The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB): 2024 update is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2024). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 2.5, placing it in the top 8.6% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 215 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 67/100.
Ranks in the top 9% 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 Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) can be freely accessed at iedb.org.”
The paper gives a web address (iedb.org) for the data, not a standard 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'
“The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) can be freely accessed at iedb.org.”
The IEDB is a curated repository named as the holder of the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) can be freely accessed at iedb.org.”
The dataset identifier (iedb.org) appears only in body text, not as a reference-list entry. [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
“Data availability The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) can be freely accessed at iedb.org.”
The statement points to the IEDB repository with a link, matching Colavizza category 3. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 IEDB has extracted antibody, T cell, and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) experimental data from >25 000 publications, amounting to 6.8 million assays and 1.6 million immune epitopes.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The description of the dataset's extent is given in running prose, not as an itemised inventory. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) can be freely accessed at iedb.org.”
The paper states the data are freely accessible with no 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
“The Immune Epitope Database (IEDB) can be freely accessed at iedb.org.”
The paper labels the data as 'freely accessible', which is synonymous with '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 paper does not mention any gatekeeper for the IEDB data, which is openly accessible.
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 how long the data will remain available or a persistence commitment.
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'
“we implemented downloads in a variety of file formats (XLSX, CSV, TSV and JSON)”
The paper names CSV, TSV, and JSON, which are open, community-standard 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
“Recently, we incorporated terms from the Vaccine Ontology (VO) to describe adjuvants and a subset of human vaccines, Protein Modification Ontology (PSI-MOD) to describe post-translational modifications, Evidence and Conclusion Ontology (ECO) for evidence codes, and Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names multiple ontologies (VO, PSI-MOD, ECO, OBI) that are community standards registered in FAIRsharing. [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'
The paper references external resources with identifiers (e.g., UniProt accession, PDB IDs, NCBI taxonomy) but these are not identifiers for resources the study's data depends on or derives from; they are merely cited as external resources. No identifier for a source dataset or code is given. [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'
The paper does not mention any license for the IEDB data itself; the CC BY license applies to the article only.
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 paper does not provide a version token or date to pin a specific snapshot of the data.
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'
“Several use cases that illustrate some of the capabilities of the system are available at https://github.com/IEDB/IQ-API-use-cases using Python and R.”
The paper provides a GitHub repository URL for the code, which is a machine-resolvable locator. [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)
“Funding National Institutes of Health [75N93019C00001].”
The paper provides an award number (75N93019C00001) 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 IEDB team manually curates data from the literature into a structured format”
The data production method is described in generic terms without naming specific instruments or software. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
The paper mentions help articles and a 'Help' tab in exports, but no 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
0.806
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
1.7
From 81 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 Institutes of Health
Grant: 75N93019C00001
Influential Citations
16
Fields of Study