Arshad Ismail

Also affiliated with Durban University of Technology, University of Venda

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.

Top 2%percentile

3.5Author DataRank

Indexed papers

2in pilot corpus

datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6· scope data_onlyMethodology

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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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The highest-impact dataset this researcher has shared, ranked by DataRank — the single contribution doing the most to lift their data-sharing standing.

The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abq5358

Top 7%

3.1DataRank

Top 7%181 citations

James Emmanuel San, Matthew Cotten, Monika Moir, Bryan Tegomoh, Gerald Mboowa +95 more

Papers

Driven by 23 papers — median percentile 72. Top paper: “Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa”.

Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineages BA.4 and BA.5 in South Africa

Nature Medicine(2022)10.1038/s41591-022-01911-2

N/A

14.5DataRank · unranked

697 citations

Monika Moir, Josie Everatt, Marta Giovanetti, Cathrine Scheepers, Eduan Wilkinson +90 more

The evolving SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Africa: Insights from rapidly expanding genomic surveillance

Science(2022)10.1126/science.abq5358

Top 7%

3.1DataRank

Top 7%181 citations

James Emmanuel San, Matthew Cotten, Monika Moir, Bryan Tegomoh, Gerald Mboowa +95 more

Nasopharyngeal Dysbiosis Precedes the Development of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Young Infants, a Longitudinal Infant Cohort Study

Gates Open Research(2024)10.12688/gatesopenres.13561.2

N/A

0.454DataRank · unranked

12 citations

Tyler Faits, Arshad Ismail, Mushal Allam, Zamantungwak Khumalo, William MacLeod +9 more

Genomic characterization of Bordetella pertussis in South Africa, 2015–2019

Microbial Genomics(2023)10.1099/mgen.0.001162

Top 49%

0.364DataRank

Top 49%4 citations

Mignon du Plessis, Michael R. Weigand, Yanhui Peng, Dineo Mogale, Linda de Gouveia +11 more

Characterization of longitudinal nasopharyngeal microbiome patterns in maternally HIV-exposed Zambian infants

Gates Open Research(2024)10.12688/gatesopenres.14041.2

N/A

0.165DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Christopher Gill, Rachel Pieciak, Arshad Ismail, Donald M. Thea, William MacLeod +3 more

Nasopharyngeal Dysbiosis Precedes the Development of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Young Infants, a Longitudinal Infant Cohort Study

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.10.13.21264939

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

8 citations

Tyler Faits, Arshad Ismail, Mushal Allam, Zamantungwak Khumalo, William MacLeod +9 more

Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa

Nature(2022)10.1038/s41586-022-04411-y

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1910 citations

Sikhulile Moyo, Daniel G. Amoako, Houriiyah Tegally, Cathrine Scheepers, Christian L. Althaus +94 more

Early assessment of the clinical severity of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant in South Africa: a data linkage study

The Lancet(2022)10.1016/s0140-6736(22)00017-4

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

945 citations

Waasila Jassat, Sibongile Walaza, Richard Welch, Harry Moultrie, Michelle Groome +23 more

Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa

Nature(2022)10.1038/d41586-021-03832-5

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

73 citations

Sikhulile Moyo, Daniel G. Amoako, Houriiyah Tegally, Cathrine Scheepers, Christian L. Althaus +94 more

Emergence and phenotypic characterization of the global SARS-CoV-2 C.1.2 lineage

Nature Communications(2022)10.1038/s41467-022-29579-9

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

38 citations

Josie Everatt, Daniel G. Amoako, Houriiyah Tegally, Constantinos Kurt Wibmer, Anele Mnguni +40 more

Nasopharyngeal Dysbiosis Precedes the Development of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Young Infants, a Longitudinal Infant Cohort Study

Gates Open Research(2022)10.12688/gatesopenres.13561.1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

4 citations

Tyler Faits, Arshad Ismail, Mushal Allam, Zamantungwak Khumalo, William MacLeod +9 more

Deep sequencing of the HIV-1 polymerase gene for characterisation of cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitopes during early and chronic disease stages

Virology Journal(2022)10.1186/s12985-022-01772-8

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

3 citations

Shayne Loubser, Thomas C. Quinn, Andrew D. Redd, Arshad Ismail, Caroline T. Tiemessen +2 more

Characterization of longitudinal nasopharyngeal microbiome patterns in maternally HIV-exposed Zambian infants

Gates Open Research(2022)10.12688/gatesopenres.14041.1

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Christopher Gill, Rachel Pieciak, Arshad Ismail, Donald M. Thea, William MacLeod +3 more

Analysis of nasopharyngeal microbiome patterns in Zambian infants with fatal acute febrile illness

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)(2023)10.1101/2023.09.27.559805

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Jessica McClintock, Christopher Gill, Rachel Pieciak, Arshad Ismail, William MacLeod +3 more

Molecular Epidemiology of Invasive Group B Streptococcus in South Africa, 2019–2020

The Journal of Infectious Diseases(2024)10.1093/infdis/jiae633

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

5 citations

Jocelyn Moyes, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Scott Hazelhurst, Linda de Gouveia, Susan Meiring +11 more

Genomic Diversity and Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Invasive Neisseria meningitidis in South Africa, 2016–2021

The Journal of Infectious Diseases(2024)10.1093/infdis/jiae225

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

2 citations

Susan Meiring, Linda de Gouveia, Wai Chan, Keith A. Jolley, Daria Van Tyne +9 more

Shared genomic features of HIV+ diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in two African cohorts

Scientific Reports(2025)10.1038/s41598-025-10529-6

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

1 citations

Mishalan Moodley, Jenny Coelho, Samantha Beck, Amon Chirwa, Edwards Kasonkanji +13 more

Outbreak of Listeriosis in South Africa Associated with Processed Meat

New England Journal of Medicine(2020)10.1056/nejmoa1907462

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

248 citations

Nevashan Govender, Kerrigan McCarthy, Linda Erasmus, Timothy J. Doyle, Mushal Allam +25 more

Longitudinal Analysis of Nasopharyngeal Microbial Risk Markers for Fatal Acute Febrile Illness in a Zambian Birth Cohort

The Journal of Infectious Diseases(2025)10.1093/infdis/jiaf292

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

0 citations

Jessica McClintock, Christopher Gill, Rachel Pieciak, Arshad Ismail, William MacLeod +3 more

Antibody Isotype Switching as a Mechanism to Counter HIV Neutralization Escape

Cell Reports(2020)10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108430

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

26 citations

Valerie Bekker, Colin Anthony, Simone I. Richardson, Brent Oosthuysen, Thandeka Moyo-Gwete +16 more

A year of genomic surveillance reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic unfolded in Africa

Science(2021)10.1126/science.abj4336

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

237 citations

Marta Giovanetti, Houriiyah Tegally, James Emmanuel San, Richard Lessells, Diego F. Cuadros +95 more

HIV-1 and SARS-CoV-2: Patterns in the evolution of two pandemic pathogens

Cell Host & Microbe(2021)10.1016/j.chom.2021.05.012

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

115 citations

Elena Giorgi, Srirupa Chakraborty, Kien Nguyen, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, James Theiler +51 more

Early assessment of the clinical severity of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in South Africa

medRxiv(2021)10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116

N/A

0DataRank · unranked

131 citations

Waasila Jassat, Sibongile Walaza, Richard Welch, Harry Moultrie, Michelle J. Groome +23 more

Arshad Ismail

Indexed papers

Top data-sharing exemplar

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