Associations ofsNfLwith clinico‐radiological measures in a largeMSpopulation is a dataset published in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 2.4, placing it in the top 8.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 41 times, with 31 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 13/100.
Ranks in the top 9% for downstream scientific impact
DataRank reads this dataset's downstream impact straight off the citation graph — no black box, no proprietary weighting. How is this computed?
FAIR checklist signals are shown for context only and do not affect DataRank scoring.
Full FAIR picture · advisory
The headline score is computed from the scored criteria — the fact-shaped checks (a repository, an accession, a licence) that two independent models agree on. The advisory criteria below are real FAIR guidance but rest on judgment calls that models read differently, so they inform without moving the number.
The paper does not provide any persistent identifier (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession) for its own dataset.
RDA-F1-01D — FAIR Data Maturity Model: 'Data is identified by a persistent identifier' (priorit · RDA-F1-02D — FAIR Data Maturity Model: 'Data is identified by a globally unique identifier' · FsF-F1-02D — F-UJI/FAIRsFAIR: 'Data is assigned a persistent identifier'
No repository name is given; the data are held by the MS PATHS consortium and accessed via Biogen. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-F4-01M — FAIR Data Maturity Model: metadata is offered so it can be harvested and indexed ( · NIH DMS Policy Element 4 (NOT-OD-21-014) — name the repository where data will be archived · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Long-Term Sustainability', 'Reten
No identifier for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper, not in the reference list nor in the body text.
FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles (2014) — data should be cited as a first- · RDA-F3-01M — metadata clearly and explicitly includes the identifier of the data it describes · FsF-F3-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes the identifier of the data it describes'
Advisory · not in the published score
“Requests for individual participant de‐identified data would be considered from qualified investigators, based on information provided, including the proposed use and analysis plan. Requests to access the datasets should be directed to [email protected] . Proposals will be reviewed by the MS PATHS data use committee. If the proposed use is appropriate, a data sharing agreement will be put in place before a fully de‐identified version of the dataset, including the data dictionary, is made available.”
The data availability statement points to a request process (Colavizza category 1), not a repository record.
Colavizza, Hrynaszkiewicz, Staden, Whitaker & McGillivray (2020), 'The citation advantage of li · Springer Nature research data policy — Data Availability Statements: standard statement templat · RDA-F3-01M — metadata clearly and explicitly includes the identifier of the data it describes
“MS PATHS incorporates a self‐administered iPad‐based patient assessment tool, the MS Performance Test (MSPT), to collect a structured history, patient‐reported outcomes, and an assessment of neuroperformance, using an adaptation of the MS Functional Composite (MSFC) to assess walking speed, manual dexterity, and cognition.”
The dataset's content is described in running prose, not in an itemised inventory (section, table, or list). [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-F2-01M — 'Rich metadata is provided to allow discovery' (priority Essential) · FsF-F2-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes descriptive core elements to support data findability' · FsF-R1-01MD — F-UJI: 'Metadata specifies the content of the data'
“Requests for individual participant de‐identified data would be considered from qualified investigators, based on information provided, including the proposed use and analysis plan. Requests to access the datasets should be directed to [email protected] . Proposals will be reviewed by the MS PATHS data use committee. If the proposed use is appropriate, a data sharing agreement will be put in place before a fully de‐identified version of the dataset, including the data dictionary, is made available.”
The access route involves a precondition (review by the data use committee and a data sharing agreement), which is a specified followable process.
RDA-A1.1-01D — 'Data is accessible through a free access protocol' · FsF-A1-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata contains access level and access conditions of the data' · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Free and Easy Access'
Advisory · not in the published score
“Requests for individual participant de‐identified data would be considered from qualified investigators, based on information provided, including the proposed use and analysis plan. Requests to access the datasets should be directed to [email protected] . Proposals will be reviewed by the MS PATHS data use committee. If the proposed use is appropriate, a data sharing agreement will be put in place before a fully de‐identified version of the dataset, including the data dictionary, is made available.”
The paper describes an access action (directing requests to an email and committee review) from which the access level (restricted) can be inferred, but does not use an explicit access-level label.
FsF-A1-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata contains access level and access conditions of the data' · RDA-A1-01M — metadata contains information to enable the user to get access to the data · COAR Controlled Vocabularies — Access Rights v1.0 (open / embargoed / restricted / metadata-onl
“Proposals will be reviewed by the MS PATHS data use committee.”
The paper names an institutional gatekeeper (the MS PATHS data use committee) for access to the human-subject data.
NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy (NOT-OD-14-124) — controlled-access via a Data Access Committee · RDA-A1.2-01D — 'Data is accessible through an access protocol that supports authentication and · NIH DMS Policy Element 5 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Access, Distribution, or Reuse Considerations (conse
No statement about persistence or availability timing of the data is made in the paper.
NIH DMS Plan Element 4 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Data Preservation, Access, and Associated Timelines · NSTC Desirable Characteristics (2022), Organizational Infrastructure: 'Retention Policy' · RDA-A2-01M — 'Metadata is guaranteed to remain available after data is no longer available'
No file format for the released data is named in the paper.
FsF-R1.3-02D — F-UJI: 'Data is available in a file format recommended by the target research co · RDA-R1.3-02D — data is expressed in a machine-understandable community standard · RDA-I1-01D — data uses a knowledge representation expressed in a standardised format
Advisory · not in the published score
No community standard (e.g., MIAME, MIxS, BIDS) is named; only generic references to standard protocols exist.
RDA-R1.3-01M — 'Metadata complies with a community standard' (priority Essential) · RDA-R1.3-01D — 'Data complies with a community standard' · RDA-I2-01M — '(Meta)data use vocabularies that follow FAIR principles'
No identifier for external resources (e.g., other datasets, reference databases) is provided; references are to papers or named resources without identifiers. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-I3-01M — '(meta)data include references to other (meta)data' · RDA-I3-03M — 'metadata includes qualified references to other metadata' · FsF-I3-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes links between the data and its related entities'
No licence is named for the data; the paper's CC BY license applies to the article only.
RDA-R1.1-01M — 'Metadata includes information about the licence under which the data can be reu · RDA-R1.1-02M — 'Metadata refers to a standard reuse licence' · RDA-R1.1-03M — 'Metadata refers to a machine-understandable reuse licence'
No version token or date is provided to identify a specific snapshot of the data.
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 — the 'Version' property · RDA-R1.2-01M — provenance information (which version was used is provenance) · NSTC Desirable Characteristics of Data Repositories (2022) — 'Provenance', 'Retention Policy'
No code location is provided; the paper only mentions R version used but not availability of code.
NIH DMS Policy Element 2 (NOT-OD-21-014) — 'Related Tools, Software and/or Code' · FAIR4RS Principles v1.0 (Chue Hong et al., 2022; RDA/FORCE11/ReSA) — FAIR Principles for Resear · FORCE11 Software Citation Principles (Smith, Katz & Niemeyer, 2016, PeerJ CS 2:e86)
“Study funding was provided from the National Institutes of Health (K23NS117883 to E.S.S.; K01MH121582 to K.C.F.; U01NS111678 to P.A.C.), National Multiple Sclerosis Society (RG‐1904‐33834 to E.S.S.; RG‐1904‐33800 to P.A.C.), and Biogen.”
Grant numbers are given for the funders. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
DataCite Metadata Schema 4.6 — 'FundingReference' property (funderName, funderIdentifier, award · Crossref Funder Registry — canonical funder identifiers for funding metadata · RDA-F2-01M — rich metadata provided to allow discovery (funding is part of the descriptive reco
Advisory · not in the published score
“measurements were performed on the Atellica® Solution platform, using a high‐throughput scalable acridinium‐ester immunoassay”
Specific instruments and kits (Atellica, Simoa HD-1 Analyzer, Simoa NfL Advantage Assay Kit) are named for data production. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1.2-01M — 'Metadata includes provenance information according to community- specific standa · FsF-R1.2-01M — F-UJI: 'Metadata includes provenance information about data creation or generati · W3C PROV-O (W3C Recommendation, 2013) — the entity/activity/agent model of provenance
No documentation object (README, data dictionary, codebook) is described as travelling with the data, and no variable-definition table exists in the article. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 passes agreed)]
RDA-R1-01M — '(Meta)data are richly described with a plurality of accurate and relevant attribu · FsF-R1-01MD — F-UJI: 'Metadata specifies the content of the data' · NIH DMS Policy Element 3 (NOT-OD-21-014) — Standards (documentation and metadata to accompany t
Calibrated FAIR score — a parallel quality metric, independent of the DataRank citation score. See the full evaluation →
Base Score Contribution
0.561
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
1.8
From 25 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 31 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: K01MH121582
National Institutes of Health
Grant: K23NS117883
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U01NS111678
National Multiple Sclerosis Society Texas Chapter
Grant: RG‐1904‐33800
National Multiple Sclerosis Society Texas Chapter
Grant: RG‐1904‐33834
Biogen
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