High‐Resolution Geospatial Database: National Criteria‐Air‐Pollutant Concentrations in the Contiguous U.S., 2016–2020 is a dataset published in Geoscience Data Journal (2025). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.324, placing it in the top 52.7% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 7 times, with 7 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 50/100.
Ranks in the top 53% 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.
“Model predictions can be freely downloaded online at https://www.caces.us/data .”
The paper gives a URL (https://www.caces.us/data) as the location of the data, which is not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, etc.). [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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'
“The high-resolution geographic database (estimated ambient annual-average concentrations) can be downloaded as CSV files freely from the official website of the Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES): https://www.caces.us/data .”
The paper names the Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES) as the host, which is a project website, not a curated data repository. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Model predictions can be freely downloaded online at https://www.caces.us/data .”
The dataset identifier (URL) appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [majority verdict 'partial' (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 high-resolution geographic database (estimated ambient annual-average concentrations) can be downloaded as CSV files freely from the official website of the Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES): https://www.caces.us/data .”
The statement points to a URL on a project website, not a repository record with an accession or DOI. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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 available dataset provides population-weighted annual-average concentrations for the six criteria air pollutants at three geographic levels (Census Block Groups; Census Tracts; Counties) during 2016–2020 (as noted above, O3 estimates are for summer months and estimates for 2020 are unavailable).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset description is given in running prose, not as an itemised inventory. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 high-resolution geographic database (estimated ambient annual-average concentrations) can be downloaded as CSV files freely from the official website of the Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES): https://www.caces.us/data .”
The text states the data can be downloaded freely with no stated precondition. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“can be downloaded as CSV files freely from the official website”
The paper uses the word 'freely' to label the access level, which is a synonym for 'open access'. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 high-resolution geographic database (estimated ambient annual-average concentrations) can be downloaded as CSV files freely from the official website of the Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES): https://www.caces.us/data .”
The data are not sensitive or human-subject, and no gatekeeper is named; the data are openly accessible.
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
“The high-resolution geographic database (estimated ambient annual-average concentrations) can be downloaded as CSV files freely from the official website of the Center for Air, Climate, and Energy Solutions (CACES): https://www.caces.us/data .”
The text implies the data are available now but does not state a persistence commitment or a retention period. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 passes agreed)]
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'
“CSV files”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states the data are provided as CSV files, which is an open, community-standard format. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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
The paper does not name any data or metadata community standard.
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 identifiers for external resources are given; only URLs to homepages. [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'
The paper does not attach a licence to the data; the CC BY licence applies to the article, not 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'
“(Version): Version 1.”
A version token is given in the Dataset details. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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 paper does not provide a locator for the study's own code; only mentions that R was used.
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 work was supported by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, R835873; U.S. National Institutes of Health, P30 ES026529, P30CA177558; University of Kentucky Office of the Vice President for Research.”
The paper lists specific award numbers (R835873, P30 ES026529, P30CA177558) attached to named 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
“All LUR model developments were carried out in R (version 4.2.1).”
The paper names the specific software (R version 4.2.1) used to produce the data.
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
“Summary statistics of population-weighted annual average concentrations across all Census Block Groups for the contiguous U.S., 2016–2020, based on the ‘best’ LUR models.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Variable definitions are inside the article (Table 3 caption), not shipped with the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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
0.312
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0121
From 1 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 7 citers.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Grant: R835873
NIEHS NIH HHS
Grant: P30 ES026529
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: P30 CA177558
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5P30ES026529-03
Center for Appalachian Research in Environmental Sciences
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3P30CA177558-01S1
CTRP Supplement
FWCI
5.50
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
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