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

Shawn W. Polson

University of Delaware

ORCID: 0000-0002-3398-6932
Environmental ScienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyAgricultural and Biological Sciences

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 4%percentile
0.586Author 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.

Whole-Genome Sequence of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain WH 8101

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2020)10.1128/mra.01593-19
Top 49%
0.361DataRank
Top 49%5 citations

Shawn W. Polson, Marcia F. Marston

Papers

Driven by 25 papers — median percentile 44. Top paper: “Whole-Genome Sequence of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain WH 8101”.

Whole-Genome Sequence of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain WH 8101

Microbiology Resource Announcements(2020)10.1128/mra.01593-19
Top 49%
0.361DataRank
Top 49%5 citations

Shawn W. Polson, Marcia F. Marston

Refinement of the Reference Viral Database (RVDB) for improving bioinformatics analysis of virus detection by high-throughput sequencing (HTS)

mSphere(2025)10.1128/msphere.00286-25
Top 62%
0.225DataRank
Top 62%3 citations

Jaysheel Bhavsar, Trent J. Bosma, Madolyn L. MacDonald, Shawn W. Polson, Arifa S. Khan +1 more

Bioinformatics Core Survey Highlights the Challenges Facing Data Analysis Facilities

Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT(2020)10.7171/jbt.20-3102-005
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Chris Gates, Shannan Ho Sui, J. N. Hutchinson, R. Krishna Murthy Karuturi, Alper Küçükural +6 more

Understanding ER+ Breast Cancer Dormancy Using Bioinspired Synthetic Matrices for Long‐Term 3D Culture and Insights into Late Recurrence

Advanced Biosystems(2020)10.1002/adbi.202000119
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
35 citations

Lina Pradhan, Lisa A. Sawicki, Julie Cowart, Rebecca E. Huber, Shawn W. Polson +6 more

Unraveling Fe(II)-Oxidizing Mechanisms in a Facultative Fe(II) Oxidizer, Sideroxydans lithotrophicus Strain ES-1, via Culturing, Transcriptomics, and Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology(2021)10.1128/aem.01595-21
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
50 citations

Jessica L. Keffer, Shawn W. Polson, Clara S. Chan, Nanqing Zhou

Urbanization pressures alter tree rhizosphere microbiomes

Scientific Reports(2021)10.1038/s41598-021-88839-8
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
42 citations

Shawn W. Polson, Vincent D’Amico, Jinjun Kan, Tara L. E. Trammell, Carl L. Rosier

Enhanced copper-resistance gene repertoire in Alteromonas macleodii strains isolated from copper-treated marine coatings

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0257800
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Ane Iturbide, Pratima Gautam, Amelia Price, Shawn W. Polson, Madolyn L. MacDonald +2 more

k -mer-Based Metagenomics Tools Provide a Fast and Sensitive Approach for the Detection of Viral Contaminants in Biopharmaceutical and Vaccine Manufacturing Applications Using Next-Generation Sequencing

mSphere(2021)10.1128/msphere.01336-20
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
11 citations

Shawn W. Polson, Kelvin H. Lee, Madolyn L. MacDonald

Unraveling Fe(II)-oxidizing mechanisms in a facultative Fe(II) oxidizer Sideroxydans lithotrophicus ES-1 via culturing, transcriptomics, and RT-qPCR

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.08.18.456919
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Jessica L. Keffer, Shawn W. Polson, Clara S. Chan, Nanqing Zhou

Deletion of Fibroblast growth factor 9 globally and in skeletal muscle results in enlarged tuberosities at sites of deltoid tendon attachments

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.02.23.432498
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Jaclyn M. Soulas, Iman Bhattacharya, Elahe Ganji, Ryan C. Locke, Megan Smith +5 more

Spontaneously produced lysogenic phages are an important component of the soybean Bradyrhizobium mobilome

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.05.06.490963
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Barbra D. Ferrell, Tessa Jarvis, Kona Haramoto, Nicole M. Place, Jacob T. Dums +4 more

