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

Nirmala Akula

National Institute of Mental Health

ORCID: 0000-0002-6782-5694
MedicineBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyNeuroscience

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 5%percentile
0.355Author 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.

A resource of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines including clinical, genomic, and cellular data from genetically isolated families with mood and psychotic disorders

Translational Psychiatry(2023)10.1038/s41398-023-02641-w
Top 50%
0.355DataRank
Top 50%6 citations

Layla Kassem, Emily Besancon, Fabiana L. Lopes, Nirmala Akula, Heejong Sung +28 more

Papers

Driven by 22 papers — median percentile 50. Top paper: “Replication and meta-analysis of TMEM132D gene variants in panic disorder”.

Replication and meta-analysis of TMEM132D gene variants in panic disorder

Translational Psychiatry(2012)10.1038/tp.2012.85
N/A
2.8DataRank · unranked
97 citations

N Akula, J Schumacher, D Czamara, N Karbalai, Inez Myin‐Germeys +52 more

Association of polygenic score for major depression with response to lithium in patients with bipolar disorder

Molecular Psychiatry(2020)10.1038/s41380-020-0689-5
N/A
1.5DataRank · unranked
95 citations

Klaus Oliver Schubert, Liping Hou, Scott R. Clark, Sergi Papiol, Micah Cearns +95 more

Aneuploidy effects on human gene expression across three cell types

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2023)10.1073/pnas.2218478120
N/A
0.843DataRank · unranked
31 citations

Nirmala Akula, Paul K. Reardon, Jill L. Russ, Erin Torres, Liv Clasen +8 more

Association of polygenic score and the involvement of cholinergic and glutamatergic pathways with lithium treatment response in patients with bipolar disorder

Molecular Psychiatry(2023)10.1038/s41380-023-02149-1
N/A
0.742DataRank · unranked
41 citations

Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Klaus Oliver Schubert, Janice M. Fullerton, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Simon Hartmann +95 more

Genome-wide association study of major anxiety disorders in 122,341 European-ancestry cases identifies 58 loci and highlights GABAergic signaling

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.07.03.24309466
N/A
0.614DataRank · unranked
27 citations

Brad Verhulst, Silviu‐Alin Bacanu, Rosa Cheesman, Kirstin L. Purves, Hüseyin Gedik +95 more

Lithium response in bipolar disorder is associated with focal adhesion and PI3K-Akt networks: a multi-omics replication study

Translational Psychiatry(2024)10.1038/s41398-024-02811-4
N/A
0.613DataRank · unranked
23 citations

Sara Brin Rosenthal, Mazda Adli, Kazufumi Akiyama, Nirmala Akula, Martin Alda +95 more

Exome-wide association study of treatment-resistant depression suggests novel treatment targets

Scientific Reports(2023)10.1038/s41598-023-38984-z
N/A
0.605DataRank · unranked
15 citations

Teja Peddada, Christopher Song, Maame Mensah, Heejong Sung, Mani Yavi +7 more

HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1 genetic diversity modulates response to lithium in bipolar affective disorders

Scientific Reports(2021)10.1038/s41598-021-97140-7
N/A
0.556DataRank · unranked
25 citations

Laura Lombardi, Bernhard T. Baune, Azmeraw T. Amare, Klaus Oliver Schubert, Liping Hou +95 more

A resource of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines including clinical, genomic, and cellular data from genetically isolated families with mood and psychotic disorders

Translational Psychiatry(2023)10.1038/s41398-023-02641-w
Top 50%
0.355DataRank
Top 50%6 citations

Layla Kassem, Emily Besancon, Fabiana L. Lopes, Nirmala Akula, Heejong Sung +28 more

Response of iPSC-derived neurons from individuals with treatment-resistant depression to (2 R,6 R)-hydroxynorketamine and reelin: an exploratory study

Translational Psychiatry(2025)10.1038/s41398-025-03724-6
N/A
0.165DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Peixiong Yuan, Bashkim Kadriu, Nirmala Akula, Brandi Quintanilla, Shiyong Peng +9 more

Antipsychotic drug use complicates assessment of gene expression changes associated with schizophrenia

Translational Psychiatry(2023)10.1038/s41398-023-02392-8
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
19 citations

Stefano Marenco, Marquis P. Vawter, Nirmala Akula, Agenor Limón, Ajeet Mandal +5 more

Deep transcriptome sequencing of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex reveals cross-diagnostic and diagnosis-specific RNA expression changes in major psychiatric disorders

Neuropsychopharmacology(2021)10.1038/s41386-020-00949-5
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
43 citations

Stefano Marenco, Kory R. Johnson, Ningping Feng, Kevin Zhu, Anton Schulmann +16 more

Association of Polygenic Score and the involvement of Cholinergic and Glutamatergic Pathways with Lithium Treatment Response in Patients with Bipolar Disorder

Research Square(2023)10.21203/rs.3.rs-2580252/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Klaus Oliver Schubert, Janice M. Fullerton, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Simon Hartmann +94 more

De novo mutations in bipolar disorder implicate neurodevelopment, immunity, and synaptic signaling

Research Square(2023)10.21203/rs.3.rs-3381851/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Rachel L. Smith, Heejong Sung, Emily Besancon, Fabiana Lopez, Layla Kassem +3 more

Genomics of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in African Americans.

Journal of Clinical Oncology(2020)10.1200/jco.2020.38.15_suppl.e16552
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Nirmala Akula, Susan K. Lazerow, Gustavo Mariño, Suman Chauhan, Edina Paál +4 more

Immunogenetics of lithium response and psychiatric phenotypes in patients with bipolar disorder

Translational Psychiatry(2024)10.1038/s41398-024-02865-4
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
14 citations

Karina Gutiérrez-Fragoso, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Azmeraw T. Amare, Mazda Adli, Kazufumi Akiyama +95 more

Independent inheritance of cognition and bipolar disorder in a family sample

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B Neuropsychiatric Genetics(2024)10.1002/ajmg.b.33001
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Heejong Sung, Alejandro Arbona‐Lampaya, Ally Freifeld, Katie Hosey, Joshua Garcia +8 more

Schizophrenia risk-associated SNPs affect expression of microRNA 137 host gene: a postmortem study

Human Molecular Genetics(2024)10.1093/hmg/ddae130
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Ajeet Mandal, Ananya Jambhale, Pranav Narnur, Gang Chen, Nirmala Akula +8 more

Polygenic risk for anxiety influences anxiety comorbidity and suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder

Translational Psychiatry(2020)10.1038/s41398-020-00981-5
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
30 citations

Kevin Zhu, Kirstin L. Purves, Christopher Song, Kwangmi Ahn, Liping Hou +41 more

A conserved cell-type gradient across the human mediodorsal and paraventricular thalamus

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.09.03.611112
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

Ningping Feng, Pavan Auluck, Arghya Mukherjee, Ruchi Komal, Yan Leng +21 more

Cellular Diversity in Human Subgenual Anterior Cingulate and Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex by Single-Nucleus RNA-Sequencing

Journal of Neuroscience(2023)10.1523/jneurosci.0830-22.2023
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
16 citations

Dowon Kim, Anton Schulmann, Yash Patel, Carolina Caban-Rivera, Paul Kim +13 more

A neuro-immune axis of transcriptomic dysregulation within the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex in schizophrenia

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.02.14.638357
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Ágoston Mihalik, Nirmala Akula, Pavan Auluck, Stefano Marenco, Armin Raznahan +3 more