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

Malavika Murugan

Emory University

ORCID: 0000-0003-1300-0379
PsychologyNeuroscience

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 100%percentile
0Author 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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Papers

Driven by 10 papers. Top paper: “Overlapping representations of food and social stimuli in mouse VTA dopamine neurons”.

Overlapping representations of food and social stimuli in mouse VTA dopamine neurons

Neuron(2023)10.1016/j.neuron.2023.08.003
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1.1DataRank · unranked
45 citations

Adelaide R. Minerva, Ben Engelhard, Malavika Murugan, Brenna McMannon, Nirja Oak +4 more

Interconnected neural circuits mediating social reward

Trends in Neurosciences(2024)10.1016/j.tins.2024.10.004
N/A
0.477DataRank · unranked
23 citations

Malavika Murugan, Jennifer Isaac

Cingulate to septal circuitry facilitates the preference to affiliate with large peer groups

Current Biology(2024)10.1016/j.cub.2024.08.019
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0.406DataRank · unranked
14 citations

Malavika Murugan, Ashley W. Seifert, Aubrey M. Kelly, Brandon A. Fricker

Overlapping representations of food and social stimuli in VTA dopamine neurons

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.05.17.541104
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Adelaide R. Minerva, Ben Engelhard, Malavika Murugan, Brenna McMannon, Nirja Oak +4 more

Protocol for the quantitative assessment of social and nonsocial reward-seeking in mice using an automated two choice operant assay

STAR Protocols(2025)10.1016/j.xpro.2025.103788
N/A
0.165DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Hymavathy Balasubramanian, Sonia Karkare, Nicholas Schappaugh, Malavika Murugan, Jennifer Isaac

A ventral hippocampal-lateral septum pathway regulates social novelty preference

eLife(2024)10.7554/elife.97259
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Sarah Thomas, Jennifer Isaac, Sonia Karkare, Hannah L. Klein, Malavika Murugan +1 more

Comparative gene editing reduces dopamine receptor levels across rodent species

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.21.683401
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Dario Aspesi, Keith M. Garner, Evelien H.S. Schut, H. Elliott Albers, Frank J. Meye +3 more

The Intermediate CA1 and CA3 Subfields of the Hippocampus Differentially Encode Social Recognition

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.10.27.684580
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Paul J. Kim, Aidan Lin, Gordon J Berman, Malavika Murugan, Benjamin Dykstra

Organization of brainwide inputs to discrete lateral septum projection populations

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.04.23.650257
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Sonia Karkare, Hymavathy Balasubramanian, Malavika Murugan, Jennifer Isaac

A ventral hippocampal-lateral septum pathway regulates social novelty preference

eLife(2025)10.7554/elife.97259.2
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
8 citations

Sarah Thomas, Jennifer Isaac, Sonia Karkare, Hannah L. Klein, Malavika Murugan +1 more