Birth defects associated with paternal firefighting in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study is a dataset published in American Journal of Industrial Medicine (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.510, placing it in the top 37.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 12 times, with 9 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 38% for downstream scientific impact
Linked data & code
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 a persistent identifier (DOI, Handle, ARK, repository accession, or any PID-scheme string) for its own dataset. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 passes agreed)]
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 is named as the holder of the study's own data; the data availability statement only describes a process for accessing the source NBDPS data and offers code on request from the authors. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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 study's own dataset appears anywhere in the paper, neither in the body text nor in the reference list. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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
“The study questionnaires and process for accessing the data used in this study are described at https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/nbdps-public-access-procedures.html . The code book and analytic code may be made available upon request.”
The data availability statement points to a third-party access procedure and offers code on request, not to a repository record containing the study's own data.
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
The paper contains no itemised inventory, section, table, or list describing the files, variables, samples, or size of the study's own dataset; only the methods of the source NBDPS study are described. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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'
“The code book and analytic code may be made available upon request.”
The study's own data (code and codebook) are offered only through a discretionary request to the authors, not through a followable unconditional route. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 passes agreed)]
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
No access-level label is applied to the study's own data; the data availability statement only describes a process for accessing the source NBDPS data and states that code and codebook may be available on request. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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
The paper does not name any gatekeeper, institutional or personal, for accessing the data. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 passes agreed)]
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 sentence in the paper states when the study's own data become available or how long they persist.
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, open or proprietary, is named for the study's own data (the code and codebook are not described in terms of format).
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
“Experienced coders previously assigned the 2007 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes to all reported maternal and paternal jobs in NBDPS.”
the paper names the NAICS and SOC classification systems as standards applied to the data [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 passes agreed)]
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'
The paper does not provide an identifier (accession, DOI, RRID, assembly ID, application number, or code URL) for any external resource that the study's own data depend on or derive from.
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 reuse license is stated for the study's own data; the article's CC BY-NC-ND license applies to the article, not to the data.
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 given for the study's own data; the source NBDPS data coverage is mentioned but not a snapshot identifier for the derived dataset. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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'
“The code book and analytic code may be made available upon request.”
The code is offered only through a discretionary request to the authors, not via a machine-resolvable locator such as a code repository URL or archive DOI.
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)
“This project was supported through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cooperative agreements under PA #96043, PA #02081, and FOA #DD09-001 to the Centers for Birth Defects Research and Prevention participating in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (NBDPS).”
The paper provides specific award numbers (PA #96043, PA #02081, FOA #DD09-001) attached to the named funder (CDC).
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
“Mothers of cases and controls completed a computer-assisted telephone interview between 6 weeks and 2 years after the estimated date of delivery.”
the data collection is described in generic terms without naming specific instruments [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“The code book and analytic code may be made available upon request.”
A codebook is mentioned but is not stated to travel with the deposited data; it is only available upon request, not as a documentation object shipped with the data.
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
0.385
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.126
From 4 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 9 citers.
NIEHS NIH HHS
Grant: P30 ES010126
Intramural CDC HHS
Grant: CC999999
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
FWCI
1.44
Citation Percentile
0.8%
Citation Trend
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