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

Alastair van Heerden

Human Sciences Research Council

ORCID: 0000-0003-2530-6885

Also affiliated with South African Medical Research Council, University of the Witwatersrand, Syntek Technologies (United States)

MedicineHealth ProfessionsPsychology

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
0.441Author 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.

Prospective Follow-Up of Adolescents With and at Risk for Depression: Protocol and Methods of the Identifying Depression Early in Adolescence Risk Stratified Cohort Longitudinal Assessments

JAACAP Open(2023)10.1016/j.jaacop.2023.11.002
Top 43%
0.441DataRank
Top 43%11 citations

Anna Viduani, Claudia Buchweitz, Rivka Pereira, Aline Zimerman, Guilherme Rodriguez Amando +21 more

Papers

Driven by 13 papers — median percentile 57. Top paper: “Fee for home delivery and monitoring of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection compared with standard clinic-based services in South Africa: a randomised controlled trial”.

Fee for home delivery and monitoring of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection compared with standard clinic-based services in South Africa: a randomised controlled trial

The Lancet HIV(2022)10.1016/s2352-3018(22)00254-5
N/A
0.895DataRank · unranked
15 citations

Adam A. Szpiro, Xolani Ntinga, Melissa Latigo Mugambi, Heidi van Rooyen, Andrew Bruce +11 more

A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial of scalable interventions for ART delivery in South Africa: the SMART ART study

Trials(2023)10.1186/s13063-022-07025-x
N/A
0.565DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Adam A. Szpiro, Xolani Ntinga, Connie Celum, Heidi van Rooyen, Zaynab Essack +2 more

Prospective Follow-Up of Adolescents With and at Risk for Depression: Protocol and Methods of the Identifying Depression Early in Adolescence Risk Stratified Cohort Longitudinal Assessments

JAACAP Open(2023)10.1016/j.jaacop.2023.11.002
Top 43%
0.441DataRank
Top 43%11 citations

Anna Viduani, Claudia Buchweitz, Rivka Pereira, Aline Zimerman, Guilherme Rodriguez Amando +21 more

A Behavioral Activation Digital Intervention Incorporating Gamification and Peer Support for Adolescent Depression in Rural South Africa: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial (the DoBAt Study)

JAACAP Open(2025)10.1016/j.jaacop.2025.06.009
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Julia R Pozuelo, Eustasius Musenge, Zamakhanya Makhanya, Heather O’Mahen, Michelle G. Craske +23 more

Opportunities to leverage reproductive goals and ideals among South African men to promote HIV testing, treatment and prevention: A qualitative study

Global Public Health(2023)10.1080/17441692.2023.2173795
N/A
0.241DataRank · unranked
4 citations

Xolani Ntinga, Lindani Msimango, Patricia M. Smith, Alastair van Heerden, Lynn T. Matthews +1 more

ThiPhiSA: new pathways to TB prevention from community screening – a household-randomised controlled trial in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

BMJ Open(2025)10.1136/bmjopen-2025-100927
N/A
0.208DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Thandanani Madonsela, Katherine K. Thomas, Cole Grabow, Meena Lenn, Jennifer F. Morton +7 more

First-person pronouns as linguistic markers of depression among Brazilian youths

Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry(2025)10.47626/1516-4446-2024-4058
N/A
0.104DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Victor Cosenza, Helen L. Fisher, Claudia Buchweitz, Natália Bezerra Mota, Jader Piccin +7 more

AI-Y: An AI Checklist for Population Ethics Across the Global Context

Current Epidemiology Reports(2025)10.1007/s40471-025-00362-w
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
4 citations

John A. Naslund, Margaret Hurley, Bart Ragon, Margaret A. Handley, Fang Fang +5 more

Editorial: Generative artificial intelligence and the ecology of human development

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry(2023)10.1111/jcpp.13860
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Alastair van Heerden, Carlo Schuengel

Editorial perspective: digital technology and the future of mental health treatment

BMC Digital Health(2025)10.1186/s44247-024-00146-0
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Alastair van Heerden, Anna Price

Estimating the Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions on Self-reported Antiretroviral Therapy Use and Late Refill Visits Among People Living With HIV in Rural South Africa

JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes(2024)10.1097/qai.0000000000003431
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Kenneth K. Mugwanya, Adam A. Szpiro, Alastair van Heerden, Xolani Ntinga, Torin Schaafsma +2 more

Population health impact, cost-effectiveness, and affordability of community-based HIV treatment and monitoring in South Africa: A health economics modelling study

PLOS Global Public Health(2023)10.1371/journal.pgph.0000610
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Cara J. Bayer, D. Allen Roberts, Heidi van Rooyen, Alastair van Heerden, Maryam Shahmanesh +12 more

Costs of home-delivered antiretroviral therapy refills for persons living with HIV: Evidence from a pilot randomized controlled trial in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

PLOS Global Public Health(2024)10.1371/journal.pgph.0003368
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Ruanne V. Barnabas, Alastair van Heerden, Xolani Ntinga, Maitreyi Sahu, Ashley S. Tseng