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Research Data Management Practices

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Raminta Pranckutė
Vilnius University
2
Nuala A. O’Leary
National Institutes of Health
3
Tim Boerner
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4
María Cerezo
BGI Group (China)
5
Rebecca Jackson
Johnson & Johnson (United States)
6
Mirko Gabelica
University of Split
7
Prisca Lo Surdo
Istituto Pasteur
8
Dylan Gomes
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
9
Maialen Iturbide
Instituto de Física de Cantabria
10
Supratim Mukherjee
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Rising Stars Papers

1
Exploring and retrieving sequence and metadata for species across the tree of life with NCBI Datasets
Scientific Data|2024
483 cit.
2
The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: standards for reusability, sustainability and diversity
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
340 cit.
3
Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem structure and function via altered food webs and energy flux
Nature Communications|2024
80 cit.
4
Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD) v.10: new features and updates
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
33 cit.
5
NCBI Taxonomy: enhanced access via NCBI Datasets
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
31 cit.
6
An updated end-to-end ecosystem model of the Northern California Current reflecting ecosystem changes due to recent marine heatwaves
PLoS ONE|2024
16 cit.
7
SIGNOR 4.0: the 2025 update with focus on phosphorylation data
Nucleic Acids Research|2025
5 cit.
8
How will we prepare for an uncertain future? The value of open data and code for unborn generations facing climate change
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2025
2 cit.
9
New technology for an ancient fish: A lamprey life cycle modeling tool with an R Shiny application
PLoS ONE|2025
1 cit.
10
The IMEx Binding Domain dataset: a useful tool to analyse and predict interaction interface and variant effect.
Cineca Institutional Research Information System (Tor Vergata University)|2025
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Hiroaki Yutani
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2
Vanessa Sochat
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
3
Michael W. Bauer
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
4
Jeremy Goecks
Moffitt Cancer Center
5
Corn� Kreemer
Unknown
6
Rand Zoabi
University of Freiburg
7
Daniel Ayllón
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
8
David M. A. Mehler
Universitätsklinikum Aachen
9
Shelley Stall
American Geophysical Union
10
Tom Honeyman
University of Technology Sydney

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The Galaxy platform for accessible, reproducible, and collaborative data analyses: 2024 update
Nucleic Acids Research|2024
819 cit.
2
Introducing the FAIR Principles for research software
Scientific Data|2022
444 cit.
3
Single-cell spatial architectures associated with clinical outcome in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
npj Precision Oncology|2022
56 cit.
4
Using preregistration as a tool for transparent fNIRS study design
Neurophotonics|2023
34 cit.
5
Journal Production Guidance for Software and Data Citations
Scientific Data|2023
23 cit.
6
Seed dispersal effectiveness in fragmented and defaunated landscapes
Ecosphere|2023
17 cit.
7
Turning markers into targets – scoping neural circuits for motor neurofeedback training in Parkinson’s disease
Brain-Apparatus Communication A Journal of Bacomics|2022
10 cit.
8
The Research Software Encyclopedia: A Community Framework to Define Research Software
Journal of Open Research Software|2022
9 cit.
9
Effects of home-based EEG neurofeedback training as a non-pharmacological intervention for Parkinson's disease
Neurophysiologie Clinique|2024
9 cit.
10
Opportunities to improve alignment with the FAIR Principles for U.S. Geological Survey data
Antarctica A Keystone in a Changing World|2022
7 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Stephany N. Duda
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2
Barend Mons
Leiden University Medical Center
3
Francisco Herrera
Universidad de Granada
4
Anton Nekrutenko
Pennsylvania State University
5
James Taylor
e-Therapeutics (United Kingdom)
6
Juan Antonio Vizcaíno
European Bioinformatics Institute
7
Carole Goble
University of Manchester
8
Vipin Kumar
University of Minnesota
9
Jonathan Adams
Web Science Trust
10
Peter J. Briggs
American Cancer Society

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners
Journal of Biomedical Informatics|2019
24k cit.
2
The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship
Scientific Data|2016
17.8k cit.
3
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI
Information Fusion|2019
9k cit.
4
The PRIDE database and related tools and resources in 2019: improving support for quantification data
Nucleic Acids Research|2018
7.4k cit.
5
The PRIDE database resources in 2022: a hub for mass spectrometry-based proteomics evidences
Nucleic Acids Research|2021
6.7k cit.
6
A practical tutorial on the use of nonparametric statistical tests as a methodology for comparing evolutionary and swarm intelligence algorithms
Swarm and Evolutionary Computation|2011
5.4k cit.
7
Behavioural Ecology: An Evolutionary Approach
Journal of Animal Ecology|1992
3.9k cit.
8
2016 update of the PRIDE database and its related tools
Nucleic Acids Research|2015
3.7k cit.
9
Science mapping software tools: Review, analysis, and cooperative study among tools
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology|2011
3k cit.
10
MetaWRAP—a flexible pipeline for genome-resolved metagenomic data analysis
Microbiome|2018
2.7k cit.

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