The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019 is a dataset published in Nucleic Acids Research (2018). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 9.6, placing it in the top 1.4% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 4,642 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 44/100.
Ranks in the top 1% 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.
“Curated data are available from the query interface (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/) and download files from https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/downloads.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a URL for the data, which is a web address, not a persistent-identifier scheme such as a DOI or Handle. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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 GWAS Catalog delivers a high-quality curated collection of all published genome-wide association studies”
The GWAS Catalog is named as the repository; it is a curated public archive listed in re3data. [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
“Curated data are available from the query interface (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/) and download files from https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/downloads.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier (the URL) appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“Curated data are available from the query interface (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/) and download files from https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/downloads.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data-availability statement points to a repository (the GWAS Catalog) with persistent URLs, satisfying the condition for a repository record. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
“As of September 2018, the Catalog contains 5687 GWAS comprising 71673 variant-trait associations from 3567 publications.”
The paper describes the dataset's content and size in a single sentence, not in an itemised inventory such as a table or list.
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 GWAS Catalog is a publicly available resource of published human GWAS.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states the data are publicly available without any precondition, meeting the definition of unconditional access. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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 GWAS Catalog is a publicly available resource of published human GWAS.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper explicitly labels the data as 'publicly available', which is a natural-language equivalent of the 'open access' access-level label. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 paper does not name any gatekeeper for the Catalog's own data, which are aggregate summary statistics and are openly available.
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 any persistence commitment or availability timing for the data beyond the current release.
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'
“a GWAS Catalog summary statistics datastore, based on the HDF5 library format”
The paper names HDF5, an open, community-standard file format. [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
“Traits in the Catalog are represented using the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO, (22)).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names the Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO), a community standard ontology registered in FAIRsharing. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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'
“UK Biobank ( http://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/ )”
The paper provides a URL identifier for the UK Biobank, a resource used by the study that is not the dataset itself. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 state any licence for the Catalog data; the CC BY licence applies only to the article.
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'
“As of September 2018, the Catalog contains 5687 GWAS comprising 71673 variant-trait associations from 3567 publications.”
The paper uses a date (September 2018) to indicate the snapshot, but no version token is given.
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 GWAS Catalog is an open source project and code is available in the project's github repository (https://github.com/EBISPOT/goci).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a machine-resolvable GitHub URL for the project code. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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)
“National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health [U41-HG007823]; Open Targets [OTAR034, OTAR2045]”
The paper includes specific award numbers for the funding.
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
“Manual curation of each publication by expert scientists ensures that the Catalog provides accurate and structured metadata”
The production method is described in generic terms without naming specific instruments, kits, or software versions. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“Our standard format contains a minimal set of requirements that are included in the outputs from the most common GWAS analysis programs (such as PLINK, (29) and additional optional columns.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper describes the data format in the text but does not name a documentation object shipped with the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
8.4
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 Institutes of Health
Grant: U41-HG007823
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U41 HG007823
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust
FWCI
307.25
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
MeSH Terms
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
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