Insights into the Cultured Bacterial Fraction of Corals is a dataset published in mSystems (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.5, placing it in the top 13.8% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 105 times, with 55 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 52/100.
Ranks in the top 14% 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.
“The newly described genomes associated with this project (38 in total; also see Table S2) can be found in the following BioProjects on NCBI: accession no. PRJNA698462 , PRJNA638634 , and PRJNA343499 .”
The paper provides BioProject accessions (PRJNA...), which are persistent identifiers in the NCBI scheme. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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'
“Download Table S1, XLSX file, 0.8 MB”
The only format token named for the data is XLSX, a proprietary format. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 newly described genomes associated with this project (38 in total; also see Table S2) can be found in the following BioProjects on NCBI: accession no. PRJNA698462 , PRJNA638634 , and PRJNA343499 .”
The dataset identifier appears only in the body text, not as a reference-list entry. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 newly described genomes associated with this project (38 in total; also see Table S2) can be found in the following BioProjects on NCBI: accession no. PRJNA698462 , PRJNA638634 , and PRJNA343499 .”
The data-availability statement points to a repository record with accessions, satisfying Colavizza category 3. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“Table S1 Meta-data for the coral-associated bacteria isolated and/or discussed as part of this study, including GenBank accession numbers, isolation source, media, and 16S sequence for example.”
The paper includes an itemized inventory (Table S1) describing the dataset's isolates and metadata. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 newly described genomes associated with this project (38 in total; also see Table S2) can be found in the following BioProjects on NCBI: accession no. PRJNA698462 , PRJNA638634 , and PRJNA343499 .”
The data availability statement points to a repository record with accessions. [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
“The newly described genomes associated with this project (38 in total; also see Table S2) can be found in the following BioProjects on NCBI: accession no. PRJNA698462 , PRJNA638634 , and PRJNA343499 .”
The paper gives the dataset's identifier as BioProject accession numbers, which are persistent identifiers. [majority verdict 'yes' (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 are not sensitive or human-subject, and no gatekeeper is named. [majority verdict 'no' (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
“available now, open access via http://isolates.reefgenomics.org/”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper states the data are available now but does not mention how long they will persist, so only availability timing is given. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 identifier for any external resource appears in the text. [majority verdict 'no' (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
No community data or metadata standard is named in the paper.
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'
“This content is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A CC BY 4.0 license is named for the supplementary data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [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 version token or date is given to identify the snapshot of the data. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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 February 2020”
A date is given to pin the snapshot of genome availability, but no version token is provided. [majority verdict 'partial' (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 is mentioned; only third-party tools are used, and no study-specific code is offered. [majority verdict 'no' (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)
“P20GM103430”
The paper includes an award/grant number (P20GM103430) from the NIH INBRE program. [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
“TABLE S1 Meta-data for the coral-associated bacteria isolated and/or discussed as part of this study, including GenBank accession numbers, isolation source, media, and 16S sequence for example.”
Variable definitions are provided inside the article in a supplementary table, not in a separate documentation file. [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
“Bacterial strains listed in Table S1 were sorted by isolation medium”
The paper describes the methods using generic terms without naming instruments or kits for data production. [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
0.700
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.805
From 39 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 55 citers.
Delaware IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence
Grant: P20GM103430
Great Barrier Reef Foundation
Grant: Out of the Blue Box Reef Innovation Challenge People's Choice Award
Shell Brasil
Grant: ANP 21005-4
UNL | Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Grant: UIDB/04565/2020
Great Barrier Reef Foundation
Grant: Out of the Blue Box Reef Innovation Challenge People's Choice Award
FWCI
10.31
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
Additional file 1 of Metagenomics-resolved genomics provides novel insights into chitin turnover, metabolic specialization, and niche partitioning in the octocoral microbiome
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