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

Mala Murthy

Princeton University

ORCID: 0000-0003-3063-3389
NeuroscienceAgricultural and Biological SciencesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular BiologyEnvironmental Science

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 1%percentile
4.9Author DataRank

Indexed papers

4in 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 4 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.

FlyWire: Online community for whole-brain connectomics

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.08.30.274225
Top 11%
1.9DataRank
Top 11%70 citations

Claire McKellar, Thomas Macrina, Nico Kemnitz, Kisuk Lee, Ran Lu +35 more

Papers

Driven by 20 papers — median percentile 79. Top paper: “FlyWire: Online community for whole-brain connectomics”.

FlyWire: Online community for whole-brain connectomics

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.08.30.274225
Top 11%
1.9DataRank
Top 11%70 citations

Claire McKellar, Thomas Macrina, Nico Kemnitz, Kisuk Lee, Ran Lu +35 more

A Drosophila computational brain model reveals sensorimotor processing

Nature(2024)10.1038/s41586-024-07763-9
Top 13%
1.6DataRank
Top 13%72 citations

Gabriella R Sterne, Nico Spiller, Romain Franconville, Andrea Sandoval, Joie Zhou +22 more

SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking

Nature Methods(2022)10.1038/s41592-022-01426-1
N/A
1.0DataRank · unranked
937 citations

Nathaniel Tabris, Arie Matsliah, David Turner, Junyu Li, Shruthi Ravindranath +16 more

Neuronal “parts list” and wiring diagram for a visual system

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.10.12.562119
Top 28%
0.726DataRank
Top 28%23 citations

Szi-chieh Yu, Krzysztof Kruk, Doug Bland, Austin Burke, Jay Gager +14 more

A leaky integrate-and-fire computational model based on the connectome of the entire adult Drosophila brain reveals insights into sensorimotor processing

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.05.02.539144
Top 29%
0.680DataRank
Top 29%13 citations

Gabriella R Sterne, Nico Spiller, Romain Franconville, Andrea Sandoval, Joie Zhou +22 more

Neural network organization for courtship-song feature detection in Drosophila

Current Biology(2022)10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.019
N/A
0.628DataRank · unranked
65 citations

Claire McKellar, Rich Pang, Aljoscha Nern, Sven Dorkenwald, Diego A. Pacheco +5 more

The fly connectome reveals a path to the effectome

Nature(2024)10.1038/s41586-024-07982-0
N/A
0.542DataRank · unranked
36 citations

Max Jameson Aragon, Sven Dorkenwald, Arie Matsliah, Amy Sterling, Philipp Schlegel +8 more

Publisher Correction: SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking

Nature Methods(2022)10.1038/s41592-022-01495-2
N/A
0.529DataRank · unranked
33 citations

Nathaniel Tabris, Arie Matsliah, David Turner, Junyu Li, Shruthi Ravindranath +16 more

Neurotransmitter classification from electron microscopy images at synaptic sites in Drosophila melanogaster

Cell(2024)10.1016/j.cell.2024.03.016
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
219 citations

Alexander Shakeel Bates, Andrew S Champion, Michelle Du, Yijie Yin, Philipp Schlegel +18 more

Mapping model units to visual neurons reveals population code for social behaviour

Nature(2024)10.1038/s41586-024-07451-8
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
38 citations

Adam J. Calhoun, Nivedita Rangarajan, Elise Ireland, Maxwell H. Turner, Jonathan W. Pillow +2 more

Comparative connectomics of the descending and ascending neurons of the Drosophila nervous system: stereotypy and sexual dimorphism

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.06.04.596633
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
25 citations

P. D. Brooks, Laia Serratosa Capdevila, Billy J Morris, Alexandre Javier, Siqi Fang +31 more

Quantifying behavior to understand the brain

Nature Neuroscience(2020)10.1038/s41593-020-00734-z
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
351 citations

Joshua W. Shaevitz, Mala Murthy, Talmo Pereira

Recent social experience alters song behavior in Drosophila

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.09.04.674308
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Elise Ireland, Adam J. Calhoun, Minseung Choi, Osama M. Ahmed, Mala Murthy +1 more

The neural basis for a persistent internal state in Drosophila females

eLife(2020)10.7554/elife.59502
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
124 citations

Diego A. Pacheco, Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera, Talmo Pereira, Ramie Fathy, Jan Clemens +19 more

SLEAP: Multi-animal pose tracking

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.08.31.276246
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
99 citations

Nathaniel Tabris, Junyu Li, Shruthi Ravindranath, Eleni S. Papadoyannis, Z. Yan Wang +7 more

The Neural Basis for a Persistent Internal State in Drosophila Females

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2020)10.1101/2020.02.13.947952
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Diego A. Pacheco, Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera, Talmo Pereira, Ramie Fathy, Adam J. Calhoun +17 more

One-to-one mapping between deep network units and real neurons uncovers a visual population code for social behavior

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.07.18.500505
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
12 citations

Adam J. Calhoun, Nivedita Rangarajan, Maxwell H. Turner, Jonathan W. Pillow, Mala Murthy +1 more

Editorial overview: Neurobiology of behavior

Current Opinion in Neurobiology(2022)10.1016/j.conb.2022.102559
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Mala Murthy, Tiago Branco

Flexible circuit mechanisms for context-dependent song sequencing

Nature(2023)10.1038/s41586-023-06632-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
43 citations

Diego A. Pacheco, Max Jameson Aragon, Elise Ireland, Xinping Li, Kyle Thieringer +3 more

BIFROST: a method for registering diverse imaging datasets of the Drosophila brain

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.06.09.544408
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
7 citations

Andrew B. Berger, Yukun A. Hao, Albert Lin, Osama M. Ahmed, Diego A. Pacheco +4 more