Screen time and mental health: a prospective analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study is a dataset published in BMC Public Health (2024). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.1, placing it in the top 19.1% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 79 times, with 71 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 4/100.
Ranks in the top 19% 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.
No persistent identifier is given for the study's own dataset. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
No repository is named as the holder of the study's own data. [majority verdict 'no' (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
No dataset identifier for the study's own data appears in the reference list or body text. [majority verdict 'no' (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 used in the preparation of this article were obtained from the ABCD Study (https://abcdstudy.org), held in the NIMH Data Archive (NDA).”
The data availability statement points to source data, not the study's own 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
No itemised inventory of the study's own dataset is provided. [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'
“Investigators can apply for data access through the NDA (https://nda.nih.gov/).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The access route requires an application (a followable precondition), so it is not unconditional. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“Investigators can apply for data access through the NDA (https://nda.nih.gov/).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text does not label the access level with a standard term but describes the access action (apply for access), from which the level can be inferred. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
No gatekeeper is named for the study's own data because no own data are deposited. [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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
No sentence in the paper 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 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 from FAIRsharing is named; the CBCL is a measurement instrument, not a data standard.
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://abcdstudy.org”
The paper gives a URL identifier for the external ABCD Study resource. [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 reuse licence is named for the data; the article's CC-BY licence does not apply to 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'
“We used longitudinal data from baseline to Year 2 from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (4.0 release).”
The version token (4.0 release) is for the source data, not the study's own data. [majority verdict 'no' (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 location is provided; the study's own code is not 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)
“J.M.N. was funded by the National Institutes of Health (R01MH135492 and K08HL159350) and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (2022056).”
Specific grant numbers are provided for the study's funding.
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
“Screen time was obtained from the ABCD Youth Screen Time Survey.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text names a specific instrument (ABCD Youth Screen Time Survey) 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
“total screen time was calculated separately for weekdays and weekend days, based on a previously validated measure... The weighted average was used.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Variable definitions are provided inside the article (in methods and Table 1), not as a separate documentation object shipped with the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
0.657
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.403
From 21 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 71 citers.
National Institutes of Health
Grant: K08HL159350
National Institutes of Health
Grant: R01MH135492
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Grant: 2022056
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041048
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041134
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U24 DA041147
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041022
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041025
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041028
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041156
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U24 DA041123
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041089
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041093
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041120
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041106
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041117
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041148
NIDA NIH HHS
Grant: U01 DA041174
FWCI
72.68
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
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Sustainable Development Goals
Additional file 1 of Screen time and mental health: a prospective analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
Additional file 1 of Screen time and mental health: a prospective analysis of the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study