Standard‐space atlas of the viscoelastic properties of the human brain is a dataset published in Human Brain Mapping (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.8, placing it in the top 11.6% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 90 times, with 51 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 31/100.
Ranks in the top 12% 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.
“github.com/mechneurolab/mre134”
The paper gives a GitHub URL for the data, which is a web address not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, etc.). [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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'
“github.com/mechneurolab/mre134”
The data are hosted on GitHub, a code repository platform that is not a dedicated data repository listed in re3data/FAIRsharing. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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
“The templates are made openly available (github.com/mechneurolab/mre134)”
The dataset's URL appears only in the body text (abstract and data availability statement), not in the reference list. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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 MRE templates are made openly available (github.com/mechneurolab/mre134) to foster collaboration across research institutions and to support robust cross-center comparisons.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement points to a GitHub repository URL, which is a public repository but not a repository record with a persistent identifier or accession. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/4 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
“Dimensions of the normalized MRE templates were 91 × 109 × 91 voxels, and the final voxel-size was 2 mm × 2 mm × 2 mm.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset extent is described in running prose, not as an itemised inventory. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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 MRE templates are made openly available (github.com/mechneurolab/mre134)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text gives a direct GitHub URL with no stated precondition such as registration, embargo, or request. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“The MRE templates are made openly available”
The paper explicitly labels the data as 'openly available', which is a natural-language equivalent of the access level 'open access'.
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 data are openly available and the paper does not name any gatekeeper, institutional or personal, for access.
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 MRE templates are made openly available (github.com/mechneurolab/mre134)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states the data are available now but gives no persistence commitment. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/4 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'
No file format token for the released data is mentioned anywhere in the text.
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 uses standard templates (MNI152, ICBM) but does not name a data/metadata community standard (checklist, ontology, schema) from FAIRsharing, nor a manuscript reporting guideline. [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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 names external resources (MNI template, atlases) but does not provide any identifier (DOI, accession, RRID) for them.
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 state any license or reuse terms for the data; the CC-BY license applies only to the article.
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 data snapshot.
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 any locator for the study's own code; only third-party tools are named.
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)
“R01-AG058853, R01-EB027577, U01-NS112120, R01-MH062500, R01-EB001981, MR/K026992/1”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper lists multiple grant numbers associated with named funders. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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
“Freesurfer v6.0; (Fischl et al., 2002)”
The paper names specific software versions and tools used to produce the data (Freesurfer v6.0, ANTS, SPM12 v7487).
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, codebook) is named, and no variable-definition table exists in the article. [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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
0.677
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
1.1
From 40 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 51 citers.
Medical Research Council Canada
Grant: MR/K026992/1
Centre for Cognitive Ageing & Cognitive Epidemiology
National Institute of Mental Health
Grant: R01‐MH062500
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Grant: U01‐NS112120
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Grant: R01‐EB001981
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering
Grant: R01‐EB027577
National Institute on Aging
Grant: R01‐AG058853
Medical Research Council
Grant: G0700704
NIBIB NIH HHS
Grant: R01 EB027577
NIA NIH HHS
Grant: R01 AG058853
NIBIB NIH HHS
Grant: R37 EB001981
NINDS NIH HHS
Grant: U01 NS112120
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: P30 CA023108
NIBIB NIH HHS
Grant: R01 EB001981
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH062500
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 9R01EB001981-06
Magnetic Resonance Elastography
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01AG058853-02
Mechanical integrity of memory systems in mild cognitive impairment
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R01MH062500-01A1
Hippocampal System &Relational Memory Processes
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1U01NS112120-01
MRI Measurement of the Mechanical Vulnerability of the Brain
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01EB027577-02
High-Resolution, Anisotropic MR Elastography of the Brain
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