Geospatial assessment of the convergence of communicable and non-communicable diseases in South Africa is a dataset published in Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity (2023). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.387, placing it in the top 46.9% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 10 times, with 5 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 47% 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.
No persistent identifier is given for the study's own data; the only identifiers are for the paper itself and the third-party SADHS data.
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 paper names the Demographic and Health Surveys repository for the source data, but does not name a repository holding 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's own dataset is not cited anywhere in the text or reference list.
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 data-availability statement refers to the source data (SADHS) and does not address the study's own data; it does not predicate the statement on this study's data. [majority verdict 'no' (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
The paper does not provide an itemised inventory or section describing the study's own dataset; it only describes the source data and methods.
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 paper provides no route to the study's own data; the data-availability statement refers to the third-party source data, not the study's own analysis outputs.
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 label the access level of its own data; the only access-level statement refers to the third-party SADHS data, not the study's own 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 paper does not name a gatekeeper for its own data; the data are not deposited and no access route is provided. [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
The paper makes no statement about the persistence or availability timing of the study's 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'
No file format is named for 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
“This study follows the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guideline.”
The only named standard is STROBE, a manuscript reporting guideline, which is a class-2 artefact per the rubric.
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'
“The data that support the findings of this study are available from the Demographic and Health Surveys ( http://www.measuredhs.com )”
The paper provides a URL for the third-party source data that the study depends on. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
No license is attached to the study's own data; the CC BY-NC 4.0 license applies to the article only.
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'
The paper does not provide a locator for the code it wrote; only third-party software names are mentioned.
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)
“Research reported in this publication was supported by the Fogarty International Center (R21 TW011687; D43 TW010543), the National Institute of Mental Health, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (K24 HL166024; T32 AI007433) of the National Institutes of Health.”
The paper includes specific grant numbers from named funders.
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
“Maps of the results were generated using ArcGIS Pro.”
The paper names specific software (ArcGIS Pro, GeoDa, R) 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, etc.) is named for the study's own 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
0.360
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0276
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 5 citers.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Grant: T32 AI007433
National Institute of Mental Health
Grant: K24 HL166024
Fogarty International Center
Grant: D43 TW010543
Fogarty International Center
Grant: R21 TW011687
NIH
Grant: R01 MH131480
NIAID NIH HHS
Grant: R01 AI124389
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R21TW011687-02
Quantification of patterns of multimorbidity to develop effective and efficient models of HIV, TB and NCD co-care in rural South Africa
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 3D43TW010543-06S3
Partnership for Global Health Research Training Program(Renewal)
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5K24HL166024-02
Mentoring patient-oriented research to improve cardiovascular health among people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01MH131480-02
The changing face of HIV in the era of COVID-19: Maximising HIV incidence reduction through dynamic targeting of current and future distributions of acquisition risk.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 2T32AI007433-11
Program For AIDS CLINICAL RESEARCH TRAINING (PACRT)
FWCI
1.68
Citation Percentile
0.9%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals