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

Mark Blaxter

Wellcome Sanger Institute

ORCID: 0000-0003-2861-949X
Environmental ScienceBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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 2%percentile
2.3Author DataRank

Indexed papers

7in 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 7 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 genome sequence of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout 1769

Wellcome Open Research(2021)10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16854.1
Top 15%
1.3DataRank
Top 15%46 citations

Melinda R. Dwinell, Mary E. Shimoyama, Craig Corton, Emma Betteridge, Alexander Dove +16 more

Papers

Driven by 12 papers — median percentile 65. Top paper: “A telomere-to-telomere assembly of Oscheius tipulae and the evolution of rhabditid nematode chromosomes”.

A telomere-to-telomere assembly of Oscheius tipulae and the evolution of rhabditid nematode chromosomes

G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics(2021)10.1093/g3journal/jkaa020
N/A
1.9DataRank · unranked
91 citations

Marian Thomson, Urmi Trivedi, Alan Tracey, Sophie Tandonnet, Mark Blaxter +1 more

The genome sequence of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout 1769

Wellcome Open Research(2021)10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16854.1
Top 15%
1.3DataRank
Top 15%46 citations

Melinda R. Dwinell, Mary E. Shimoyama, Craig Corton, Emma Betteridge, Alexander Dove +16 more

The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2022)10.1073/pnas.2115635118
N/A
0.887DataRank · unranked
370 citations

Stephen Richards, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Miguel L. Allende, John M. Archibald, Miklós Bálint +80 more

Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(2022)10.1073/pnas.2115639118
N/A
0.706DataRank · unranked
110 citations

Richard Durbin, Paul Flicek, Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh, Xiaofeng Wei, John M. Archibald +40 more

Chromosome evolution in Lepidoptera

10.1101/2023.05.12.540473
N/A
0.581DataRank · unranked
47 citations

Lewis Stevens, Alexander Mackintosh, Mara Lawniczak, Mark Blaxter, Charlotte J. Wright

The genome sequence of the Eurasian river otter, Lutra lutra Linnaeus 1758

Wellcome Open Research(2020)10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15722.1
Top 35%
0.562DataRank
Top 35%18 citations

Frank Hailer, Elizabeth A. Chadwick, Roberto Portela Miguez, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton +17 more

Genomics Reveals Complex Population History and Unexpected Diversity of Eurasian Otters (Lutra lutra) in Britain Relative to Genetic Methods

Molecular Biology and Evolution(2023)10.1093/molbev/msad207
N/A
0.477DataRank · unranked
23 citations

Mark Blaxter, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Elizabeth A Chadwick, Frank Hailer, Sarah J du Plessis

The genome sequence of the Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus 1758

Wellcome Open Research(2020)10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15679.1
Top 43%
0.441DataRank
Top 43%10 citations

Kathryn Fingland, Rachel Cripps, Roberto Portela Miguez, Michelle Smith, Craig Corton +20 more

Best-practice guidance for Earth BioGenome Project sample collection and processing: progress and challenges in biodiverse reference genome creation

GigaScience(2025)10.1093/gigascience/giaf041
N/A
0.372DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Kevin M. Kocot, Jonas J. Astrin, Mark Blaxter, Cibele G. Sotero-Caio, Katharine Barker +11 more

Caenorhabditis nematodes colonize ephemeral resource patches in neotropical forests

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.01.13.476254
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Luke M. Noble, Annalise B. Paaby, Max R. Bernstein, Audrey S. Chang, Taniya Kaur +9 more

Caenorhabditis nematodes colonize ephemeral resource patches in neotropical forests

Ecology and Evolution(2022)10.1002/ece3.9124
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
43 citations

Luke M. Noble, Annalise B. Paaby, Max R. Bernstein, Audrey S. Chang, Taniya Kaur +10 more

A dense linkage map for a large repetitive genome: discovery of the sex-determining region in hybridizing fire-bellied toads ( Bombina bombina and Bombina variegata )

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics(2021)10.1093/g3journal/jkab286
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Stuart J. E. Baird, Dagmar Čížková, Anna Bryjová, Austin B. Mudd, Mark Blaxter +2 more