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

George S. Grills

University of Miami

ORCID: 0000-0003-1037-8616

Also affiliated with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

MedicineEngineeringBiochemistry, 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 3%percentile
1.5Author DataRank

Indexed papers

2in 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 2 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.

A history of the MetaSUB consortium: Tracking urban microbes around the globe

iScience(2022)10.1016/j.isci.2022.104993
Top 26%
0.763DataRank
Top 26%28 citations

Braden Tierney, Alina Frolova, André Kahles, Christelle Desnues, Christos A Ouzounis +29 more

Papers

Driven by 21 papers — median percentile 73. Top paper: “Lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2 measurements in wastewater”.

Lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2 measurements in wastewater

The Science of The Total Environment(2021)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149177
N/A
1.6DataRank · unranked
56 citations

Naresh Kumar, Alejandro Mantero, Kristina M. Babler, Melinda Boone, Yoslayma Cardentey +26 more

Detection of the clinically persistent, pathogenic yeast spp. Candida auris from hospital and municipal wastewater in Miami-Dade County, Florida

The Science of The Total Environment(2023)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.165459
N/A
1.5DataRank · unranked
48 citations

Mark Sharkey, Sebastian Arenas, Ayaaz Amirali, Cynthia Beaver, Samuel Comerford +16 more

A history of the MetaSUB consortium: Tracking urban microbes around the globe

iScience(2022)10.1016/j.isci.2022.104993
Top 26%
0.763DataRank
Top 26%28 citations

Braden Tierney, Alina Frolova, André Kahles, Christelle Desnues, Christos A Ouzounis +29 more

Towards geospatially-resolved public-health surveillance via wastewater sequencing

Nature Communications(2024)10.1038/s41467-024-52427-x
Top 28%
0.723DataRank
Top 28%22 citations

Jonathan Foox, Krista Ryon, Daniel Butler, Namita Damle, B. G. Young +33 more

Relationships between SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater and COVID-19 Clinical Cases and Hospitalizations, with and without Normalization against Indicators of Human Waste

ACS ES&T Water(2022)10.1021/acsestwater.2c00045
N/A
0.704DataRank · unranked
108 citations

Kristina M. Babler, Mark Sharkey, Ayaaz Amirali, Cynthia Beaver, Melinda Boone +28 more

Predicting COVID-19 cases using SARS-CoV-2 RNA in air, surface swab and wastewater samples

The Science of The Total Environment(2022)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159188
N/A
0.550DataRank · unranked
38 citations

Shelja Kumar, Samantha Abelson, Johnathon Penso, Julio Contreras, Kristina M. Babler +17 more

Degradation rates influence the ability of composite samples to represent 24-hourly means of SARS-CoV-2 and other microbiological target measures in wastewater

The Science of The Total Environment(2023)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161423
N/A
0.546DataRank · unranked
37 citations

Mark Sharkey, Samantha Abelson, Ayaaz Amirali, Aymara Benitez, Gabriella A. Cosculluela +19 more

Comparison of Electronegative Filtration to Magnetic Bead-Based Concentration and V2G-qPCR to RT-qPCR for Quantifying Viral SARS-CoV-2 RNA from Wastewater

ACS ES&T Water(2022)10.1021/acsestwater.2c00047
N/A
0.546DataRank · unranked
37 citations

Ayaaz Amirali, Mark Sharkey, Siôn L. Williams, Melinda Boone, Gabriella A. Cosculluela +10 more

Monkeypox viral nucleic acids detected using both DNA and RNA extraction workflows

The Science of The Total Environment(2023)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164289
N/A
0.529DataRank · unranked
33 citations

Kristina M. Babler, Bhavarth Shukla, Samantha M. Abelson, Bader Alsuliman, Ayaaz Amirali +14 more

Wastewater based surveillance can be used to reduce clinical testing intensity on a university campus

The Science of The Total Environment(2024)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170452
N/A
0.457DataRank · unranked
20 citations

Kristina M. Babler, Mark Sharkey, Cynthia Beaver, Melinda Boone, Samuel Comerford +22 more

Correlative Analysis of Wastewater Trends with Clinical Cases and Hospitalizations through Five Dominant Variant Waves of COVID-19

ACS ES&T Water(2023)10.1021/acsestwater.3c00032
N/A
0.442DataRank · unranked
18 citations

Helena M. Solo‐Gabriele, Mark Sharkey, Ayaaz Amirali, Cynthia Beaver, Melinda Boone +27 more

A Rapid, Isothermal, and Point-of-Care System for COVID-19 Diagnostics

Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT(2021)10.7171/jbt.21-3203-019
N/A
0.396DataRank · unranked
13 citations

Duncan McCloskey, Kristina M. Babler, Juan Boza, Daniel Butler, Benjamin B Currall +11 more

Evaluation of a field deployable, high-throughput RT-LAMP device as an early warning system for COVID-19 through SARS-CoV-2 measurements in wastewater

The Science of The Total Environment(2024)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173744
N/A
0.312DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Ayaaz Amirali, Siôn L. Williams, Benjamin B Currall, George S. Grills, Christopher E. Mason +3 more

First detection of the Monkeypox virus using wastewater-based surveillance in Miami-Dade County

Research Square(2022)10.21203/rs.3.rs-2010415/v1
N/A
0.312DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Kristina M. Babler, Ayaaz Amirali, George S. Grills, Naresh Kumar, Jennifer Laine +9 more

Expanding a Wastewater-Based Surveillance Methodology forDNA Isolation from a Workflow Optimized for SARS-CoV-2 RNAQuantification

Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT(2023)10.7171/3fc1f5fe.dfa8d906
N/A
0.312DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Mark Sharkey, Ayaaz Amirali, Melinda Boone, Samuel Comerford, Benjamin B Currall +10 more

Long term assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater and the transition to evaluate additional viral targets

The Science of The Total Environment(2025)10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180096
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Mark Sharkey, Shruti Choudhary, Kristina M. Babler, Cynthia Beaver, Ramesh Raliya +21 more

COVID-19 Case and Mortality Surveillance using Daily SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater Samples adjusting for Meteorological Conditions and Sample pH

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.07.12.23292570
N/A
0.104DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Johnathon Penso, Bader Alsuliman, Kristina M. Babler, Mark Sharkey, Mario Stevenson +5 more

Geospatially-resolved public-health surveillance via wastewater sequencing

medRxiv(2023)10.1101/2023.05.31.23290781
N/A
0.104DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Jonathan Foox, Krista Ryon, Daniel Butler, Namita Damle, B. G. Young +30 more

Proof-of-concept of host attribution of antimicrobial resistance genes using wastewater Hi-C metagenome sequencing

Journal of Water and Health(2025)10.2166/wh.2025.162
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Ayaaz Amirali, Benjamin Auch, Kristina M. Babler, Pratim Biswas, Kate Bowie +17 more

Wastewater SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Hospital Admission and Mortality – A Controlled Experimental Study

medRxiv(2025)10.64898/2025.12.19.25342702
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Samantha Abelson, Johnathon Penso, Kristina M. Babler, Mark Sharkey, Mario Stevenson +7 more

Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Detection of SARS-CoV-2 and Myriad Other Applications

Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT(2021)10.7171/jbt.21-3203-017
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
58 citations

Jeremy Cahill, Guy Aidelberg, Rachel Aronoff, Ali Bektaş, Daniela Bezdan +53 more