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

Aleksandar D. Kostic

Joslin Diabetes Center

ORCID: 0000-0002-0837-4360
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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 1%percentile
4.8Author DataRank

Indexed papers

3in 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 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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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.

Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut

Nature(2021)10.1038/s41586-021-03532-0
Top 5%
4.3DataRank
Top 5%249 citations

Zhen Yang, Maxime Borry, Alexander Hübner, Kun D. Huang, Braden Tierney +23 more

Papers

Driven by 18 papers — median percentile 47. Top paper: “Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut”.

Reconstruction of ancient microbial genomes from the human gut

Nature(2021)10.1038/s41586-021-03532-0
Top 5%
4.3DataRank
Top 5%249 citations

Zhen Yang, Maxime Borry, Alexander Hübner, Kun D. Huang, Braden Tierney +23 more

The Mutational Landscape of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Science(2011)10.1126/science.1208130
N/A
1.2DataRank · unranked
2533 citations

Ann Marie Egloff, Aaron D. Tward, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Kristian Cibulskis, Sachet A. Shukla +38 more

Prognostically relevant gene signatures of high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/c9kk-d491
N/A
0.517DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Martin Köbel, Hailei Zhang, Rehan Akbani, Nianxiang Zhang, Katherine A. Hoadley +27 more

Quantifying Shared and Unique Gene Content across 17 Microbial Ecosystems

mSystems(2023)10.1128/msystems.00118-23
Top 53%
0.317DataRank
Top 53%6 citations

Braden Tierney, Chirag J. Patel, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Samuel Zimmerman

Quantifying shared and unique gene content across 17 microbial ecosystems

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.07.19.500741
Top 78%
0.104DataRank
Top 78%1 citations

Braden Tierney, Chirag J. Patel, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Samuel Zimmerman

E. coli Nissle 1917 modulates host glucose metabolism without directly acting on glucose

Scientific Reports(2021)10.1038/s41598-021-02431-8
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
11 citations

Loc−Duyen D. Pham, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Theodore A. Chavkin

Circulating short and medium chain fatty acids are associated with normoalbuminuria in type 1 diabetes of long duration

Scientific Reports(2021)10.1038/s41598-021-87585-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

John J. Tsay, Heather C. Lampert, Zaipul I. Md Dom, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Adam M. Smiles +2 more

Activation of adenosine receptor A2a by gut symbionts promotes immune tolerance

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-376619/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Tao Xu, Lidan Zhao, Md Zohorul Islam, Loc−Duyen D. Pham, Martina Corsi +4 more

E. Coli Nissle 1917 Modulates Host Glucose Metabolism Without Directly Acting On Glucose

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-646915/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Loc−Duyen D. Pham, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Theodore A. Chavkin

Reproducible and opposing gut microbiome signatures distinguish autoimmune diseases and cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Microbiome(2022)10.1186/s40168-022-01373-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
22 citations

Melissa Tran, Tao Xu, Braden Tierney, Chirag J. Patel, Aleksandar D. Kostic +1 more

DNA characterization reveals potential operon-unit packaging of extracellular vesicle cargo from a gut bacterial symbiont

Research Square(2023)10.21203/rs.3.rs-3689023/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Grace Moore, Loc−Duyen D. Pham, Chirag J. Patel, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Byeongyeon Cho

Portal vein-enriched metabolites as intermediate regulators of the gut microbiome in insulin resistance

Cell Metabolism(2025)10.1016/j.cmet.2025.08.005
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

F. Moreau, Marion Soto, Yoshiyuki Watanabe, Loc−Duyen D. Pham, Jimmy Zhong +13 more

Specification curve analysis of the TEDDY study reveals large variation in microbiome-based T1D predictive performance

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-64497-6
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Braden Tierney, Vy Kim Nguyen, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Chirag J. Patel, Samuel Zimmerman

Effect of Sevelamer versus Bifidobacterium longum on Insulin Sensitivity in Subjects with Obesity

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.06.23.25327556
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Manpreet Kaur Semwal, Jia Nie, Ning Zhang, Hanyu Liang, Vinutha Ganapathy +9 more

Mechanisms of microbial–neuronal interactions in pain and nociception

Neurobiology of Pain(2020)10.1016/j.ynpai.2020.100056
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
71 citations

Aleksandar D. Kostic, Isaac M. Chiu, Valentina N. Lagomarsino

CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content

PeerJ(2020)10.7717/peerj.9001
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
55 citations

Bryan Cordova, Angela Perri, Marsha C. Wibowo, Tanvi P. Honap, Jada Ko +20 more

A systematic machine learning and data type comparison yields metagenomic predictors of infant age, sex, breastfeeding, antibiotic usage, country of origin, and delivery type

PLoS Computational Biology(2020)10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007895
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
33 citations

Braden Tierney, Jacob M. Luber, Evan M. Cofer, Aleksandar D. Kostic, Chirag J. Patel +1 more

Leveraging vibration of effects analysis for robust discovery in observational biomedical data science

PLoS Biology(2021)10.1371/journal.pbio.3001398
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
35 citations

Elizabeth C. Anderson, Yingxuan Tan, Kajal Claypool, Sivateja Tangirala, Aleksandar D. Kostic +3 more