STO: Stroke Ontology for Accelerating Translational Stroke Research is a dataset published in Neurology and Therapy (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.562, placing it in the top 34.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 9 times, with 9 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 25/100.
Ranks in the top 35% 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 STO is publicly and freely available to the research community for browsing and commenting at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STO.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The identifier is a web URL, not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession pattern). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 STO is publicly and freely available to the research community for browsing and commenting at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STO.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are hosted in BioPortal, a curated ontology repository listed in re3data/FAIRsharing. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“The STO is publicly and freely available to the research community for browsing and commenting at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STO.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier (URL) appears only in body text, not in a reference list entry. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 Availability. The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available in the BioPortal repository, https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STO.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement points to a repository record with a link (Colavizza category 3). [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“Table 1 Measures of the structural dimension of STO”
The paper includes an itemised table (Table 1) enumerating the ontology's structural properties (number of concepts, synonyms, depth, etc.). [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“The STO is publicly and freely available to the research community for browsing and commenting at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STO.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The access route has no stated precondition; it is unconditional. [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 STO is publicly and freely available to the research community for browsing and commenting at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STO.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper explicitly labels the data as 'publicly and freely available', which is a natural-language equivalent of 'open access'. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
The data (ontology) is not sensitive or human-subject, so no gatekeeper is needed or mentioned.
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 STO is publicly and freely available to the research community for browsing and commenting at https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/STO.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states the data are available now but says nothing about how long they will persist. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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'
“built using Protégé ontology editor in the ontology web language format”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The ontology is in OWL format, 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
“we used some biomedical top-level ontologies (including Medical Subject Headings (MESH) ... Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMEDCT) ... Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) ... Pathway Ontology (PW))”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names multiple community-standard ontologies (MeSH, SNOMED CT, OMIM, PW) that are registered in FAIRsharing. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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'
“11510928”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper includes PubMed IDs (e.g., 11510928) as identifiers for external resources used in the study. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 license is explicitly stated for the data (the ontology); only the article's license is mentioned.
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'
“This is the first version of STO which is freely available and needs the contribution of the stroke research community for enrichment.”
The paper identifies the snapshot as 'the first version' of STO. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
No custom code is mentioned; only third-party tools (Protégé, KNIME) are used. No code availability statement.
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)
“No funding or sponsorship was received for this study or publication of this article.”
No funder is named; the paper states no funding was received.
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
“The Protégé ontology editor (version 5.1.0 Desktop System; http://protege.stanford.edu) was used to build the STO in Ontology Web Language (OWL) format.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names the specific tool (Protégé 5.1.0) used to produce the ontology. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 STO encompasses eight root classes describing the stroke knowledge domain including 'comorbidity', 'complication', 'diagnosis', 'model of stroke', 'risk factor', 'stroke prevention', 'stroke type', and 'treatment' (Fig. 1).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The description of the ontology structure is inside the article, not as a separate documentation object 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
0.345
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.216
From 6 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.
FWCI
0.52
Citation Percentile
0.6%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
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