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

Ali Akbari

Broad Institute

ORCID: 0000-0002-5000-5876

Also affiliated with Harvard University, Evolutionary Genomics (United States)

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyEarth and Planetary 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
2.2Author DataRank

Indexed papers

3in 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 3 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.

1,000 ancient genomes uncover 10,000 years of natural selection in Europe

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.08.24.505188
Top 15%
1.3DataRank
Top 15%80 citations

Olivia S. Smith, Ali Akbari, Arbel Harpak, David Reich, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan +1 more

Papers

Driven by 16 papers — median percentile 68. Top paper: “1,000 ancient genomes uncover 10,000 years of natural selection in Europe”.

1,000 ancient genomes uncover 10,000 years of natural selection in Europe

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.08.24.505188
Top 15%
1.3DataRank
Top 15%80 citations

Olivia S. Smith, Ali Akbari, Arbel Harpak, David Reich, Vagheesh M. Narasimhan +1 more

Social and genetic diversity in first farmers of central Europe

Nature Human Behaviour(2024)10.1038/s41562-024-02034-z
Top 32%
0.626DataRank
Top 32%28 citations

Penny Bickle, Daniela Hofmann, Maria Teschler‐Nicola, Alexandra Anders, Xin Huang +86 more

Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14 th century

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.05.13.491805
Top 65%
0.208DataRank
Top 65%3 citations

Daniel Backenroth, Éadaoin Harney, Stefan Flohr, Nadia C. Neff, Gina Buckley +22 more

Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century

Cell(2022)10.1016/j.cell.2022.11.002
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
63 citations

Daniel Backenroth, Éadaoin Harney, Stefan Flohr, Nadia C. Neff, Gina Buckley +27 more

ARID1B, a molecular suppressor of erythropoiesis, is essential for the prevention of Monge’s disease

Experimental & Molecular Medicine(2022)10.1038/s12276-022-00769-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
20 citations

Andrew B. Caldwell, Srinivasan Ramachandran, Nathanael J. Spann, Ali Akbari, Francisco C. Villafuerte +8 more

Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA

Nature Genetics(2023)10.1038/s41588-023-01582-w
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
131 citations

Yilei Huang, Ali Akbari, Swapan Mallick, Íñigo Olalde, Nick Patterson +2 more

ancIBD - Screening for identity by descent segments in human ancient DNA

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.03.08.531671
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
25 citations

Yilei Huang, Ali Akbari, Swapan Mallick, Nick Patterson, David Reich +1 more

Long shared haplotypes identify the Southern Urals as a primary source for the 10th century Hungarians

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.07.21.599526
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Leonid Vyazov, Attila Türk, Pavel Flegontov, Bea Szeifert, Péter Langó +31 more

The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans

Nature(2025)10.1038/s41586-024-08531-5
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
88 citations

Nick Patterson, David W. Anthony, Leonid Vyazov, Romain Fournier, Harald Ringbauer +89 more

Ancient DNA reveals diverse community organizations in the 5th millennium BCE Carpathian Basin

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-60368-2
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Cristian Virag, Kristóf Jakab, Nadin Rohland, Harald Ringbauer, Alexandra Anders +14 more

Long shared haplotypes identify the southern Urals as a primary source for the 10th-century Hungarians

Cell(2025)10.1016/j.cell.2025.09.002
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Leonid Vyazov, Attila Türk, Pavel Flegontov, Bea Szeifert, Péter Langó +31 more

Ancient DNA reveals diverse community organizations in the 5th millennium BCE Carpathian Basin

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.01.02.631136
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Cristian Virag, Kristóf Jakab, Nadin Rohland, Harald Ringbauer, Alexandra Anders +14 more

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

Nature(2021)10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
246 citations

Michael Isakov, Thomas Booth, Lindsey Büster, Claire-Élise Fischer, Íñigo Olalde +95 more

TCR germline diversity reveals evidence of natural selection on variable and joining alpha chain genes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.08.20.671277
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Ali Akbari, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Sreekar Mantena

A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.02.16.431497
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
24 citations

Yan Wong, Ben Jeffery, Ali Akbari, Swapan Mallick, Ron Pinhasi +5 more

A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abi8264
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
202 citations

Yan Wong, Ben Jeffery, Ali Akbari, Swapan Mallick, Ron Pinhasi +5 more