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

Aljoscha Nern

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

ORCID: 0000-0002-3822-489X

Also affiliated with University of Cologne, Janelia Research Campus

NeuroscienceBiochemistry, 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 1%percentile
4.8Author DataRank

Indexed papers

5in 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 5 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.

A searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution

eLife(2023)10.7554/elife.80660
Top 10%
2.1DataRank
Top 10%128 citations

Aljoscha Nern, Zachary Dorman, Gina M DePasquale, Kaitlyn Forster, Theresa V Gibney +32 more

Papers

Driven by 18 papers — median percentile 78. Top paper: “A searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution”.

A searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution

eLife(2023)10.7554/elife.80660
Top 10%
2.1DataRank
Top 10%128 citations

Aljoscha Nern, Zachary Dorman, Gina M DePasquale, Kaitlyn Forster, Theresa V Gibney +32 more

BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets

Nature Methods(2023)10.1038/s41592-023-01848-5
Top 21%
0.988DataRank
Top 21%55 citations

Zhi Zhou, Hanbo Chen, Arvind Ramanathan, Xiaoxiao Liu, Yufeng Liu +60 more

A searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4-driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.05.29.080473
Top 22%
0.905DataRank
Top 22%24 citations

Aljoscha Nern, Zachary Dorman, Gina M DePasquale, Kaitlyn Forster, Theresa V Gibney +32 more

Cell type-specific driver lines targeting the Drosophila central complex and their use to investigate neuropeptide expression and sleep regulation

eLife(2025)10.7554/elife.104764
N/A
0.481DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Mark Eddison, Nan Chen, Aljoscha Nern, Preeti Sundaramurthi, Divya Sitaraman +2 more

A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila neuron types

eLife(2024)10.7554/elife.98405
Top 41%
0.466DataRank
Top 41%19 citations

Allison Vannan, Jennifer Jeter, Kari Close, Gina M DePasquale, Zachary Dorman +79 more

BigNeuron : A resource to benchmark and predict best-performing algorithms for automated reconstruction of neuronal morphology

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.05.10.491406
Top 57%
0.279DataRank
Top 57%4 citations

Zhi Zhou, Hanbo Chen, Arvind Ramanathan, Xiaoxiao Liu, Yufeng Liu +60 more

A split-GAL4 driver line resource for Drosophila neuron types

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.01.09.574419
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Allison Vannan, Jennifer Jeter, Kari Close, Gina M DePasquale, Zachary Dorman +79 more

Reviewer #1 (Public Review): Axon arrival times and physical occupancy establish visual projection neuron integration on developing dendrites in the Drosophila optic glomeruli

(2024)10.7554/elife.96223.1.sa2
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

HyoJong Jang, Natalie Smolin, Bryce W. Hina, Michael Parisi, Kristen C. Davis +6 more

Cell type-specific driver lines targeting the Drosophila central complex and their use to investigate neuropeptide expression and sleep regulation

eLife(2025)10.7554/elife.104764.3
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Mark Eddison, Nan Chen, Aljoscha Nern, Preeti Sundaramurthi, Divya Sitaraman +2 more

Synaptic targets of circadian clock neurons influence core clock parameters

Science Advances(2025)10.1126/sciadv.adw4666
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Aishwarya Ramakrishnan, Aljoscha Nern, John Ewer, Maria P. Fernandez, Eva Scholz-Carlson

Cell type-specific driver lines targeting the Drosophila central complex and their use to investigate neuropeptide expression and sleep regulation

eLife(2025)10.7554/elife.104764.2
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Mark Eddison, Nan Chen, Aljoscha Nern, Preeti Sundaramurthi, Divya Sitaraman +2 more

The connectome of the adult Drosophila mushroom body provides insights into function

eLife(2020)10.7554/elife.62576
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
434 citations

Jack Lindsey, Elizabeth C. Marin, Nils Otto, Marisa Dreher, Georgia Dempsey +20 more

Cell type-specific driver lines targeting the Drosophila central complex and their use to investigate neuropeptide expression and sleep regulation

eLife(2025)10.7554/elife.104764.1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Mark Eddison, Nan Chen, Aljoscha Nern, Preeti Sundaramurthi, Divya Sitaraman +2 more

Neural network organization for courtship-song feature detection in Drosophila

Current Biology(2022)10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.019
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
64 citations

Claire McKellar, Rich Pang, Aljoscha Nern, Sven Dorkenwald, Diego A. Pacheco +5 more

Axon arrival times and physical occupancy establish visual projection neuron integration on developing dendrites in the Drosophila optic glomeruli

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.08.20.504653
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

HyoJong Jang, Natalie Smolin, Bryce W. Hina, Michael Parisi, Kristen C. Davis +6 more

Brain wiring determinants uncovered by integrating connectomes and transcriptomes

Current Biology(2023)10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.020
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
33 citations

Mark Dombrovski, Parmis Mirshahidi, Aljoscha Nern, Samuel A. LoCascio, S Lawrence Zipursky +2 more

A comprehensive neuroanatomical survey of the Drosophila Lobula Plate Tangential Neurons with predictions for their optic flow sensitivity

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.10.16.562634
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
15 citations

Aljoscha Nern, Sanna Koskela, Marisa Dreher, Mert Erginkaya, Connor Laughland +9 more

Identifying determinants of synaptic specificity by integrating connectomes and transcriptomes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.04.03.534791
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Mark Dombrovski, Parmis Mirshahidi, Aljoscha Nern, Samuel A. LoCascio, S Lawrence Zipursky +2 more