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

Bob Chen

Vanderbilt University

ORCID: 0000-0003-1508-1758
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 1%percentile
5.9Author 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.

The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.053
Top 4%
5.6DataRank
Top 4%609 citations

Aviv Regev, Philipp Oberdoerffer, Tal Nawy, Anna Hupalowska, Jennifer E. Rood +92 more

Papers

Driven by 17 papers — median percentile 69. Top paper: “The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution”.

The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution

Cell(2020)10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.053
Top 4%
5.6DataRank
Top 4%609 citations

Aviv Regev, Philipp Oberdoerffer, Tal Nawy, Anna Hupalowska, Jennifer E. Rood +92 more

MITI minimum information guidelines for highly multiplexed tissue images

Nature Methods(2022)10.1038/s41592-022-01415-4
N/A
1.7DataRank · unranked
88 citations

Clarence Yapp, Artem Sokolov, Sheila M. Reynolds, Yu-An Chen, Damir Sudar +95 more

SpatialAgent: An autonomous AI agent for spatial biology

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.04.03.646459
N/A
1.5DataRank · unranked
47 citations

Yichun He, Paula P. Coelho, Matthew Bucci, Abbas Nazir, Bob Chen +35 more

Differential pre-malignant programs and microenvironment chart distinct paths to malignancy in human colorectal polyps

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2021.11.031
N/A
0.871DataRank · unranked
332 citations

Cherie’ R. Scurrah, Eliot T. McKinley, Alan J. Simmons, Marisol A. Ramirez-Solano, Xiangzhu Zhu +48 more

Human colorectal pre-cancer atlas identifies distinct molecular programs underlying two major subclasses of pre-malignant tumors

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.01.11.426044
Top 59%
0.262DataRank
Top 59%3 citations

Eliot T. McKinley, Alan J. Simmons, Marisol Ramirez‐Solano, Xiangzhu Zhu, Austin N. Southard-Smith +23 more

Measuring Collaboration Through Concurrent Electronic Health Record Usage: Network Analysis Study

JMIR Medical Informatics(2021)10.2196/28998
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Bob Chen, Evan Rhodes, Jason Slagle, Mhd Wael Alrifai, Daniel J. France +2 more

Automated quality control and cell identification of droplet-based single-cell data using dropkick

Genome Research(2021)10.1101/gr.271908.120
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
53 citations

Victoria M. Wang, Bob Chen, Jacob J. Hughey, Ken S. Lau, Cody N. Heiser

MTG16 (CBFA2T3) regulates colonic epithelial differentiation, colitis, and tumorigenesis by repressing E protein transcription factors

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.11.03.467178
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Justin Jacobse, Shruti A. Anant, Koral M. Blunt, Bob Chen, Paige N. Vega +15 more

Matrix stiffness enhances cancer-macrophage interactions and M2-like macrophage accumulation in the breast tumor microenvironment

Acta Biomaterialia(2022)10.1016/j.actbio.2022.04.031
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
73 citations

Wenjun Wang, Alan J. Simmons, Austin N. Southard-Smith, Bob Chen, Joshua D. Greenlee +6 more

MTG16 regulates colonic epithelial differentiation, colitis, and tumorigenesis by repressing E protein transcription factors

JCI Insight(2022)10.1172/jci.insight.153045
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
16 citations

Justin Jacobse, Shruti A. Anant, Koral M. Blunt, Bob Chen, Paige N. Vega +15 more

A contamination focused approach for optimizing the single-cell RNA-seq experiment

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.10.25.513758
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Zhengyi Chen, Alan J. Simmons, Cody N. Heiser, Austin N. Southard-Smith, Michael J. Brenan +8 more

Metaplasia‐induced Epithelial Heterogeneity Directs Pancreatic Injury and Tumorigenesis

The FASEB Journal(2022)10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.s1.0i661
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Zhibo Ma, Nikki K. Lytle, Bob Chen, Nidhi Jyotsana, Sammy Weiser Novak +13 more

A contamination focused approach for optimizing the single-cell RNA-seq experiment

iScience(2023)10.1016/j.isci.2023.107242
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
24 citations

Zhengyi Chen, Alan J. Simmons, Cody N. Heiser, Austin N. Southard-Smith, Michael J. Brenan +8 more

ATAC-Me Captures Prolonged DNA Methylation of Dynamic Chromatin Accessibility Loci during Cell Fate Transitions

Molecular Cell(2020)10.1016/j.molcel.2020.01.004
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
106 citations

Benjamin E. Decato, Timothy J. Scott, Tyler Hansen, Bob Chen, Jonathan Attalla +3 more

Automated quality control and cell identification of droplet-based single-cell data using dropkick

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.10.08.332288
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Victoria M. Wang, Bob Chen, Jacob J. Hughey, Ken S. Lau, Cody N. Heiser

Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals a Conserved Metaplasia Program in Pancreatic Injury

Gastroenterology(2021)10.1053/j.gastro.2021.10.027
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
115 citations

Nikki K. Lytle, Bob Chen, Nidhi Jyotsana, Sammy Weiser Novak, Charles J. Cho +19 more

Deciphering the cancer microenvironment from bulk data with EcoTyper

Cell(2021)10.1016/j.cell.2021.09.028
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Bob Chen, Ken S. Lau, Andrea Rolong