The dogs of Chernobyl: Demographic insights into populations inhabiting the nuclear exclusion zone is a dataset published in Science Advances (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.705, placing it in the top 28.4% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 25 times, with 18 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 27/100.
Ranks in the top 28% 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.
“GEO (accession ID GSE219090)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a repository accession (GSE219090) which is a persistent identifier scheme. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 SNP array data have been deposited in the database GEO (accession ID GSE219090).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
GEO (Gene Expression Omnibus) is a recognised data repository. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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 SNP array data have been deposited in the database GEO (accession ID GSE219090).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 and materials availability: All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. The SNP array data have been deposited in the database GEO (accession ID GSE219090). The dataset used in this study is also available at https://research.nhgri.nih.gov/dog_genome/data_release/index.shtml.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement points to a repository record (GEO) with an accession. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“Our final dataset included 132 dogs from the CNPP, 154 from Chernobyl City, 16 from Slavutych, 1324 purebred dogs, and 281 free-breeding dogs, each genotyped at 129,497 informative SNPs.”
The dataset's content is described in running prose (sample sizes and SNP count) but not in an itemised inventory such as a table or section. [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 SNP array data have been deposited in the database GEO (accession ID GSE219090). The dataset used in this study is also available at https://research.nhgri.nih.gov/dog_genome/data_release/index.shtml.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are deposited in a public repository with no stated precondition. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 paper does not use any access-level label such as 'open access' or 'freely available' for the data.
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 from dogs, not human subjects, and no gatekeeper is mentioned.
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 states when the data become available or how long they 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
No community standard checklist, ontology, or metadata schema is named for the data.
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'
“An additional 28 dogs from six breeds originating in either Russia or Ukraine were downsampled from publicly available whole-genome sequence data ( www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA648123 )”
The paper provides an identifier (PRJNA648123) for a third-party resource used in the study. [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'
No reuse license is stated for 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 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'
No custom code or locator is provided; only third-party tools are named.
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)
“This work is supported by the Intramural Program of the NHGRI (to G.J.S., R.M.B., E.V.D., H.G.P., and E.A.O.), University of South Carolina Office of Research (to G.J.S. and T.A.M.), University of South Carolina Honors College (to T.A.M.), Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust (to G.J.S. and T.A.M.), 2022 Flagship Project Funding NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (to E.A.O.), Clean Futures Fund International+ (to J.A.B.), NC State Genetic and Genomics Academy Graduate Fellowship (to M.D.), NC State Cancer Genomics Fund (to M.B.), and Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA, Polish Returns Fellowship PPN/PPO/2018/1/00037) (to M.P.).”
Funder names are provided but no award/grant numbers are given. [majority verdict 'partial' (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
“A total of 406 samples were genotyped using Illumina CanineHD 170k SNP arrays at NHGRI”
The paper names specific instruments, kits, and software used to produce the data.
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 mentioned as accompanying the data.
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
0.489
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.216
From 9 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 18 citers.