The DO-KB Knowledgebase: a 20-year journey developing the disease open science ecosystem is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.5, placing it in the top 13.6% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 57 times, with 49 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 58/100.
Ranks in the top 14% 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 files and code are available from the project's GitHub repository ((https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/) and from Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10030384).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a DOI (10.5281/zenodo.10030384) for the data, which is a persistent identifier scheme. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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'
“Data files and code are available from the project's GitHub repository ((https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/) and from Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10030384).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names Zenodo, a curated repository listed in re3data, as a holder of the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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
“Data files and code are available from the project's GitHub repository ((https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/) and from Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10030384).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The Zenodo DOI appears only in the body text (data availability statement), not in the reference list. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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: All data produced for this work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 license (https://creativecommons.org). Data files and code are available from the project's GitHub repository ((https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/) and from Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10030384).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data-availability statement points to a repository (Zenodo) with a DOI, which is a repository record. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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 DO-KB is an integrated data system, built upon the DO’s semantic disease knowledge backbone, with resources that expose and connect the DO’s semantic knowledge with disease-related data across Open Linked Data resources.”
The dataset is described in running prose, not as an itemized inventory. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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'
“All data produced for this work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 license (https://creativecommons.org). Data files and code are available from the project's GitHub repository ((https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/) and from Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10030384).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text provides a direct route (GitHub and Zenodo) with no stated precondition. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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 files and code are available from the project's GitHub repository ((https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/) and from Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10030384).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper describes the access action (data available from GitHub and Zenodo) but does not label the access level with a standard vocabulary term. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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 paper does not involve sensitive or human-subject data, so 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 statement about how long the data will persist or when it becomes available. [majority verdict 'no' (3/4 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'
“OWL”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states the data is available in OWL format, an open community standard. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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 DO is an OBO Foundry (http://obofoundry.org/) ontology”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states that the DO (the data resource) is an OBO Foundry ontology, which is a community standard for ontology representation. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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'
“http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PR_000000053”
The paper includes a URI for a protein ontology term, which is a qualified reference to another resource. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/4 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'
“Creative Commons CC0 1.0 license”
The data is licensed under CC0, an open standard license.
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'
“the DO (v2023-08-08) has expanded to include 11367 diseases”
The paper gives a version token (v2023-08-08) for the DO data, which is the study's own dataset. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/4 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'
“Data files and code are available from the project's GitHub repository ((https://github.com/DiseaseOntology/) and from Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10030384).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a machine-resolvable locator (GitHub URL and Zenodo DOI) for the study's own code. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (2/4 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)
“U41 HG008735-01A1”
The paper includes a grant number for the funding agency.
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 DO-KB Faceted Search Interface is powered by Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/elasticsearch/). This back-end service was chosen to optimize processing speed and enable advanced programmatic logical queries. To format the data for Elasticsearch, a new ‘OWL Flattener’ program was developed to extract terms and their associated logical statements from the DO OWL files, to arrange the DO terms in JSON key-value lists and to organize those terms into dynamic facets using Java and the Java OWL API package.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific tools and software (Elasticsearch, OWL Flattener, Java OWL API) used to produce the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/4 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 as travelling with the data. [majority verdict 'no' (2/4 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
0.609
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.913
From 34 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 49 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U41 HG008735-01A1
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: 1U24HG012557-01
FWCI
7.67
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
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