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

Brian Karl Finch

University of Southern California

ORCID: 0000-0003-1730-1574

Also affiliated with California Southern University

Social SciencesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyMedicinePsychology

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
0.533Author 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.

Financial strain moderates genetic influences on self-rated health: support for diathesis–stress model of gene–environment interplay

Biodemography and Social Biology(2022)10.1080/19485565.2022.2037069
Top 56%
0.292DataRank
Top 56%6 citations

Catalina Zavala, Carol E. Franz, Shandell Pahlen, Margaret Gatz, Nancy L. Pedersen +11 more

Papers

Driven by 7 papers — median percentile 41. Top paper: “You Are Where You Shop”.

You Are Where You Shop

American Journal of Preventive Medicine(2006)10.1016/j.amepre.2006.03.019
N/A
0.869DataRank · unranked
328 citations

Deborah A. Cohen, Brian Karl Finch, Steven M. Asch, Sanae Inagami

Educational Influences on Late-Life Health: Genetic Propensity and Attained Education

The Journals of Gerontology Series B(2023)10.1093/geronb/gbad153
N/A
0.385DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Brian Karl Finch, Ida Karlsson, Margaret Gatz, Chandra A. Reynolds, Nancy L. Pedersen +2 more

Financial strain moderates genetic influences on self-rated health: support for diathesis–stress model of gene–environment interplay

Biodemography and Social Biology(2022)10.1080/19485565.2022.2037069
Top 56%
0.292DataRank
Top 56%6 citations

Catalina Zavala, Carol E. Franz, Shandell Pahlen, Margaret Gatz, Nancy L. Pedersen +11 more

The Interplay of Genes and Environment Across Multiple Studies (IGEMS) Consortium After Fifteen Years

Twin Research and Human Genetics(2025)10.1017/thg.2025.10036
Top 61%
0.241DataRank
Top 61%4 citations

Brian Karl Finch, Margaret Gatz, Kaare Christensen, Carol E. Franz, Ida Karlsson +18 more

Genetic and environmental influences on alcohol consumption in middle to late life.

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors(2025)10.1037/adb0001052
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Tyler Bell, Erik Buchholz, Stephanie Zellers, Susan E. Luczak, Chandra A. Reynolds +17 more

Self-rated health and mortality: family background and genetic precursors

Discover Social Science and Health(2025)10.1007/s44155-025-00290-6
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Deborah Finkel, Margaret Gatz, Nancy L. Pedersen, Chandra A. Reynolds, Perminder S. Sachdev +4 more

Pathways between a polygenic index for education and years of completed schooling: the presentation of self and assessment of others

Biodemography and Social Biology(2024)10.1080/19485565.2024.2355891
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Kathleen Mullan Harris, Brian Karl Finch, Jason D. Boardman