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

Niel Hens

University of Antwerp

ORCID: 0000-0003-1881-0637

Also affiliated with Infectious Diseases Institute, Hasselt University

MathematicsSocial SciencesMedicine

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 4%percentile
0.638Author 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 Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks

Journal of the American Statistical Association(2023)10.1080/01621459.2023.2242627
Top 31%
0.638DataRank
Top 31%14 citations

Pietro Coletti, Niel Hens, Pavel N. Krivitsky

Papers

Driven by 5 papers — median percentile 34. Top paper: “A Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks”.

A Tale of Two Datasets: Representativeness and Generalisability of Inference for Samples of Networks

Journal of the American Statistical Association(2023)10.1080/01621459.2023.2242627
Top 31%
0.638DataRank
Top 31%14 citations

Pietro Coletti, Niel Hens, Pavel N. Krivitsky

Estimating the optimal interval between rounds of indoor residual spraying of insecticide using malaria incidence data from cohort studies

PLoS ONE(2020)10.1371/journal.pone.0241033
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Joaniter I. Nankabirwa, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, John Rek, Niel Hens, Moses R. Kamya +2 more

Modelling longitudinal binary outcomes with outcome dependent observation times: an application to a malaria cohort study

Malaria Journal(2022)10.1186/s12936-022-04386-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Sereina A. Herzog, Levicatus Mugenyi, Christel Faes, Niel Hens, Steven Abrams +1 more

Household contact survey (Belgium)

Open MIND(2023)10.5281/zenodo.7965594
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Eva Santermans, Gail E. Potter, Andrea Torneri, Kim Van Kerckhove, Lander Willem +4 more

The impact of household physical distancing and its timing on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2: Insights from a household transmission evaluation study

Epidemics(2025)10.1016/j.epidem.2025.100868
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Niel Hens, Christel Faes, Huong Q. Nguyen, Edward A. Belongia, Melissa A. Rolfes +8 more