The Human Phenotype Ontology in 2024: phenotypes around the world is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 3.9, placing it in the top 5.7% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 387 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 58/100.
Ranks in the top 6% 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 strongest identifier given is a web URL, not a PID scheme such as DOI, Handle, ARK, or 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'
“Human Phenotype Ontology : https:// hpo.jax.org/”
The holder named is a website (hpo.jax.org), not a curated repository listed in re3data/FAIRsharing. [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
“Human Phenotype Ontology : https:// hpo.jax.org/”
The dataset identifier (URL) appears in the body text of the Data availability section, not as a reference-list entry. [majority verdict 'partial' (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 availability • Human Phenotype Ontology : https:// hpo.jax.org/ : Files available for download include the main ontology file in OBO, OWL and JSON formats (see Download|Ontology); the main HPOA file, phenotype.hpoa (see Download|Annotation).”
The statement points to URLs, not to a repository record with a persistent identifier.
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. Distribution of the 2239 new terms added to the HPO since the October 2020 release.”
The paper includes an itemised inventory (table) describing the dataset content. [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 (see Download|Ontology); the main HPOA file, phenotype.hpoa (see Download|Annotation).”
The data availability statement provides direct download links without any precondition. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“Files available for download include the main ontology file in OBO, OWL and JSON formats (see Download|Ontology); the main HPOA file, phenotype.hpoa (see Download|Annotation).”
The paper describes an action (download) but does not label the access level with a standard vocabulary term. [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 not sensitive human-subject data; no gatekeeper is mentioned.
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 mentions how long the data will persist or a retention period.
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, non-proprietary formats. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) is a globally recognized standard for the computational encoding of ‘deep phenotype’ data.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names the HPO itself, which is an ontology (a community standard), as the standard applied to 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'
“Mondo Ontology: https:// mondo.monarchinitiative.org/”
The paper provides URLs (identifiers) for other resources such as the Mondo Ontology. [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 license for the HPO data is stated; the article's CC-BY license does not apply to 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'
“Since our last NAR update (HPO, October 2020 release)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a date (October 2020 release) to pin the snapshot, but no version token. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“fenominal : https:// github.com/ monarch-initiative/ fenominal”
A machine-resolvable URL to a code repository (GitHub) is given for the 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)
“5U24HG011449-03”
An award/grant number is provided 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
“The HPO team has hosted regular workshops with clinical experts since the very beginning of the project in 2008. These workshops extend the resource by adding new terms and revising existing terms by adding or improving definitions, synonyms, or the structure of the ontology.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The production method is described in generic terms without naming specific instruments, kits, or software versions. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 separate documentation object (README, codebook) is named as travelling with the data. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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
0.894
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
3.1
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.
NIH
Grant: 5U24HG011449-03
The Human Phenotype Ontology: Accelerating Computational Integration of Clinical Data for Genomics
NIH
Grant: 5R24OD011883-11
The Monarch Initiative: Linking diseases to model organism resources
NIH
Grant: K08AG054727
NHGRI
Grant: 7RM1HG010860-02
A phenomics-first resource for interpretation of variants
NCATS
Grant: NCATS U24 TR002306
Horizon 2020
Grant: 779257
Solving the unsolved Rare Diseases
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Grant: W911NF-20-1-0255
DARPA Automating Scientific Knowledge Extraction and Modeling program
Grant: HR00112220036
Berlin Institute of Health
Grant: CADS
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 203914/Z/16/Z
German Research Foundation
Grant: WY 215/1-1
NLM
Grant: T15LM009451
NLM
Grant: NLM T15LM007079
Canadian Institutes of Health Research Sex and Gender Science Chair
Grant: GSB 171373
U.S. Department of Energy
Grant: DE-AC02-05CH11231
NIMH
Grant: U24 MH068457
NICHD
Grant: R01HD105266
NIDCR
Grant: R03-DE032062
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Grant: unidentified
unidentified
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 7U24MH068457-17
Limited Competition:Continuation of the Center for Genomic Studies on Mental Disorders (U24)
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01HD105266-04
The Genomic Architecture of Pregnancy Loss
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5T15LM007079-29
Training in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 200990
Designing, developing and delivering integrated foundations for genomic medicine
European Commission
Grant: 820074
Charting key molecules and mechanisms of human immune Dysregulation
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1F99HG013039-01
Leveraging natural and engineered genetic barcodes from single cell RNA sequencing to investigate cellular evolution, clonal expansion, and associations between cellular genotypes and phenotypes
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R03DE032062-01
Enhanced Data from Orofacial Cleft Trios to Strengthen the Gabriella Miller Kids First (GMKF) Discovery Goals
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U24TR002306-03
A National Center for Digital Health Informatics Innovation
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3K08AG054727-05S1
Identification of Risk Genes Supplement
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3T15LM009451-11S1
Colorado Biomedical Informatics Training Program
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 203914
4ward North Clinical PhD Academy
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: U13 CA221044
NLM NIH HHS
Grant: T15 LM007079
NIDCR NIH HHS
Grant: R03 DE032062
NIH HHS
Grant: R24 OD011883
Medical Research Council
Grant: MC_UP_1102/20
NICHD NIH HHS
Grant: F32 HD112084
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: K01 MH137689
NIAMS NIH HHS
Grant: T32 AR007411
NINDS NIH HHS
Grant: K02 NS112600
NINDS NIH HHS
Grant: R01 NS131512
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH129751
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U24 HG011449
NCATS NIH HHS
Grant: U24 TR002306
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: RM1 HG010860
British Heart Foundation
Grant: FS/CRLF/21/23011
Wellcome Trust
FWCI
84.29
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
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