Cohort Profile: Basse Health and Demographic Surveillance System, the Gambia is a dataset published in International Journal of Epidemiology (2025). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.165, placing it in the top 70.2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 2 times. Its calibrated FAIR score is 6/100.
Ranks in the top 70% 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.
The paper provides no persistent identifier (DOI, Handle, ARK, or repository accession) for its own dataset; only a general website URL is given.
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'
“Data are available from the MRCG data management department (email: [email protected] , Head of HDSS).”
The paper names only a department and a person, not a recognised data repository from re3data or FAIRsharing. [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 for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper, either in the reference list or body text.
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 See ‘can I get hold of the data?’ above.”
The data availability statement points to contacting the author, which corresponds to Colavizza category 1 (data available on request). [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Table 1. Measurements made at baseline or made once for an individual”
The paper includes itemised inventories (Tables 1 and 2) that list the variables and data collected, which is a structured description of the dataset.
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 are available from the MRCG data management department (email: [email protected] , Head of HDSS).”
The only access route is a request to a person, which is not a followable process, so it meets the 'no' definition.
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-sharing is guided by an MRCG Unit policy.”
The paper does not label the access level with a standard term; it only mentions a policy, which is not an explicit access-level label.
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 are available from the MRCG data management department (email: [email protected], Head of HDSS).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The gatekeeper is a natural person (the Head of HDSS) rather than an institutional committee or repository. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“UKRI-MRC has funded the BHDSS and will continue funding as long as the MRCG Unit is in operation.”
This sentence refers to funding of the surveillance system, not to retention of the data; no availability timing or persistence commitment is stated for the data. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
No file format token is named anywhere in the paper 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
“causes of death are determined by research clinicians using International Classification of Diseases-10 coding as well as by the InterVA algorithm”
The paper names ICD-10, a community-standard vocabulary, and WHO 2016 Verbal Autopsy questionnaires, which are 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'
The paper does not provide any identifier for external resources such as source datasets, reference databases, or code; only bare names and citations of articles are given.
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'
“Data-sharing is guided by an MRCG Unit policy.”
No standard open licence (e.g., CC0, CC BY) or named licence is attached to the data; only a policy 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'
“a Data as of 11 March 2022.”
The paper uses a date stamp (11 March 2022) in Table 3 footnote to identify the snapshot, but no version token.
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 availability statement exists; the paper does not mention any custom code or its location.
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)
“This work was supported by the UKRI-Medical Research Council: University Unit Strategic Partnership Funding [4050865661] and research projects operating in the BHDSS area: UKRI-Medical Research Council/Wellcome/Department for International Development/National Institutes of Health Research [MR_R006121_1] and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1020327, INV006724, OPP1033572, and MC_EX_MR_R006075_1].”
The paper provides specific grant numbers for each funder, satisfying the requirement for 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
“REDCap (version 8.9.2, Vanderbilt University) Demographic Surveillance Application (DSA)”
The paper names specific instruments and software (REDCap, WHO 2016 Verbal Autopsy, InterVA) used to produce the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“Table 1. Measurements made at baseline or made once for an individual”
Variable definitions are provided inside the article (Tables 1 and 2), but no separate documentation object is shipped with the data.
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
0.165
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0
Citation network not refreshed for this result
This paper's DataRank is currently driven only by its base citation score. Citation network data was not refreshed for this result.
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Grant: 4050865661
Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant: OPP1020327
Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant: INV006724
Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant: OPP1033572
Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant: MC_EX_MR_R006075_1
FWCI
4.25
Citation Percentile
0.9%
Citation Trend
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