UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023 is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2022). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 7.8, placing it in the top 2.2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 7,147 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 54/100.
Ranks in the top 2% for downstream scientific impact
Linked data & code
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.
“We provide customizable views and downloads in a range of formats via the website, and file sets at the FTP site ( www.uniprot.org/downloads )”
The only locator given for the data is a web address (www.uniprot.org/downloads), not a persistent identifier scheme. [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
“UniProt releases are published every eight weeks. We provide customizable views and downloads in a range of formats via the website”
The host is the UniProt website, which is not a curated repository that issues PIDs. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“UniProt release 2022_03 contains over 227 million sequence records in UniProtKB.”
The data identifier 'UniProt release 2022_03' appears only in body text, not in the reference list. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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
“UniProt releases are published every eight weeks. We provide customizable views and downloads in a range of formats via the website, and file sets at the FTP site ( www.uniprot.org/downloads ), and supply users with a number of different options for computational access to the data ( www.uniprot.org/help/programmatic_access ).”
The data availability statement points to the website and FTP, not a repository record with a PID. [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
“The number of sequences in UniProtKB has risen to over 227 million”
The dataset's extent is described in running prose, without an itemised inventory, table, or section heading.
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 aim of the UniProt Knowledgebase is to provide users with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible set of protein sequences”
The paper states the data are 'freely accessible' 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
“The aim of the UniProt Knowledgebase is to provide users with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible set of protein sequences”
The paper applies the label 'freely accessible' to the data, which is a natural-language synonym for 'open access'. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 aim of the UniProt Knowledgebase is to provide users with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible set of protein sequences”
The data are open-access protein sequences, not sensitive human-subject data, and 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
“UniProt releases are published every eight weeks.”
The paper gives the timing of releases but does not state how long the data 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 newly added JSON format”
The paper names JSON, an open, community-standard file format.
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
“using the chemical ontology ChEBI”
The paper names the community standard ChEBI, a FAIRsharing-registered ontology.
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 (such as an accession, DOI, or RRID) appears in the body text; only URLs and references are present.
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 states a CC-BY license for the article itself (per scope rule, not creditable for data), and no license is explicitly stated for 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'
“UniProt release 2022_03 contains over 227 million sequence records in UniProtKB.”
The paper identifies a specific snapshot of the data via the version token 'UniProt release 2022_03'.
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 is given; only third-party tools and the website are mentioned.
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 Institutes of Health [U24HG007822]”
The paper provides a specific award number (U24HG007822) attached to a named funder. [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
“based on the protein classification resource InterPro”
The paper names a specific tool (InterPro) used to produce annotations.
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 mentioned as accompanying the data, and no variable-definition table exists inside the article.
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
1.3
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
6.5
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
Grant: OD/DPCPSI/ODSS
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U24HG007822
NHGRI NIH
Grant: HG002273
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/T010541/1
18-BBSRC-NSF/BIO : CIBR:Implementing an explicit phylogenetic framework for large-scale protein sequence annotation
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/S01781X/1
BBSRC-NSF/BIO PTMeXchange: Globally harmonized re-analysis and sharing of data on post-translational modifications
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U41 HG002273
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: P41 HG002273
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG002273
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5P41HG002273-08
Gene Ontology Consortium
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24HG007822-12
UniProt: A Protein Sequence and Function Resource for Biomedical Science
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National Cancer Institute
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Open Targets
National Eye Institute
SERI
National Institute on Aging
FWCI
491.90
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
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