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

Melissa B. Davis

Morehouse School of Medicine

ORCID: 0000-0002-6124-6923
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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
7.9Author 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.

A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome

Nature(2011)10.1038/nature09990
Top 3%
7.0DataRank
Top 3%543 citations

Christopher D. Brown, Christopher Aaron Bristow, Steven W. Miller, Ulrich Wagner, Yanxiao Zhang +40 more

Papers

Driven by 25 papers — median percentile 77. Top paper: “A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome”.

A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome

Nature(2011)10.1038/nature09990
Top 3%
7.0DataRank
Top 3%543 citations

Christopher D. Brown, Christopher Aaron Bristow, Steven W. Miller, Ulrich Wagner, Yanxiao Zhang +40 more

Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States

British Journal of Cancer(2020)10.1038/s41416-020-01038-6
N/A
1.0DataRank · unranked
882 citations

Paige M. Bracci, John M. Carethers, Luis G. Carvajal‐Carmona, Nicole B. Coggins, Marcia Cruz‐Correa +26 more

Insulin feedback is a targetable resistance mechanism of PI3K inhibition in glioblastoma

Neuro-Oncology(2023)10.1093/neuonc/noad117
N/A
0.915DataRank · unranked
35 citations

Laura Palma, Isaiah Yim, Nayah Bullen, Yuqing Qiu, Hiranmayi Ravichandran +12 more

Whole-exome Sequencing of Nigerian Prostate Tumors from the Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium (CaPTC) Reveals DNA Repair Genes Associated with African Ancestry

Cancer Research Communications(2022)10.1158/2767-9764.crc-22-0136
Top 23%
0.895DataRank
Top 23%28 citations

Ernest Kaninjing, Kayode Adeniji, Paul Jibrin, John Obafunwa, Chidiebere Ogo +18 more

Investigation of triple-negative breast cancer risk alleles in an International African-enriched cohort

Scientific Reports(2021)10.1038/s41598-021-88613-w
N/A
0.740DataRank · unranked
29 citations

Yalei Chen, Brittany D. Jenkins, Isra Elhussin, Esther Cheng, Syed A. Hoda +28 more

Patient-derived tumor organoids with p53 mutations, and not wild-type p53, are sensitive to synergistic combination PARP inhibitor treatment

Cancer Letters(2024)10.1016/j.canlet.2024.216608
N/A
0.607DataRank · unranked
16 citations

Gu Xiao, Galina Khramtsova, John Nguyen, Rachel Martini, Brian Stonaker +21 more

Kinome-Focused CRISPR-Cas9 Screens in African Ancestry Patient-Derived Breast Cancer Organoids Identify Essential Kinases and Synergy of EGFR and FGFR1 Inhibition

Cancer Research(2025)10.1158/0008-5472.can-24-0775
N/A
0.535DataRank · unranked
14 citations

Rachel Martini, Sarah E. Ackermann, Colin P. Tang, Marvel Tranquille, Adriana Irizarry +29 more

Identification of Distinct Heterogenic Subtypes and Molecular Signatures Associated With African Ancestry in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Using Quantified Genetic Ancestry Models in Admixed Race Populations

Preprints.org(2020)10.20944/preprints202004.0178.v1
N/A
0.318DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Rachel Martini, Lisa A. Newman, Olivier Elemento, Jason White, Akanksha Verma +12 more

African-Ancestry Associated Gene Expression Signatures and Pathways in Triple Negative Breast Cancer, a Comparison across Women of African Descent

medRxiv(2022)10.1101/2022.01.27.22269747
N/A
0.226DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Princesca Delpe, Timothy R. Chu, Kanika Arora, Brittany D. Jenkins, Akanksha Verma +39 more

MicroRNAs within the Basal-like signature of Quadruple Negative Breast Cancer impact overall survival in African Americans

Scientific Reports(2022)10.1038/s41598-022-26000-9
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Hughley Raymond, Aliyu Muhammad, Md Shakir Uddin Ahmed, Saadia Haleema, Monira Haque +11 more

MicroRNAs within Basal-Like Signature of Quadruple Negative Breast Cancer Impact Overall Survival in African Americans

Preprints.org(2022)10.20944/preprints202207.0409.v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Anusha Angajala, Aliyu Muhammad, Hughley Raymond, Shakir Md Ahmed, Saadia Haleema +10 more

Neuron-binding antibody responses are associated with Black ethnicity in multiple sclerosis during natalizumab treatment

Brain Communications(2023)10.1093/braincomms/fcad218
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Chad Smith, Marcel Mettlen, Melissa B. Davis, Lindsay G. Cowell, Rick A. Kittles +3 more

A pilot study evaluating somatic mutational burden and signatures among endometrial cancer patients: Is there prognostic benefit to whole genome sequencing?

