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

Zaid Zada

Princeton University

ORCID: 0000-0002-3096-0059
NeurosciencePsychologyComputer Science

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
0.390Author 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.

The “Podcast” ECoG dataset for modeling neural activity during natural language comprehension

Scientific Data(2025)10.1038/s41597-025-05462-2
Top 47%
0.390DataRank
Top 47%10 citations

Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Itamar Jalon, Sebastian Michelmann, Haocheng Wang +11 more

Papers

Driven by 16 papers — median percentile 27. Top paper: “Thinking ahead: spontaneous prediction in context as a keystone of language in humans and machines”.

Thinking ahead: spontaneous prediction in context as a keystone of language in humans and machines

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.12.02.403477
N/A
2.1DataRank · unranked
52 citations

Zaid Zada, Eliav Buchnik, Mariano Schain, Amy Price, Bobbi Aubrey +27 more

Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models

Nature Neuroscience(2022)10.1038/s41593-022-01026-4
N/A
0.920DataRank · unranked
459 citations

Zaid Zada, Eliav Buchnik, Mariano Schain, Amy Price, Bobbi Aubrey +27 more

A shared linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain in natural conversations

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.06.27.546708
N/A
0.406DataRank · unranked
14 citations

Ariel Goldstein, Sebastian Michelmann, Erez Simony, Amy Price, Liat Hasenfratz +12 more

The “Podcast” ECoG dataset for modeling neural activity during natural language comprehension

Scientific Data(2025)10.1038/s41597-025-05462-2
Top 47%
0.390DataRank
Top 47%10 citations

Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Itamar Jalon, Sebastian Michelmann, Haocheng Wang +11 more

Temporal structure of natural language processing in the human brain corresponds to layered hierarchy of large language models

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-65518-0
N/A
0.345DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Eric Ham, Mariano Schain, Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Zaid Zada +17 more

Scale matters: Large language models with billions (rather than millions) of parameters better match neural representations of natural language

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.06.12.598513
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Haocheng Wang, Zaid Zada, Harshvardhan Gazula, David D. Turner, Bobbi Aubrey +11 more

Scale matters: Large language models with billions (rather than millions) of parameters better match neural representations of natural language

eLife(2024)10.7554/elife.101204
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Haocheng Wang, Zaid Zada, Harshvardhan Gazula, David D. Turner, Bobbi Aubrey +11 more

A unified acoustic-to-speech-to-language embedding space captures the neural basis of natural language processing in everyday conversations

Nature Human Behaviour(2025)10.1038/s41562-025-02105-9
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
33 citations

Haocheng Wang, Leonard Niekerken, Mariano Schain, Zaid Zada, Bobbi Aubrey +18 more

A shared model-based linguistic space for transmitting our thoughts from brain to brain in natural conversations

Neuron(2024)10.1016/j.neuron.2024.06.025
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
64 citations

Ariel Goldstein, Sebastian Michelmann, Erez Simony, Amy Price, Liat Hasenfratz +12 more

Linguistic coupling between neural systems for speech production and comprehension during real-time dyadic conversations

Neuron(2025)10.1016/j.neuron.2025.11.004
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Samuel A. Nastase, Sebastian Speer, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi, Shannon M. Burns +4 more

Alignment of brain embeddings and artificial contextual embeddings in natural language points to common geometric patterns

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-46631-y
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
65 citations

Avigail Grinstein-Dabush, Mariano Schain, Haocheng Wang, Zhuoqiao Hong, Bobbi Aubrey +17 more

Cortical language areas are coupled via a soft hierarchy of model-based linguistic features

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.06.02.657491
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Zaid Zada, Tamara Vanderwal, Uri Hasson, Samuel A. Nastase, Ahmad Samara

Linguistic coupling between neural systems for speech production and comprehension during real-time dyadic conversations

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.02.14.638276
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Samuel A. Nastase, Sebastian Speer, Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, Lily Tsoi, Shannon M. Burns +4 more

In Search of a Neural Mechanism for Domain-General Value Comparison in Decision Making

Journal of Neuroscience(2025)10.1523/jneurosci.2233-24.2025
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Zaid Zada, Ahmad Samara

The “Podcast” ECoG dataset for modeling neural activity during natural language comprehension

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.02.14.638352
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Samuel A. Nastase, Bobbi Aubrey, Itamar Jalon, Sebastian Michelmann, Haocheng Wang +11 more

Context modulates brain state dynamics and behavioral responses during narrative comprehension

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.04.05.647323
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Zaid Zada, Samuel A. Nastase, F. Gregory Ashby, Satrajit S. Ghosh, Yibei Chen