Quality of Life in Male Breast Cancer: Prospective Study of the International Male Breast Cancer Program (EORTC10085/TBCRC029/BIG2-07/NABCG) is a dataset published in The Oncologist (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.520, placing it in the top 37.2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 11 times, with 11 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 37% 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.
No persistent identifier string (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession) is given for the study's data.
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'
No repository is named; the data are held by the authors and available only on request.
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
No identifier or link for the dataset appears anywhere in the paper, neither in the reference list nor in the body text. [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
“The data underlying this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
The statement points to a person (corresponding author), which is Colavizza category 1 (data available on request).
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
“Baseline survey compliance was 95% (399/422), and 363/399 (91%) of patients completed that survey within 30 days of registration, making them eligible for analysis.”
The dataset's size and content are stated in running prose, not in an itemised inventory or section heading. [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
“The data underlying this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
The only access route is a discretionary request to a person, which is not a followable route and is classified as 'no' per the rubric.
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 data underlying this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
The paper describes an action (request to the corresponding author) but does not label the access level with a standard vocabulary term. [majority verdict 'partial' (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 data underlying this article will be shared on reasonable request to the corresponding author.”
The only gatekeeper named is a natural person (the corresponding author), not an institutional committee or repository.
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 in the paper states when the data become available or how long they will persist.
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'
No file format is named for the released 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 paper uses EORTC QLQ questionnaires, which are measurement instruments, not a data/metadata community standard from the FAIRsharing registry. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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 cites other articles but does not provide an identifier (e.g., accession, DOI, RRID) for any external resource such as a reference dataset or database.
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 licence or terms-of-use document is named for the data; the article's CC BY-NC licence applies to the paper, not 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'
No version token or date is given for the data snapshot; the data are not deposited and no version is mentioned. [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'
No code availability is mentioned; the paper does not provide any locator for the study's own code.
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)
“the Dutch Pink Ribbon Foundation (2012.WO42.C157)”
At least one award/grant number is given alongside a named funder. [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
“QoL was measured using European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30 version 3) and items from EORTC QLQ-BR23 and EORTC-PR25.”
The paper names the specific instruments (questionnaires) used to produce the data, which are proper nouns. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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
“Scores for all scales and single items range from 0 to 100. High scores for functioning and global health/QoL measures indicate high/healthy levels of functioning/high QoL, whereas high scores for symptom-focused measures indicate a high level of symptoms/problems.”
Variable definitions are provided inside the article text and tables, but no separate documentation object (e.g., README, codebook) is said to accompany the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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
0.373
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.148
From 6 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 11 citers.
Breast Cancer Research Foundation
Grant: 2012.WO42.C157
NCATS NIH HHS
Grant: KL2 TR002379
Swedish Breast Cancer Association
FWCI
2.66
Citation Percentile
0.9%
Citation Trend
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Sustainable Development Goals