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

Benjamin Chimukangara

National Health Laboratory Service

ORCID: 0000-0002-8391-4531

Also affiliated with Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, Quality Biological, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, University of KwaZulu-Natal

MedicineImmunology and Microbiology

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
4.8Author 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.

Early transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: An epidemiological and phylogenetic report

International Journal of Infectious Diseases(2020)10.1016/j.ijid.2020.11.128
Top 5%
4.8DataRank
Top 5%100 citations

Sureshnee Pillay, Eduan Wilkinson, Houriiyah Tegally, Ilya Sinayskiy, Maria Schuld +14 more

Papers

Driven by 13 papers — median percentile 95. Top paper: “Early transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: An epidemiological and phylogenetic report”.

Early transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: An epidemiological and phylogenetic report

International Journal of Infectious Diseases(2020)10.1016/j.ijid.2020.11.128
Top 5%
4.8DataRank
Top 5%100 citations

Sureshnee Pillay, Eduan Wilkinson, Houriiyah Tegally, Ilya Sinayskiy, Maria Schuld +14 more

Reduced efficacy of HIV-1 integrase inhibitors in patients with drug resistance mutations in reverse transcriptase

Nature Communications(2020)10.1038/s41467-020-19801-x
N/A
4.0DataRank · unranked
83 citations

Michelle Moorhouse, Bryony Simmons, Túlio de Oliveira, Richard Lessells, Jennifer Giandhari +8 more

Adherence Measured Using Electronic Dose Monitoring is Associated with Emergent Antiretroviral Resistance and Poor Outcomes in People with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/AIDS and Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Clinical Infectious Diseases(2022)10.1093/cid/ciac232
N/A
0.743DataRank · unranked
22 citations

Allison Wolf, Benjamin Chimukangara, James C. M. Brust, Richard Lessells, K. Rivet Amico +8 more

Whole Genome Sequencing of SARS-CoV-2: Adapting Illumina Protocols for Quick and Accurate Outbreak Investigation during a Pandemic

Genes(2020)10.3390/genes11080949
N/A
0.686DataRank · unranked
96 citations

Jennifer Giandhari, Houriiyah Tegally, Eduan Wilkinson, Benjamin Chimukangara, Richard Lessells +12 more

Early transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in South Africa: An epidemiological and phylogenetic report

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.05.29.20116376
N/A
0.581DataRank · unranked
47 citations

Sureshnee Pillay, Eduan Wilkinson, Houriiyah Tegally, Ilya Sinayskiy, Maria Schuld +14 more

Imaging and biopsy of HIV-infected individuals undergoing analytic treatment interruption

Frontiers in Medicine(2022)10.3389/fmed.2022.979756
N/A
0.208DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Matthew A. Adan, Jessica Earhart, Cassie Seamon, Thuy Nguyen, Ariana Savramis +16 more

Host genetic variation at a locus near CHD1L impacts HIV sequence diversity in a South African population

Journal of Virology(2023)10.1128/jvi.00954-23
N/A
0.208DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Jeffrey F. Tuff, Riley H. Tough, Lara Lewis, Benjamin Chimukangara, Nigel Garrett +6 more

Fixed-dose combination bictegravir–emtricitabine–tenofovir alafenamide twice-daily for treatment of HIV during rifampicin-based tuberculosis treatment (INSIGHT Study): a phase 2b, open-label, randomised non-comparative trial

The Lancet HIV(2025)10.1016/s2352-3018(25)00200-0
N/A
0.165DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Kogieleum Naidoo, Marothi Letsoalo, Roeland E. Wasmann, Gillian Dorse, Rubeshan Perumal +33 more

Single-cell multiomics reveals primarily CD4+ TH1 cell clonal expansion leading to Pneumocystis murina clearance in immunocompetent hosts 3192

The Journal of Immunology(2025)10.1093/jimmun/vkaf283.1021
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Shelly Curran, X. Li, Weizhong Chang, Matthew F. Starost, Lisa Bishop +4 more

Geospatial and temporal mapping of detectable HIV-1 viral loads amid dolutegravir rollout in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

PLOS Global Public Health(2024)10.1371/journal.pgph.0003224
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Andrew Tomita, Richard Lessells, Sandrini Moodley, Kerri-Lee Francois, Aabida Khan +11 more

Pan-Resistant HIV-1 Drug Resistance Among Highly Treated Patients with Virological Failure on Dolutegravir-Based Antiretroviral Therapy in Zimbabwe

Viruses(2025)10.3390/v17101348
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Benjamin Chimukangara, Justin Mayini, Sandra Shawarira–Bote, Nyasha Chin’ombe, Shungu Munyati +2 more

Distinct Pulmonary Innate and Adaptive Immune Responses during the Initiation and Resolution of Natural and Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Research Square(2025)10.21203/rs.3.rs-7716872/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Salina Gairhe, Lei Xu, S.M. Kanth, J.A. Huapaya, Cumhur Y. Demirkale +12 more

High Resolution analysis of Transmission Dynamics of Sars-Cov-2 in Two Major Hospital Outbreaks in South Africa Leveraging Intrahost Diversity

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.11.15.20231993
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
20 citations

Sinaye Ngcapu, Aquillah M. Kanzi, Houriiyah Tegally, Vagner Fonseca, Jennifer Giandhari +10 more