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

Azhar Khandekar

University of California San Diego

ORCID: 0000-0002-0521-1195

Also affiliated with Fred Hutch Cancer Center, La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, National Cancer Institute

MedicineBiochemistry, 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 6%percentile
0.241Author 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.

Microbiome analysis of 940 lung cancers in never-smokers reveals lack of clinically relevant associations

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-66780-y
Top 61%
0.241DataRank
Top 61%4 citations

Tongwu Zhang, Zhao Wei, Phuc H. Hoang, Samuel Anyaso‐Samuel, Jian Sang +57 more

Papers

Driven by 11 papers — median percentile 39. Top paper: “Signatures of copy number alterations in human cancer”.

Signatures of copy number alterations in human cancer

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04738-6
N/A
7.8DataRank · unranked
524 citations

Ammal Abbasi, S. M. Ashiqul Islam, Amy L. Bowes, Azhar Khandekar, Kerstin Haase +19 more

Genomic and evolutionary classification of lung cancer in never smokers

Nature Genetics(2021)10.1038/s41588-021-00920-0
N/A
5.4DataRank · unranked
248 citations

Philippe Joubert, Naser Ansari‐Pour, Zhao Wei, Phuc H. Hoang, Rachel Lokanga +56 more

Uncovering novel mutational signatures by de novo extraction with SigProfilerExtractor

Cell Genomics(2022)10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100179
N/A
4.8DataRank · unranked
366 citations

Marcos Díaz‐Gay, Yang Wu, Mark Barnes, Raviteja Vangara, Erik N. Bergstrom +30 more

Mapping clustered mutations in cancer reveals APOBEC3 mutagenesis of ecDNA

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04398-6
N/A
2.9DataRank · unranked
170 citations

Jens Luebeck, Mia Petljak, Azhar Khandekar, Mark Barnes, Tongwu Zhang +8 more

Signatures of copy number alterations in human cancer

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.04.30.441940
N/A
0.612DataRank · unranked
58 citations

Ammal Abbasi, S. M. Ashiqul Islam, Azhar Khandekar, Kerstin Haase, Shadi Hames-Fathi +8 more

The mutagenic forces shaping the genomes of lung cancer in never smokers

Nature(2025)10.1038/s41586-025-09219-0
N/A
0.581DataRank · unranked
47 citations

Tongwu Zhang, Phuc H. Hoang, Charles Leduc, Marina K. Baine, William D. Travis +64 more

Microbiome analysis of 940 lung cancers in never-smokers reveals lack of clinically relevant associations

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-66780-y
Top 61%
0.241DataRank
Top 61%4 citations

Tongwu Zhang, Zhao Wei, Phuc H. Hoang, Samuel Anyaso‐Samuel, Jian Sang +57 more

Geographic and age-related variations in mutational processes in colorectal cancer

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.02.13.25322219
N/A
0.208DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Wellington dos Santos, Sarah Moody, Mariya Kazachkova, Ammal Abbasi, Christopher D. Steele +58 more

Revealing the Drivers Underlying Distinct Evolutionary Trajectories in Lung Adenocarcinoma

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.64898/2025.12.19.695410
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Tongwu Zhang, Marcos Díaz-Gay, Christopher D. Steele, Phuc H. Hoang, Yang Yang +56 more

Interferon Epsilon Loss Is Elusive 9p21 Link to Immune-Cold Tumors, Resistant to Immune Checkpoint Therapy, and Endogenous CXCL9/10 Induction

Journal of Thoracic Oncology(2024)10.1016/j.jtho.2024.12.020
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Bin Liu, William N. William, Kaloyan M. Tsanov, Yu-Jui Ho, Francisco M. Barriga +9 more

A prognostic signature for lung adenocarcinoma in people who have never smoked

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.08.13.670169
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Tongwu Zhang, Xing Hua, Phuc H. Hoang, Mona Miraftab, Monjoy Saha +64 more