Assembly of the largest squamate reference genome to date: The western fence lizard, Sceloporus occidentalis is a dataset published in Journal of Heredity (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.321, placing it in the top 53% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 5 times, with 2 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 71/100.
Ranks in the top 53% 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.
“PRJNA720569”
The paper gives the NCBI BioProject accession PRJNA720569, which is a persistent identifier scheme.
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 generated for this study are available under NCBI BioProject PRJNA720569.”
NCBI is named as the repository holding the data.
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
“Data generated for this study are available under NCBI BioProject PRJNA720569.”
The dataset identifier appears in the body text and Table 2, but not as a reference-list entry.
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 generated for this study are available under NCBI BioProject PRJNA720569. Raw sequencing data for sample IW3139 (NCBI BioSample SAMN27480378) are deposited in the NCBI Short Read Archive (SRA) under SRX15651255, SRX15651256, and SRX15651257.”
The statement points to a repository record with accessions, meeting Colavizza category 3. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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 2. Sequencing and assembly statistics and accession numbers.”
Table 2 provides an itemised inventory of the dataset, including accession numbers and assembly statistics.
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 generated for this study are available under NCBI BioProject PRJNA720569.”
The paper gives a repository route with no stated precondition for access.
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 generated for this study are available under NCBI BioProject PRJNA720569.”
The paper describes the action of accessing the data via NCBI but does not label the access level with a standard vocabulary term.
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 genome sequences from a non-human subject, and no gatekeeper is named or required.
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
“Data generated for this study are available under NCBI BioProject PRJNA720569.”
The paper states the data are available now but says nothing about how long they will persist. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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'
The paper does not explicitly name the file format of the deposited 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
No data or metadata community standard is named; only tools and reference databases are cited. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“An existing mitochondrial sequence for S. occidentalis (NCBI: AB079242.1) was used as the starting sequence.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper references an external dataset (NCBI: AB079242.1) used in the analysis. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
The paper only licenses the article (CC BY-NC), not the data; no data reuse license is stated.
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'
“Assembly identifier rSceOcc1”
The paper provides a version token (rSceOcc1) for the genome assembly. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“Assembly scripts and other data for the analyses presented can be found at the following GitHub repository: www.github.com/ccgproject/ccgp_assembly”
The paper provides a machine-resolvable code repository URL for the study's own 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)
“This work was supported by the California Conservation Genomics Project, with funding provided to the University of California by the State of California, State Budget Act of 2019 [UC Award ID RSI-19-690224], with additional support from a National Science Foundation CAREER grant [DEB-1845682] to IJW.”
The paper includes award/grant numbers attached to named funders.
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
“High molecular weight (HMW) gDNA was extracted from 30 mg of liver tissue using the Nanobind Tissue Big DNA kit following the manufacturer's instructions (Pacific BioSciences—PacBio, Menlo Park, California).”
The paper names specific instruments and kits 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 2. Sequencing and assembly statistics and accession numbers.”
The paper includes a table inside the article that defines assembly metrics, but no documentation object is said to accompany the data deposit. [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
0.269
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0520
From 1 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 2 citers.
University of California
Grant: RSI-19-690224
National Science Foundation
Grant: DEB-1845682
National Science Foundation
Grant: 1845682
CAREER: Understanding Evolutionary Responses to Climate Change Across Space and Time
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1S10OD018174-01
Pacific Biosciences PacBio RS Single Molecule Real Time Sequencer
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1S10OD010786-01
Acquisition of Covaris E220 and Sciclone G3 systems for high throughput sequencin
FWCI
0.46
Citation Percentile
0.6%
Citation Trend
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