ClinEpiDB: an open-access clinical epidemiology database resource encouraging online exploration of complex studies is a dataset published in Gates Open Research (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.4, placing it in the top 14.4% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 33 times, with 21 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 44/100.
Ranks in the top 14% 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.
“All data underlying the results are available as part of the article and no additional source data are required.”
No persistent identifier string is given for the data; the statement only says data are in the article. [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'
“All data underlying the results are available as part of the article and no additional source data are required.”
No repository is named as the holder; the data are said to be in the article. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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
“Archived source code at the time of publication: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3522209”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier (the code DOI) appears only in body text (the Software availability section), not in the reference list. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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
“All data underlying the results are available as part of the article and no additional source data are required.”
The statement points to the article itself, not to a repository record; this corresponds to Colavizza category 2 (data in the article).
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 contain an itemised inventory of the dataset's files, variables, or samples; it only describes the platform and its hosted studies.
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'
“All data underlying the results are available as part of the article and no additional source data are required.”
The data-availability statement and the open-access license indicate that the data are publicly available without precondition.
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
“All data underlying the results are available as part of the article and no additional source data are required.”
The statement describes how to access the data (as part of the article) but does not apply a standard access-level label like 'open access' to the data itself. [majority verdict 'partial' (2/5 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 paper does not present sensitive human-subject data; its own data (the article and code) are not sensitive, so no 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 statement about how long the data will be available is made. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 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'
The paper does not name any file format for the released data (the article or code); the data are described as part of the article.
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
The paper does not name a community standard for its own data (the article or code); mentions of OBO ontologies apply to the ClinEpiDB platform, not the paper's own dataset.
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'
“Archived source code at the time of publication: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3522209”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper gives a DOI for the code (a resource other than its own dataset) and references other datasets. [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'
“This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License”
The article is under CC BY and the code under GPL v2, both of which are open standard licenses. [majority verdict 'yes' (3/5 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'
“version 2 (revision)”
The article version is indicated, which applies to the data as part of the article. [majority verdict 'partial' (2/5 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'
“Archived source code at the time of publication: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3522209”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
A machine-resolvable locator (DOI) is provided for the study's own code. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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)
“[OPP1169785 to DSR]”
The paper gives specific grant numbers from the funders (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NIH).
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
The paper describes the platform's development but does not name the specific instruments, kits, or software used to produce the paper's own data (the article and code).
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
The paper's data is the article itself; no separate documentation object (README, codebook) is named as travelling with the data, and no variable-definition table exists for the paper's own dataset.
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
0.529
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.912
From 17 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 21 citers.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant: OPP1169785
National Institutes of Health
Grant: HHSN272201400030C
National Institutes of Health
Grant: U19AI089674
Wellcome Trust
Grant: unidentified
unidentified
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5U19AI089674-06
Laboratory Core
FWCI
1.64
Citation Percentile
0.8%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals