Quantifying Shared and Unique Gene Content across 17 Microbial Ecosystems is a dataset published in mSystems (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.317, placing it in the top 53.3% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 6 times, with 2 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 58/100.
Ranks in the top 53% 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.
“Data generated in this study is hosted by figshare and accessible at http://www.microbial-genes.bio .”
The paper gives a web URL (http://www.microbial-genes.bio) that is not a 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'
“Data generated in this study is hosted by figshare and accessible at http://www.microbial-genes.bio .”
figshare is a data repository listed in the class-1 set.
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 nonredundant gene catalogs are hosted at http://www.microbial-genes.bio .”
The dataset identifier appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [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 generated in this study is hosted by figshare and accessible at http://www.microbial-genes.bio .”
The statement names figshare as a repository and provides a link, meeting 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
“At the 30% amino acid identity (see Materials and Methods), we identified 117,629,181 nonredundant genes ( Fig. 1A ), which had a total of 15,712 unique protein annotations, 2,628 unique Cluster of Ortholog Genes (COG) annotations, and 2,820 unique EC numbers.”
The dataset's content (number of genes, annotations) is described in running prose, not in an itemised inventory such as a dedicated section, table, or enumerated list. [majority verdict 'partial' (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'
“Data generated in this study is hosted by figshare and accessible at http://www.microbial-genes.bio .”
The text gives a route with no stated precondition; it says 'accessible' without any requirement to wait, register, or apply. [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
“Data generated in this study is hosted by figshare and accessible at http://www.microbial-genes.bio .”
The data availability statement describes the action of accessing the data (figshare host and URL) but does not apply an explicit access-level label such as 'open access' or 'restricted access'. [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 data are openly accessible with no mention of any gatekeeper, so no institutional or personal gatekeeper is named.
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 token 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 data or metadata community standard (e.g., MIAME, ISA-Tab, ontology) is named; only a reporting guideline (STORMS) is mentioned. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
No identifier (accession, DOI, RRID, build ID) for external resources that the data depend on is quoted in the text; only names of databases are 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'
No licence is named for the data; the CC BY license applies only to the article and supplementary materials.
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.
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 figure generation code is located in our GitHub repository, located at https://github.com/kosticlab/pan_ecological_gene_universe .”
A code-repository URL is provided, which is a machine-resolvable locator. [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)
“This research was additionally supported by the National Institutes of Health NIDDK (T32 DK110919), NIAID (R01AI127250), the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Pathway to Stop Diabetes Initiator award no. 1-17-INI-13, and a Smith Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research.”
The paper provides specific grant numbers along with funder names.
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
“To predict open reading frames (ORFs) from assembled contigs, we used Prokka v1.14.6 (parameters, –force, –addgenes, –metagenome, –mincontiglen 1).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names specific software versions (e.g., Prokka v1.14.6) used to produce the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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
“TABLE S1 Sample metadata and summary statistics.”
Variable definitions are provided in a supplementary table inside the article, not in a file shipped with 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
0.292
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0250
From 2 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 2 citers.
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Grant: R01ES032470
American Diabetes Association
Grant: 1-17-INI-13
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Grant: R01AI127250
HHS | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Grant: T32 KD110919
NIDDK NIH HHS
Grant: T32 DK110919
NIDDK NIH HHS
Grant: P30 DK036836
Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation
FWCI
1.16
Citation Percentile
0.8%
Citation Trend
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