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

Heather A. Lawson

Washington University in St. Louis

ORCID: 0000-0002-3550-5485
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 1%percentile
6.0Author DataRank

Indexed papers

4in 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 4 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 Human Pangenome Project: a global resource to map genomic diversity

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04601-8
Top 4%
5.6DataRank
Top 4%571 citations

Lucinda Antonacci-Fulton, Thibaut Hourlier, Heather A. Lawson, Julian K. Lucas, Adam M. Phillippy +36 more

Papers

Driven by 15 papers — median percentile 34. Top paper: “The Human Pangenome Project: a global resource to map genomic diversity”.

The Human Pangenome Project: a global resource to map genomic diversity

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04601-8
Top 4%
5.6DataRank
Top 4%571 citations

Lucinda Antonacci-Fulton, Thibaut Hourlier, Heather A. Lawson, Julian K. Lucas, Adam M. Phillippy +36 more

Deciphering the impact of genomic variation on function

Nature(2024)10.1038/s41586-024-07510-0
N/A
1.1DataRank · unranked
89 citations

Jesse M. Engreitz, Heather A. Lawson, Harinder Singh, Lea M. Starita, Gary C. Hon +95 more

The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network

Nature(2025)10.1038/s41586-025-09096-7
N/A
0.672DataRank · unranked
43 citations

Ji Won Oh, Yujin Angelina Choi, Nam Seop Lim, Boxun Zhao, Adam Voshall +365 more

Using the linear references from the pangenome to discover missing autism variants

Nature Communications(2026)10.1038/s41467-026-68378-4
Top 65%
0.208DataRank
Top 65%3 citations

Jiadong Lin, Michelle D. Noyes, Young-Jun Kwon, Isaac Wong, Nidhi Koundinya +252 more

Author Correction: Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04799-7
Top 67%
0.174DataRank
Top 67%2 citations

LaDeana W. Hillier, Wesley C. Warren, Kim C. Worley, Lynne V. Nazareth, Donna M. Muzny +95 more

Spontaneous restoration of functional β-cell mass in obese SM/J mice

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.05.19.104588
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Caryn Carson, Celine L. St. Pierre, Juan F Macias-Velasco, Jing W. Hughes, Marcus Kunzmann +4 more

Imputation of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Inbred Mice Using Local Phylogeny

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/3ebf-nz90
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Gary A. Churchill, Fernando Pardo‐Manuel de Villena, Heather A. Lawson, Jeremy Wang, Leonard McMillan +1 more

Parent-of-origin effects propagate through networks to shape metabolic traits

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.08.10.455860
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Celine L. St. Pierre, Jessica P. Wayhart, Yin Li, Larry D. Spears, Mario A Miranda +6 more

Genetic, epigenetic, and environmental mechanisms govern allele-specific gene expression

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.09.09.459642
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Juan F Macias-Velasco, Jessica P. Wayhart, Yin Li, Clay F. Semenkovich, Heather A. Lawson +1 more

Integrated transcriptomics identifies β-cell subpopulations and genetic networks associated with obesity and glycemic control in SM/J mice

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.07.15.452524
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Juan F Macias-Velasco, Heather K. Schmidt, Heather A. Lawson, Mario A Miranda

Epigenomic analysis reveals prevalent contribution of transposable elements to cis-regulatory elements, tissue-specific expression, and alternative promoters in zebrafish

Genome Research(2022)10.1101/gr.276052.121
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
28 citations

Yiran Hou, Ju Heon Maeng, Nakul M. Shah, Yujie Chen, Heather A. Lawson +4 more

Integrated transcriptomics contrasts fatty acid metabolism with hypoxia response in β-cell subpopulations associated with glycemic control

Research Square(2022)10.21203/rs.3.rs-1689634/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Juan F Macias-Velasco, Heather K. Schmidt, Heather A. Lawson, Mario A Miranda

Integrated transcriptomics contrasts fatty acid metabolism with hypoxia response in β-cell subpopulations associated with glycemic control

BMC Genomics(2023)10.1186/s12864-023-09232-5
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Juan F Macias-Velasco, Heather K. Schmidt, Heather A. Lawson, Mario A Miranda

Genetic background and diet affect brown adipose gene coexpression networks associated with metabolic phenotypes

Physiological Genomics(2020)10.1152/physiolgenomics.00003.2020
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

Heather A. Lawson, Caryn Carson

Brown Adipose Expansion and Remission of Glycemic Dysfunction in Obese SM/J Mice

Cell Reports(2020)10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108237
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
18 citations

Juan F Macias-Velasco, Subhadra C. Gunawardana, Mario A Miranda, Sakura Oyama, Celine L. St. Pierre +4 more