The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog: knowledgebase and deposition resource is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 5.2, placing it in the top 4% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 1,753 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 67/100.
Ranks in the top 4% 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.
“The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog ( www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas ) is a FAIR knowledgebase providing detailed, structured, standardised and interoperable genome-wide association study (GWAS) data to >200,000 users per year from academic research, healthcare and industry.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a URL for the Catalog, which is not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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 NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog ( www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas ) is the largest and most complete publicly available resource of Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) GWAS data.”
The GWAS Catalog is a named repository (EMBL-EBI resource, listed in re3data). [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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 dataset appears in the text, either in the body or in the reference list. [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
“Curated data are available from the query interface ( https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/ ) and download files from https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/downloads .”
The statement points to the repository's homepage but not to a specific record with an accession or DOI. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“The Catalog contains variant-trait associations and supporting metadata for >45,000 published GWAS across >5,000 human traits, and >40,000 full P-value summary statistics datasets.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset's content is described in running prose, not in an itemised inventory (section, table, or list). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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'
“Curated data are available from the query interface ( https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/ ) and download files from https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/downloads .”
The text gives a direct route to the data with no stated precondition. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“GWAS summary statistics submitted after March 2021 are made available under CC0 terms ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper explicitly labels the access level using the CC0 licence, which is a standard open-access label. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 summary statistics and not sensitive human-subject data; no gatekeeper is 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 how long the data will remain available or any persistence commitment. [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'
“Summary statistics files are transferred to the GWAS Catalog using Globus. To ensure data completeness, interoperability and reusability, summary statistics are required to conform to the GWAS Catalog's standard format, which includes a consistent .tsv file format, and mandatory and recommended fields.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names .tsv, an open, community-standard format. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
“Traits are described in a flexible free text field reflecting author language and study design, and annotated using terms from the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO) to enable searchability and interoperability.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO), a community standard ontology. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
No identifier for an external resource is provided in a sentence that predicates a reference to it from this study's data. [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'
“GWAS summary statistics submitted after March 2021 are made available under CC0 terms ( https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ )”
CC0 is an open standard licence. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 passes agreed)]
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 July 2022, the GWAS Catalog contains ~400,000 curated SNP-trait associations from >45,000 individual GWAS in ~6000 publications.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A date pins the snapshot, but no version token is given. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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'
“The GWAS Catalog is an open-source project and code is available in the project's github repository ( https://github.com/EBISPOT/goci ).”
A code-forge URL is provided 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)
“National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health [U41-HG007823, ‘Phenomics First’ RM1HG010860];”
Award numbers are given for the funding. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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
“Data is acquired through a combination of deep learning methods to identify publications, curation of publications by expert scientists, and direct data submission by authors.”
The methods are described in generic terms without naming specific instruments or software versions. [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
No documentation object (README, codebook) is named to accompany the data, and no variable-definition table is provided in the article. [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
4.1
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.
National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health
Grant: U41-HG007823
National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health
Grant: RM1HG010860
National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health
Grant: OTAR034
National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health
Grant: OTAR2045
British Heart Foundation
Grant: RG/13/13/30194
British Heart Foundation
Grant: RG/18/13/33946
NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Grant: BRC-1215–20014
Munz Chair of Cardiovascular Prediction and Prevention and the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
Grant: BRC-1215-20014
UK Economic and Social Research 878 Council
Grant: ES/T013192/1
Artificial intelligence to create equitable multi-ethnic polygenic risk scores that improve clinical care
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Grant: MFE-171279
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 2UM1HG006370-11
Mouse Phenotyping Informatics Infrastructure - Data acquisition, integration, analysis and translation of high throughput mammalian phenotyping data.
Monarch R24
Grant: 2R24OD011883-05A1
The Monarch Initiative: Linking Diseases to Model Organism Resources
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Grant: UM1DK105554
NIH HHS
Grant: R24 OD011883
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: UM1 HG006370
Medical Research Council
Grant: HDR-9004
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U41 HG007823
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U24 HG012542
Wellcome Trust
Grant: unidentified
unidentified
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3U54HG002045-02S3
CENTER FOR GENOME RESEARCH
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1U41HG007823-01
GWAS Catalog
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5RM1HG010860-03
A phenomics-first resource for interpretation of variants
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5UM1DK105554-08
The next iteration of the AMP-T2D Knowledge Portal
Health Data Research UK** Cambridge
Wellcome Trust
European Molecular Biology Laboratory Core Funds
Fields of Study
MeSH Terms
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals