Population neuroimaging: generation of a comprehensive data resource within the ALSPAC pregnancy and birth cohort is a dataset published in Wellcome Open Research (2020). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 0.502, placing it in the top 38.3% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 20 times, with 6 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 21/100.
Ranks in the top 38% 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 string (DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, or repository accession) is given for the 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'
“ALSPAC data access is through a system of managed open access.”
ALSPAC is named as the holder; it is a cohort study, not a repository in the class 1 list.
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
“Data availability Underlying data ALSPAC data access is through a system of managed open access.”
The dataset identifier (access process) appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [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
“ALSPAC data access is through a system of managed open access.”
The statement describes a process (proposal submission) rather than a direct link to a repository record.
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 2. Numbers of available datasets across modalities for each ALSPAC neuroimaging sub-study.”
The paper provides an itemised inventory in Table 2 listing modalities and formats. [majority verdict 'yes' (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'
“Please submit your research proposal (https://proposals.epi.bristol.ac.uk/) for consideration by the ALSPAC Executive Committee.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The text specifies a followable process with a precondition (proposal submission and committee approval), which qualifies as a defined access route with a precondition. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“ALSPAC data access is through a system of managed open access.”
The paper explicitly labels the access level as 'managed open access'.
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
“Please submit your research proposal (https://proposals.epi.bristol.ac.uk/) for consideration by the ALSPAC Executive Committee.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names an institutional gatekeeper (the ALSPAC Executive Committee) that must approve access to the sensitive human-subject data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (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 does not state any retention period, availability timing, or persistence commitment for the 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'
“structural MRI (NifTI, defaced), ... Image derived phenotypes ... are available in csv format.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
NIfTI and CSV are open, community-standard formats named for the data. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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 standard taxonomy, ontology, or checklist (e.g., BIDS, MIAME) is named for the data. [majority verdict 'no' (4/5 passes agreed)]
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'
No identifier for an external resource (source dataset, reference database, code) is provided.
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 data; the CC-BY license applies only to the article.
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 provided for the data snapshot.
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 locator for the study's own code is given; only third-party tools 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)
“The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome (Grant ref: 102215/2/13/2)”
Award numbers are provided for the funding sources.
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
“FreeSurfer brain imaging software package (Version 6.0.0)”
The paper names specific instruments and software versions 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
“Table 2. Numbers of available datasets across modalities for each ALSPAC neuroimaging sub-study.”
Variable-level definitions are provided inside the article (Table 2), but no documentation object is said to accompany the data. [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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
0.457
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.0454
From 4 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 6 citers.
Medical Research Council
Grant: G0800509
Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia
Medical Research Council
Grant: MC_UU_00011/1
Mendelian randomization to hypothesis-free causal inference
Medical Research Council
Grant: MC_PC_17210
Cohorts as Platforms for Mental Health research (CaP:MH)
Medical Research Council
Grant: G0901885
Structural brain correlates of an operationally defined high-risk phenotype for schizophrenia: a population based study
Medical Research Council
Grant: MR/K004360/1
Behavioural and neurophysiological effects of schizophrenia risk genes: a multi-locus, pathway based approach
European Regional Development Fund
Grant: CU149
Medical Research Council
Grant: 102215/2/13/2
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 513688
National Institutes of Health
Grant: R01MH085772
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 102215
The Avon Longitudinal Study for Parents and Children: An international resource for population genomic and lifecourse epidemiology. Core programme support 2014-2019.
Medical Research Council
Grant: G9815508
Medical Research Council
Grant: MC_UU_12013/2
Medical Research Council
Grant: G0902144
Medical Research Council
Grant: MC_PC_15018
Medical Research Council
Grant: MC_UU_00011/5
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 217065/Z/19/Z
Medical Research Council
Grant: MC_PC_19009
Wellcome Trust
Grant: unidentified
unidentified
National Institutes of Health
Grant: 5R01MH085772-02
Axon, Testosterone and Mental Health during Adolescence
H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
University of Bristol
Wellcome Trust
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