Impact of Balance and Dizziness Problems on Falls in Older Adults: The Longitudinal AGES ‐Reykjavik Study is a dataset published in Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology (2025). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.104, placing it in the top 77.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 1 time, with 1 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
Ranks in the top 78% 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'
“Data from this study are available through collaboration under a data usage agreement with the Icelandic Heart Association (IHA) and an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval in accordance with the informed consent agreement.”
The Icelandic Heart Association is named as the holder of the data, but it is a research institute, not a data repository listed in re3data or FAIRsharing.
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 or link for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper, either in the reference list or 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
“Data from this study are available through collaboration under a data usage agreement with the Icelandic Heart Association (IHA) and an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval in accordance with the informed consent agreement. For submission of data access requests, interested researchers may contact: [email protected].”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data availability statement exists but points to a controlled access process with collaboration, not a repository record. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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 first wave, AGES‐RS I, examined 5764 (71.8%) of eligible individuals, and the second wave, AGES‐RS II, re‐examined 3411 (72.2%) of the survivors.”
The dataset's extent is described in running prose (sample sizes and waves) but there is no itemized inventory, section, table, or enumerated list of files or variables. [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
“Data from this study are available through collaboration under a data usage agreement with the Icelandic Heart Association (IHA) and an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval in accordance with the informed consent agreement. For submission of data access requests, interested researchers may contact: [email protected] .”
The text specifies a followable access process (data usage agreement and IRB approval) that must be satisfied before data can be obtained, so the data are not openly accessible without precondition.
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
“Data from this study are available through collaboration under a data usage agreement with the Icelandic Heart Association (IHA) and an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval in accordance with the informed consent agreement. For submission of data access requests, interested researchers may contact: [email protected] .”
The data availability statement describes the access process (contact, agreement, IRB approval) but does not apply a standard access-level label such as 'open access' or 'restricted access'. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Data from this study are available through collaboration under a data usage agreement with the Icelandic Heart Association (IHA) and an Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval in accordance with the informed consent agreement.”
The text names an institutional gatekeeper (IHA) and an IRB, which are formal institutional bodies overseeing access to sensitive 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
The paper does not state any retention period, preservation commitment, or timing of availability for the data.
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 of any kind is named for the released data.
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 standard from FAIRsharing (e.g., MIAME, BIDS, GO) nor any manuscript reporting guideline from EQUATOR.
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 builds on the AGES-Reykjavik study but does not provide an identifier (DOI, accession, RRID, build ID) for any external resource it uses. [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 reuse license is named for the data. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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'
“The first wave, AGES‐RS I, examined 5764... in 2002–2006, and the second wave, AGES‐RS II, re‐examined 3411... in 2007–2011.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are identified by the study wave dates (2002–2006, 2007–2011), which serve as a date-based snapshot identifier, but no version token is given. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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'
No code written for this study is mentioned; the only software named is a third-party tool (SAS), and no code availability statement is provided.
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 the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders via an Inter‐Agency Agreement (IAA Y2‐DC‐1004‐02), the Intramural Research Programs of the National Eye Institute (1Z‐IA‐EY‐0004‐01), and the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health via research contract (N01‐AG‐12100)”
The funding statement includes multiple award/grant numbers (IAA Y2-DC-1004-02, 1Z-IA-EY-0004-01, N01-AG-12100) attached to named funders. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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
“Pure tone, air‐conduction hearing thresholds were obtained via an automated procedure using an Interacoustics AD229e microprocessor audiometer”
The text names specific instruments (Interacoustics AD229e) and software (SAS version 9.4) used to produce the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“TABLE 1 Prevalence of balance and dizziness problems (BDP) and falls in past 12 months in AGES‐RS I and II by characteristics.”
Variable definitions are provided inside the article in tables (e.g., Table 1), but no separate documentation object (README, codebook) is said to accompany 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
0.104
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0
From 0 citing papers with measurable signal
This paper's DataRank is currently driven only by its base citation score. None of the citing papers had measurable citation signal.
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Grant: IAA Y2‐DC‐1004‐02
National Institutes of Health
Grant: N01‐AG‐12100
National Institute on Aging
FWCI
2.58
Citation Percentile
0.9%
Citation Trend
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