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

Sydney Merritt

University of Southern California

ORCID: 0000-0002-4039-605X

Also affiliated with Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Health, Fielding Graduate University

Immunology and MicrobiologyBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicineSocial 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 2%percentile
2.8Author 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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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.

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics among probable and confirmed patients with mpox in Sierra Leone reported from January to May 2025

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.05.30.25328691
Top 8%
2.8DataRank
Top 8%12 citations

Emmanuel Saidu, Ibrahim K Foday, Emmanuel S. Kamanda, Michaella Jaba, Allan Campbell +14 more

Papers

Driven by 7 papers — median percentile 92. Top paper: “Clinical and epidemiological characteristics among probable and confirmed patients with mpox in Sierra Leone reported from January to May 2025”.

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics among probable and confirmed patients with mpox in Sierra Leone reported from January to May 2025

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.05.30.25328691
Top 8%
2.8DataRank
Top 8%12 citations

Emmanuel Saidu, Ibrahim K Foday, Emmanuel S. Kamanda, Michaella Jaba, Allan Campbell +14 more

Epidemiology and phylogenomic characterisation of two distinct mpox outbreaks in Kinshasa, DR Congo, involving a new subclade Ia lineage: a retrospective, observational study

The Lancet(2025)10.1016/s0140-6736(25)00294-6
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
22 citations

Sydney Merritt, Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Daan Jansen, Megan Halbrook, Áine O’Toole +38 more

Maternal and neonatal outcomes after infection with monkeypox virus clade I during pregnancy in DR Congo: a pooled, prospective cohort study

The Lancet(2025)10.1016/s0140-6736(25)02309-8
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Isaac Barhishindi, Ange Mubiala, Espoir Bwenge Malembaka, Lydia Braunack-Mayer, Bruce Nganga +92 more

First imported Cases of MPXV Clade Ib in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Implications for Global Surveillance and Transmission Dynamics

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.09.12.24313188
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
20 citations

Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Noëlla Mulopo-Mukanya, Adrienne Amuri-Aziza, Áine O’Toole, Brigitte Modadra-Madakpa +48 more

First imported cases of MPXV Clade Ib from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Communications Medicine(2025)10.1038/s43856-025-01203-z
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Noëlla Mulopo-Mukanya, Adrienne Amuri-Aziza, Áine O’Toole, Sydney Merritt +48 more

Comparison of EBOV GP IgG antibody reactivity: Results from two immunoassays in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Journal of Virological Methods(2025)10.1016/j.jviromet.2025.115154
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Megan Halbrook, Jean Paul Kompany-Kisenzele, Prabha Chandrasekaran, Olivia A. Smith, Nicole A. Hoff +18 more

Clade Ia Monkeypox Virus Linked to Sexual Transmission, Democratic Republic of the Congo, August 2024

Emerging infectious diseases(2025)10.3201/eid3105.241690
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Kelly-Michel Kenye, Lygie Lunyanga, Daan Jansen, Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki, Sifa Kavira +41 more