The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues is a dataset published in Science (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 8.0, placing it in the top 2% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 5,930 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 63/100.
Ranks in the top 2% 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.
“phs000424.v8”
The paper provides a dbGaP accession (phs000424.v8), which is a persistent identifier scheme registered in identifiers.org. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“dbGaP”
The paper names dbGaP as the repository hosting the data, which is a curated archive listed in re3data/FAIRsharing. [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
“All GTEx protected data are available via dbGaP (accession phs000424.v8).”
The dataset identifier (phs000424.v8) appears only in the body text of the Data and Materials Availability section, 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
“All GTEx protected data are available via dbGaP (accession phs000424.v8).”
The data-availability statement points to a repository record (dbGaP with accession phs000424.v8), which is 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 GTEx v8 data set consists of 948 donors and 17,382 samples from 52 tissues and two cell lines, with 838 donors and 15,253 samples having both RNA sequence (RNA-seq) and genotype data from whole genome sequencing (WGS)”
The dataset's content and extent are described in running prose, not as an itemised inventory (section, table, or list). [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'
“All GTEx protected data are available via dbGaP (accession phs000424.v8).”
The data are accessible through dbGaP, which requires a formal application and Data Use Agreement, a specified followable access process with a precondition.
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 GTEx protected data are available via dbGaP (accession phs000424.v8).”
The paper does not label the access level with a standard term, but describes the action of accessing via dbGaP, from which the restricted access level can be inferred. [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
“All GTEx protected data are available via dbGaP (accession phs000424.v8).”
The paper names dbGaP, a controlled-access repository with a Data Access Committee, as the institutional gatekeeper for the sensitive human-subject data. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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, a permanent archival claim, or an availability timing for the data. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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'
No file format token (e.g., CSV, FASTQ, BAM) is named for the released data; only generic terms like 'RNA-seq' and 'WGS' are used.
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 data or metadata community standard (e.g., MIAME, ISA-Tab, OBO ontology) is named as applied to the study's data; only manuscript reporting guidelines are not relevant.
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'
No identifier (accession, DOI, RRID, assembly ID) for an external resource other than the paper's own dataset is provided in the text. [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'
No licence or terms-of-use artefact is named for the data; the paper's CC-BY footer applies to the article, 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'
“The GTEx v8 data set consists of 948 donors and 17,382 samples”
The paper explicitly identifies the data release as 'v8', a version token. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3727189”
A machine-resolvable locator with a DOI is given for the study's code repository (gtex-pipeline). [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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)
“HHSN261200800001E”
The paper lists an award number (HHSN261200800001E) from NIH contracts, attached to 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
“STAR”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific software (STAR) used to process the data, providing a proper-noun tool for provenance. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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
No documentation object (README, data dictionary, codebook) is named as travelling with the data, and no variable-definition table exists inside the article. [majority verdict 'no' (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
1.3
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
6.7
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.
CCR NIH HHS
Grant: HHSN261200800001C
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: K99 HG009916
NIDDK NIH HHS
Grant: P30 DK020595
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 CA229618
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG010067
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG010731
NIDDK NIH HHS
Grant: T32 DK110919
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: T32 HG000044
Leidos Biomedical Research
Grant: BOA No. 10XS1035
NIH Office of the Director
Grant: HG002585
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG002585
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG010480
NHLBI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HL133218
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH090941
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH101822
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH109905
Swiss National Science Foundation
Grant: 149984
NHLBI NIH HHS
Grant: HHSN268201000029C
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG008150
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG011138
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R35 HG010718
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U01 HG007593
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: U01 MH104393
NCATS NIH HHS
Grant: UL1 TR002550
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: F32 HG009987
NIGMS NIH HHS
Grant: R01 GM124486
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HG006855
NIH Office of the Director
Grant: R01 MH107666
NCATS NIH HHS
Grant: UL1 TR001873
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: UM1 HG008901
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: F31 HG010580
NIA NIH HHS
Grant: R01 AG057422
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH090951
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U01 HG007598
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH090937
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH101814
NIH/NIMH
Grant: R01MH101782
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U41 HG002371
National Human Genome Research Institute
Grant: 5U41HG002371-19
NIGMS NIH HHS
Grant: R01 GM122924
NHLBI NIH HHS
Grant: R01 HL142028
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH106842
NHGRI NIH HHS
Grant: U41 HG009494
NCI NIH HHS
Grant: HHSN261200800001E
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: R01 DA006227
NIMH NIH HHS
Grant: R01 MH090936
National Institute of Mental Health
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
National Cancer Institute
Swiss National Science Foundation
MeSH Terms
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