LIPID MAPS: update to databases and tools for the lipidomics community is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 3.4, placing it in the top 6.5% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 296 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 58/100.
Ranks in the top 7% 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.
“All LIPID MAPS databases ( https:// www.lipidmaps.org/ ) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”
The paper provides a URL for the data, which is not a persistent identifier scheme (DOI, Handle, etc.). [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'
“LIPID MAPS provides databases for cataloging and identifying lipids at varying levels of characterization”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
LIPID MAPS is a named host but is not a repository from the curated list (e.g., GEO, Dryad). [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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
“All LIPID MAPS databases ( https:// www.lipidmaps.org/ ) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”
The dataset identifier (URL) appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [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 All LIPID MAPS databases ( https:// www.lipidmaps.org/ ) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”
The statement points to a general website URL rather than a specific repository record with a persistent identifier. [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
“LMSD is the primary database for fully characterized lipid chemical structures of biological relevance and was first introduced in this journal in 2007 (3). Since then, LMSD has increased in size to host > 48 000 lipid structures.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset's content is described in running prose without an itemised inventory section or table. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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'
“All LIPID MAPS databases ( https:// www.lipidmaps.org/ ) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”
The paper states the data are openly licensed with no precondition for access. [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
“All LIPID MAPS databases ( https:// www.lipidmaps.org/ ) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”
The data availability statement describes an action (the URL) but does not explicitly 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; no gatekeeper is mentioned.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper does not address sensitive data or name any gatekeeper because the data are lipid structures and not human-subject data.
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
The paper does not state a retention period or availability timing for the data; it only mentions portability in general terms. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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 entire LMSD database may be downloaded, with structures available in open-source molfile format”
The paper names the open-source molfile format for the data.
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 LIPID MAPS nomenclature and classification has become the accepted community standard.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states that the LIPID MAPS classification is a community standard for lipids. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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'
The paper does not provide an identifier for any external resource used (e.g., a source dataset accession).
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'
“All LIPID MAPS databases ( https:// www.lipidmaps.org/ ) are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.”
The paper attaches the open CC BY 4.0 license to the data. [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'
No version token or date is provided for the dataset.
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 paper does not provide a locator for the code it wrote (the database code or tools).
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)
“Wellcome Trust [203014 / Z / 16 / Z]”
The paper provides specific award/grant numbers for the funding sources. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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
“LMISSD has been designed from an analytical chemistry perspective to enumerate all theoretically possible structures available from a large set of acyl/alkyl chains.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper describes the data production method in generic terms without naming a specific instrument or tool. [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 documentation object (README, codebook, data dictionary) is stated to accompany the deposited 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
0.854
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
2.6
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.
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 203014/Z/16/Z]
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U2CDK119886
NIGMS
Grant: R35 GM139641
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/X011100/1
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/P017193/1
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 203014/Z/16/Z
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant: BB/L005042/1
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U2CDK119886-03
National Metabolomics Data Repository - nextgen Metabolomics Workbench
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1ZIADK013039-04
Molecular modeling of soluble proteins
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 203014
LIPID MAPS Resource and Database
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R35GM139641-01
Action of Lipolytic Enzymes
ayman Chemical, Merck and Avanti Polar Lipids
Cardiff University
Wellcome Trust
FWCI
28.11
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
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