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

James Alastair McLaughlin

European Bioinformatics Institute

ORCID: 0000-0002-8361-2795

Also affiliated with Wellcome Trust

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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
6.2Author DataRank

Indexed papers

7in 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 7 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.

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: standards for reusability, sustainability and diversity

Nucleic Acids Research(2024)10.1093/nar/gkae1070
Top 8%
2.8DataRank
Top 8%364 citations

Elliot Sollis, Yue Ji, Elizabeth Lewis, Ala Abid, Karatuğ Ozan Bircan +18 more

Papers

Driven by 14 papers — median percentile 55. Top paper: “The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: standards for reusability, sustainability and diversity”.

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: standards for reusability, sustainability and diversity

Nucleic Acids Research(2024)10.1093/nar/gkae1070
Top 8%
2.8DataRank
Top 8%364 citations

Elliot Sollis, Yue Ji, Elizabeth Lewis, Ala Abid, Karatuğ Ozan Bircan +18 more

The Monarch Initiative in 2024: an analytic platform integrating phenotypes, genes and diseases across species

Nucleic Acids Research(2023)10.1093/nar/gkad1082
Top 14%
1.5DataRank
Top 14%106 citations

Kevin Schaper, Nicolas A Matentzoglu, Vincent Rubinetti, Faisal Alquaddoomi, Corey Cox +39 more

Human BioMolecular Atlas Program (HuBMAP): 3D Human Reference Atlas construction and usage

Nature Methods(2025)10.1038/s41592-024-02563-5
Top 25%
0.802DataRank
Top 25%33 citations

Philip D. Blood, Jonathan C. Silverstein, Matthew Ruffalo, Rahul Satija, Sarah A. Teichmann +95 more

Mondo: integrating disease terminology across communities

Genetics(2025)10.1093/genetics/iyaf215
N/A
0.425DataRank · unranked
16 citations

Sabrina Toro, Nicolas A Matentzoglu, Joseph E Flack, Kathleen R. Mullen, Harshad Hegde +95 more

The Unified Phenotype Ontology : a framework for cross-species integrative phenomics

Genetics(2025)10.1093/genetics/iyaf027
Top 45%
0.406DataRank
Top 45%10 citations

Susan M. Bello, Ray Stefancsik, Sarah M. Alghamdi, Anna V. Anagnostopoulos, James P. Balhoff +41 more

The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: standards for reusability, sustainability and diversity

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.10.23.619767
Top 48%
0.370DataRank
Top 48%7 citations

Elliot Sollis, Yue Ji, Elizabeth Lewis, Ala Abid, Karatuğ Ozan Bircan +18 more

International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium Portal: facilitating investigation of gene function and providing insights into human disease

Nucleic Acids Research(2025)10.1093/nar/gkaf1148
Top 51%
0.344DataRank
Top 51%7 citations

Tuğba Bülbül Ataç, Tsz Kwan Cheng, Anthony Frost, Osman Güneş, Marina Kan +15 more

A general strategy for generating expert-guided, simplified views of ontologies

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.12.13.628309
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Aleix Puig-Barbe, Ellen M. Quardokus, James P. Balhoff, Jasmine Belfiore, Nana-Jane Chipampe +10 more

Towards a standard benchmark for phenotype-driven variant and gene prioritisation algorithms: PhEval - Phenotypic inference Evaluation framework

BMC Bioinformatics(2025)10.1186/s12859-025-06105-4
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Vinícius de Souza, Katherina G Cortes, Melissa A Haendel, Nomi L. Harris, Daniel Korn +10 more

Towards a standard benchmark for phenotype-driven variant and gene prioritisation algorithms: PhEval - Phenotypic inference Evaluation framework

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.06.13.598672
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Vinícius de Souza, Katherina G Cortes, Melissa A Haendel, Nomi L. Harris, Daniel Korn +10 more

International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium: Investigating gene function and providing insights into human disease

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.09.681205
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Tuğba Bülbül Ataç, Tsz Kwan Cheng, Anthony Frost, Osman Güneş, Marina Kan +15 more

A Simple Standard for Ontological Mappings 2023: Updates on data model, collaborations and tooling

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)(2023)10.5281/zenodo.8202395
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Ian Braun, Anita R. Caron, Damien Goutte-Gattat, Benjamin M. Gyori, Nomi L. Harris +11 more

OLS4: a new Ontology Lookup Service for a growing interdisciplinary knowledge ecosystem

Bioinformatics(2025)10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf279
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
14 citations

Josh Lagrimas, Haider Iqbal, Helen Parkinson, Henriette Harmse, James Alastair McLaughlin

CurateGPT: A flexible language-model assisted biocuration tool

arXiv (Cornell University)(2024)10.48550/arxiv.2411.00046
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

Carlo Kroll, Shawn T. O’Neil, Justin T Reese, Marcin P. Joachimiak, Harshad Hegde +8 more