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

Ayesha A. Motala

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

ORCID: 0000-0003-0517-1784

Also affiliated with University of KwaZulu-Natal

MedicineBiochemistry, 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
7.0Author 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.

Global and regional diabetes prevalence estimates for 2019 and projections for 2030 and 2045: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice(2019)10.1016/j.diabres.2019.107843
Top 3%
7.0DataRank
Top 3%10581 citations

Inga Petersohn, Paraskevi Salpea, Belma Malanda, Suvi Karuranga, Nigel Unwin +9 more

Papers

Driven by 17 papers — median percentile 97. Top paper: “Global and regional diabetes prevalence estimates for 2019 and projections for 2030 and 2045: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition”.

Global and regional diabetes prevalence estimates for 2019 and projections for 2030 and 2045: Results from the International Diabetes Federation Diabetes Atlas, 9th edition

Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice(2019)10.1016/j.diabres.2019.107843
Top 3%
7.0DataRank
Top 3%10581 citations

Inga Petersohn, Paraskevi Salpea, Belma Malanda, Suvi Karuranga, Nigel Unwin +9 more

Polygenic Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes in Africa

Diabetes Care(2022)10.2337/dc21-0365
N/A
0.911DataRank · unranked
26 citations

Kenneth Ekoru, Marijana Vujkovi, Dipender Gill, Fraser Pirie, Elizabeth Young +7 more

Second international consensus report on gaps and opportunities for the clinical translation of precision diabetes medicine

Nature Medicine(2023)10.1038/s41591-023-02502-5
N/A
0.805DataRank · unranked
213 citations

Jordi Merino, Abrar Ahmad, Catherine Aiken, Jamie L. Benham, Dhanasekaran Bodhini +95 more

Transferability of genetic risk scores in African populations

Nature Medicine(2022)10.1038/s41591-022-01835-x
N/A
0.718DataRank · unranked
119 citations

Sounkou M. Touré, Marijana Vujković, Tafadzwa Machipisa, Opeyemi Soremekun, Christopher Kintu +11 more

Genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Africa

Diabetologia(2019)10.1007/s00125-019-4880-7
N/A
0.702DataRank · unranked
107 citations

Meng Sun, Adebowale Adeyemo, Fraser Pirie, Tommy Carstensen, Cristina Pomilla +12 more

Refining the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Communications Medicine(2023)10.1038/s43856-023-00393-8
N/A
0.520DataRank · unranked
31 citations

Camille E. Powe, William L. Lowe, Sara L. White, Denise Scholtens, Jiaxi Yang +95 more

Africa-specific human genetic variation near CHD1L associates with HIV-1 load

Nature(2023)10.1038/s41586-023-06370-4
N/A
0.500DataRank · unranked
27 citations

Immacolata Porreca, Gennaro Iaconis, Hoi Ping Mok, Subhankar Mukhopadhyay, Emre Karakoç +66 more

Precision treatment of beta-cell monogenic diabetes: a systematic review

Communications Medicine(2024)10.1038/s43856-024-00556-1
N/A
0.477DataRank · unranked
23 citations

Kashyap A. Patel, Jarno L. T. Kettunen, Jonna M. E. Männistö, Julie Støy, Jacques Beltrand +94 more

Impact of individual and environmental factors on dietary or lifestyle interventions to prevent type 2 diabetes development: a systematic review

Communications Medicine(2023)10.1038/s43856-023-00363-0
N/A
0.477DataRank · unranked
23 citations

Robert W. Morton, Vanessa Santhakumar, Mariam Nakabuye, Hugo Pomares‐Millan, Christoffer Clemmensen +92 more

Precision stratification of prognostic risk factors associated with outcomes in gestational diabetes mellitus: a systematic review

Communications Medicine(2024)10.1038/s43856-023-00427-1
N/A
0.470DataRank · unranked
22 citations

Romy Gaillard, Alice E. Hughes, Kristen E. Boyle, Deirdre K. Tobias, ADA/EASD PMDI +92 more

Non-autoimmune, insulin-deficient diabetes in children and young adults in Africa: evidence from the Young-Onset Diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa (YODA) cross-sectional study

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology(2025)10.1016/s2213-8587(25)00120-2
N/A
0.449DataRank · unranked
19 citations

Steven Squires, Mesmin Dehayem, Priscilla Balungi, Carolyn J. Padoa, Dhriti Sengupta +27 more

Polygenic prediction of type 2 diabetes in continental Africa

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.02.11.430719
N/A
0.208DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Kenneth Ekoru, Marijana Vujković, Dipender Gill, Fraser Pirie, Elizabeth Young +7 more

Multi-ancestry polygenic risk scores for the prediction of type 2 diabetes and complications in diverse ancestries

The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology(2026)10.1016/s2213-8587(25)00405-x
N/A
0.208DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Joohyun Kim, Ravi Mandla, Yingchang Lu, Ken Suzuki, Lauren E Petty +255 more

Clinic-based diabetes screening at the time of HIV testing and associations with poor clinical outcomes in South Africa: a cohort study

BMC Infectious Diseases(2021)10.1186/s12879-021-06473-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Mario Kratz, Ayesha A. Motala, Sean R. Galagan, Sabina Govere, Elisabeth R. Brown +3 more

Second international consensus report on gaps and opportunities for the clinical translation of precision diabetes medicine.

Apollo (University of Cambridge)(2023)10.17863/cam.125176
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Jordi Merino, Abrar Ahmad, Catherine Aiken, Jamie L. Benham, Dhanasekaran Bodhini +95 more

Uganda Genome Resource Enables Insights into Population History and Genomic Discovery in Africa

UNC Libraries(2024)10.17615/k3wp-sy78
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

D.N. Cooper, A.P. Reiner, A.P. Morris, Eric Young, Cristina Pomilla +52 more

Genetic loci implicated in meta-analysis of body shape in Africans

Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases(2022)10.1016/j.numecd.2022.03.010
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Abram Bunya Kamiza, Opeyemi Soremekun, Tafadzwa Machipisa, Emmanuel Cohen, Fraser Pirie +7 more