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

Gareth Ball

The University of Melbourne

ORCID: 0000-0003-3509-1435

Also affiliated with Murdoch Children's Research Institute

MedicineNeuroscience

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 3%percentile
1.2Author DataRank

Indexed papers

3in 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 3 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.

Brain charts for the human lifespan

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.06.08.447489
Top 23%
0.884DataRank
Top 23%35 citations

Jakob Seidlitz, Simon R. White, Jacob W. Vogel, Karen Anderson, Chris Adamson +95 more

Papers

Driven by 15 papers — median percentile 62. Top paper: “Brain charts for the human lifespan”.

Brain charts for the human lifespan

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2021)10.1101/2021.06.08.447489
Top 23%
0.884DataRank
Top 23%35 citations

Jakob Seidlitz, Simon R. White, Jacob W. Vogel, Karen Anderson, Chris Adamson +95 more

Genetic influences on hub connectivity of the human connectome

Nature Communications(2021)10.1038/s41467-021-24306-2
N/A
0.789DataRank · unranked
191 citations

Ben D Fulcher, Stuart Oldham, Jeggan Tiego, Casey Paquola, Zachary F. Gerring +10 more

A phylogenetically-conserved axis of thalamocortical connectivity in the human brain

Nature Communications(2023)10.1038/s41467-023-41722-8
N/A
0.777DataRank · unranked
37 citations

Gareth Ball, Stuart Oldham

Charting structural brain asymmetry across the human lifespan

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2025)10.1101/2025.07.21.665924
Top 52%
0.330DataRank
Top 52%8 citations

Simon R. White, Margaret Gardner, Saashi A. Bedford, Gareth Ball, A. David Edwards +28 more

The molecular genetic landscape of human brain size variation

Cell Reports(2023)10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113439
N/A
0.309DataRank · unranked
6 citations

Travis T. Mallard, Jacob W. Vogel, Young A Lee, Varun Warrier, Gareth Ball +19 more

Atypical Brain Aging and Its Association With Working Memory Performance in Major Depressive Disorder

Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging(2024)10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.04.008
N/A
0.269DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Richard A. I. Bethlehem, Jakob Seidlitz, Nikita Nogovitsyn, Paul D. Metzak, Pedro L. Ballester +94 more

dGAMLSS: an exact, distributed algorithm to fit Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale, and Shape for privacy-preserving population reference charts

Bioinformatics(2025)10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf625
N/A
0.165DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Jiayi Tong, Margaret Gardner, Chris Adamson, Sophie Adler, Aaron F Alexander-Bloch +95 more

Cortical growth from infancy to adolescence in preterm and term-born children

Brain(2023)10.1093/brain/awad348
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
49 citations

Deanne K. Thompson, Chris Adamson, Gareth Ball, Thijs Dhollander, Richard Beare +7 more

Heterogeneous, temporally consistent, and plastic brain development after preterm birth

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.12.06.627134
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
2 citations

Jakob Seidlitz, Antonia Neubauer, Aurore Menegaux, Benita Schmitz‐Koep, Maria A. Di Biase +14 more

MRI signatures of cortical microstructure in human development align with oligodendrocyte cell-type expression

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2024)10.1101/2024.07.30.605934
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
1 citations

Gareth Ball, Maxime Chamberland, Erika P. Raven, Chantal M. W. Tax, Isobel Ward +4 more

MRI signatures of cortical microstructure in human development align with oligodendrocyte cell-type expression

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-58604-w
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
10 citations

Gareth Ball, Maxime Chamberland, Erika P. Raven, Chantal M. W. Tax, Isobel Ward +4 more

Heterogeneous, temporally consistent, and plastic brain development after preterm birth

Nature Communications(2025)10.1038/s41467-025-63967-1
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
5 citations

Jakob Seidlitz, Antonia Neubauer, Aurore Menegaux, Benita Schmitz‐Koep, Maria A. Di Biase +16 more

A phylogenetically-conserved axis of thalamocortical connectivity in the human brain

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2022)10.1101/2022.11.15.516574
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Gareth Ball, Stuart Oldham

“Puberty age gap”: new method of assessing pubertal timing and its association with mental health problems

Molecular Psychiatry(2023)10.1038/s41380-023-02316-4
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
22 citations

Nandita Vijayakumar, Gareth Ball, Sina Mansour L., Sarah Whittle, Timothy J. Silk +1 more

The molecular genetic landscape of human brain size variation

10.1101/2022.11.03.514996
N/A
0DataRank · unranked
0 citations

Travis T. Mallard, Jacob W. Vogel, Younga H. Lee, Varun Warrier, Gareth Ball +17 more