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John B. Whitfield

John B. Whitfield

Kaiser Permanente

ORCID: 0000-0002-1103-0876

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 2%percentile

2.1Author 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.

Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals

Nature Medicine(2023)10.1038/s41591-023-02653-5

Top 10%

2.1DataRank

Top 10%181 citations

Rachel L. Kember, Joseph D. Deak, Heng Xu, Sylvanus Toikumo, Kai Yuan +44 more

Papers

Driven by 14 papers — median percentile 45. Top paper: “Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals”.

Multi-ancestry study of the genetics of problematic alcohol use in over 1 million individuals

Nature Medicine(2023)10.1038/s41591-023-02653-5

Top 10%

2.1DataRank

Top 10%181 citations

Rachel L. Kember, Joseph D. Deak, Heng Xu, Sylvanus Toikumo, Kai Yuan +44 more

Genetic comorbidity between major depression and cardio‐metabolic traits, stratified by age at onset of major depression

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics(2020)10.1002/ajmg.b.32807

N/A

1.6DataRank · unranked

65 citations

Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Shing Wan Choi, Héléna A. Gaspar, Mark J. Adams, David M. Howard +43 more

Model-based assessment of replicability for genome-wide association meta-analysis

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-21226-z

N/A

1.5DataRank · unranked

40 citations

Yu Jiang, Mengzhen Liu, J. Dylan Weissenkampen, Scott A. Eckert, Lina Yang +125 more

Blood copper and risk of cardiometabolic diseases: a Mendelian randomization study

Human Molecular Genetics(2021)10.1093/hmg/ddab275

N/A

1.2DataRank · unranked

33 citations

Maria Cabral, Johannes Kopp, Per Hoffmann, Esther Ng, John B. Whitfield +5 more

Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use

Nature Genetics(2019)10.1038/s41588-018-0307-5

N/A

1.1DataRank · unranked

2128 citations

Mengzhen Liu, HUNT All-In Psychiatry, Yu Jiang, Robbee Wedow, Yue Li +120 more

A polygenic risk score for alcohol-associated cirrhosis among heavy drinkers with European ancestry

Hepatology Communications(2024)10.1097/hc9.0000000000000431

N/A

0.406DataRank · unranked

14 citations

John B. Whitfield, Guruprasad P. Aithal, Stephen R. Atkinson, Ramón Bataller, Greg Botwin +38 more

A genetic risk score and diabetes predict development of alcohol-related cirrhosis in drinkers

Journal of Hepatology(2021)10.1016/j.jhep.2021.10.005

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

82 citations

Tae‐Hwi Schwantes‐An, Rebecca Darlay, Guruprasad P. Aithal, Stephen R. Atkinson, Ramón Bataller +36 more

Correction: Genome-wide physical activity interactions in adiposity ― A meta-analysis of 200,452 adults

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/v0aq-7b55

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Lynne J. Hocking, Najaf Amin, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Ching‐Ti Liu, Inês Barroso +95 more

All‐cause and liver‐related mortality risk factors in excessive drinkers: Analysis of data from the UK biobank

Alcoholism Clinical and Experimental Research(2022)10.1111/acer.14968

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Devanshi Seth, Timothy R. Morgan, John B. Whitfield

LIVER-RELATED AND OTHER-CAUSE MORTALITY RISK IN EXCESSIVE DRINKERS: ANALYSIS OF DATA FROM THE UK BIOBANK

medRxiv(2022)10.1101/2022.06.01.22275852

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Devanshi Seth, Timothy R. Morgan, John B. Whitfield

Reply to: “External validation of a genetic risk score that predicts development of alcohol-related cirrhosis”

Journal of Hepatology(2022)10.1016/j.jhep.2022.08.024

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Timothy R. Morgan, Devanshi Seth, John B. Whitfield

Comparison of Familial, Polygenic and Biochemical Predictors of Mortality

Twin Research and Human Genetics(2020)10.1017/thg.2020.89

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Lucía Colodro‐Conde, Paul R. H. J. Timmers, Peter K. Joshi, Grant W. Montgomery, Nicholas G. Martin +1 more

Trans-ethnic Fine Mapping Highlights Kidney-Function Genes Linked to Salt Sensitivity

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/45zf-gm08

Top 100%

0DataRank

Top 100%0 citations

Natalie R. van Zuydam, Jeffrey Haessler, Nicholas G. Martin, John B. Whitfield, Pei‐Lun Chu +33 more

A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/wkay-d758

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Stefan Weiß, Jeanette Erdmann, Kristian Hveem, Florian Kronenberg, Wen‐Jane Lee +95 more