The short-term mortality fluctuation data series, monitoring mortality shocks across time and space is a dataset published in Scientific Data (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 2.6, placing it in the top 8.4% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 51 times, with 37 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 73/100.
Ranks in the top 8% 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 data, metadata, and detailed documentation are freely available for all users at the HMD website (www. mortality.org).”
The paper gives a web address (www.mortality.org) as the location of the data, but no persistent identifier in a predicating sentence. [majority verdict 'partial' (2/5 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'
“The snapshot of the dataset described here is available at the figshare repository 11.”
The paper names the figshare repository as the snapshot location. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“Jdanov, D. A., Shkolnikov, V. & Alustiza Galarza, A. Short Term Mortality Fluctuations series at the Human Mortality Database. figshare https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13275323 (2021).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset appears as a reference-list entry (reference 11) with a DOI for the dataset. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 data, metadata, and detailed documentation are freely available for all users at the HMD website (www. mortality.org).”
The statement points to a public repository (HMD website) with a URL, corresponding to Colavizza category 3. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“Data Records”
The paper has a 'Data Records' section that itemises the structure of the dataset. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
The paper states that the data are freely and openly accessible without any precondition. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
The paper explicitly labels the data as providing 'open and easy access', which is an access-level label. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
The data are aggregate mortality statistics, not sensitive; no gatekeeper is named.
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 states that the data are currently available but does not specify a retention period. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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'
“Data is available in two formats: as an Excel file and as a comma-separated (CSV) file.”
The paper states the data are available in CSV format, an open standard. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
No community data standard (e.g., MIAME) is named; the paper only describes its own methods. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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'
“The tool can be accessed at https://mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality.”
The paper provides a URL for the visualization tool, a resource other than the dataset. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“We use CC-BY 4.0 license 10 for the STMF data.”
The paper states the data are under CC-BY 4.0 license, an open standard. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 paper does not provide a version token or date for the data snapshot. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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'
“All R scripts used to process the STMF data are available at Zenodo23.”
Zenodo provides a machine-resolvable DOI for the code. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 passes agreed)]
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)
The paper gives specific grant numbers (R03-AG058110 and P30-AG012839) from the NIH. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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
The paper names specific tools, such as the 'demography' R package, 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
“The country-specific metadata including information about data sources and shape of the original data is provided as a separate PDF file.”
The paper mentions a separate PDF metadata file that accompanies the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
0.593
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
2.0
From 30 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 37 citers.
NIA NIH HHS
Grant: P30 AG012839
NIA NIH HHS
Grant: R03 AG058110
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Additional file 1 of Population age structure dependency of the excess mortality P-score
Additional file 1 of Population age structure dependency of the excess mortality P-score
Metadata record for: The short-term mortality fluctuation data series, monitoring mortality shocks across time and space
Metadata record for: The short-term mortality fluctuation data series, monitoring mortality shocks across time and space