Creation of a data commons for substance misuse related health research through privacy-preserving patient record linkage between hospitals and state agencies is a dataset published in JAMIA Open (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.626, placing it in the top 31.6% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 13 times, with 8 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
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 (DOI, Handle, ARK, or repository accession) is given for the SMDC 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'
No repository name is given as the holder of the data; the data are held by the project and authors.
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 text 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 data underlying this article cannot be shared publicly to protect the privacy of the patients included in this study, and due to ethical and legal restrictions imposed by our data contributors. This project contains very restricted, sensitive (health, substance use) data that was provided by UW Health EHR, WI Department of Health Services Emergency Medical Service data, WI Department of Health Services Vital Records Data, Datavant Incorporated Mortality data, and the WI Department of Safety and Professional Services Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. Our data providing entities have data transfer and use agreements (DTUAs) executed with UW-Madison and the DTUAs restrict the data to UW’s environment and have very specific restrictions on data sharing/reporting of use. Please contact the corresponding author M.A. ( [email protected] ) or M.O. ( [email protected] ) for further details about accessing the data.”
The statement points at a person (corresponding author) for access, which is Colavizza category 1, not a repository record. [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. Data modalities collected in the substance misuse data commons.”
The paper provides an itemised table (Table 1) that lists the data modalities and their contents, which is an itemised inventory. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“The data underlying this article cannot be shared publicly to protect the privacy of the patients included in this study, and due to ethical and legal restrictions imposed by our data contributors.”
The data are not openly accessible; the only route is a discretionary request to a person, which is not a followable access 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 data underlying this article cannot be shared publicly to protect the privacy of the patients included in this study, and due to ethical and legal restrictions imposed by our data contributors.”
The paper states the data cannot be shared publicly but does not provide an explicit access-level label such as 'restricted access' or 'open access'. [majority verdict 'no' (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
“Please contact the corresponding author M.A. ( [email protected] ) or M.O. ( [email protected] ) for further details about accessing the data.”
The only gatekeeper named is a natural person (the corresponding author), not an institutional committee or repository. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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 states when the data are 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'
No file format is named for the released SMDC dataset.
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
“Substance-related International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9/10 codes from existing UW Hospital EHR data were used to identify patients with substance misuse.”
ICD-9/10 is a community-standard vocabulary registered in FAIRsharing, applied to the data for identifying substance misuse.
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 (DOI, accession, RRID) is provided for any external resource that the data depend on or derive from.
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 is named for the data; the CC BY-NC licence applies only to the article, 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 data.
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 is mentioned; the paper does not provide a locator for the study's own 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)
“This work and M.A. and M.G., T.G., and M.O. were supported by NIH/NIDA (grant number R01DA051464-S1).”
The paper provides an award number (R01DA051464-S1) attached to a named funder (NIH/NIDA).
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 PPRL was licensed and subscribed through Datavant software for all data-contributing sites.”
The paper names the specific software (Datavant) used for record linkage, which is a proper-noun tool for 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
“Table 1 describes each data modality within the SMDC.”
Variable-level definitions are provided inside the article via Table 1 and supplementary material, but no separate documentation object (README, codebook) is said to accompany the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
0.396
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.230
From 4 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 8 citers.
NIDA
Grant: R01DA051464-S1
NHLBI
Grant: 5T32HL144909-04
NHLBI
Grant: K01HL148390
NHLBI NIH HHS
Grant: T32 HL144909
NCATS NIH HHS
Grant: UL1 TR002373
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: R01 DA051464
NIH
FWCI
3.11
Citation Percentile
0.9%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals