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

Joel Mefford

Sankt Hans Hospital

ORCID: 0000-0003-3036-545X
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.

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Indexed papers

1in 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 1 indexed paper 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.

Data from A Large-Scale Association Study Detects Novel Rare Variants, Risk Genes, Functional Elements, and Polygenic Architecture of Prostate Cancer Susceptibility

(2023)10.1158/0008-5472.c.6513064
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Taylor B. Cavazos, Sara R. Rashkin, Clinton L. Cario, Rebecca E. Graff, Caroline G. Tai +21 more

Papers

Driven by 21 papers — median percentile 0. Top paper: “Polygenic profiles define aspects of clinical heterogeneity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder”.

Polygenic profiles define aspects of clinical heterogeneity in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

Nature Genetics(2023)10.1038/s41588-023-01593-7
N/A
0.505DataRank · unranked
28 citations

Isabell Brikell, Dorte Helenius, Robert Loughnan, Joel Mefford, Clare E. Palmer +22 more

Estimating the rate of cell type degeneration from epigenetic sequencing of cell-free DNA

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.01.15.907022
N/A
0.345DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Barbara Celona, Fleur C. Garton, Joel Mefford, Brian L. Black, Catherine Lomen‐Hoerth +3 more

Single-cell methylation analysis of brain tissue prioritizes mutations that alter transcription

Cell Genomics(2023)10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100454
N/A
0.320DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Matthew G. Heffel, Zeyuan Chen, Joel Mefford, Emilie Marcus, Patrick B. Chen +3 more

Polygenic profiles define aspects of clinical heterogeneity in ADHD

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.07.13.21260299
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Isabell Brikell, Dorte Helenius, Robert Loughnan, Joel Mefford, Clare E. Palmer +22 more

Genetic association analysis of human median voice pitch identifies a common locus for tonal and non-tonal languages

Communications Biology(2024)10.1038/s42003-024-06198-2
N/A
0.243DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Joel Mefford, Elior Rahmani, Jinhan Wang, Vijay Ravi, Aditya Gorla +4 more

Unraveling the Associations Between Voice Pitch and Major Depressive Disorder: A Multisite Genetic Study

medRxiv(2024)10.1101/2024.10.12.24315366
N/A
0.165DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Elior Rahmani, Joel Mefford, Jinhan Wang, Vijay Ravi, Aditya Gorla +5 more

Polygenic profiles define aspects of clinical heterogeneity in ADHD

Research Square(2021)10.21203/rs.3.rs-702232/v1
N/A
0.117DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Sonja LaBianca, Isabell Brickell, Dorte Helenius, Robert Loughnan, Joel Mefford +22 more

Genetic risk effects on psychiatric disorders act in sets

medRxiv(2025)10.1101/2025.07.23.25332043
N/A
0.104DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Morten Dybdahl Krebs, Joel Mefford, Lianyun Huang, Kajsa-Lotta Georgii Hellberg, Anders D. Børglum +7 more

Unraveling the Associations Between Voice Pitch and Major Depressive Disorder: A Multisite Genetic Study

Research Square(2024)10.21203/rs.3.rs-4135145/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Yazheng Di, Elior Rahmani, Joel Mefford, Jinhan Wang, Vijay Ravi +5 more

A scalable adaptive quadratic kernel method for interpretable epistasis analysis in complex traits

Genome Research(2024)10.1101/gr.279140.124
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
3 citations

Prateek Anand, Aakarsh Anand, Joel Mefford, Sriram Sankararaman, Boyang Fu

Epigenetic patient stratification via contrastive machine learning refines hallmark biomarkers in minoritized children with asthma

Research Square(2024)10.21203/rs.3.rs-5066762/v1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Aditya Gorla, Esteban G. Burchard, Jonathan Witonsky, Noah Zaitlen, Jennifer R. Elhawary +11 more

Complementation testing identifies causal genes at quantitative trait loci underlying fear related behavior

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.01.03.574060
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Rachel Chen, Nathan LaPierre, Zeyuan Chen, Joel Mefford, Emilie Marcus +6 more

Beyond predictive R: Quantile regression and non-equivalence tests reveal complex relationships of traits and polygenic scores

The American Journal of Human Genetics(2025)10.1016/j.ajhg.2025.04.013
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
9 citations

Molly Smullen, Felix Zhang, Michał Sadowski, Richard Border, Andy Dahl +3 more

Data from A Large-Scale Association Study Detects Novel Rare Variants, Risk Genes, Functional Elements, and Polygenic Architecture of Prostate Cancer Susceptibility

(2023)10.1158/0008-5472.c.6513064
Top 100%
0DataRank
Top 100%0 citations

Taylor B. Cavazos, Sara R. Rashkin, Clinton L. Cario, Rebecca E. Graff, Caroline G. Tai +21 more

A Large-Scale Association Study Detects Novel Rare Variants, Risk Genes, Functional Elements, and Polygenic Architecture of Prostate Cancer Susceptibility

Cancer Research(2020)10.1158/0008-5472.can-20-2635
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
25 citations

Taylor B. Cavazos, Sara R. Rashkin, Clinton L. Cario, Rebecca E. Graff, Caroline G. Tai +21 more

A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Loci for Paclitaxel-Induced Sensory Peripheral Neuropathy in CALGB 40101

UNC Libraries(2020)10.17615/nbbv-eg92
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Chen Jiang, Michiaki Kubo, Deanna L. Kroetz, Kouros Owzar, R. Michael Baldwin +14 more

Comprehensive cell type decomposition of circulating cell-free DNA with CelFiE

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-22901-x
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
94 citations

Barbara Celona, Fleur C. Garton, Joel Mefford, Brian L. Black, Robert D. Henderson +4 more

Disease risk and healthcare utilization among ancestrally diverse groups in the Los Angeles region

Nature Medicine(2023)10.1038/s41591-023-02425-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
14 citations

Arya Boudaie, Ruhollah Shemirani, Joel Mefford, Ella Petter, Alec Chiu +14 more

On the cross-population generalizability of gene expression prediction models

PLoS Genetics(2020)10.1371/journal.pgen.1008927
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
84 citations

Angel C. Y. Mak, Marquitta J. White, Walter L. Eckalbar, Andrew Dahl, Joel Mefford +15 more

Characterizing the genetic architecture of drug response using gene-context interaction methods

Cell Genomics(2024)10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100722
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
15 citations

Mike Thompson, Joel Mefford, Tanushree Haldar, Akinyemi Oni‐Orisan, Richard Border +7 more

Complementation testing identifies genes mediating effects at quantitative trait loci underlying fear-related behavior

Cell Genomics(2024)10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100545
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Rachel X. Chen, Nathan LaPierre, Zeyuan Chen, Joel Mefford, Emilie Marcus +6 more