An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples is a dataset published in Wellcome Open Research (2021). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 4.8, placing it in the top 4.4% of the data-sharing corpus. It has been cited 198 times, with 100 citing works in its 1-hop citation network. Its calibrated FAIR score is 58/100.
Ranks in the top 4% for downstream scientific impact
Linked data & code
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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.
“Figshare: Supplementary data to: An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples. https:// doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13388603.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a DOI for the dataset on Figshare, which is a persistent identifier scheme. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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'
“Data are also available from Figshare.”
The paper names Figshare, a recognised repository, as the holder of the data. [majority verdict 'yes' (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
“Figshare: Supplementary data to: An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples. https:// doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13388603.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The dataset identifier appears only in the body text, not in the reference list. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (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
“Underlying data ... Data are also available from Figshare. Figshare: Supplementary data to: An open dataset of Plasmodium falciparum genome variation in 7,000 worldwide samples. https:// doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13388603.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The statement points to a repository record (Figshare) with a DOI. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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
“Underlying data Study information: Details of the 49 contributing partner studies, including description, contact information and key people. Sample provenance and sequencing metadata: sample information including partner study information, location and year of collection, ENA accession numbers, and QC information for 7,113 samples from 28 countries. Measure of complexity of infections: characterisation of within-host diversity (FWS) for 5,970 QC pass samples. Drug resistance marker genotypes: genotypes at known markers of drug resistance for 7,113 samples, containing amino acid and copy number genotypes at six loci: crt, dhfr, dhps, mdr1, kelch13, plasmepsin 2–3. Inferred resistance status classification: classification of 5,970 QC pass samples into different types of resistance to 10 drugs or combinations of drugs and to RDT detection: chloroquine, pyrimethamine, sulfadoxine, mefloquine, artemisinin, piperaquine, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for treatment of uncomplicated malaria, sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy, artesunate-mefloquine, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, hrp2 and hrp3 genes deletions. Drug resistance markers to inferred resistance status: details of the heuristics utilised to map genetic markers to resistance status classification. Gene differentiation: estimates of global and local differentiation for 5,561 genes. Short variants genotypes: Genotype calls on 6,051,696 SNPs and short indels in 7,113 samples from 29 countries, available both as VCF and zarr files.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides an itemised inventory of the dataset's files in the Data availability section, naming each file and its contents. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (3/5 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'
“Data hosted with Figshare are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The Figshare data are stated to be available under a CC-BY licence with no precondition. [downgraded to 'partial' — 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
“Data hosted with Figshare are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0).”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper explicitly labels the data's access level as CC-BY 4.0, which is an open access licence. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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 neither names an institutional gatekeeper nor a personal gatekeeper for the data, which are openly available.
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 how long the data will be retained or committed to persistence.
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'
“available both as VCF and zarr files.”
VCF and Zarr are open, community-standard file formats. [majority verdict 'yes' (4/5 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 vocabulary, checklist, or ontology is named as applied to the data.
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 any external resource is provided in the text.
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'
“Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The data are licensed under CC-BY 4.0, an open standard licence. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'partial' (4/5 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'
No version token or date is given for the primary dataset; the Figshare supplementary data have a version in the reference list, but the main dataset is not versioned. [majority verdict 'no' (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'
“custom java code (available at https://github.com/malariagen/GeneticReportCard)”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper provides a GitHub repository URL for custom code used in the analysis. [downgraded to 'partial' — no verifiable quote from the paper]
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 sequencing, analysis, informatics and management of the Community Project are supported by Wellcome through Sanger Institute core funding (098051), a Strategic Award (090770/Z/09/Z) and the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics core funding (203141/Z/16/Z), by the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health which is jointly funded by the Medical Research Council and the Department for International Development (DFID) (G0600718; M006212), and by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1204628).”
Award or grant numbers are provided for each named 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
“We used the Illumina platform to produce genome sequencing data on all samples and we mapped the sequence reads against the P. falciparum 3D7 v3 reference genome.”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
The paper names the specific platform (Illumina) and reference genome version used for data production. [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
“• Study information: ... • Sample provenance and sequencing metadata: ... • Measure of complexity of infections: ... • Drug resistance marker genotypes: ... • Inferred resistance status classification: ... • Drug resistance markers to inferred resistance status: ... • Gene differentiation: ... • Short variants genotypes: ...”— not found in the paper; verdict downgraded
Variable definitions are provided inside the article via the itemised list in the Data availability section, not as a separate documentation object shipped with the data. [downgraded to 'no' — no verifiable quote from the paper] [majority verdict 'no' (2/5 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
0.794
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
4.0
From 97 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by each citer's contribution to N(p) — log1p(Cq) divided by its reference count — out of 100 citers.
Medical Research Council
Grant: G0600718
MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health
Department for International Development, UK Government
Grant: M006212
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Grant: OPP1204628
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 090770
Resource centre for genomic epidemiology of malaria.
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 098051
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - generic account for deposition of all core- funded research papers
Wellcome Trust
Grant: 203141
Human Genetics and Disease Biology: Core Renewal for the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
FWCI
29.18
Citation Percentile
1.0%
Citation Trend
Fields of Study
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
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Additional file 1 of A snapshot of the prevalence of dihydropteroate synthase-431V mutation and other sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance markers in Plasmodium falciparum isolates in Nigeria
Additional file 1 of A snapshot of the prevalence of dihydropteroate synthase-431V mutation and other sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance markers in Plasmodium falciparum isolates in Nigeria