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

Robert D. Becher

Yale University

ORCID: 0000-0002-3717-865X

MedicineSocial 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 3%percentile

1.6Author DataRank

Indexed papers

1in 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 1 indexed paper 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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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

National trends in emergency department closures, mergers, and utilization, 2005-2015

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0251729

Top 13%

1.6DataRank

Top 13%31 citations

Alexander T. Janke, Craig Rothenberg, Edwin Chan, Robert D. Becher, Arjun K. Venkatesh

Papers

Driven by 14 papers — median percentile 87. Top paper: “National trends in emergency department closures, mergers, and utilization, 2005-2015”.

National trends in emergency department closures, mergers, and utilization, 2005-2015

PLoS ONE(2021)10.1371/journal.pone.0251729

Top 13%

1.6DataRank

Top 13%31 citations

Alexander T. Janke, Craig Rothenberg, Edwin Chan, Robert D. Becher, Arjun K. Venkatesh

Financial Hardship After Traumatic Injury: Risk Factors and Drivers of Out-of-Pocket Health Expenses

Journal of Surgical Research(2020)10.1016/j.jss.2020.05.095

N/A

0.457DataRank · unranked

20 citations

R Jean, Cary P. Gross, Robert D. Becher, Rohan Khera, Javier Valero‐Elizondo +2 more

The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on community violence in Connecticut

The American Journal of Surgery(2022)10.1016/j.amjsurg.2022.10.004

N/A

0.396DataRank · unranked

13 citations

James Dodington, Marcie Gawel, Kevin Borrup, David S. Shapiro, Jonathan D. Gates +3 more

Hospital Variation in Geriatric Surgical Safety for Emergency Operation

Journal of the American College of Surgeons(2020)10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.10.018

N/A

0.345DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Nitin Sukumar, Michael P. DeWane, Marilyn Stolar, Thomas M. Gill, Kevin M. Schuster +4 more

Defining Referral Regions for Inpatient Trauma Care: The Utility of a Novel Geographic Definition

Journal of Surgical Research(2022)10.1016/j.jss.2021.12.050

N/A

0.340DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Robert D. Becher, Michael K. Dalton, Sameer Hirji, Kimberly A. Davis, Alí Salim +3 more

Evaluation of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Journal of Geriatric Oncology(2022)10.1016/j.jgo.2021.12.012

N/A

0.208DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Lauren E. Wilson, Melissa A. Greiner, Jessica Pritchard, Tian Zhang, Deborah R. Kaye +5 more

Critical Illness, Major Surgery, and Other Hospitalizations and Active and Disabled Life Expectancy

JAMA Network Open(2025)10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.4208

N/A

0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Emma Zang, Linda Leo‐Summers, Evelyne A. Gahbauer, Robert D. Becher, Lauren E. Ferrante +2 more

Losses to Follow‐Up in a Nationally Representative Study of Community‐Living Older Americans: Two Approaches to Censoring and Implications for Mortality Outcomes

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society(2025)10.1111/jgs.70093

N/A

0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Jingchen Liang, Robert D. Becher, Kendra Davis‐Plourde, Thomas M. Gill

Novel indices of state- and county-level social disadvantage in older Americans and disparities in mortality

Health & Place(2025)10.1016/j.healthplace.2025.103438

N/A

0.104DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Emma Zang, Kendra Davis‐Plourde, Thomas M. Gill, Robert D. Becher, Yi Wang

Incidence of Frailty, Dementia, and Disability Among Community‐Living Older Americans According to County‐Level Disadvantage

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society(2025)10.1111/jgs.19465

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Emma Zang, Kendra Davis‐Plourde, Brent Vander Wyk, Thomas M. Gill, Robert D. Becher +1 more

Incomplete Ascertainment of Mortality in a Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study of Community-Living Older Americans

The Journals of Gerontology Series A(2025)10.1093/gerona/glaf014

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Jingchen Liang, Brent Vander Wyk, Linda Leo‐Summers, Yi Wang, Robert D. Becher +2 more

Distressing symptoms after major surgery among community‐living older persons

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society(2023)10.1111/jgs.18357

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Ling Han, Terrence E. Murphy, Shelli L. Feder, Evelyne A. Gahbauer, Linda Leo‐Summers +2 more

Hepatopancreatobiliary malignancies: time to treatment matters

Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology(2023)10.21037/jgo-22-1067

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

7 citations

Alexander E. Frey, Baylee Bakkila, Caroline H. Johnson, Robert D. Becher, Kevin G. Billingsley +2 more

Population‐based estimates of major forms of housing insecurity among community‐living older Americans

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society(2024)10.1111/jgs.19167

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

9 citations

Yi Wang, Danya E. Keene, Thomas M. Gill, Robert D. Becher, Lucero G. Paredes