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

Zachary D. Smith

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

ORCID: 0000-0002-9283-1957

Also affiliated with Yale Cancer Center, Yale University, Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

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 7%percentile
0.116Author 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.

The genome of North American beaver provides insights into the mechanisms of its longevity and cancer resistance

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.06.25.171322
Top 72%
0.116DataRank
Top 72%1 citations

Gregory Tombline, Julia Ablaeva, Lei Zhang, Xuming Zhou, Zachary D. Smith +12 more

Papers

Driven by 16 papers — median percentile 28. Top paper: “A unique regulatory phase of DNA methylation in the early mammalian embryo”.

A unique regulatory phase of DNA methylation in the early mammalian embryo

Nature(2012)10.1038/nature10960
N/A
1.0DataRank · unranked
975 citations

Michelle M. Chan, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Hongcang Gu, Andreas Gnirke, Prisca Liberali +2 more

DNA methylation dynamics of the human preimplantation embryo

Nature(2014)10.1038/nature13581
N/A
0.955DataRank · unranked
583 citations

Michelle M. Chan, Kathryn C. Humm, Rahul Karnik, Shila Mekhoubad, Prisca Liberali +4 more

DOT1L bridges transcription and heterochromatin formation at mammalian pericentromeres

EMBO Reports(2023)10.15252/embr.202256492
N/A
0.750DataRank · unranked
21 citations

Haoming Yu, Delaney Farris, Srilekha Kadimi, TuKiet T. Lam, Andy Cox +3 more

Self-patterning of human stem cells into post-implantation lineages

Nature(2023)10.1038/s41586-023-06354-4
N/A
0.749DataRank · unranked
146 citations

Seher Ipek Gassaloglu, Nicolas Dias, Liangwen Zhong, Tien-Chi Hou, Helene Kretzmer +3 more

TETs compete with DNMT3 activity in pluripotent cells at thousands of methylated somatic enhancers

Nature Genetics(2020)10.1038/s41588-020-0639-9
N/A
0.719DataRank · unranked
120 citations

Eunmi J. Jung, Alexandra L. Mattei, Nina Bailly, Jing Liao, Éric Martin +9 more

Reconstructing axial progenitor field dynamics in mouse stem cell-derived embryoids

Developmental Cell(2024)10.1016/j.devcel.2024.03.024
N/A
0.542DataRank · unranked
36 citations

Benjamin K. Law, Helene Kretzmer, Seher Ipek Gassaloglu, René Buschow, Christina Riemenschneider +7 more

X-linked deletion of Crossfirre, Firre, and Dxz4 in vivo uncovers diverse phenotypes and combinatorial effects on autosomes

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-54673-5
N/A
0.272DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Sarah Hoelzl, Zachary D. Smith, Chiara Gerhardinger, Marion O. C. Gonner, Juan Antonio Aguilar‐Pimentel +21 more

The genome of North American beaver provides insights into the mechanisms of its longevity and cancer resistance

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.06.25.171322
Top 72%
0.116DataRank
Top 72%1 citations

Gregory Tombline, Julia Ablaeva, Lei Zhang, Xuming Zhou, Zachary D. Smith +12 more

Dynamic antagonism between key repressive pathways maintains the placental epigenome

Nature Cell Biology(2023)10.1038/s41556-023-01114-y
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
24 citations

Sara Hetzel, Nina Bailly, Chuck Haggerty, İbrahim Ilik, Philip Yuk Kwong Yung +14 more

DOT1L promotes spermatid differentiation by regulating expression of genes required for histone-to-protamine replacement

Development(2023)10.1242/dev.201497
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Shannon R Rainsford, Zachary D. Smith, Bluma J. Lesch, Aushaq Bashir Malla

Autonomous transposons tune their sequences to ensure somatic suppression

Nature(2024)10.1038/s41586-024-07081-0
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
49 citations

Petar Glažar, Kevin Tse, Björn Brändl, David Meierhofer, Frank Müller +3 more

Diverse epigenetic mechanisms maintain parental imprints within the embryonic and extraembryonic lineages

Developmental Cell(2021)10.1016/j.devcel.2021.10.010
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
60 citations

Zachary D. Smith, Helene Kretzmer, John L. Rinn, Alexander Meissner, Daniel Andergassen

Evidence of secondary Notch signaling within the rat small intestine

Development(2025)10.1242/dev.204277
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Nicolas Dias, Anderson K. Santos, Zachary D. Smith, Nadia A. Ameen, Kaelyn Sumigray +1 more

Genomic expansion of Aldh1a1 protects beavers against high metabolic aldehydes from lipid oxidation

Cell Reports(2021)10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109965
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
17 citations

Gregory Tombline, Julia Ablaeva, Lei Zhang, Xuming Zhou, Zachary D. Smith +13 more

Diverse mechanisms for epigenetic imprinting in mammals

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.04.30.442087
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Zachary D. Smith, John L. Rinn, Alexander Meissner, Daniel Andergassen

DOT1L bridges transcription and heterochromatin formation at pericentromeres

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.10.21.465349
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Haoming Yu, Srilekha Kadimi, TuKiet T. Lam, Andy Cox, Zachary D. Smith +2 more