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

Xiaoling Zhang

Boston University

ORCID: 0000-0003-0868-1923

Also affiliated with Sichuan University, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Han Dan City Eye Hospital - The Third Hospital of Handan, Tianjin Medical University Eye Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tianjin Medical University

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicine

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
0.467Author 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.

Multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 56,241 individuals identifies known and novel cross-population and ancestry-specific associations as novel risk loci for Alzheimer’s disease

Genome biology(2025)10.1186/s13059-025-03564-z
Top 41%
0.467DataRank
Top 41%16 citations

Penelope Benchek, Giuseppe Tosto, Nicholas A. Kushch, Jin Sha, Katrina Bazemore +95 more

Papers

Driven by 13 papers — median percentile 59. Top paper: “Cell-type-specific expression quantitative trait loci associated with Alzheimer disease in blood and brain tissue”.

Cell-type-specific expression quantitative trait loci associated with Alzheimer disease in blood and brain tissue

Translational Psychiatry(2021)10.1038/s41398-021-01373-z
N/A
1.4DataRank · unranked
50 citations

Xiaoling Zhang, John J. Farrell, Jaeyoon Chung, Thor D. Stein, Kathryn L. Lunetta +2 more

Different loneliness types, cognitive function, and brain structure in midlife: Findings from the Framingham Heart Study

EClinicalMedicine(2022)10.1016/j.eclinm.2022.101643
N/A
0.593DataRank · unranked
51 citations

Samia C. Akhter‐Khan, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Charles DeCarli, Michael L. Alosco, Jesse Mez +12 more

Identification of circRNAs linked to Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

Alzheimer s & Dementia(2023)10.1002/alz.12960
N/A
0.587DataRank · unranked
49 citations

Junming Hu, Zhuorui Sun, Mintao Lin, Thor D. Stein, Lindsay A. Farrer +3 more

Association of mitochondrial variants and haplogroups identified by whole exome sequencing with Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer s & Dementia(2021)10.1002/alz.12396
N/A
0.510DataRank · unranked
29 citations

John J. Farrell, Tong Tong, Junming Hu, Congcong Zhu, Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project +8 more

Multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 56,241 individuals identifies known and novel cross-population and ancestry-specific associations as novel risk loci for Alzheimer’s disease

Genome biology(2025)10.1186/s13059-025-03564-z
Top 41%
0.467DataRank
Top 41%16 citations

Penelope Benchek, Giuseppe Tosto, Nicholas A. Kushch, Jin Sha, Katrina Bazemore +95 more

Multi-ancestry genome-wide meta-analysis of 56,241 individuals identifies LRRC4C, LHX5-AS1 and nominates ancestry-specific loci PTPRK , GRB14 , and KIAA0825 as novel risk loci for Alzheimer’s disease: the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.07.06.23292311
N/A
0.373DataRank · unranked
11 citations

Penelope Benchek, Giuseppe Tosto, Nicholas A. Kushch, Jin Sha, Katrina Bazemore +95 more

Cell-type Specific Expression Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Alzheimer Disease in Blood and Brain Tissue

medRxiv(2020)10.1101/2020.11.23.20237008
N/A
0.363DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Xiaoling Zhang, John J. Farrell, Jaeyoon Chung, Thor D. Stein, Kathryn L. Lunetta +2 more

MitoH3: Mitochondrial Haplogroup and Homoplasmic/Heteroplasmic Variant Calling Pipeline for Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project

Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports(2024)10.3233/adr-230120
N/A
0.241DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Tong Tong, John J. Farrell, Eden R. Martin, William S. Bush, Margaret A. Pericak‐Vance +7 more

Distributional genetic effects reveal context-dependent molecular regulation in human brain aging and Alzheimer’s disease

Research Square(2025)10.21203/rs.3.rs-8219833/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Roulan Jiang, Ruixi Li, Xuewei Cao, Zining Qi, Ru Feng +13 more

Associations of carotid intima media thickness with gene expression in whole blood and genetically predicted gene expression across 48 tissues

Human Molecular Genetics(2021)10.1093/hmg/ddab236
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Lauren E. Petty, Markus Scholz, Rick Jansen, Stefan Weiß, Xiaoling Zhang +41 more

Midlife lipid and glucose levels are associated with Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer s & Dementia(2022)10.1002/alz.12641
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
67 citations

Tong Tong, Andrew S. Chang, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Qiushan Tao, Sanford Auerbach +8 more

Blood levels of MCP‐1 modulate the genetic risks of Alzheimer's disease mediated by HLA‐DRB1 and APOE for Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer s & Dementia(2022)10.1002/alz.12851
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
14 citations

Thor D. Stein, Yixuan Wang, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Qiushan Tao, Kathryn L. Lunetta +9 more

The impact of blood MCP-1 levels on Alzheimer’s disease with genetic variation of UNC5C and NAV3 loci

Research Square(2023)10.21203/rs.3.rs-3376348/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Yixuan Wang, Thor D. Stein, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Yibo Zhu, Qiushan Tao +7 more