Blockchain-enabled immutable, distributed, and highly available clinical research activity logging system for federated COVID-19 data analysis from multiple institutions is a dataset published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.623, placing it in the top 31.7% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 17 times, with 9 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 13/100.
Ranks in the top 32% 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.
No persistent identifier scheme string (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession) is given for this study's 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'
“The deidentified version of data used in this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
No repository is named as the holder; the data are held by the author.
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, 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
“The deidentified version of data used in this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
The statement points to a person (Colavizza category 1), not a repository record.
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
“We preprocessed 9166 COVID-19 Structured Query Language (SQL) code, summary statistics, and user activity logs, from the GitHub repository of the Reliable Response Data Discovery for COVID-19 (R2D2) Consortium.”
Dataset content is described in running prose, not in an itemized inventory (section, table, or list). [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'
“The deidentified version of data used in this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
The only route is a discretionary request to a person, which is not a followable precondition-free route.
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 deidentified version of data used in this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
No access-level label is applied, but the text describes the action of requesting data from the author. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“The deidentified version of data used in this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
The gatekeeper is the natural person (corresponding author) with no institutional committee 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
No sentence states when the data become available or how long they persist.
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'
“we stored the SQL codes in .sql format (instead of natural language texts) and site-level summary statistics in .csv and .txt format files”
The named formats (.sql, .csv, .txt) are open, community-standard file formats. [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 FAIRsharing-registered data/metadata standard (e.g., MIAME, BIDS, an ontology) is named for 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, etc.) is given for any external resource the data depends on.
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 license or reuse terms are named for the data; the article's CC BY-NC-ND license 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 pins a snapshot of the released dataset; the data are not deposited. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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'
No statement about code availability is made; the data availability statement does not mention code.
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)
“R01HG011066, R01HL136835, R01GM118609, R01EB031030, R00HG009680, U24LM013755, UL1TR001881, and U54HG012510”
Grant numbers are listed for named funders (NIH, UCSD Academic Senate).
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
“we adopted the Go-Ethereum (Geth) implementation, and used a Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus protocol Clique”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Specific tools and versions (Geth, Clique, Solidity, etc.) are named for data production. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/5 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. Information captured from the COVID-19 consortium private GitHub repository”
Variable definitions are provided in Table 1 inside the article, but no documentation object (README, codebook) is said to travel 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
0.434
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.189
From 6 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 9 citers.
NHLBI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HL136835
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U24LM013755
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U54 HG012510
National Institutes of Health
Grant: UL1TR001881
National Institutes of Health
Grant: R00HG009680
NIGMS NIH HHS
Grant: R01 GM118609
NIH HHS
Grant: R01HG011066
UCSD Academic Senate Research
Grant: RG100836
NLM NIH HHS
Grant: T15LM011271
NIBIB NIH HHS
Grant: R01 EB031030
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R01EB031030-01A1
SOCAL: Privacy-protecting Sharing Of Clinical Data Across Laboratories
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3UL1TR001881-01S2
UCLA Clinical Translational Science Institute
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01GM118609-04
Decentralized differentially-private methods for dynamic data release and analysis
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1U54HG012510-01
A FAIR Bridge2AI Center (FABRIC)
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01HG011066-02
iAGREE: A Multi-Center, Networked Patient Consent Study
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 2T15LM011271-11
San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research (SABER)
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R00HG009680-04
BECKON - Block Estimate Chain: creating Knowledge ON demand & protecting privacy
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3R01HL136835-02S1
Protecting Privacy and Facilitating Shared Access of Clinical and Genetic Data of Special Populations
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1U24LM013755-01
RADx-Rad Discoveries & Data: Consortium Coordination Center Program Organization
San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research
Graduate Division San Diego Matching Fellowship
Fields of Study
MeSH Terms
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals