The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2021 is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 7.0, placing it in the top 2.5% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 1,255 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 60/100.
Ranks in the top 3% 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.
“Human Phenotype Ontology: https://hpo.jax.org/”
The paper gives a web URL as the location of the data, not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, repository accession).
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'
“GitHub: https://github.com/obophenotype/human-phenotype-ontology”
GitHub is a code-hosting platform, not a curated data repository from the re3data/FAIRsharing list.
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
“Human Phenotype Ontology: https://hpo.jax.org/”
The dataset's identifier (URL) appears only in the body text, not 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
“Human Phenotype Ontology: https://hpo.jax.org/: Files available for download include the main ontology file in OBO, OWL, and JSON formats”
The statement points to a URL, not a repository record with an accession or DOI. [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
“Files available for download include the main ontology file in OBO, OWL, and JSON formats (See Download|Ontology); the main HPOA file, genes_to_phenotype.txt and phenotype_to_genes.txt (See Download|Annotation).”
The data availability section provides an itemised list of files, constituting an inventory of the dataset. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“Human Phenotype Ontology: https://hpo.jax.org/: Files available for download include the main ontology file in OBO, OWL, and JSON formats”
The data are stated to be available for download with no precondition.
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
“Files available for download include the main ontology file in OBO, OWL, and JSON formats”
The paper describes a download action but does not use an explicit access-level label such as 'open access' or 'freely available'. [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 data are not sensitive or human-subject; no gatekeeper is named or 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
No sentence addresses when the data become available or how long they persist. [majority verdict 'no' (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 main ontology file in OBO, OWL, and JSON formats”
OBO, OWL, and JSON are open, community-standard formats.
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
“The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is a comprehensive resource that systematically defines and logically organizes human phenotypes.”
The paper names the HPO itself, which is a community-standard ontology for phenotypes. [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'
“OMOP2OBO: https://github.com/callahantiff/OMOP2OBO”
The paper provides a URL identifier for an external resource (OMOP2OBO). [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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 reuse licence or terms are named for the data; the CC BY licence applies only to the article text.
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 15 September 2020, the HPO contained 15 247 terms”
A date is given to pin the snapshot, but no version token (e.g., v1.2) is provided.
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'
“GitHub: https://github.com/obophenotype/human-phenotype-ontology”
A code-repository URL is given for the study's own code. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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)
“Monarch R24 [2R24OD011883-05A1]”
An award/grant number is provided.
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 make extensive use of the quality control checks implemented in ROBOT”
The paper names a specific tool (ROBOT) used in data production.
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 (README, data dictionary, codebook) is stated to accompany the deposited 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
1.1
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
6.0
From 100 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 100 citers.
Monarch R24
Grant: 2R24OD011883-05A1
The Monarch Initiative: Linking Diseases to Model Organism Resources
NHGRI
Grant: 1RM1HG010860
NHGRI/NCI
Grant: 5U13CA221044
Solve-RD
Grant: 779257
Solving the unsolved Rare Diseases
HIPBI
Grant: 643578
DFG
Grant: Gr 970/9-1
Cost CA
Grant: 16125 ENTeR-chILD
NINDS NIH HHS
Grant: K02 NS112600
NLM NIH HHS
Grant: R01 LM008111
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: RM1 HG010860
NIH HHS
Grant: R24 OD011883
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: U13 CA221044
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5RM1HG010860-03
A phenomics-first resource for interpretation of variants
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Grant: unidentified
unidentified
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U13CA221044-03
Forums for Integrative Phenomics
HCQ4Surfdefect
E-Rare-3
FWCI
110.06
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
MeSH Terms
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals