.

Safety and efficacy of abatacept in early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (ASSET): open-label extension of a phase 2, double-blind randomised trial

The Lancet Rheumatology(2020)10.1016/s2665-9913(20)30237-x
N/A
1.1DataRank · unranked
48 citations

Cathie Spino, Richard McLain, Sindhu R. Johnson, Christopher P. Denton, Jerry A. Molitor +27 more

Lymphocyte subset abnormalities in early severe scleroderma favor a Th2 phenotype and are not altered by prior immunosuppressive therapy

Lara D. Veeken(2022)10.1093/rheumatology/keac015
N/A
0.607DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Jan Storek, Rob Woolson, Ashley Pinckney, Lynnette Keyes-Elstein, Paul K. Wallace +21 more

Clinical and Molecular Findings After Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation or Cyclophosphamide for Scleroderma: Handling Missing Longitudinal Data

Arthritis Care & Research(2021)10.1002/acr.24785
Top 37%
0.526DataRank
Top 37%11 citations

Ashley Pinckney, Ellen Goldmuntz, Beverly Welch, Jennifer M. Franks, Viktor Martyanov +14 more

Rare variant analysis of 4241 pulmonary arterial hypertension cases from an international consortium implicates FBLN2, PDGFD, and rare de novo variants in PAH

Genome Medicine(2021)10.1186/s13073-021-00891-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
86 citations

Emilia M. Swietlik, Carrie L. Welch, Michael W. Pauciulo, Jacob Hagen, Xueya Zhou +89 more

Geographic Clustering of Systemic Sclerosis in Areas of Environmental Pollution

Arthritis Care & Research(2025)10.1002/acr.25504
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Megan E. Romano, Erika L. Moen, Robert W. Simms, Ashleigh Erickson, Dinesh Khanna +3 more