The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2023 is a dataset published in Genetics (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 5.8, placing it in the top 3.5% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 2,744 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 71/100.
Ranks in the top 4% 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.
“Statistics and descriptions given here are based on the GO release 2022–11–03 ( http://release.geneontology.org/2022-11-03, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7407024)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a DOI (10.5281/zenodo.7407024) for the data release, which is a persistent identifier scheme. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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'
“Statistics and descriptions given here are based on the GO release 2022–11–03 ( http://release.geneontology.org/2022-11-03, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7407024)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The DOI resolves to Zenodo, a recognised data repository, and the sentence predicates the data's location via that DOI. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Statistics and descriptions given here are based on the GO release 2022–11–03 ( http://release.geneontology.org/2022-11-03, doi:10.5281/zenodo.7407024)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier (DOI) appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“Data availability All GO code and resources are freely available for download and reuse. Software (https://github.com/geneontology/) is under the BSD 3-Clause open-source license. Downloads are available under the CC BY 4.0 license from http://geneontology.org/docs/downloads/”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The DAS points to a project website and GitHub, not to a repository record with an accession, so it falls in Colavizza category 2 (link to archived data but not a repository record). [downgraded to 'no' — 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
“answers”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset is described in running prose, not in an itemized inventory. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“All GO code and resources are freely available for download and reuse.”
The text states the data are freely available without any precondition, embargo, or registration requirement. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“All GO code and resources are freely available for download and reuse.”
The paper explicitly labels the data as 'freely available', which is a synonym for open access, matching the COAR vocabulary. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 not sensitive; no gatekeeper is named or implied.
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
“All GO code and resources are freely available for download and reuse.”
The text states current availability but gives no persistence commitment or retention period; only availability timing is addressed. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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'
“OBO”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Table 6 lists open, community-standard formats such as OBO, OWL-RDF/XML, JSON, and TSV for the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
“The Gene Ontology (GO) knowledgebase (http://geneontology.org) is a comprehensive resource concerning the functions of genes and gene products”
The paper names the Gene Ontology itself, which is a community standard registered in FAIRsharing. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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'
“answers”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
No identifiers for external resources (other than the paper's own dataset) are provided in the text. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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'
“Downloads are available under the CC BY 4.0 license”
The paper explicitly names the open standard license CC BY 4.0 for the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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'
“GO release 2022–11–03”
The paper provides a version token 'GO release 2022–11–03' for the data snapshot. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“Software (https://github.com/geneontology/) is under the BSD 3-Clause open-source license.”
The paper gives a machine-resolvable URL to the code repository on GitHub. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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)
“U41HG002273, U24HG012212”
The paper lists specific grant numbers from the National Human Genome Research Institute. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“PAINT software tool”
The paper names the PAINT software tool used for phylogenetic annotation, a specific tool in data production. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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
No documentation object (README, data dictionary, codebook) is named as travelling with the data; the paper itself provides descriptions but not a shipped file. [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
1.2
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
4.6
From 100 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 100 citers.
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U41HG002273
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U24HG012212
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U24HG002659
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U24HG002223
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U41HG000739
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U24HG001315
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U24HG000330
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U24HG012198
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: U24HG011851
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: R01HL064541
UK Medical Research Council
Grant: MR/W024233/1
GO annotation: maximizing the potential of Drosophila research to benefit human health
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 218236/Z/19/Z
Wellcome Trust
Grant: P41 HD064556
National Science Foundation
Grant: #1340112
National Science Foundation
Grant: #1127112
National Science Foundation
Grant: U24HG010859
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U24HG007822
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/T010541/1
18-BBSRC-NSF/BIO : CIBR:Implementing an explicit phylogenetic framework for large-scale protein sequence annotation
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/S01781X/1
BBSRC-NSF/BIO PTMeXchange: Globally harmonized re-analysis and sharing of data on post-translational modifications
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 218236
PomBase: A FAIR community resource advancing research from fission yeast to humans
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG010859-05
Alliance Central: A platform for sustainable development of next generation genome knowledgebases
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG011851-03
Reactome and the Gene Ontology: Digital pathway convergence for core data resources
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG012212-04
Gene Ontology Consortium and Knowledgebase
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3U24HG012198-04S1
Reactome: An Open Knowledgebase of Human Pathways.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG002659-20
ZFIN: The Zebrafish Model Organism Database
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 4U41HG002273-16
Gene Ontology Consortium
National Science Foundation
Grant: 1127112
IPGA: Gramene - Exploring Function through Comparative Genomics and Network Analysis
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG007822-12
UniProt: A Protein Sequence and Function Resource for Biomedical Science
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG000330-34
Mouse Genome Database (MGD): A Core Knowledge Resource for Functional Characterization of the Human Genome
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG002223-20
WormBase: a core data resource for C. elegans and other nematodes
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG001315-30
Genomic Resource for the Yeast Saccharomyces
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01HL064541-25
Rat Genome Database
National Science Foundation
Grant: 1340112
cROP: Common Reference Ontologies and Applications for Plant Biology
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U41HG000739-30
FLYBASE: A DROSOPHILA GENOMIC AND GENETIC DATABASE
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5P41HD064556-08
Xenbase: The Xenopus model organism database
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Sustainable Development Goals