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

David M. Howard

King's College London

ORCID: 0000-0002-6005-1972
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyPsychologyNeuroscienceEnvironmental Science

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 4%percentile
0.671Author 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.

Quantifying the relative importance of genetics and environment on the comorbidity between mental and cardiometabolic disorders using 17 million Scandinavians

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-49507-3
Top 30%
0.671DataRank
Top 30%25 citations

Kejia Hu, Morten Dybdahl Krebs, Georgios Athanasiadis, Sarah Washbrook, Richard Zetterberg +18 more

Papers

Driven by 10 papers — median percentile 70. Top paper: “Genetic comorbidity between major depression and cardio‐metabolic traits, stratified by age at onset of major depression”.

Genetic comorbidity between major depression and cardio‐metabolic traits, stratified by age at onset of major depression

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics(2020)10.1002/ajmg.b.32807
N/A
1.6DataRank · unranked
65 citations

Jonathan R. I. Coleman, Shing Wan Choi, Héléna A. Gaspar, Mark J. Adams, David M. Howard +43 more

Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank identifies variants in excitatory synaptic pathways

Nature Communications(2018)10.1038/s41467-018-03819-3
N/A
0.974DataRank · unranked
660 citations

Abdel Abdellaoui, Masoud Shirali, Jane Hvarregaard Christensen, Riccardo E. Marioni, Gail Davies +40 more

Quantifying the relative importance of genetics and environment on the comorbidity between mental and cardiometabolic disorders using 17 million Scandinavians

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-49507-3
Top 30%
0.671DataRank
Top 30%25 citations

Kejia Hu, Morten Dybdahl Krebs, Georgios Athanasiadis, Sarah Washbrook, Richard Zetterberg +18 more

Local CpG density affects the trajectory of age-associated epigenetic changes

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.07.08.451539
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Qian Zhang, Rosie M. Walker, Sarah E. Harris, David M. Howard, Emma L. Hawkins +11 more

Local CpG density affects the trajectory and variance of age-associated DNA methylation changes

Genome biology(2022)10.1186/s13059-022-02787-8
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
37 citations

Lyndsay Kerr, Qian Zhang, Rosie M. Walker, Sarah E. Harris, David M. Howard +12 more

Dying or Lying? For-Profit Hospices and End of Life Care

National Bureau of Economic Research(2023)10.3386/w31035
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

David M. Howard, Jetson Leder‐Luis, Theodore L. Caputi, Jonathan Gruber

Trans-ancestry genome-wide study of depression identifies 697 associations implicating cell types and pharmacotherapies

Cell(2025)10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.002
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
229 citations

Fabian Streit, Xiangrui Meng, Swapnil Awasthi, Brett N. Adey, Karmel W. Choi +95 more

Depression symptom-specific genetic associations in clinically diagnosed and proxy case Alzheimer’s disease

Nature Mental Health(2025)10.1038/s44220-024-00369-0
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Thomas P Spargo, Rebecca Green, Jonathan R. I. Coleman, David M. Howard, Jackson G. Thorp +29 more

The effects of polygenic risk for psychiatric disorders and smoking behaviour on psychotic experiences in UK Biobank

Translational Psychiatry(2020)10.1038/s41398-020-01009-8
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
14 citations

Julia Ramírez, David M. Howard, Caroline H. Brennan, Patricia B. Munroe, Robert Keers +1 more

Epigenome-wide association study of alcohol consumption in N = 8161 individuals and relevance to alcohol use disorder pathophysiology: identification of the cystine/glutamate transporter SLC7A11 as a top target

Molecular Psychiatry(2021)10.1038/s41380-021-01378-6
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
47 citations

Toni‐Kim Clarke, Zachary Kaminsky, Rosie M. Walker, Mairead L. Bermingham, Jeesun Jung +14 more