Journal of Clinical Oncology(2023)10.1200/jco.2023.41.16_suppl.e17629
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Rachel Martini, Emily Webster, Priyanka Narayan, Max Chao, Evelyn Cantillo +6 more

Whole‐exome sequencing of Nigerian benign prostatic hyperplasia reveals increased alterations in apoptotic pathways

The Prostate(2024)10.1002/pros.24662
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Ernest Kaninjing, Kayode Adeniji, Paul Jibrin, John Obafunwa, Chidiebere Ogo +18 more

Precision oncology and genetic ancestry: The science behind population-based cancer disparities

Cancer Cell(2025)10.1016/j.ccell.2025.03.022
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

Rachel Martini, Melissa B. Davis

Associations between social drivers of health and breast cancer stage at diagnosis among U.S. Black women

npj Breast Cancer(2025)10.1038/s41523-025-00804-0
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Bo Qin, Marc A. Emerson, Etienne X. Holder, Matthew R. Dunn, Shromona Sarkar +21 more

African Pan Genome Contigs Expose Biologically Relevant Sequence Still Hidden from Human Reference Frameworks

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.08.15.670543
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Abdulfatai Tijjani, Kyriaki Founta, Daniel Cha, Alexandria Awai, Sebastian Maurice +8 more

Racial Differences in the Association Between Luminal Master Regulator Gene Expression Levels and Breast Cancer Survival

Clinical Cancer Research(2020)10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-19-0875
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
25 citations

Sandeep K. Singhal, Samson Park, Dae Ik Yi, Tingfen Yan, Ambar Caban +13 more

Cancer stem cells: Culprits in endocrine resistance and racial disparities in breast cancer outcomes

Cancer Letters(2020)10.1016/j.canlet.2020.12.014
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

P. Campbell, Jonathan Wooten, Joyce Aja, Melissa B. Davis, Andrea Loaiza‐Perez +2 more

Breast and prostate cancers harbor common somatic copy number alterations that consistently differ by race and are associated with survival

BMC Medical Genomics(2020)10.1186/s12920-020-00765-2
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
26 citations

Sudha M. Sadasivan, Ruicong She, Indrani Datta, Kanika Taneja, Dhananjay Chitale +9 more

Investigation of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Risk Alleles in An International African-Enriched Cohort

Research Square(2020)10.21203/rs.3.rs-109841/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Yalei Chen, Brittany D. Jenkins, Isra Elhussin, Esther Cheng, Syed A. Hoda +28 more

Social and Clinical Determinants of COVID-19 Outcomes: Modeling Real-World Data from a Pandemic Epicenter

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.04.06.21254728
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
11 citations

Sajjad Abedian, Rachel Martini, Scott Kulm, Mirella Salvatore, Kaylee Ho +13 more

Increased inflammatory low-density neutrophils in severe obesity and effect of bariatric surgery: Results from case-control and prospective cohort studies

EBioMedicine(2022)10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.103910
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
38 citations

William S. Richardson, Jovanny Zabaleta, Ramesh Thylur Puttalingaiah, Andrew Chapple, Jiao Liu +16 more

Understanding how genetic ancestry may influence cancer development

Trends in cancer(2022)10.1016/j.trecan.2021.12.006
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
20 citations

Rachel Martini, Melissa B. Davis, Brittany D. Jenkins

Protein expression of the gp78 E3 ligase predicts poor breast cancer outcome based on race

JCI Insight(2022)10.1172/jci.insight.157465
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

Jung S. Byun, Tingfen Yan, Ryan Yancey, Ambar Caban, Sara Gil Hernandez +17 more