Gallionellaceae pangenomic analysis reveals insight into phylogeny, metabolic flexibility, and iron oxidation mechanisms

mSystems(2023)10.1128/msystems.00038-23
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
25 citations

Jessica L. Keffer, Shawn W. Polson, Clara S. Chan, Rene L. Hoover

Spontaneously Produced Lysogenic Phages Are an Important Component of the Soybean Bradyrhizobium Mobilome

mBio(2023)10.1128/mbio.00295-23
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

Barbra D. Ferrell, Tessa Jarvis, Kona Haramoto, Nicole M. Place, Jacob T. Dums +4 more

Gallionellaceae pangenomic analysis reveals insight into phylogeny, metabolic flexibility, and iron oxidation mechanisms

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.01.26.525709
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
11 citations

Jessica L. Keffer, Shawn W. Polson, Clara S. Chan, Rene L. Hoover

miR-31-mediated local translation at the mitotic spindle is important for early development

Research Square(2023)10.21203/rs.3.rs-3044775/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Kalin D. Konrad, Nadezda A. Stepicheva, Michael Testa, Kelvin H. Lee, Leila H. Choe +5 more

miR-31-mediated local translation at the mitotic spindle is important for early development

Development(2024)10.1242/dev.202619
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Kalin D. Konrad, Michael Testa, Nadezda A. Stepicheva, Kelvin H. Lee, Leila H. Choe +5 more

Transient, context‐dependent fitness costs accompanying viral resistance in isolates of the marine microalga Micromonas sp. (class Mamiellophyceae)

Environmental Microbiology(2024)10.1111/1462-2920.16686
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Shawn W. Polson, Christopher R. Schvarcz, Grieg F. Steward, Kyle F. Edwards, Anamica Bedi de Silva

An integrative proteotranscriptomics approach reveals new ADAM9 substrates and downstream pathways

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.10.01.616047
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Xiaolu Xu, Neha Sindhu, Jessica Rainey, Yuhan Zhang, Shawn W. Polson +3 more

Soybean Bradyrhizobium spp. Spontaneously Produce Abundant and Diverse Temperate Phages in Culture

Viruses(2024)10.3390/v16111750
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Barbra D. Ferrell, Shawn W. Polson, K. Eric Wommack, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann, Vanessa A. Richards

Fine-tuning protein language models unlocks the potential of underrepresented viral proteomes

PeerJ(2025)10.7717/peerj.19919
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Barbra D. Ferrell, Thibaut Dejean, Zachary D. Schreiber, William Harrigan, Shawn W. Polson +3 more

Fine-Tuning Protein Language Models Unlocks the Potential of Underrepresented Viral Proteomes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.04.17.649224
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Barbra D. Ferrell, Thibaut Dejean, Zachary D. Schreiber, William Harrigan, Shawn W. Polson +3 more

Comparative Analysis Reveals Host Species-Dependent Diversity Among 16 Virulent Bacteriophages Isolated Against Soybean Bradyrhizobium spp

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.06.680108
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Barbra D. Ferrell, S. Tóth, Shawn W. Polson, K. Eric Wommack, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann +1 more

Iroki: automatic customization and visualization of phylogenetic trees

PeerJ(2020)10.7717/peerj.8584
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
144 citations

Amelia O. Harrison, Sean M. McAllister, Shawn W. Polson, K. Eric Wommack, Ryan M. Moore

Comparative Analysis Reveals Host Species-Dependent Diversity Among 16 Virulent Bacteriophages Isolated Against Soybean Bradyrhizobium spp.

Viruses(2025)10.3390/v17111474
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Barbra D. Ferrell, Spencer C. Toth, Shawn W. Polson, K. Eric Wommack, Jeffry J. Fuhrmann +1 more

Validating the Cyc2 Neutrophilic Iron Oxidation Pathway Using Meta-omics of Zetaproteobacteria Iron Mats at Marine Hydrothermal Vents

mSystems(2020)10.1128/msystems.00553-19
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
105 citations

Shawn W. Polson, D. A. Butterfield, Brian T. Glazer, Jason B. Sylvan, Clara S. Chan +1 more