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

Merle Behr

OTH Regensburg

ORCID: 0000-0002-4255-5237

Also affiliated with University of Regensburg

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyComputer ScienceMathematics

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 6%percentile
0.224Author 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.

Diverse ancestry GWAS for advanced age-related macular degeneration in TOPMed-imputed and Ophthalmologically-confirmed 16,108 cases and 18,038 controls

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.11.08.24316962
Top 71%
0.120DataRank
Top 71%1 citations

Michelle Grunin, Janina M. Herold, Benedikt Fröhlich, Merle Behr, Nicholas R. Wheeler +8 more

Papers

Driven by 7 papers — median percentile 25. Top paper: “Learning epistatic polygenic phenotypes with Boolean interactions”.

Learning epistatic polygenic phenotypes with Boolean interactions

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.11.24.396846
N/A
0.460DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Karl Kumbier, Aldo Cordova-Palomera, Matthew Aguire, Omer Ronen, Chengzhong Ye +8 more

Epistasis regulates genetic control of cardiac hypertrophy

Nature Cardiovascular Research(2025)10.1038/s44161-025-00656-8
N/A
0.288DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Tiffany M. Tang, Michelle Youlton, Chad S. Weldy, Omer Ronen, J. Weston Hughes +19 more

Epistasis regulates genetic control of cardiac hypertrophy

Research Square(2023)10.21203/rs.3.rs-3509208/v1
N/A
0.256DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Nathan Youlton, Ana Kenney, Omer Ronen, Elizabeth Chin, Shirley Sutton +21 more

Deciphering epistatic genetic regulation of cardiac hypertrophy

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.11.06.23297858
N/A
0.208DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Tiffany M. Tang, Michelle Youlton, Chad S. Weldy, Omer Ronen, J. Weston Hughes +20 more

Learning epistatic polygenic phenotypes with Boolean interactions

PLOS ONE(2024)10.1371/journal.pone.0298906
N/A
0.165DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Karl Kumbier, Aldo Cordova-Palomera, Matthew Aguirre, Omer Ronen, Chengzhong Ye +8 more

Diverse ancestry GWAS for advanced age-related macular degeneration in TOPMed-imputed and Ophthalmologically-confirmed 16,108 cases and 18,038 controls

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.11.08.24316962
Top 71%
0.120DataRank
Top 71%1 citations

Michelle Grunin, Janina M. Herold, Benedikt Fröhlich, Merle Behr, Nicholas R. Wheeler +8 more

Diverse-Ancestry GWAS of Age-Related Macular Degeneration on 16,108 Examined Cases and 18,038 Controls

Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science(2025)10.1167/iovs.66.13.51
Top 78%
0.104DataRank
Top 78%1 citations

Michelle Grunin, Janina M. Herold, Benedikt Fröhlich, Merle Behr, Nicholas R. Wheeler +8 more