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

Alan J. Gow

Heriot-Watt University

ORCID: 0000-0002-3320-4531

Also affiliated with Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Heriot-Watt University Dubai

MedicinePsychologySocial SciencesBiochemistry, 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 3%percentile
1.6Author 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.

Cerebral small vessel disease burden and longitudinal cognitive decline from age 73 to 82: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Translational Psychiatry(2021)10.1038/s41398-021-01495-4
Top 13%
1.6DataRank
Top 13%44 citations

Simon R. Cox, Judith A. Okely, Federica Conte, Lucia Ballerini, Mark E. Bastin +10 more

Papers

Driven by 7 papers — median percentile 43. Top paper: “Cerebral small vessel disease burden and longitudinal cognitive decline from age 73 to 82: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936”.

Cerebral small vessel disease burden and longitudinal cognitive decline from age 73 to 82: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Translational Psychiatry(2021)10.1038/s41398-021-01495-4
Top 13%
1.6DataRank
Top 13%44 citations

Simon R. Cox, Judith A. Okely, Federica Conte, Lucia Ballerini, Mark E. Bastin +10 more

Systematic review of what people know about brain health

Ageing Research Reviews(2025)10.1016/j.arr.2024.102592
N/A
0.312DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Shaimaa M. Elhag, Lauren M. Potter, Adele Dickson, Alan J. Gow, Malwina A. Niechcial

Associations between total MRI-visible small vessel disease burden and domain-specific cognitive abilities in a community-dwelling older-age cohort

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.02.02.21250986
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Simon R. Cox, Lucia Ballerini, Mark E. Bastin, Janie Corley, Alan J. Gow +6 more

Optimizing cognitive interventions to improve real-world function for healthy older adults

European Journal of Ageing(2025)10.1007/s10433-025-00852-2
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Tania M. Rodríguez, Bethany P. Tavenner, Isadora Farias Lopes de Queiroz, Walter R. Boot, Jeanine M. Parisi +5 more

Assessing the effect of musical experience on cognitive function in older age: a coordinated analysis

Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition(2025)10.1080/13825585.2025.2517114
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Michael Craig, Hanna Falk, Ingmar Skoog, Alan J. Gow, Ryan Gray

Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Burden and Longitudinal Cognitive Decline from age 73 to 82: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.03.28.21254499
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Simon R. Cox, Okely Ja, Federica Conte, Lucia Ballerini, Mark E. Bastin +10 more

Associations between total MRI-visible small vessel disease burden and domain-specific cognitive abilities in a community-dwelling older-age cohort

Neurobiology of Aging(2021)10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.04.007
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Simon R. Cox, Lucia Ballerini, ME Bastin, Janie Corley, Alan J. Gow +6 more