The Zebrafish Information Network: major gene page and home page updates is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.1, placing it in the top 18.2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 29 times, with 23 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 40/100.
Ranks in the top 18% 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.
“Data continue to be available via tab-delimited download files ( https://zfin.org/downloads )”
The paper gives a web URL for data access, not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, or a repository accession). [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'
“The Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) (https://zfin.org/) is the database for the model organism, zebrafish.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
ZFIN is named as the repository holding the data. [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
No identifier for the ZFIN dataset appears in the reference list or body text. [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 continue to be available via tab-delimited download files (https://zfin.org/downloads) as well as via the ZFIN InterMine (13) instance, ZebrafishMine, (http://ZebrafishMine.org; https://github.com/ZebrafishMine/intermine), which also serves ZFIN data via web services.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement names a repository (ZFIN) and gives a persistent link to the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
“ZFIN expertly curates, organizes, and provides a wide array of zebrafish genetic and genomic data, including genes, alleles, transgenic lines, gene expression, gene function, mutant phenotypes, orthology, human disease models, gene and mutant nomenclature, and reagents.”
The dataset contents are described in prose, not in an itemised inventory. [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
“Data continue to be available via tab-delimited download files (https://zfin.org/downloads) as well as via the ZFIN InterMine (13) instance, ZebrafishMine, (http://ZebrafishMine.org; https://github.com/ZebrafishMine/intermine), which also serves ZFIN data via web services.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The route to the data has no stated precondition; it is publicly available. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
“Data continue to be available via tab-delimited download files ( https://zfin.org/downloads )”
The paper describes the action of data availability (download files) but does not apply an explicit access-rights label from the controlled vocabulary. [majority verdict 'partial' (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 about zebrafish, not human subjects, so no gatekeeper is needed.
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 continue to be available via tab-delimited download files (https://zfin.org/downloads) as well as via the ZFIN InterMine (13) instance, ZebrafishMine, (http://ZebrafishMine.org; https://github.com/ZebrafishMine/intermine), which also serves ZFIN data via web services.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement says data 'continue to be available' but does not specify how long they persist. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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'
“tab-delimited download files”
The data are available in tab-delimited format, an open community standard.
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
“Zebrafish Anatomy ontology (ZFA), Zebrafish Stages ontology (ZFS), and Gene Ontology (GO)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Community ontologies are named as standards used to describe the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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'
“GRCz11”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper references the GRCz11 genome assembly, an identifier for a resource not produced by this study. [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'
No licence for the data is stated in the paper.
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'
“As of 6 June 2020, we were able to add variant information for 50% (2250 out of 4469 total) of manually curated alleles/variants”
A date (6 June 2020) pins the snapshot of the data, but no version token (e.g., v1.2) is given. [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
No locator for the study's own code (ZFIN web architecture) is provided. [majority verdict 'no' (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)
“National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health [U41 HG002659 (ZFIN) and U24 HG010859 (Alliance of Genome Resources)].”
Award numbers are given for the funding.
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
No specific instruments, kits, or software versions are named for data production. [majority verdict 'no' (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
No documentation object (e.g., README, codebook) is mentioned as accompanying the data. [majority verdict 'no' (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
0.510
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.615
From 15 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 23 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U41 HG002659
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U24 HG010859
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U24 HG002659
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG010859-05
Alliance Central: A platform for sustainable development of next generation genome knowledgebases
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U41HG002659-11
ZFIN: The Zebrafish Model Organism Database
FWCI
1.71
Citation Percentile
0.8%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
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Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals