Prospective study of circulating metabolomic profiles and breast cancer incidence among predominantly premenopausal women is a dataset published in British Journal of Cancer (2025). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0, placing it in the top 100% of the data-sharing corpus. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 100% 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.
“https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/researchers”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a web address (URL) for accessing the data, which is not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, or repository accession). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“Investigators interested in accessing NHSII data may submit a research proposal to the data access committee via the Nurses’ Health Study website ( https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/researchers )”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The named holder is the Nurses' Health Study website, a project/cohort website, not a standard data repository from re3data/FAIRsharing. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“Due to participant privacy and data use agreements, our study data are not publicly available. Investigators interested in accessing NHSII data may submit a research proposal to the data access committee via the Nurses’ Health Study website ( https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/researchers )”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset's identifier (a URL) appears only in the body text of the data availability section, not as 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
“Due to participant privacy and data use agreements, our study data are not publicly available. Investigators interested in accessing NHSII data may submit a research proposal to the data access committee via the Nurses’ Health Study website ( https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/researchers )”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data-availability statement points to a request-based access process (Colavizza category 1), not a repository record or article-internal data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“In total, 218 metabolites (C8-positive = 177; HILIC-negative = 41) were included in the primary analysis.”
The dataset's content is described in running prose only, without an itemised inventory section, table, or list of files/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'
“Due to participant privacy and data use agreements, our study data are not publicly available. Investigators interested in accessing NHSII data may submit a research proposal to the data access committee via the Nurses’ Health Study website ( https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/researchers )”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states a precondition (submit a research proposal) for access, which is a specified followable process, not unconditional open access. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“Due to participant privacy and data use agreements, our study data are not publicly available.”
The paper directly states that the study data are not publicly available, which constitutes an explicit access-level label. [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
“submit a research proposal to the data access committee via the Nurses’ Health Study website ( https://www.nurseshealthstudy.org/researchers )”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names an institutional gatekeeper (data access committee) for the sensitive human-subject data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 sentence in the paper addresses how long this study's data will remain available or any persistence commitment.
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 for the released data is named in the paper.
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, GO) is named in the paper; only analysis methods are mentioned.
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 for an external resource (e.g., another dataset, reference genome, or database) is provided in the text. [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 licence or terms document is named for the data; the article's CC BY licence applies to the paper, 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 to identify a specific snapshot of the 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'
“The final analytic programs used to generate derived data and study results are systematically documented and archived within the NHS secure intranet environment to ensure reproducibility. These programs are accessible to both internal and external researchers via the cohort intranet, contingent upon approved user login and data use agreements.”
The code location is described as accessible via an intranet, contingent on login and data use agreements, which is not a machine-resolvable locator (URL, DOI) and is essentially a controlled-request process, not a direct locator.
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)
“U01 CA176726, R01 CA050385, T32 CA009001, K99 CA267557, and R00 CA267557”
The paper provides specific grant numbers from the National Institutes of Health, which are award identifiers.
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
“Plasma metabolites were profiled at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Cambridge, MA) using a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS) method. Briefly, for the C8-positive platform, plasma lipids were profiled using a Nexera X2 U-HPLC (Shimadzu Corp.; Marlborough, MA) coupled to a Q Exactive Plus mass spectrometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific; Waltham, MA).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific instruments, platforms, and software (Nexera X2 U-HPLC, Q Exactive Plus mass spectrometer) used to produce the data. [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
No documentation object (README, data dictionary, codebook) is mentioned as accompanying the data, nor is a variable-definition table provided inside the article for the metabolomic data. [majority verdict 'no' (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 →
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute
Grant: K99 CA267557 and R00 CA267557
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute
Grant: U01 CA176726, R01 CA050385, T32 CA009001
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: K99 CA267557
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: U01 CA176726
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: R00 CA267557
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 CA050385
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: T32 CA009001
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01CA050385-18
Risk Factors for Breast Cancer in Younger Nurses
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5T32CA009001-17
CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U01CA176726-09
Life Course Cancer Epidemiology Cohort in Women
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1K99CA267557-01
Identifying the role of the gut microbiome in the etiology of benign breast disease
Broad Institute
FWCI
0.00
Citation Percentile
0.1%
Fields of Study
MeSH Terms
Keywords