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

Lauren N. Whitehurst

University of Kentucky

ORCID: 0000-0002-0123-8614

Also affiliated with Blackstone (United States), Yale University, Systems Biology Institute

NeurosciencePsychologyMedicine

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 6%percentile
0.241Author DataRank

Indexed papers

2in 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 2 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.

Axonal injury, sleep disturbances, and memory following traumatic brain injury

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology(2024)10.1002/acn3.52145
Top 61%
0.241DataRank
Top 61%4 citations

Goretti España‐Irla, Aaron E. L. Warren, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Alexandra Stillman, Charles H. Hillman +3 more

Papers

Driven by 21 papers — median percentile 19. Top paper: “Axonal injury, sleep disturbances, and memory following traumatic brain injury”.

Axonal injury, sleep disturbances, and memory following traumatic brain injury

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology(2024)10.1002/acn3.52145
Top 61%
0.241DataRank
Top 61%4 citations

Goretti España‐Irla, Aaron E. L. Warren, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Alexandra Stillman, Charles H. Hillman +3 more

Age‐related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap

Psychophysiology(2020)10.1111/psyp.13701
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
34 citations

Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Pin‐Chun Chen

Autonomic/central coupling benefits working memory in healthy young adults

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory(2020)10.1016/j.nlm.2020.107267
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
23 citations

Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, Sara C. Mednick, Pin‐Chun Chen

Autonomic activity during a daytime nap facilitates working memory improvement

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.04.22.056580
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Pin‐Chun Chen

Age-related losses in cardiac autonomic activity during a daytime nap

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.06.26.168278
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Pin‐Chun Chen

0096 Future-Relevant Information is Enhanced After Sleep Despite Emotional Salience of Stimuli

SLEEP(2020)10.1093/sleep/zsaa056.094
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Negin Sattari, Sara C. Mednick, Lauren N. Whitehurst

Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2021)10.1073/pnas.2109339118
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
18 citations

Hamid Niknazar, William A. Alaynick, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Pin‐Chun Chen

Zolpidem Maintains Memories for Negative Emotions Across a Night of Sleep

Affective Science(2021)10.1007/s42761-021-00079-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Lauren N. Whitehurst, Jing Zhang, Sara C. Mednick, Katharine Simon

Effects of acute stress on cognition in older versus younger adults.

Psychology and Aging(2021)10.1037/pag0000589
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
16 citations

Lauren N. Whitehurst, Wendy Berry Mendes, Alexandra D. Crosswell

Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.03.31.437952
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Hamid Niknazar, William A. Alaynick, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Pin‐Chun Chen

051 Is Working Memory Associated with Ag- related Emotional Memory Bias?

SLEEP(2021)10.1093/sleep/zsab072.050
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Negin Sattari

The role of sleep for episodic memory consolidation: Stabilizing or rescuing?

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory(2022)10.1016/j.nlm.2022.107621
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
34 citations

Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Jing Zhang

The space-time profiles of sleep spindles and their coordination with slow oscillations on the electrode manifold

SLEEP(2022)10.1093/sleep/zsac132
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
16 citations

Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Paola Malerba

Autonomic central coupling during daytime sleep differs between older and younger people

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory(2022)10.1016/j.nlm.2022.107646
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Katharine Simon, Negin Sattari, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Pin‐Chun Chen

The Role of Working Memory in Age-Related Emotional Memory Bias

Affective Science(2022)10.1007/s42761-022-00134-5
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Lauren N. Whitehurst, Sara C. Mednick, Negin Sattari

Deep Rest: An Integrative Model of How Contemplative Practices Combat Stress and Enhance the Body’s Restorative Capacity

PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints)(2022)10.31234/osf.io/bkg3j
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Stefanie E. Mayer, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Martin Picard, Sheyda Zebarjadian, Elissa Epel +1 more

Can stimulants make you smarter, despite stealing your sleep?

Trends in Cognitive Sciences(2024)10.1016/j.tics.2024.04.007
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Allison Morehouse, Sara C. Mednick, Lauren N. Whitehurst

Axonal Injury, Sleep Disturbances, and Memory following Traumatic Brain Injury

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.03.05.24303449
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Goretti España‐Irla, Aaron E. L. Warren, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Alexandra Stillman, Charles H. Hillman +3 more

Feasibility of brief behavioral telehealth interventions for sleep and pain in adults with chronic musculoskeletal orofacial pain: An idiographic clinical trial

CRANIO®(2025)10.1080/08869634.2025.2476606
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Gabriel Gilmore, Isabel Moreno‐Hay, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Anna Alessandri‐Bonetti, Ian A. Boggero +1 more

The effect of zolpidem on memory consolidation over a night of sleep

SLEEP(2020)10.1093/sleep/zsaa084
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
82 citations

Benjamin D. Yetton, Lauren N. Whitehurst, Mohsen Naji, Sara C. Mednick, Jing Zhang

Contextualizing cognition: Socio-environmental factors shape how momentary stress predicts memory

Social Science & Medicine(2025)10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118478
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Anna L. Smith, Christopher K. Marshburn, Alexandra D. Crosswell, Wendy Berry Mendes, Lauren N. Whitehurst +1 more