Pollution is ubiquitous: Community-based quantitative human health risk assessment of metal(loid) exposure from contaminated garden plants and soils is a dataset published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (2025). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.262, placing it in the top 58.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 4 times, with 2 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 59% 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.
No persistent identifier (DOI, Handle, ARK, repository accession) is given for the 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'
No data repository is named as the holder; the data are only available on request from the authors. [majority verdict 'no' (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
No identifier or link for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper, neither in the body nor in the reference list.
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 will be made available on request.”
The statement points to a person (category 1 in Colavizza et al.), not a repository record. [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 data comes from Project Harvest in partnership with the Sonora Environmental Research Institute, Inc. (SERI) and Gardenroots (see https://projectharvest.arizona.edu/ and https://gardenroots.arizona.edu/ ). All studies used participatory research methods and involved impacted community members in the research.”
The dataset's content and extent are described in running prose only, without an itemized inventory of files or variables. [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
“Data will be made available on request.”
The only route offered is a discretionary request to a person, which is not a followable access route and is never unconditionally open.
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 will be made available on request.”
The paper describes an access action (request to authors) but does not label the access level with a standard vocabulary term. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 will be made available on request.”
The only gatekeeper named is the corresponding author, a natural person, not an institutional committee or repository. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 statement about when the data are available or how long they persist. [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'
No file format 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
No data or metadata community standard (e.g., MIAME, BIDS, an ontology) is named and applied to the data.
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 identifier (accession, DOI, RRID, database build) is given for a source dataset, reference database, or code that the study's 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 or terms document is named for the data; the CC BY-NC-ND license applies only 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'
No version token or date is given for the study's own dataset.
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 location is provided; only commercial software (Oracle CrystalBall) is mentioned, and no custom code is offered.
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)
“Award Numbers P42 ES004940 and R01ES036236”
Specific award/grant numbers are provided for named funders (NIEHS, NSF, etc.).
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
“analyzed for total metal(loid)s via inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) by the Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants (ALEC) at UArizona.”
The paper names specific instruments, kits, and software (ICP-MS, Oracle CrystalBall version 11.1.2.4) 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
“See S Table 1 for a list of all sampling sites including number of soil and plant samples.”
Variable definitions and data descriptions are provided inside the article (supplementary tables), not as a separate documentation object shipped with the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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
0.241
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0208
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 2 citers.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Grant: R01ES036236
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Grant: P42 ES004940
National Science Foundation
Grant: 1612554
Labex DRIIHM
Grant: 25BB-1100
Labex DRIIHM
Grant: 25BB-1101
Labex DRIIHM
Grant: 23AB-1301A
NIEHS NIH HHS
Grant: P30 ES006694
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3P42ES004940-14S4
HAZARDOUS WASTE RISK AND REMEDIATION IN THE SOUTHWEST
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01ES036236-02
Disentangling the role of culture, life stage, and information design to facilitate equity in data report back
Agence Française de Développement
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Northeastern University
California Breast Cancer Research Program
National Institutes of Health
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