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

Xin Sheng

University of Southern California

ORCID: 0000-0002-3620-3577
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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
0.576Author 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.

Mapping the genetic architecture of human traits to cell types in the kidney identifies mechanisms of disease and potential treatments

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.11.09.375592
Top 34%
0.576DataRank
Top 34%14 citations

Ziyuan Ma, Junnan Wu, Hongbo Liu, Chengxiang Qiu, Zhen Miao +14 more

Papers

Driven by 14 papers — median percentile 33. Top paper: “Unraveling the epigenetic code: human kidney DNA methylation and chromatin dynamics in renal disease development”.

Unraveling the epigenetic code: human kidney DNA methylation and chromatin dynamics in renal disease development

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-45295-y
N/A
0.970DataRank · unranked
37 citations

Hongbo Liu, Amin Abedini, Xin Sheng, Matthew Palmer, Hongzhe Li +2 more

Mapping the genetic architecture of human traits to cell types in the kidney identifies mechanisms of disease and potential treatments

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.11.09.375592
Top 34%
0.576DataRank
Top 34%14 citations

Ziyuan Ma, Junnan Wu, Hongbo Liu, Chengxiang Qiu, Zhen Miao +14 more

Renal tubule Cpt1a overexpression protects from kidney fibrosis by restoring mitochondrial homeostasis

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2021)10.1172/jci140695
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
339 citations

Jessica Tituaña, J. Ignacio Herrero, Laura Herrero, Dolors Serra, Paula Cuevas-Delgado +14 more

The key role of NLRP3 and STING in APOL1-associated podocytopathy

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2021)10.1172/jci136329
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
136 citations

Archana Raman, Nathan J. Coffey, Xin Sheng, Joseph Wahba, Matthew J. Seasock +11 more

Urinary Single-Cell Profiling Captures the Cellular Diversity of the Kidney

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology(2021)10.1681/asn.2020050757
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
112 citations

Yuan Zhu, Shatakshee Chatterjee, Gábor Halász, Kishor Devalaraja‐Narashimha, Rojesh Shrestha +20 more

Transcriptome-wide association analysis identifies DACH1 as a kidney disease risk gene that contributes to fibrosis

Journal of Clinical Investigation(2021)10.1172/jci141801
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
80 citations

Shizheng Huang, Chengxiang Qiu, Hongbo Liu, Yuting Guan, Hailong Hu +13 more

Kidney disease genetic risk variants alter lysosomal beta-mannosidase ( MANBA ) expression and disease severity

Science Translational Medicine(2021)10.1126/scitranslmed.aaz1458
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
50 citations

Hongliu Yang, Xin Sheng, Yi-An Ko, Chengxiang Qiu, Jihwan Park +23 more

Genetic Variants Associated With Mineral Metabolism Traits in Chronic Kidney Disease

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism(2022)10.1210/clinem/dgac318
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
11 citations

Bryce Rowan, Hua-Chang Chen, Tae‐Hwi Schwantes‐An, Xin Sheng, Peter A Friedman +11 more

Increased levels of endogenous retroviruses trigger fibroinflammation and play a role in kidney disease development

Nature Communications(2023)10.1038/s41467-023-36212-w
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
76 citations

Kelly A. Mulholland, Hailong Hu, Jihwan Park, Xin Sheng, Amin Abedini +5 more

Association study of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) variants and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.07.20.23292940
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Megan L. Paynton, Richard J. Allen, D Chin, Lauren J. Donoghue, Amy Stockwell +42 more

Kidney multiome-based genetic scorecard reveals convergent coding and regulatory variants

Science(2025)10.1126/science.adp4753
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
48 citations

Amin Abedini, Eunji Ha, Ziyuan Ma, Xin Sheng, Bernhard Dumoulin +94 more

The Nuclear Receptor ESRRA Protects from Kidney Disease by Coupling Metabolism and Differentiation

Cell Metabolism(2020)10.1016/j.cmet.2020.11.011
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
175 citations

Jihwan Park, Carmen Hurtado del Pozo, Lingzhi Li, Tomohito Doke, Shizheng Huang +19 more

Characterizing cancer patterns in Okinawan vs. mainland Japanese Americans: The Multiethnic Cohort Study

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.07.14.25331338
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Cherie Guillermo, Songyi Park, Charleston W. K. Chiang, John Shepherd, Xin Sheng +11 more

Renal proximal tubule cell state and metabolism are coupled by nuclear receptors

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.09.21.307231
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Poonam Dhillon, Carmen Hurtado, Lingzhi Li, Shizheng Huang, Juanjuan Zhao +17 more