Quantifying the Contributions of Environmental Factors to Prostate Cancer and Detecting Risk-Related Diet Metrics and Racial Disparities is a dataset published in Cancer Informatics (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.507, placing it in the top 38% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 12 times, with 12 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 38% 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.
The paper does not assign a persistent identifier to its own dataset.
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 datasets used are deposited in the PLCO database”
The repository named (PLCO) holds the source data, not the study's own data.
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 paper does not cite its own dataset; it only references the PLCO source data.
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 datasets used are deposited in the PLCO database ( https://prevention.cancer.gov/major-programs/prostate-lung-colorectal-and-ovarian-cancer-screening-trial ). Access to the DHQ dataset is controlled by the NIH data access committee.”
The data availability statement refers to the source data (PLCO), not the study's own data.
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 Prostate Person dataset in the file “pros_data_nov18_d070819.csv” and Diet History Questionnaire (DHQ) dataset in the file “dhq_data_nov18_d070819.csv” were downloaded from the PLCO database upon approval from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).”
The description of the source data is provided, but no itemised inventory of the study's own dataset exists. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“Access to the DHQ dataset is controlled by the NIH data access committee.”
The paper mentions a precondition for accessing the source data, not its own data.
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 Prostate Person dataset in the file “pros_data_nov18_d070819.csv” and Diet History Questionnaire (DHQ) dataset in the file “dhq_data_nov18_d070819.csv” were downloaded from the PLCO database upon approval from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).”
The paper states the source data is from PLCO with controlled access, but does not label its own data's access level.
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 datasets used are deposited in the PLCO database ( https://prevention.cancer.gov/major-programs/prostate-lung-colorectal-and-ovarian-cancer-screening-trial ). Access to the DHQ dataset is controlled by the NIH data access committee.”
The gatekeeper mentioned is for the PLCO data, not the study's own data.
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 mention any timeline or retention commitment for its own data.
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'
“The Prostate Person dataset in the file “pros_data_nov18_d070819.csv” and Diet History Questionnaire (DHQ) dataset in the file “dhq_data_nov18_d070819.csv””
CSV is an open format, but it refers to the source data, not the study's own 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 for data or metadata 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'
“https://prevention.cancer.gov/major-programs/prostate-lung-colorectal-and-ovarian-cancer-screening-trial”
A URL is given for the PLCO database, but it is not a persistent identifier from the accepted schemes. [majority verdict 'no' (3/5 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'
The paper's CC BY-NC 4.0 license applies to the article, not to the data, and no license for the study's own data is stated.
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 study's own data.
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'
“Software application All analyses and graphics were completed by using the relevant functions in the R packages, including “stats,” “survival” and “ltm,” as well as our lab-owned R codes.”
The paper mentions 'lab-owned R codes' but provides no locator (URL, DOI, or repository) for them.
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 was partially supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants 2U54MD007595 and U19AG055373.”
The paper gives specific grant numbers from the NIH 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
“All analyses and graphics were completed by using the relevant functions in the R packages, including 'stats,' 'survival' and 'ltm', as well as our lab-owned R codes.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names the specific software and packages used to produce the analysis results, which constitute the study's own 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
No documentation object (README, codebook, etc.) is mentioned for the study's own data. [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
0.385
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.122
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 12 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3U54MD007595-14S1
Xavier RCMI Renewal Application-Overall
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U19AG055373-04
Trans-omics integration of multi-omics studies for male osteoporosis
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